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(AP) NASA has received a gift from an unexpected source _ the nation's satellite spy agency.The space agency confirmed Monday that it has received a pair of giant identical telescopes from the National Reconnaissance Office, which oversees the country's constellation of ...
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(AP) Years of ferocious storms have threatened to gnaw away the western tip of a popular beachfront park two hours drive north of Los Angeles. Instead of building a 500-foot-long wooden defense next to the pier to tame the tide, the ...
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(AP) Triumphant from start to finish, the SpaceX Dragon capsule parachuted into the Pacific on Thursday to conclude the first private delivery to the International Space Station and inaugurate NASA's new approach to exploration."Welcome home, baby," said SpaceX's elated chief, Elon ...
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(AP) From the air, the smoke from a massive wildfire stretches as far as the eye can see, spreading across the rugged country in southwestern New Mexico where the nation's wilderness movement was born nearly a century ago.On the ground, firefighters ...
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(AP) Oklahoma and Texas have argued for years about which has the best college football team, whose oil fields produce better crude, even where the state border should run. But in a hot, sticky dispute that no one wants to win, ...
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(AP) It's a spectacle that won't repeat for another century _ the sight of Venus slowly inching across the face of the sun.The silhouette of Venus will march across the face of the sun on Tuesday from the Western Hemisphere (Wednesday ...
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(AP) Additional testing has confirmed beach rocks that spontaneously combusted in a Southern California woman's pocket contained elevated levels of phosphorus, an official said Friday.The source of the substance is still unclear, but an expert says it probably was manmade.Results from ...
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(AP) It's a spectacle that won't repeat for another century _ the sight of Venus slowly inching across the face of the sun.So unless scientists discover the fountain of youth, none of us alive today will likely ever witness this celestial ...
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(AP) Nearly a year after they joined the periodic table, two man-made elements have been officially named.What used to be element 114 is now flerovium, honoring the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions in Dubna, Russia, where it was created. Element 116 ...
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(AP) Don't worry about when the world as we know it might end. NASA has calculated that our entire Milky Way galaxy will crash into a neighboring galaxy with a direct head-on hit _ in 4 billion years.Astronomers in a NASA ...
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(AP) Seven scientists won prizes Thursday for discoveries that involve the furthest reaches of the solar system, vanishingly tiny materials and the complexities of the brain. One finding helped end Pluto's status as a planet.The researchers will share three $1 million ...
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(AP) The world's air has reached what scientists call a troubling new milestone for carbon dioxide, the main global warming pollutant.Monitoring stations across the Arctic this spring are measuring more than 400 parts per million of the heat-trapping gas in the ...
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(AP) Virgin Galactic says it expects to make rocket-powered test flights of its passenger spaceship later this year.The company said Wednesday its spaceship builder partner has been granted an experimental permit from the Federal Aviation Administration _ a move that will ...
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(AP) An unmanned U.S. Air Force spaceplane that has been in orbit for over a year is coming back to Earth.The Pentagon's experimental craft, which resembles a mini space shuttle, is slated to land at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. ...
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(AP) In some versions of a May 30 story about an underground lab opening in Lead, S.D., The Associated Press misspelled the last name of a scientist who attended the opening. His name is Tom Shutt, not Schutt.
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