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Obama May Create High Tech Tool-Lending Library at NASA
To save money, time, and resources, Obama is considering a plan to create a tool lending library -- at NASA.
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Six Astronauts 'Return to Earth' After Successful Mars-500 Mission
Can humans endure the isolation, self-reliance, and deprivations of travel to Mars and back? Six pale-faced but smiling astronauts answer the question.
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NASA's Visual Tour of Every Fire on Earth Since 2002
When our earliest ancestors first learned to manipulate perhaps the most powerful of natural forces by creating and harnessing fire, it set the human species on a trajectory towards global domination from which we, for better or worse,
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Most Popular Articles of September: Sleepbox in Moscow, Spicy Raspberry Sangria, and More (Slideshow)
Two years ago, Lloyd wrote that he liked the idea of the Sleepbox, but wasn't convinced it would work, due to concerns about its...misuse. But now it's a big hit in a Moscow airport.
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The Week in Pictures: A House without Walls, Gorgeous Rail Car Garden, and More (Slideshow)
On the Caribbean Sea, Colombian firm Plan B Architects has produced a new kind of Passivhaus -- a bioclimatic building with a roof, but no walls.
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Rogue NASA Satellite Will Crash Into Earth Sometime Soon, Somewhere
In late September, NASA's Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite will crash into Earth. Weighing more than 1,300 pounds and roughly the size of a school bus, the satellite will likely land somewhere between Canada and South
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Scientists May Have Found Flowing Water on Mars
In the last few years, evidence arguing for the possibility of life on Mars has been piling up. The presence of ice on Earth's red neighbor is now established, but for microbial
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Google and NASA Team Up for a Green Flight Challenge with $1.65M Prize
Air travel may be time efficient, but based on planes' carbon emissions, it's not good for the environment. And while purchasing carbon offsets is a good move, it's just a drop in the bucket. Tha's
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Largest Mass of Water Discovered
Astronomers have discovered the largest mass of water known to exist. So we humans can go right on mucking up our frail planet's meager reserves of fresh water, we know where to find plenty more? But wait, there's a
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Hubble Hits a Milestone - NASA Celebrates Millionth Space Observation
If good design means longevity, Hubble is well on its way to redeeming the missteps that required high-tech space missions for vision correction before it could serve its purpose. Could it be a coinicidence that Hubble
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NASA Study Finds Even More Water on the Moon (100 Times More!)
It wasn't long ago that scientists were saying the Earth's moon may have more water than the Great Lakes. Now comes another study, also funded like the one last, by NASA, that says the moon may have 100 times as much water as
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NASA to Launch Squids Into Space
Although NASA's latest launch may spell the end of an era for soon-to-be retired space shuttle Endeavor, it marks a major leap forward for aquatic invertebrates. Sure, classic illustrations of animal evolution typically depict
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Microdust in Orbit Proposed as Solution to Space Debris Problem
We can now add space debris remediation with tungsten micro-dust to the many geo-engineering proposals on the table for cleaning up the mess humanity is making with our only planet. The proposal, penned by G. Ganguli, C. Crabtree, L.
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NASA Launching Glory Satellite Tomorrow, Part of $424 Million Mission to Measure Aerosols
Last month, we reported on
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Holiday Greetings Sent to Earth From Space (Video)
As anyone who's seen It's a Wonderful Life or read A Christmas Carol knows, sometimes a new perspective on things is all it takes to truly appreciate what we have -- and there's no better time for this than around the holidays. For the six person crew
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Would You Travel One-Way to Mars?
This week two scientists, Dirk Schulze-Makuch and Paul Davies, suggested in the Journal of Cosmology that it is time for humans to start colonizing Mars. Humanity needs some
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Trippy Bowls Inspired By Spiders On Drugs
Spiders are one of nature's most capable engineers, crafting their delicate webs with uncanny precision, making it seem so effortless -- but when they get high on drugs, boy is it a different story. Once, in order to test
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GM Plans to Launch Robonaut 2 Before Chevy Volt 1
The much-hyped, much-delayed Chevy Volt is due out in "late 2010." At least that's the latest estimate. Meanwhile, Volt-maker General Motors plans to launch a robot to the International Space Station on Nov. 1.So GM will have a
