Monday, August 19, 2013

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Explore an Underwater Volcano Live in HD

For decades, viewing the bizarre underwater ecosystems at seafloor hydrothermal vents has been the privilege of scientists shoehorned into submersibles or researchers steering diving robots.


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First Fossil Whale Poop Pops Up in Italy

Clumps of squid beaks sticking out of clay in Italy's Umbrian badlands may be the first fossilized ambergris, or whale poo, ever found.


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Manned Missions to Mars: Is the Moon Really a Stepping Stone?

The moon may be more of a stumbling block than a stepping stone on humanity's path to the Red Planet, one prominent researcher says.


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Want a Home Cooked Meal? Check the Mail

How often have work and other obligations gotten in the way of making a home-cooked meal? Tired of this all-too-common dilemma, venture capital investor and avid home cook Matt Salzberg teamed up with technical architect Ilia Papas and seasoned chef Matthew Wadiak to solve it. The result was Blue Apron.


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One-Shot Volcanoes Can Be Explosively Dangerous

Volcanoes with multiple eruptions get all the glory, earning top spots on lists of the world's most dangerous and most famous fiery mountains.


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Syria Civil War Scars Seen from Space

A brutal and ongoing civil war in Syria is leaving a heavy trail of destruction in its wake, with damage in the city of Aleppo so significant that scars from the conflict can be seen from space.


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Boston Marathon Bombing: X-Rays and CT Scans Reveal Injuries, Lessons

Months after the Boston Marathon bombing left dozens of victims with severe injuries, doctors are still documenting the lessons learned from the medical response that saved lives and limbs.


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New Nova Star Explosion Wows Stargazers: See It Online Today

A new star explosion in the night sky, called a nova, is captivating stargazers around the world and is now visible to the naked eye, weather and light conditions permitting. Today (Aug. 19), you can catch live views of the nova in an online webcast.


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Owlets Sleep Like Human Babies

Rock-a-bye owlet, in the treetop …


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Arctic Methane: First science flight

Arctic Methane: First science flight


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No Kids: How Infertility Affects Women's Lives

For women, finding out that they are unable to have children means something different depending on their social class, recent research suggests.

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Teen Health Problems Linked with Food Chemicals BPA, Phthalates

The chemicals bisphenol A and phthalates are linked to obesity and insulin resistance in adolescents in two new studies, but the findings cannot yet answer whether the hotly debated hormone-like compounds are causing the negative health effects they are linked with, experts say.

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Shark Swallowed Whole By ... Another Shark

Everyone knows the story: The little fish gets eaten by a big fish, and the big fish gets eaten by an even bigger fish, and so on.


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Sunday, August 18, 2013

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Incredible Technology: How Atom Smashers Work

Particle physicists have the coolest job: smashing subatomic particles together at insane speeds to unravel the mysteries of the universe.


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Norway's Weird Waves Traced to Japan Earthquake

On a calm winter's day in Norway two years ago, the sea suddenly started to boil and rise, sending freak waves rolling onto nearby shores and mystifying residents. Turns out, the massive magnitude-9.0 earthquake that shook Japan in 2011 also triggered these surprise seiche waves, a new study shows.


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10 Worst Tech Predictions of All Time

In the technology world, bold predictions abound, and they should. Placing big bets in one direction or another is how this industry works. Some pundits try to make educated guesses about where tech is headed, while others prognosticate in reaction to disruptive technologies that could boost (or threaten) their business.

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Children and Smartphones: What's the Right Age?

One of the biggest and most divisive debates among parents of young children and preteens deals with the age at which children should be allowed to have their own smartphone. The advent of kid-friendly apps and the ability to watch streaming videos in the palm of your hand have made the decision even more difficult for parents.


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Coastal Flooding Damage: $1 Trillion a Year by 2050

Coastal flooding in cities around the world could cause damage totaling $1 trillion annually by the year 2050 if no mitigating steps are taken, new research suggests.


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Saturday, August 17, 2013

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Pipe Dream? 3D-Printed Model of Hyperloop Created

A model of billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's futuristic Hyperloop system, a superfast transportation system based on pneumatic tubes, has been created using 3D printing.


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Best 'Bear' in Wedding Inspires Wild Animal Show

NEW YORK — Taking one's work home may not always be advisable. But for animal tracker and naturalist Casey Anderson, it's one of the best things that ever happened to him. After saving a grizzly bear cub named Brutus from euthanasia, he raised it and now considers the animal his best friend — Brutus was even the best "man" at his wedding.


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Weekend Stargazing: How to See the Summer Triangle

Have you ever wished you knew more about the stars overhead? It's easier than you think. All you need to do is lie back on a warm summer evening and look straight up.


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Comet ISON: Forecast for Potential 'Comet of the Century' Looks Dim

Comet ISON is not brightening as much as expected as it zooms toward the sun, an amateur astronomer has reported, dealing a blow to skywatchers hoping for a spectacular show from the icy wanderer during its close solar approach this November.


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Cosmonauts prepare for new lab in record Russian spacewalk

By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Two Russian cosmonauts floated outside the International Space Station on Friday to set up power and ethernet cables for a new research laboratory scheduled to arrive in December. Flight engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Alexander Misurkin opened the hatch on the station's Pirs airlock at 10:36 a.m. EDT (1436 GMT) to kick off a 7-hour, 29-minute spacewalk, the longest ever by Russian cosmonauts. The spacewalk eclipsed by 13 minutes the Russians' previous record set in July 2000 outside the Mir space station. ...

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Obsession: The Dark Side of Steve Jobs' Triumphs

At the turn of the millennium, "Think Different" was the widely acclaimed advertising campaign for Apple Inc. But for company chairman Steve Jobs, thinking differently was more than just a slogan — it was an unavoidable fact of life.

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Sustainable Energy Breakthrough: Hydrogen Fuel from Sunlight

A University of Colorado Boulder research team has moved closer to what some call the Holy Grail of a sustainable hydrogen economy — splitting water with sunlight.


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World's Largest Owl Exposes Health of Russia's Forests

The world's largest owl requires equally huge trees, a finding that reveals that this salmon-devouring predator could be a key sign of the health of some of the last great forests of Russia's Far East, researchers say.


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3 Organic Super-Vegetables that Cost Less than $2

Have you ever felt like you were on the right track with your diet, only to have someone completely derail your progress with a simple comment? It happens all the time. You may eat a diet filled with fresh fruits and vegetables… but someone asks you, are they organic? Locally-grown? Ugh.

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Cosmonauts Break Record for Longest Russian Spacewalk

Two cosmonauts set a new record for the longest Russian spacewalk on Friday (Aug. 16), spending more than seven hours working outside the International Space Station to prepare it for the addition of a new Russian-built orbital lab.


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The Right Stuff: Book Portrays Most Influential People in Space

Scientists, entrepreneurs and famous thinkers from all over the world are pushing the boundaries of what is possible in space and humanity's understanding of the final frontier.


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