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Drone planes research hurricanes

Science – As the hurricane season takes off in the US so too will drone planes which will fly into the eye of the storms.

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Explaining the Disfigured Shapes of Asteroids

Science – Unlike most of the individual celestial bodies in the universe, which tend to take the shapes of spheres (the geometrical object with minimum surface area in relation to volume), asteroids come practically in all…

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NASA Reveals New Discoveries From Mercury

Science – Analyses of data from the January flyby of the planet by the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft have shown that volcanoes were involved in plains formation and suggest…

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Solar system a bit squashed, not nicely round

Science – The solar system may not be a nice round shape, but rather a bit squashed and oblong, according to data from the Voyager 2 spacecraft exploring the solar system's outer limits, scientists said on Wednesday.

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First images of solar system's invisible frontier

Science – NASA's sun-focused STEREO spacecraft unexpectedly detected particles from the edge of the solar system last year, allowing University of California, Berkeley, scientists to map for the first time the energized particles…

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StarShip Wars Game

Video Games – A fun arcade game that is all about dodging those enemy bullets.

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Spaceships of the future to take humans to Mars in 2.5 hours

Science – Humans can build spaceships capable of reaching the Moon within minutes; a flight to Mars will take 2.5 hours, and a flight to Alpha Centauri, which is scores of light years away from Earth, will take a mere 80…

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Man on the Moon, Future and Past

Science – With two currently functioning orbiters, and five more missions planned in the next year, Earth's Moon may soon have seven active probes operated by five nations, with even more coming soon

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Get Married in Space!

Science – Wedding company now offering the option for couples to get married in space.

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Edvard Munch's The Scream...

Art & Design – Edvard Munch's The Scream, damaged by armed robbers who took the masterpiece in 2004, is back on display in a Norwegian museum.

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A True European Space Program

Science – Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the French Republic, is certainly not a man to think small. A recent story in the BBC suggests that President Sarkozy intends to use the current French Presidency of the European Union…

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Don't Phase me, Bro!

Humor – Motivational Photo LOLZ

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Commentary Hubble Sees Stars and a Stripe in Celestial Fireworks

Science – This image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, is a very thin section of a supernova remnant caused by a stellar explosion that occurred more than 1,000 years ago.

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Mars landing

Science – One small step - images from the unmanned Phoenix space probe were sent back to Earth after its successful landing on Mars.

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Pickerings Triangle from Kitt Peak

Science – Wisps like this are all that remain visible of a Milky Way star. About 7,500 years ago that star exploded in a supernova leaving the Veil Nebula, also known as the Cygnus Loop

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Triangle UFO caught by gogle earth over Australian space.…

Gadgets & Tech – Extremely cool pictures and video of a triangular ufo caught by google earth software. Awesome.

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Methane rise points to wetlands

Science – Higher atmospheric levels of the greenhouse gas methane noted last year are probably related to emissions from wetlands, especially around the Arctic.

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A County Antrim man who makes tombstones says he has accidentally…

Science – Basil Haslett, from Bendooragh near Ballymoney, says he transforms the molecular structure of toughened glass when he carves designs into it. As a result of this etching, less heat passes through the pane.

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Penguins On Mars

Science – Should we be looking for penguins on Mars, rather than little green men?

Aldrin warns US risks falling behind in space race
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Aldrin warns US risks falling behind in space race

Science – Buzz Aldrin, the second man on the moon, warned in an interview published Sunday that the United States risked falling behind Russia and China in the space race if it did not redouble its efforts.

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100 years on, mystery shrouds massive 'cosmic impact' in…

Science – A hundred years ago this week, a gigantic explosion ripped open the dawn sky above the swampy taiga forest of western Siberia, leaving a scientific riddle that endures to this day.

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Russian Space Probe May Save Earth From Asteroid

Science – Russian experts have said a space mission should be sent in 2012 to the Apophis asteroid to establish whether it will collide with Earth, adding that the Russian Phobos-Grunt spacecraft could be used for that purpose.

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Microsoft Implementation for Jordanian Government

Gadgets & Tech – Neudesic has announced that it has been selected by Microsoft to assist with the implementation of an Enterprise Service Bus for the Jordanian government. "Microsoft's selection of Neudesic for this strategically…

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Hubble And James Webb Search For The Edge

Science – Article about the Hubble and James Webb Telescopes.

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Japanese researchers devise method for cramming 42GB on…

Gadgets & Tech – Never mind those fancy BD-R critters, how's about a 42GB DVD? Researchers with a good deal more intelligence than us over at Tohoku University have reportedly figured out a way to "multiply the amount of data that…

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