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SPACE.com - Astronomers have discovered a massive star that once dwarfed our sun and is now challenging theories of how stars evolve, die and form black holes.
SPACE.com - Astronomers have discovered a massive star that once dwarfed our sun and is now challenging theories of how stars evolve, die and form black holes.
AP - South Africa has renewable resources that can provide solutions to the country's energy problems and create jobs — while fighting global warming, Greenpeace officials said Wednesday.
AFP - US-based Kosmos has abandoned a deal to sell its stake in Ghana's Jubilee oil field to ExxonMobil, it said on Wednesday, after the government in the West African nation objected to the...
AP - The International Space Station is operating normally again following a series of spacewalking...
AP - When Steven Leung and Sylvia Cheung celebrated their nuptials in this southern Chinese financial center recently, they lavished their guests with one sumptuous dish after another — bird nest soup, lobster, abalone.
LiveScience.com - Human faces may hold more meaning for socially outgoing individuals than for their more introverted counterparts, a new study suggests.
SPACE.com - A spacecraft designed to scan the edge of the solar system has turned its gaze back toward Earth, taking an unprecedented look at the solar wind's head-on collision with the planet's magnetic field.
AFP - Foreign aid began flowing Wednesday to the 20 million victims of floods in Pakistan, but thousands remained without food or shelter as weather forecasts signalled there may be some...
AP - New research reveals that the deadly tsunami that pounded several South Pacific islands last year was spawned by not one but two monstrous earthquakes.
AP - Coral that survived the 2004 tsunami is now dying at one of the fastest rates ever recorded because of a dramatic rise in water temperatures off northwestern Indonesia caused in part by global warming, conservationists said Wednesday, warning that the threat extends to other reefs across...
LiveScience.com - The deadly tsunami that washed over the southwest Pacific islands of Samoa and Tonga last September may have been triggered by not just one but two giant earthquakes, new research suggests.
AFP - A neutron star with a mighty magnetic field has thrown down the gauntlet to theories about stellar evolution and the birth of black holes, astronomers reported on...
SPACE.com - China says it has completed assembling the first module for its space station, and the country's space agency hopes to launch it next year.
AFP - More than 60 people went missing after torrents of mud slammed into homes in southwest China Wednesday, blocking roads in the nation's latest disaster as it battles its worst flooding in a...
LiveScience.com - SAN DIEGO - Catching a wave can do more than give you a paddling workout. It also boosts mood, according to a new study.
AFP - US scientists have created the first bank of frozen coral cells, intended to preserve endangered coral species in Hawaii and protect their...
AP - Fresh landslides rocked another area of China on Wednesday, sweeping through a mountain town in the southwest of the country after days of heavy rains and leaving at least 67 people missing and cutting off access to the...
AFP - Japanese trading giant Itochu Corp. will start selling water-processing equipment in China to help combat the country's serious problems with water pollution, a company spokesman said on...
AFP - Shares in Vestas slumped on Wednesday after the Danish wind power group cut this year's earnings and sales targets following a second quarter...
Time.com - Bedbugs are a big problem in the Buckeye State. Why the EPA, the CDC and, yes, the Department of Defense are meeting with officials in Ohio
AFP - Taiwan's Penghu group of islands plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to expand their wind power capacities, an official said...
Reuters - Cuba plans to drill seven exploratory oil wells in its Gulf of Mexico waters over the next two years, according to a U.S. organization that visited the Communist-ruled island to discuss energy development.
AP - Researchers are warning that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is a bigger mess than the government claims and that a lot of crude is lurking deep below the surface, some of it settling perhaps in a critical undersea canyon off the Florida...
AFP - Nearly 80 percent of the oil spilled from a BP well in the Gulf of Mexico is still in the gulf, US scientists have estimated, challenging a more optimistic assessment by the US government earlier in the...
LiveScience.com - Mind control by parasite sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but not only have scientists revealed that it is real across a range of animals - including perhaps humans - they now even have fossil evidence suggesting it has taken place for millions of years.