U.S. professor finds longest prime number with 17,425,170 digits
By Kevin Murphy KANSAS CITY, Missouri (Reuters) - After running 1,000 computers non-stop for 39 days to uncover the world's largest ...
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Asteroid may have killed dinosaurs quicker than scientists thought
By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Dinosaurs died off about 33,000 years after an asteroid hit the Earth, much soone...
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Arctic nations' oil spill plans too vague: environmentalists
By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO (Reuters) - Plans by Arctic nations to start cooperating over oil spills are vague a...
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Blimps to bolster Washington's air shield in test
By Jim Wolf WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A pair of big, blimp-like craft, moored to the ground and flying as high as 10,000 feet, are to b...
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Russian rocket falls into sea in failed launch: reports
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A rocket carrying a communications satellite suffered engine trouble and plunged into the Pacific Ocean shortly a...
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Space shuttle Columbia's second life - as a cautionary tale
By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space shuttle Columbia's flying days came to an abrupt and tragic end on February...
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Rocket blasts off with new NASA communications satellite
By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An unmanned Atlas 5 rocket blasted off on Wednesday to put the first of a new gen...
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Science cafes offer a sip of learning
By Barbara Liston ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - Americans may be turning away from the hard sciences at universities, but they are in...
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South Korea launches first civilian rocket amid tensions with North
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea launched its first space rocket carrying a science satellite on Wednesday amid heightened regional ten...
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Scientists find genetic clue to severe flu among Chinese
LONDON (Reuters) - British and Chinese scientists have found a genetic variant which explains why Chinese populations may be more vu...
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