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  • 12.31.69 | in | by Credit:

    Shiny Space Station Flares for Cameras

    Sunlight bouncing off of four docked spacecraft and solar arrays on the International Space Station cause it to flare brightly enough to be seen from Earth. Credit: http://www.astrospider.com

  • 12.31.69 | in | by NASA

    In Their Own Words... Remembering Columbia's Crew

    A Space.com TV exclusive.

    12.31.69 | in | by Credit: Armadillo Aerospace

    Pixel's Last Launch

    Armadillo Aerospace's Pixel vehicle keels over during 2nd Leg of 3rd attempt at Level 1 of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge at the X Prize Cup in Las Cruces, NM. Credit: Armadillo Aerospace

  • 12.31.69 | in | by CREDIT: EADS Astrium

    Europe's Space Plane

    EADS Astrium has unveiled a revolutionary new vehicle for space tourism at a special VIP event in Paris ahead of the Le Bourget Airshow. CREDIT: EADS Astrium

  • 12.31.69 | in Space | by Alejandra Valero et al.

    Video - Fish Accused of Sexual Harassment

    A male Trinidadian guppy sexually harassing a female of the critically endangered Mexican fish Skiffia bilineata.

  • 12.31.69 | in | by Credit: Armadillo Aerospace

    Pixel's Triumph

    Armadillo Aerospace's Pixel completes a near-perfect flight profile at the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge of the X Prize Cup in Las Cruces, NM. Credit: Armadillo Aerospace

  • 12.31.69 | in | by NASA

    Messenger at Mercury

    The Narrow Angle Camera (NAC), part of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), took images of the planet as the spacecraft departed. Credit: NASA

  • 12.31.69 | in Space | by Akira Fujii, Digitized Sky Survey 2 and ESA/Hubble

    Sorting Stars

    Globular cluster 47 Tucanae sorts stars according to their masses. Small Magellanic Cloud shown in wide-angle view.

  • 12.31.69 | in Animals | by

    Video - Expanding Chimp Minds

    Kermit the chimp uses a rake to retrieve some fruit yogurt. The researchers showed him which sides of the rakes were rigid and which sides were flimsy beforehand.

  • 12.31.69 | in Space | by Washington University in St. Louis

    Presidential Marketing Power

    Marketing professor Michael Lewis discusses the influence of spending and appearance on election outcomes.

  • 12.31.69 | in Animals | by Alex Kacelnik et al., Behavioral Ecology Research - www.NewCaledonianCrow.com

    Video - Making Tools Out of Twigs

    A crow named Betty making a tool from a branch of oak.

  • 12.31.69 | in Animals | by Jeremy Hsu

    Video - Panda Skull

    This 3D reconstruction of the new fossil of the pygmy panda skull.

  • 12.31.69 | in Animals | by Credit: Chrisopher J. Clark & Teresa Feo/UC Berkeley.

    Video - Odd Way to Chirp

    A male Anna's hummingbird dives, then uses its tail to chirp upon landing.

  • 12.31.69 | in Animals | by Alex Kacelnik et al., Behavioral Ecology Research - www.NewCaledonianCrow.com

    Video - Smart Betty

    Betty uses a hooked piece of wire to fish for food.

  • 12.31.69 | in Animals | by Credit: Trevor Jones/ Anglia Ruskin University

    Video - Long-Nosed Mammal Sniffs Out Food

    In March 2006, researchers filmed the new species of giant elephant-shrew foraging for insects on the forest floor in Tanzania's Ndundulu Forest.

  • 12.31.69 | in Animals | by www.NewCaledonianCrow.com

    Video - Watch and Learn

    A human foster parent demonstrating food-retrieval with a twig tool to Uek, a young female crow.

  • 12.31.69 | in Space | by U.S. Navy

    Navy Tests Big Gun

    The Navy's railgun uses electromagnetic energy instead of explosive chemical propellants to fire a projectile farther and faster.

  • 12.31.69 | in Animals | by Credit: Joshua Plotnik, Frans de Waal, and Diana Reiss.

    Video - Elephant Doppelgangers

    Elephants Maxine and Patty investigate their reflections on their 1st day of mirror exposure.

  • 12.31.69 | in | by ESA

    Columbus Lab’s Captain

    French astronaut Leopold Eyharts is Europe’s first spaceflyer to helm the space station’s Columbus laboratory. Credit: ESA

  • 12.31.69 | in Animals | by Joshua Plotnik, Frans de Waal, Diana Reiss

    Video - Seeing Double

    A camera embedded in the mirror films Happy on her third day of mirror exposure. She repeatedly raises her trunk while backing in and out of the mirror location, presumably as a way of testing her reflection.