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Puzzling Plumage: Fractals Reveal Birds' HealthBirds may use fractals as a way of judging mates.
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Cosmic Ray Hunting Balloon Sets Record for Longest FlightThe Super-TIGER mission is collecting cosmic rays from space.
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How NASA Revealed Sun's Hottest Secret in 5-Minute SpaceflightNASA's Hi-C (High-Resolution Coronal Imager) mission spotted never-before-seen solar magnetic braids.
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Physicists Disagree Over Meaning of Quantum Mechanics, Poll ShowsExperts diverged on best interpretations of quantum theory, including whether Einstein was right or wrong.
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Celestial Wonder Looks Uncannily Like a ManateeA space object has been nicknamed the Manatee Nebula.
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What Will First Photos of Black Holes Look Like?Black holes will look crescent-shaped, researchers say.
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Next Space Station Crew Faces Out-of-This-World Final ExamsA NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts are cramming for their final hurdle before launch.
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NASA-European Partnership on Deep-Space Capsule a FirstEurope will build the service module for NASA's upcoming Orion space capsule.
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Right Again, Einstein! New Study Supports 'Cosmological Constant'A new finding casts doubt on an alternative to the cosmological constant theory.
cosmology -
Hubble Telescope to Snap 6 New 'Deep Field' Views of UniversePhotos will reveal some of the farthest and faintest objects yet seen.
cosmology -
Warp Speed: What Hyperspace Would Really Look LikeSci-fi films often get it wrong, physicists say.
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Science You Can Eat: 10 Things You Didn't Know About FoodA new museum exhibition takes the lid off food, revealing many strange and surprising facts.
human-behavior -
Most Earth-Like Alien Planet Possibly FoundA newfound "super Earth" orbits a sun-like star in the habitable zone.
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Hubble Space Telescope Could Last Until 2018, NASA SaysHubble could run for at least a year after its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope, launches in 2017.
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Alien Earth: What It Will Mean to Find Our Planet's Twinalien earth, earth 2.0, earth twin, earth-like planet, alien planets, kepler, kepler planets, exoplanets, science, search for life
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NASA's Curiosity Rover Brushes Mars Rock Clean, a FirstThe rover's Dust Removal Tool clears away the ubiquitous Red Planet dust.
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Coldest Antimatter Yet Is Goal of New TechniqueThe new technique could help researchers probe antihydrogen mysteries.
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Engineer Petitions White House for Real-Life Starship EnterpriseIf the petition gathers 25,000 signatures, the Obama administration must issue an official response.
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Year's Largest Astronomy Meeting Kicks Off in California SundayThe conference is called the "Super Bowl of astronomy."
astronomy -
Private Moon Travel Startup Hires Lunar Lander DesignerThe Golden Spike company has hired veteran firm Northrop Grumman to design its lunar lander.
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Man Accused of Stealing Meteorites in North CarolinaMeteorites and electronics equipment worth more than $100,000 were taken from a science center on Christmas Eve.
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Neil Armstrong's 'One Small Step': Controversy Erupts Over Moonwalk QuoteNeil Armstrong's brother says the famous line wasn't as spontaneous as thought.
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13 New Space Missions to Watch In 2013From manned launches to private suborbital flights, 2013 has a lot in store.
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American, Canadian, and Russian Spaceflyers Launch to Space StationThree new crewmembers blasted off on a Russian rocket from Kazakhstan, bound for the International Space Station.
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