Sunday, July 28, 2013

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Russian Cargo Ship Launches Spacesuit Repair Kit to Space Station

A Russian Soyuz rocket launched an unmanned resupply ship to the International Space Station Saturday (July 27) for an express delivery to the orbiting outpost. The vehicle will be delivering food, supplies and the last-minute addition of a repair kit for a U.S. spacesuit that malfunctioned during a spacewalk last week.


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New Yorkers Celebrate Space at Intrepid Museum's SpaceFest

NEW YORK — The Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum was bustling early Friday (July 26), as hundreds of visitors waited patiently to take part in the second-annual SpaceFest celebration aboard the converted aircraft carrier on the western edge of Manhattan.


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Russian Spacecraft Delivers Spacesuit Repair Kit to International Space Station

An unmanned Russian spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station Saturday (July 27) bearing food, supplies and a repair kit for a malfunctioning spacesuit on the orbiting outpost.


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Stunning 3D Rock Images Revealed in New Lab

PRINCETON, N.J. — A geologist and an architect standing in a lab may sound like the start to a very nerdy joke, but a pair of these professionals have joined together to revolutionize the way scientists study structures, such as fossils, inside rocks.


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3 Nutrients Linked with a Better Night's Sleep

I'm not sure exactly when it happened, but the U.S. seems to have become a nation obsessed with pills. If something doesn't work right, no worries, there's a pill for that.

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Incredible Technology: How to See the Big Bang

Editor's Note: In this weekly series, SPACE.com explores how technology drives space exploration and discovery.


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Earthquakes Burp Up Methane Bubbles

The long-suspected link between earthquakes and underwater methane bursts has finally been confirmed, reports a study published today (July 28) in the journal Nature Geoscience.


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Saturday, July 27, 2013

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En Garde! Gang of Feral Cats Attack Woman, Dog in France

One more reason to love dogs: A gang of feral cats in France attacked a woman and her poodle, forcing both victims to seek medical attention for their injuries.

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Anti-Shark Wetsuits Inspired by Nature

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Incredible Technology: How Supercomputers Solve Giant Problems

Editor's Note: In this weekly series, LiveScience explores how technology drives scientific exploration and discovery. - See more at: http://www.livescience.com/37671-how-to-do-brain-surgery.html#sthash.NIJ821It.dpuf


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Summer Streakers: The Summer Meteor Showers of 2013

Get ready to start looking up this summer.


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LEGO Brick Space Shuttle Enterprise Lands at NYC Museum

The New York City home of space shuttle Enterprise has a new model of the prototype orbiter made completely out of LEGO toy bricks.


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Friday, July 26, 2013

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Can the International Space Station Survive Until 2020?

The International Space Station is undergoing an engineering analysis and risk assessment to gauge its ability to keep operating until 2020 and beyond.


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Weird Weather: Dry Seasons Start Earlier, Are Wetter

Call it weird, call it extreme, maybe even call it the new normal. Wild weather in the United States in the past decade has amassed a long list of toppled records and financial disasters.


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Cruise to Set Sail to Investigate Ocean Acidification

The waters off the Pacific Northwest are becoming more acidic, making life more difficult for the animals that live there, especially oysters and the approximately 3,200 people employed in the shellfish industry.


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NASA Telescope Snaps 1st Photos of Mystery Region on the Sun

NASA's newest solar observatory has taken its first photos of the lowest layers of the solar atmosphere, a mysterious and little-understood region of the sun.


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NYC Performs Final Subway Airflow Test

NEW YORK CITY — On a street in Manhattan's Lower East Side, an unremarkable gray box protrudes from a telephone pole. Inside the box lies a state-of-the-art airflow-sampling device, one part of an experiment to track how a gas disperses through the city's streets and subway system.


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Russian Supply Ship Hauls Trash, Treadmill from Space Station

An unmanned Russian cargo ship filled with trash and an astronaut treadmill cast off from the International Space Station Thursday (July 25) to make way for a fresh delivery set to launch to the orbiting lab this weekend.


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Comet ISON Blazes with Distant Galaxies in Stunning Hubble Photo

A spectacular new photo gives a deep-space view of Comet ISON, which could put on a dazzling show when it zooms through the inner solar system in late November.


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Mysterious Hum Driving People Around the World Crazy

It creeps in slowly in the dark of night, and once inside, it almost never goes away.

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Why MERS is Not the New SARS

The new virus that causes Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) has been compared to that of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) — the viruses belong to the same family, and are particularly deadly to infected people — however, the two conditions have some important differences, a new study says.

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1 in 4 of Surgery Errors Due to Technology Problems

Technology or equipment issues cause one in four operating room errors, and device checks before surgery could prevent some of them, a new study finds.

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Chew on This: Fewer Teeth Linked with Worse Memory

If you want to maintain a sharp memory, you may want to brush up: People who have fewer natural teeth remaining perform more poorly on memory tests, a new study suggests.

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Dinosaur-Killing Comet Didn't Wipe Out Freshwater Species

The cosmic impact that ended the age of dinosaurs killed many living creatures on land and in the sea, but scientists have found, puzzlingly, that life in freshwater largely escaped this fate.


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3D-Printed Rocket Parts Excel in NASA Tests

Key rocket parts built using 3D-printing technology have passed another round of NASA firing tests, inspiring further confidence among space agency officials in this emerging manufacturing technique.


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Pesticides Contaminating Critters in California's National Parks

Pesticides from California's valley farms are collecting in the tissues of a singing treefrog that lives in pristine national parks, including Yosemite and Giant Sequoia, a new study finds.


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The Hardest Working Cities In America

Everything is bigger in Texas, including its work ethic. According to research conducted by Movoto Real Estate, five of the 10 hardest-working cities in the country are located in the Lone Star State. Seattle snagged the No. 1 spot, while New York — a city known for its high-powered workaholics — just missed the cut for top 10.

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NASA Flooded with Asteroid Exploration Ideas

SAN JOSE, Calif. — A NASA call for novel ideas on how to tackle its ambitious mission to capture an asteroid and park it near the moon has paid off in spades, with the agency receiving hundreds of proposals from potential partners.


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Giant Electromagnet Ends Its Month-Long Move

After more than a month of traveling over land and sea, a huge doughnut-shaped electromagnet has crossed the finish line of its 3,200-mile (5,000 kilometers) haul from New York to Illinois.


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