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by Stephen Withers
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The near-identical twin satellites that make up NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) have yet to reach their final orbits but are already sending back data about solar storms that can affect Earth.
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by Stephen Withers
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Anyone who has tried wasabi with their sushi will be aware of its sinus-clearing properties, but can you imagine inhaling it?
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by Stephen Withers
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The US and European space agencies will team up this month for a coordinated observation of Jupiter from two separate spacecraft.
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by William Atkins
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Space Shuttle Atlantis (STS-117) and its external tank (ET-124) are inside the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center so that NASA and contractor engineers can visibly look at and access the damage caused by the unfortunately severe hail storm on February 26th.
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by Stephen Withers
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Space shuttle Atlantis was returned to its hangar on Sunday for repairs to its fuel tank.
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by William Atkins
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Some of the words describing the March 3rd total lunar eclipse were “thrilling”, “exciting”, “delight”, and “thriller”—of course others (like this journalist in Illinois) were disappointed with cloudy conditions.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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A new 78 million year-old horned dinosaur weighing as much as a pickup truck has been discovered in Canada by a scientist at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
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by William Atkins
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The Phoenix Mars Mission, scheduled to launch in August 2007, will end up on the northern pole of Mars in May 2008. As with the mythical Egyptian bird of the same name, the Phoenix had to regenerate itself after confronting previous mission cancellations, cost overruns, and unexpected rough terrain at its landing site. Scientists are hopeful that Phoenix will discover the history of water-ice on Mars.
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by William Atkins
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The German Aeropace Center has announced its supposed plan for an unmanned Moon mission by the year 2013.
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by William Atkins
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The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced that it has added a skull and crossbones and a figure of a person running away to its warning symbol for dangerous ionizing radiation.
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by William Atkins
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft has taken images of Saturn—complete with photographs of the planet’s remarkable ring system—that astronomers say have never been seen by humans before.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Famed British physicist and best-selling author, Stephen Hawking, known not only for his book ‘A Brief History of Time’, his wheelchair, computer voice and recent prediction that man must colonize the universe, is soon to experience zero gravity.
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by William Atkins
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A total lunar eclipse will occur on March 3, 2007, over the eastern parts of the Americas, Europe, Africa, and western Asia.
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by William Atkins
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British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking is scheduled to be aboard a specially-equipped Boeing 727-200 airplane on April 26, 2007, for a flight with Zero Gravity Corporation.
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