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Astronomers Awaiting Comet ISONs Year-End Spectacular
Excitement has been growing in recent months over the approach of Comet ISON. Like other comets, this chunk of rock and ice is following a long, elliptical orbit around the Sun, and like other comets, when it nears the Sun later this year, its trailing stream of dust and vapor will catch the sunlight and become a long, luminous, tail. Many astronomers are predicting that when this celestial ...
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Sun unleashes earth-directed solar particles into space
At 5:24 am EDT on May 17, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space that can reach Earth one to three days later and affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground. Experimental NASA research models, based on observations from NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, ...
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Near-Earth asteroids and Mars 2 moons considered for future space missions
Researchers from the SETI Institute, the Mars Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, and the space robotics company Honeybee Robotics, have successfully completed a first series of field tests aimed at investigating how humans will explore and work on near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) and eventually the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos. From April 13 to 15, field experiments were conducted at the ...
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Depth is key for Planets’ success
"We had a lot of good depth. We had a lot of good juniors who didn't get a lot of playing time because we had so much depth this year. They'll all be back next year," Hobaugh said. "We'll be OK next year. We'll be in the thick of it again, I ...
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Briton picked for five-month mission on International Space Station in 2015
European Space Agency astronaut more than two years ago and has been waiting for a space mission since then.It was feared the former army helicopter pilot might be given a short-duration mission because the UK only makes modest contributions to Esa's manned space programme. Major contributors such as France, Germany and Italy were expected to have priority.However, ...
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Movie Review
Dead Again [DVD]
With a sudden crash of shrieking strings, the word "MURDER" from a yellowing newspaper headline quickly fills the screen then fades away, making clear from its opening moments exactly what Kenneth Branagh's reincarnation thriller "Dead Again" is all about. The opening credits sequence, with its bits of old newspaper stories and thundering score by Patrick Doyle, quickly establishes both the story ... ...
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Matt Parker Im obsessed with spreadsheets at the moment
, a maths fellow at Queen Mary, University of London, who moonlights as a stand-up comedian. "In my new show I'm going to be showing my all-time favourite. It's pretty spectacular. You may have your own favourite spreadsheet, I don't ...
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Time Warped Unlocking the Mysteries of Time Perception by Claudia Hammond – review
The time we have at our disposal each day is elastic, Proust claimed. It sounds an odd remark. Surely we have precisely 24 hours, no more and no less. Even the occasional leap second - introduced to keep calendars accurate - hardly changes the fixed time we have every day on ...
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Daniel Dennetts seven tools for thinking
Cognitive scientist and philosopher Daniel Dennett is one of America's foremost thinkers. In this extract from his new book, he reveals some of the lessons life has taught ...
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Angelina Jolies cancer decision highlights row over genetic technology
Angelina Jolie who has revealed she had decided to have a preventive double mastectomy after testing for the ''faulty'' gene BRCA1. Photograph: Dan ...
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Alice Roberts on the horns of a mammoth dilemma
Arctic frontier town of Salekhard, in Siberia. I was there to film an expedition to recover a new mammoth specimen with a crew from the BBC. We were keen to head north into the tundra of the Yamal peninsula, where we'd heard that new mammoth carcasses had been discovered. After sharing a large Mi-8 helicopter with a load of Siberian hunters, we landed at a reindeer herders' camp, ...
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He is the most evil, vile, demonic criminal. He is dead to me. There will be no visits, there will be no phone calls. He can never be Daddy again. I have no sympathy for the man.
Angie Gregg
Gregg was speaking about her father Ariel Castro who allegedly kidnapped, raped and held captive for a decade, three young women in Cleveland, Ohio.
Hotel Review
Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel
One of a cluster of oceanside and oceanfront deluxe hotels on the beach at Santa Monica, Loews is one of ...
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