Science News
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Tips on how to safely watch the transit of Venus
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:56PM June 01, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Yes, it's true. You can damage your eyes by staring at the sun. People need to remember that as they turn to the skies to watch the silhouette of Venus march across the face of the sun on Tuesday from the Western Hemisphere (Wednesday from the Eastern Hemisphere). Known as a transit of Venus, this won't happen again until 2117.
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Lab: Burning rocks had elevated phosphate levels
Tweet Share on Facebook 1:08PM June 01, 2012 CommentSAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) — Additional testing has confirmed beach rocks that spontaneously combusted in a Southern California woman's pocket contained elevated levels of phosphorus, an official said Friday.
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Venus Takes Center Stage
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:35AM June 01, 2012 CommentSIX PACK: NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered more than 1,200 planets beyond the solar system. This artist's illustration shows a newly discovered planetary system—the sunlike star Kepler-11 and its six planets, the most densely packed planetary system known.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — It's a spectacle that won't repeat for another century — the sight of Venus slowly inching across the face of the sun.
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SpaceX Dragon returns to Earth, ends historic trip
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:20PM May 31, 2012 CommentCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Triumphant from start to finish, the SpaceX Dragon capsule parachuted into the Pacific on Thursday to conclude the first private delivery to the International Space Station and inaugurate NASA's new approach to exploration.
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Livermorium, flerovium join periodic table names
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:32PM May 31, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Nearly a year after they joined the periodic table, two man-made elements have been officially named.
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Cosmic Smashup Predicted, But Earth Will Survive
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:06PM May 31, 2012 CommentSatellite orbiting earth, photo-realistic high-res 3D rendering
WASHINGTON (AP) — Don't worry about when the world as we know it might end. NASA has calculated that our entire Milky Way galaxy will crash into a neighboring galaxy with a direct head-on hit — in 4 billion years.
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Warming gas levels hit 'troubling milestone'
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:30PM May 31, 2012 CommentWASHINGTON (AP) — The world's air has reached what scientists call a troubling new milestone for carbon dioxide, the main global warming pollutant.
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AP NewsAlert
Tweet Share on Facebook 11:43AM May 31, 2012 CommentCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX Dragon spacecraft returns to Earth, ending historic flight to space station
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FAA grants experimental permit to Virgin Galactic
Tweet Share on Facebook 5:34PM May 30, 2012 CommentMOJAVE, Calif. (AP) — Virgin Galactic says it expects to make rocket-powered test flights of its passenger spaceship later this year.
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Air Force spaceplane aims for June landing in CA
Tweet Share on Facebook 4:20PM May 30, 2012 CommentVANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — An unmanned U.S. Air Force spaceplane that has been in orbit for over a year is coming back to Earth.
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New lab turns SD gold town into scientific hub
Tweet Share on Facebook 9:01AM May 30, 2012 CommentLEAD, S.D. (AP) — Nestled nearly 5,000 feet beneath the earth in the gold boom town of Lead, S.D., is a laboratory that could help scientists answer some pretty heavy questions about life, its origins and the universe.
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Back-to-back asteroids harmlessly fly past Earth
Tweet Share on Facebook 7:21PM May 29, 2012 CommentPASADENA, Calif. (AP) — A newly discovered small asteroid has harmlessly zipped close to Earth — just as scientists expected.
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Saving Dominican forest and an elusive songbird
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:38PM May 29, 2012 CommentSAN FRANCISCO DE MACORIS, Dominican Republic (AP) — An elusive songbird that wings its way each year from austere mountaintops of the northeastern U.S. to the steamy forests of the Caribbean has inspired the creation of what conservationists hope will be a new model for nature reserves in a country that has long struggled with deforestation.
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Radioactive bluefin tuna crossed the Pacific to US
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:47PM May 28, 2012 CommentLOS ANGELES (AP) — Across the vast Pacific, the mighty bluefin tuna carried radioactive contamination that leaked from Japan's crippled nuclear plant to the shores of the United States 6,000 miles away — the first time a huge migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity such a distance.
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Homecoming buzz: Short-haired bees return to UK
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:46PM May 28, 2012 CommentLONDON (AP) — They've been away, but now they are — hopefully —buzzing back to their rightful place in the bucolic British countryside.
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Scientist: Evolution debate will soon be history
Tweet Share on Facebook 3:17PM May 26, 2012 CommentNEW YORK (AP) — Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history.
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Astronauts enter world's 1st private supply ship
Tweet Share on Facebook 12:40PM May 26, 2012 CommentCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Space station astronauts floated into the Dragon on Saturday, a day after its heralded arrival as the world's first commercial supply ship.
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Is China poor? Key question at climate talks
Tweet Share on Facebook 8:15PM May 25, 2012 CommentBONN, Germany (AP) — Another round of U.N. climate talks closed without resolving how to share the burden of curbing man-made global warming, mainly because countries don't agree on who is rich and who is poor.
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Dragon arrives at space station in historic 1st
Tweet Share on Facebook 2:36PM May 25, 2012 CommentCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The privately bankrolled Dragon capsule made a historic arrival at the International Space Station on Friday, triumphantly captured by astronauts wielding a giant robot arm.
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New telescope to be in South Africa, Australia
Tweet Share on Facebook 10:25AM May 25, 2012 CommentPRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — Australia and South Africa will share hosting of a giant radio telescope made up of thousands of separate dishes and intended to help scientists figure out the make-up of the universe, the international consortium overseeing the project announced Friday.
