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"The scientists expect that the first evidence of primitive alien life, such as microbes and vegetation, will emerge within 10 years, with more substantial finds following future space missions.&

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"...it shouldn’t be neglected that a rocky place with high water content, discovered through a transit of a ‘hot Neptune,’ is an exciting reminder that the essentials for life are likely widespre

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"Give college students less instruction and more freedom to think for themselves in laboratory classes, and the result may be a four-fold increase in their test scores." Hoodathunkit?

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"FRANCIS CRICK, the Nobel Prize-winning father of modern genetics, was under the influence of LSD when he first deduced the double-helix structure of DNA nearly 50 years ago." Never knew tha

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"For any plagiarist living in an age of search engines, waving a loaded book in front of reviewers has become the literary equivalent of suicide by cop." This is going to get very messy over

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"The discovery of a mysterious solid form of natural gas off the east coast of Canada could bring one of Earth's biggest untapped sources of energy a step closer to commercial use, according to s

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"The molecule in question is called C6H-, described as a chain of six carbon atoms with one hydrogen atom at the end and an extra electron."

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"Five seasons of excavations at Ban Non Wat, in Northeast Thailand, have unearthed 470 human burials covering a time span of more than 2,000 years. Earthwatch-supported research [...] gives clues

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"Instead of giving the robot a rigid set of instructions, the researchers let it discover its own nature and work out how to control itself [...] The ability to build this "self-model"

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"...since the year 2000, the population of known stars within 10 parsecs (roughly 33 light years) of the Sun has grown by 16 percent." Commentary from Centauri Dreams.

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"Physicists [...] at Fermilab near Chicago have discovered two new particles, called sigma-b baryons. The particles are the heaviest baryons ever discovered and weigh about 5.8 GeV, or around six

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"They were nearly thrown out with the rubbish. But a last minute search instead has scientists in Western Australia dusting off several boxes of 'lost' NASA tapes which record surface conditions

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"Shuttle astronauts will make one final house call to NASA's Hubble Space Telescope as part of a mission to extend and improve the observatory's capabilities through 2013." Makes economic se

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"Feeds That Matter is a fascinating new analysis project out of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) and a terrific way to find new RSS feeds to subscribe to." Coukl be worth

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"Archaeologists announced Friday that a monolith discovered Oct. 2 near Mexico City's main square is perhaps the largest ever found in the city's center ...[it] is rectangular and measures nearly

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"SETI is akin to discovery science, despite its ... presumption that the extraterrestrials exist, because that hypothesis is not falsifiable. A failure to receive a [signal] from space doesn’t sa

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"Scientists ... at the ... Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced today that they have met the exacting standard to claim discovery of astonishingly rapid transitions between matter and

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"A program that works out the meaning of newly coined words using the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia could help machines understand the slang used in blogs and other informal texts, say researche

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Does what it says on the tin, apparently.

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Anything space-related floats my boat, but this gets a link just because I love the adjective 'sungrazing'.

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Only copies of Greek philosopher's lost works, once scrubbed away and written over with prayers, are now being recovered with X-ray scanning. There's some nice symbolism there

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Two exoplanet-sized objects in a binary pair, with no parent star. How did they form? We're not entirely sure.

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We've got nearly a hundred of the things logged now, and the data is improving the longer we watch.

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What a relief - and what a lovely 4th of July present for our American colleagues. Happy holidays, guys.

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Doesn't seem to be a particularly exciting discovery, but the boffins seem fairly pleased about it anyway. Go figure.

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