$5.8 million buys a lot of CD cleaner.
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Images: (Hatfill) via images.mirror.co.uk; (Anthrax) via farm1.static.flickr.com
Phoenix makes picture-perfect Mars landing
After touchdown, first images show unfurled solar panels, arctic horizon
MSNBC staff and news service reports
updated 1:20 a.m. ET, Mon., May. 26, 2008
PASADENA, Calif. - NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander survived a risky plunge through the Red Planet’s atmosphere and touched down in Mars’ northern polar region on Sunday, sending back pictures of […]
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Images: (real cover of Popular Science) blog.modernmechanix.com; (parlor) moviemail-online.co.uk
after a weekend of History, Discovery and National Geographic channels,
enjoy this latest glimpse of doom.
Real Death Star Could Strike Earth
Charles Q. Choi
Special to SPACE.com
SPACE.com
March 10, 2008
A beautiful pinwheel in space might one day blast Earth with death rays, scientists now report.
Unlike the moon-sized Death Star from Star Wars, which has to get close to […]
But, it will move to Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
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By Charles Q. Choi, Special to LiveScience
posted: 19 September 2006 08:58 am ET
Simulated event of the collision of two protons in a particle accelerator viewed along the beam pipe. The colors of the tracks emanating from the center show the different types of particles emerging from the collision. […]
Weather Channel Founder Blasts Network; Claims It Is ‘Telling Us What to Think’-
TWC founder and global warming skeptic advocates suing Al Gore to expose ‘the fraud of global warming.’
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By Jeff Poor
Business & Media Institute
3/3/2008 6:11:04 PM
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The Weather Channel has lost its way, according to John Coleman, who founded the channel in 1982.
Coleman told an audience […]
Reuters
Thu Feb 7, 5:06 PM ET
Scientists make unique knee-brace power generator
By Will Dunham Thu Feb 7, 9:18 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Talk about a knee-jerk reaction. Scientists in the United States and Canada said on Thursday they have developed a unique device that can be strapped on the knee that exploits the mechanics of human […]
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Editor’s Note
The negative responses by the animals are totally in keeping with scientists’ past experiences. The marine life of Antarctica hates the cold weather,
but they cannot afford to move to a more pleasant climate.
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Images: (1) seal-jupiterimages.com; diver-vidtory-cruises.com; sign-cnninteractive.com;(2) seal-uoload.wikimedia.org;(3)antarcticconnection.com;(4) orca-victory-cruises.com; taker-uscensusbureau.com; (5)penguins-botos.com; taker-cnninteractive.com;(6) whale-dailygalaxy.com; taker-thecensustaker.com-a short film; (7) taker-osec.doc.gov; seals-icecube.wisc.edu; (8) doc-govt.nz;
On the whole, I would have to say that is preferable to having Red Savina habeneros rubbed in one’s eyes along with nightly injections of battery acid.
Strange Creature Immune to Pain
Charles Q. Choi
Special to LiveScience
LiveScience.comMon Jan 28, 8:31 PM ET
As vulnerable as naked mole rats seem, researchers now find the hairless, bucktoothed rodents are invulnerable […]
Chip-Shrinking May Be Nearing Its Limits
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December 15, 2007
By JORDAN ROBERTSON –
SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Sixty years after transistors were invented and nearly five decades since they were first integrated into silicon chips, the tiny on-off switches dubbed the “nerve cells” of the information age are starting to show their age.
The devices — whose miniaturization […]
New Dinosaur Discovered in Antarctica
By Jeanna Bryner, LiveScience Staff Writer
posted: 11 December 2007 09:41 am ET
A hefty, long-necked dinosaur that lumbered across the Antarctic before meeting its demise 190 million years ago has been identified and named, more than a decade after intrepid paleontologists sawed and chiseled the remains of the primitive plant-eater from its […]
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New Blood-Thirsty Dinosaur Identified
Dave Mosher
LiveScience Staff Writer
LiveScience.com Tue Dec 11, 8:02 PM ET
A graduate student has identified the remains of one of the planet’s largest meat-eating dinosaurs ever found.
Steve Brusatte, a paleobiologist at the University of Bristol in England, determined fossils discovered during a 1997 Nigerian expedition belong to a new breed of meat-eating […]
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By Will Dunham Wed Dec 12, 12:23 AM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists searching for fossils high in the Andes mountains in Chile have unearthed the remains of a tank-like mammal related to armadillos that grazed 18 million years ago.
“It looks different than almost anything out on the landscape today. There really isn’t anything that’s comparable […]