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Cameron: Earth's deepest spot desolate, foreboding
In James Cameron's fantasy films, like "Avatar" and "The Abyss," the unexplored is splashed in color and fraught with alien danger. But on his dive to the deepest place on Earth, reality proved far different: white, barren and bland. Yet (...)

28 - 03 - 2012
No Wikipedia? What if the Internet went down?
WASHINGTON: If a day without Wikipedia was a bother, think bigger. In this plugged-in world, we would barely be able to cope if the entire Internet went down in a city, state or country for a day or a week. Sure, we'd survive. People have done (...)

19 - 01 - 2012
Astronomers claim earliest galaxy yet from Hubble
WASHINGTON: An international team of astronomers say they've glimpsed the earliest galaxy yet, a smudge of light from nearly 13.2 billion years ago — a time when the cosmos was a far lonelier place. The research hasn't been confirmed, and some (...)

27 - 01 - 2011
YEAREND SPECIAL: 2010's world gone wild: Quakes, floods, blizzards
This was the year the Earth struck back. Earthquakes, heat waves, floods, volcanoes, super typhoons, blizzards, landslides and droughts killed at least a quarter million people in 2010 — the deadliest year in more than a generation. More people (...)

30 - 12 - 2010
Evidence for ET is mounting daily, but not proven
WASHINGTON: Lately, a handful of new discoveries make it seem more likely that we are not alone — that there is life somewhere else in the universe. In the past several days, scientists have reported there are three times as many stars as they (...)

09 - 12 - 2010
Starry starry starry night: Star count may triple
WASHINGTON – The universe may glitter with far more stars than even Carl Sagan imagined when he rhapsodized about billions upon billions. A new study suggests there are a mind-blowing 300 sextillion of them, or three times as many as scientists (...)

02 - 12 - 2010
Astronomers say they've found oldest galaxy so far
WASHINGTON: Astronomers believe they've found the oldest thing they've ever seen in the universe: It's a galaxy far, far away from a time long, long ago. Hidden in a Hubble Space Telescope photo released earlier this year is a small smudge of (...)

21 - 10 - 2010
Genetically altered salmon? It doesn't stop there
WASHINGTON – We've always played with our food — even before we knew about genes or how to change them. For thousands of years, humans have practiced selective breeding — pairing the beefiest bull with the healthiest heifers to start a new herd. (...)

23 - 09 - 2010
Where's the oil? On the Gulf floor, scientists say
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16 - 09 - 2010
Plankton, base of ocean food web, in big decline
WASHINGTON: Despite their tiny size, plant plankton found in the world's oceans are crucial to much of life on Earth. They are the foundation of the bountiful marine food web, produce half the world's oxygen and suck up harmful carbon (...)

29 - 07 - 2010
BP spill nears a somber record as Gulf's biggest
NEW ORLEANS: BP's massive oil spill will become the largest ever in the Gulf of Mexico by Thursday based on the highest of the federal government's estimates, an ominous record that underscores the oil giant's dire need to halt the gusher. The (...)

01 - 07 - 2010
Too risky to phone ET? Too late, NASA's tried it
WASHINGTON: Stephen Hawking, a British theoretical physicist, says it is too risky to try to talk to space aliens. Oops. Too late. NASA and others have already beamed several messages into deep space, trying to phone E.T. The US space agency, (...)

29 - 04 - 2010
Scientists explain chocolate cravings
If that craving for chocolate sometimes feels like it is coming from deep in your gut, that s because maybe it is. A small study links the type of bacteria living in people s digestive system to a desire for chocolate. Everyone has a vast (...)

19 - 10 - 2007
Why people have sex: It feels good
After exhaustively compiling a list of the 237 reasons why people have sex, researchers found that young men and women get intimate for mostly the same motivations. It s more about lust in the body than a love connection in the (...)

03 - 08 - 2007
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