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SF Gate
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It's like a James Bond film come to life. A company based on a tiny island in the British archipelago parachuted into San Jose on Thursday to become the first private team to enter a race to reach the moon by 2014 and thereby pocket most of a $30 million..
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www.esa.int
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The ozone hole over Antarctica has shrunk 30 percent as compared to last year's record size. According to measurements made by ESA’s Envisat satellite, this year’s ozone loss peaked at 27.7 million tonnes, compared to the 2006 record ozone loss of 40..
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BBC News
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Scientists in Spain say that they have found a tooth from a distant human ancestor that is more than one million years old.
The tooth, a pre-molar, was discovered on Wednesday at the Atapuerca site in northern Spain's Burgos Province.
It represented..
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scienceblogs.com
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Last week, a rare two-toned lobster was captured off Newport, RI. This lobster is so rare that a person only has between a 1 in 50 million to 100 million chance of capturing one. By comparison, the odds of finding a blue lobster are about 1 in a million...
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CNN
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An animal rights group is offering $1 million to any scientist who can create lab-grown meat that is commercially viable and indistinguishable in taste from the real thing. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) said the money would go to the..
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BBC News
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Astronomers have discovered a newborn planet in a solar system that is still in the process of forming - the first example of this ever found.
Planets are believed to develop within swirling discs of dust and gas around nascent stars.
So studying ve..
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BBC News
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The fossil of an ape that lived 10 million years ago could hold clues to the dawn of human evolution.
The ancient ape appears to be a close relative of the last common ancestor of gorillas, chimps and humans, according to a Kenyan-Japanese team.
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MSNBC
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A fossil unearthed in Kenya belongs to a new species of ape that lived around the same time as the last common ancestor of gorillas and humans.
The 10-million-year-old jawbone and 11 teeth were discovered in volcanic mud flow deposits in Kenya's Nakali..
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SF Gate
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The fossil remains of fragile jellyfish that lived some 505 million years ago have been discovered in the rocks of a Utah mountainside that once lay at the bottom of a shallow tropical sea.
The ancient fossils are strikingly similar to modern jellyfish..
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BBC News
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The mystery of how an animal has survived for 80 million years without sex has been solved by UK scientists.
A Cambridge team says the creature owes its existence to a genetic quirk that offers some recompense for prolonged celibacy.
Many asexual or..
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Physorg
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The impactor believed to have wiped out the dinosaurs and other life forms on Earth some 65 million years ago has been traced back to a breakup event in the main asteroid belt.
A joint U.S.-Czech team from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and Charl..
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BBC News
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A colossal collision in space 160 million years ago set the dinosaurs on the path to extinction, a study claims.
An asteroid pile-up sent debris swirling around the Solar System, including a chunk that later smashed into Earth wiping out the great beas..
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BBC News
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Beijing is noticeably less congested following the start of a four-day scheme to take 1.3 million vehicles off the road.
Officials hope to repeat the test next year during the Olympics to reduce traffic on the capital's jammed roads.
They also hope..
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BBC News
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An ancient forest of cypress trees, estimated to be eight million years old, has been discovered in Hungary.
Archaeologists found the 16 preserved trunks in an open cast coal mine in the north-eastern city of Bukkabrany.
The specimens were preserved..
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BBC News
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Microbes locked in Antarctic ice for as much as eight million years have been "resuscitated" in a laboratory.
Researchers melted five samples of ice from the debris-covered glaciers of Antarctica which range in age from 100,000 years to eight million y..
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Space.com
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A giant cloud of superheated gas 6 million light years wide might be formed by the collective sigh of several supermassive black holes, scientists say.
The plasma cloud, detailed in April 10 issue of Astrophysical Journal, might be the source of myster..
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MSNBC
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Voters in a southern New Mexico county have approved a tax to raise an estimated $49 million toward a $198 million tourism spaceport, according to unofficial returns Thursday.
Residents of Dona Ana County voted on the sales tax Tuesday in what backers..
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MSNBC
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A professor who developed an inexpensive, easy-to-make system for filtering arsenic from well water has won a $1 million engineering prize — and he plans to use most of the money to distribute the filters to needy communities around the world...
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Physorg
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The sudden appearance of large animal fossils more than 500 million years ago – a problem that perplexed even Charles Darwin and is commonly known as "Darwin’s Dilemma" – may be due to a huge increase of oxygen in the world’s oceans, says Queenâ..
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