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 Scientists announced on Thursday the discovery of some ancient footprints in northern Kenya. They said that the footprints are very important signs about the fact that 1.5 million years ago our human ancestors were walking as us today, having anatomically modern feet.The remains of the footprints were discovered in sedimentary rock in...
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 A NASA satellite which had been designed to gauge greenhouse gas emissions and to pinpoint the dangers connected to the global warming crashed on Tuesday. Officials announced that the satellite failed to reach its orbit because a protective covering had failed to separate from the space craft shortly after its launch at Vandenberg Air...
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 On Tuesday morning, a satellite of the American space agency failed to reach our planet’s orbit due to a technical problem. The event means that NASA lost about $280 million in the research and the engineering of the satellite, which was planned to measure the levels of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere at a global scale.Charles P....
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 Tonight is the big night for comet Lulin, which will approach Earth at a distance of 38 million miles. The green 300,000 mile-wide comet will be visible to the naked eye after midnight in the Northern Hemisphere and is one of the top 10 celestial events of 2009.The UK space scientists together with thousands of amateur stargazers will be...
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 A satellite which is designed to collect global measurements of carbon dioxide, the gas most closely linked to climate change, will be launched from the Vandenberg Air Force base in California on Wednesday. The data from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) will be analyzed by scientists in order to enable more reliable forecasts of...
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 Even if the most-expected comet of the year, Lulin, will be visible to the naked eye as some kind of a fuzzy ball, the important thing is that many scientists consider this event as being one of the top 10 celestial events of 2009. Several researchers expect to watch the rare and odd visitor as it passes by the Earth.Lulin will approach...
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 Comet Lulin will come as close as 38 million miles of Earth on Monday night and we will see it as a green, gassy, two-tailed, traveling backward object. On late Monday night several scientists and persons will watch the event with great contempt, as Lulin is a very rare and quirky visitor.Considering the fact that Mars is at a 35 million...
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 Scientists announced on Wednesday a big discovery near the La Brea Tar Pits in downtown Los Angeles. The construction site in the area permitted the digging out of a nearly complete skeleton of a big Columbian mammoth. The scientists explained that the animal had died during the last ice age.The researchers at the Page Museum at the La...
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 Two U.S. citizens will beam their ballots down from the International Space Station (ISS) as they fly 354 km above Earth. NASA astronauts Michael Fincke and Gregory Chamitoff will vote from space thanks to a Texas state law that ensures their ballots can be counted, even from space. All U.S. astronauts who were in space have voted from...
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 Japanese geneticists have successfully cloned dead mice frozen for up to 16 years. They hope this technique will help them clone enough animals in order to save an endangered species. The team from the Center for Developmental Biology of Japan’s RIKEN research institute in Yokohama used the nuclear transfer technique to create the...
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