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| Read More » Weekend Stargazing: Celestial Scorpion Reigns in Night Sky  | There's a giant scorpion hovering overhead, but have no fear. This creepy crawler is actually the constellation Scorpius. It's all sparkle and no sting.
| Read More » Building PayPal Galactic for Off-World Payments Will Take Years  | MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Developing a cosmic cash system to meet the needs of future space tourists and interplanetary settlers is a complicated task that will take several years to complete, leaders of the new project say.
| Read More » Video Catches Exotic Bird Laying Eggs  | Secret cameras captured rare footage of a southern cassowary laying eggs at the Edinburgh Zoo for the first time in 27 years.
| Read More » Ob-Gyn Shortage Is Going to Get Worse (Op-Ed) Read More » NASA picks Florida agency to take over shuttle landing strip  | By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA has selected Space Florida, a state-backed economic development agency, to take over operations, maintenance and development of the space shuttle's idled landing site at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, officials said on Friday. Terms of the agreement, which have not yet been finalized, were not disclosed, but Space Florida has made no secret about its desire to take over facilities no longer needed by NASA to develop a multi-user commercial spaceport, somewhat akin to an airport or seaport. ...
| Read More » 'White House Down': What It Takes to Protect the President Hollywood seems to have the ingredients needed for a blockbuster disaster movie down to a science: lots of explosions, action-packed fight sequences and nefarious criminals laying siege to the government, a city or the world. Read More » Why Women Are More Likely to Be Bisexual Women may be more "hetero-flexible," or be primarily attracted to men with some same sex attraction, because same-sex behavior allowed women to raise their children with other women, a new study has proposed. Read More » NASA Space Shuttle Runway Gets New Life as Commercial Spaceport  | CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The famous seaside space shuttle runway here at NASA's Kennedy Space Center may have a second life soon as a launch and landing spot for a whole new type of space mission: tourist flights.
| Read More » Social Lemurs Have More 'Street Smarts,' Study Finds  | Lemurs that come from big tribes and live in large groups exhibit more "social smarts" than those that live with only a few companions, finds a new study that suggests the size of a primate's social network could influence its social intelligence.
| Read More » Chilean Mummies Reveal Ancient Nicotine Habit  | The hair of mummies from the town of San Pedro de Atacama in Chile reveals the people in the region had a nicotine habit spanning from at least 100 B.C. to A.D. 1450.
| Read More » Space Shuttle Atlantis Launches on Public Display in Florida  | CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Space shuttle Atlantis, the final orbiter among NASA's winged fleet to fly in space, launched on its new mission Saturday (June 29) as the centerpiece of a $100 million tourist attraction in Florida.
| Read More » Leading light in science, Italy's 'lady of the stars' Hack dies By Naomi O'Leary ROME (Reuters) - Astrophysicist Margherita Hack, a popular science writer, public intellectual and the first woman to lead an astronomical observatory in Italy, died on Saturday at the age of 91. Known as the "lady of the stars", Hack's research contributed to the spectral classification of many groups of stars, and the asteroid 8558 Hack is named after her. ... Read More » Space Shuttle Atlantis Exhibit Opens with Support from Souvenirs  | CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It would not be a proper Florida theme park attraction if you didn't exit through the gift shop.
| Read More » Leading light in science, Italy's "lady of the stars" Hack dies By Naomi O'Leary ROME (Reuters) - Astrophysicist Margherita Hack, a popular science writer, public intellectual and the first woman to lead an astronomical observatory in Italy, died on Saturday at the age of 91. Known as the "lady of the stars", Hack's research contributed to the spectral classification of many groups of stars, and the asteroid 8558 Hack is named after her. ... Read More » | |
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