Dung beetles look to the stars
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A species of South African dung beetle has been shown to use the Milky Way to navigate, making it the only ...
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Andean glaciers melting at "unprecedented" rates: study
LIMA (Reuters) - Climate change has shrunk Andean glaciers between 30 and 50 percent since the 1970s and could melt many of them awa...
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Neanderthal cloning chatter highlights scientific illiteracy
By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - After spending the weekend reading blog posts claiming that he was seeking an "extremely adventur...
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Adelie penguins: cool, efficient killing machines
By Ruairidh Villar TOKYO (Reuters) - Fish of the Antarctic, be very afraid. There's an unlikely stealth predator on the loose - Adel...
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Into deep space: second U.S. firm takes aim at mining asteroids
By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Jan 22 - A team of entrepreneurs and engineers unveiled plans on Tuesday for a space mining com...
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Balloon-like dwelling to be tested on Int'l Space Station
By Irene Klotz LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - A low-cost space dwelling that inflates like a balloon in orbit will be tested aboard the Inter...
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Spanish cuts widen Europe's north-south research divide
By Rodrigo De Miguel and Clare Kane MADRID (Reuters) - Amanda Bolanos, a young Spanish scientist, knows she will not be coming home....
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Russia plans to send probe to moon in 2015
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia will resume a long-dormant quest to explore the moon by sending an unmanned probe there in 2015, the head ...
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Astronomers discover largest known structure in the universe
(Reuters) - Astronomers have discovered the largest known structure in the universe - a group of quasars so large it would take 4 bi...
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Weightlessness no cure for "morning clumsies," astronaut says
By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Like many people, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield confesses that he's sometimes...
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