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At the solar system's edge
Sun reporterPhysicist Rob Decker is obsessed with a region of space that has an ominous name: the termination shock. It's out there, at the very edge of the solar system, 90 times as far away as Earth is from the sun. It is the region where solar wind comes to a...Tags: Applied Science, Movies, Applied Physics, University of Chicago, Weather Reports
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Pope Meets With Clergy Abuse Victims In Australia
Associated PressSYDNEY, Australia -- Pope Benedict XVI met privately on Monday with Australians who were sexually abused as children by priests, ending a pilgrimage to the country with a gesture of contrition and concern over a scandal that has rocked the Roman...Tags: Religious Leaders, Christianity, Galileo Galilei, Benedict XVI, Research
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Cassies Cosmic Campout
Newsday Staff WriterCassie, her parents, and Orion the dog are camping far from the city lights. Cassie loves a dark sky. Lying on her sleeping bag, she sees thousands of twinkling stars floating silently in the blackness. A white band of milky light splashes across the...Tags: NASA, California, Natural Science, Space Programs
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'Duck!' won't save the day
Sun reporterAn asteroid hurtles toward Earth, threatening devastation. A team of attractive young scientists and engineers launches a rocket that crashes into the asteroid and knocks it off course - just in the nick of time. But wait. The crash pushes the giant...Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Government, National Government, Disasters, Puerto Rico
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Astronomer's frontman lives on steady diet of inspiration
Special to the Chicago TribuneCountless authors struggle with writer's block, often spending untold hours staring at blank computer screens, filling trash cans with crumpled legal sheets and, as Nicolas Cage's screenwriter demonstrates in "Adaptation," bargaining with themselves....Tags: Nicolas Cage, Jim Jarmusch, Music Industry, Johnny Cash, MySpace
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Water traces on Mercury
Sun reporterInstruments aboard a Maryland-built spacecraft that soared past the planet Mercury in January have provided a real surprise: traces of water molecules in the hot little world's extremely thin atmosphere, scientists reported yesterday. It's not clear...Tags: Colleges and Universities, History, Johns Hopkins University, Colorado, Natural Disasters
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Mount Wilson Observatory an astronomical gem
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterA century ago, the tranquil air above Mt. Wilson was an astronomer's dream. Not yet polluted by light from the developing communities below, the 5,800-foot-high peak in the San Gabriel Mountains was ideal for observing the universe. From the famed...Tags: Georgia, Satellite Technology, Hawaii, Research, Los Angeles
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Mercury is shrinking, NASA craft finds; a cool clue: 'lobate scarps'
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMercury is not just the solar system's shrimpy kid brother, at least since Pluto was kicked out of the planetary club two years ago. It's shrinking. New measurements taken by NASA's Messenger spacecraft this year show that the innermost planet has shrunk...Tags: Satellite Technology, Johns Hopkins University, Natural Disasters, Natural Science, Space Programs
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A tale of two planets
It was a day like any other on the fourth planet from the sun 4 billion years ago. Then, boom, everything changed in an instant. Mars was never the same. Three scientific papers in a recent issue of Nature make a compelling case that the Red Planet looks...Tags: California, Natural Science
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Crocodile babies 'talk' before birth
Crocodile babies 'talk' before birth
Baby crocodiles start calling to one another and their mothers just before they hatch, perhaps signaling that it is time to be born, according to a report Monday in the journal Current Biology.
Researchers tested...Tags: Minority Groups, Zoology, AIDS, Colorado, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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