Student Mars Rover team will compete in Utah desert
A team of Cornell engineering students has advanced to the finals of the University Rover Challenge, a competition to build and operate a prototype radio-controlled vehicle that could assist astrona ... more
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Proto super star cluster - a cosmic 'dinosaur egg' about to hatch
Globular clusters - dazzling agglomerations of up to a million ancient stars - are among the oldest objects in the universe. Though plentiful in and around many galaxies, newborn examples are vanish ... more
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Indonesia raises volcano alert level to highest after huge eruption
Gov. Ron DeSantis signs law erasing climate change from Florida policy
Climate change could force Bangkok to move, official warns
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Ancient Star Raises Prospects of Intelligent Life
Can life survive for billions of years longer than the expected timeline on Earth? As scientists discover older and older solar systems, it's likely that before long we'll find an ancient planet in ... more
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IBM's Watson strives to be jack of all trades
Watson already has won a major TV game show, is looking for a cure for cancer and has ambitious gastronomy ambitions including devising a recipe for chocolate-beef burritos. ... more
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AKARI far-infrared all-sky data released
The AKARI space telescope's far-infrared all-sky image data are now available to researchers everywhere. The new all-sky maps have four to five times better spatial resolution than conventional far- ... more
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Meteors from Halley's Comet
As May of 2015 unfolds, Halley's Comet is more than 5 billion kilometers from Earth, receding into the inky blackness of the outer solar system, where its looping orbit takes it every 76 years. Dim ... more
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Astronomers detect drastic atmospheric change in super Earth
Researchers have detected the first major atmospheric shift outside our solar system. Over the course of two years, scientists have observed a three-fold temperature shift in the atmosphere of a super Earth called 55 Cancri e. ... more
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