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Deadlines set for designating polar bear habitat (AP)

AP - The federal government will designate "critical habitat" for polar bears off Alaska's coast, a decision that could add restrictions to future offshore petroleum exploration or drilling.

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Tropical Storm Marco (weather.com)

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Asteroid to burn up before hitting Earth (Reuters)

Reuters - A tiny asteroid discovered earlier Monday by an Arizona observatory will hit Earth's atmosphere over Sudan in a few hours but will burn up before it can hit the ground or endanger aircraft, astronomers said.

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Small asteroid headed for light show over Africa (AP)

AP - A small asteroid was headed for a fiery but harmless dive into Earth's atmosphere early Tuesday morning over Africa, astronomers said in a first of its kind advance warning.

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Genes Give Clues to Age-Linked Eye Trouble (HealthDay)

HealthDay - MONDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Variants in the gene that helps produce vital proteins in the eye have been linked to age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a major source of blindness, a new report says.

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NASA spacecraft soars past Mercury (AFP)

AFP - A US space probe successfully flew by Mercury on Monday to photograph the solar system's smallest planet, in the second of three planned passes, the US space agency NASA said.

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10/6/2008 9:24 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Small asteroid about to burn up in sky over Africa (AP)

AP - Astronomers say a small asteroid is about to make a fiery but harmless dive into Earth's atmosphere early Tuesday morning over Africa.

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Forecasters: Tropical Storm Marco forms off Mexico (AP)

AP - The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Marco has formed off Mexico's Gulf Coast with maximum sustained winds near 65 mph.

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US cancer specialist at centre of 6.5-bln-dlr takeover battle (AFP)

AFP - US pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly said Monday it had agreed a takeover worth 6.5 billion dollars with biotech firm ImClone, which is also a target for rival Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS).

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NASA spacecraft zooms above surface of Mercury (Reuters)

Reuters - A car-sized NASA spacecraft zoomed above the surface of Mercury on Monday, viewing rocky terrain never before seen up close on our solar system's sun-baked innermost planet, scientists said.

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Most Alaskan Glaciers Retreat and Thin (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Most of Alaska's glaciers are retreating or thinning or both, a new book by the U.S. Geological Survey reports.

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US scientists find oldest fossil tracks of legged animal (AFP)

AFP - US scientists have found the oldest fossilized tracks of a tiny legged animal, from 570 million years ago, that push back the advent of more complex creatures on Earth by some 30 million years, a report said Sunday.

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Recordings aim to capture calls of the wild West (AP)

AP - Rattlesnakes aren't to be trifled with, but if you're trying to collect the sound of every creature in the West that slithers, hops, flies or flops, distance isn't a luxury you can afford.

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Spacecraft Zooms by Mercury for Second Time (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A NASA probe made its second Mercury flyby early Monday as closes in on the closest planet to the sun.

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10/6/2008 11:04 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Shh! Let's Not Talk About Race (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - The tendency of some white people to go silent or act "colorblind" on the topic of race could do more harm than good, new research shows.

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10/6/2008 12:52 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Scientists: 1 in 4 mammals faces extinction (AP)

AP - Conservationists have taken the first detailed look at the world's mammals in more than a decade, and the news isn't good.

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People Love Angry-Faced Cars (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - If a Toyota Prius just looks too friendly for your tastes, you're not alone. People readily see faces and traits in cars, and a new study suggests that they prefer cars to appear dominant, masculine and angry.

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Natgas winter costs seen up 10 to 30 percent (Reuters)

Reuters - While U.S. natural gas supplies will be plentiful this winter, gas heating costs for households will still increase 10 to 30 percent compared with last winter, the American Gas Association said on Monday.

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Greenpeace activists board coal ship off Spanish coast (AFP)

AFP - Greenpeace activists boarded a cargo ship carrying Colombian coal at a port in northern Spain on Monday in protest at Spain's reliance on the highly polluting energy source.

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Eli Lilly bids $6.5 billion for ImClone (Reuters)

Reuters - Eli Lilly and Co has agreed to acquire ImClone Systems Inc for $6.5 billion, outbidding Bristol-Myers Squibb Co and potentially bringing to a close one of the most colorful corporate sagas in biotech history.

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10/6/2008 1:22 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

The True Costs of Renewable Energy (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - As utility costs mount ever higher, Americans now have real options to take home energy matters into their own hands with "green" systems that can pay for themselves in as little as a few years.

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Tropical Depression 13 Forms in Gulf (weather.com)

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Genes may explain racial disparities in asthma (Reuters)

Reuters - Asthma patients who are black tend to have more severe disease than asthma patients who are white, leading to more asthma control problems, higher rates of emergency department visits, and overall worse quality of life. These findings point to genetic differences that lead to poor responses to drug therapy as the source of these racial disparities.

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10/5/2008 2:25 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Oldest 'Footprints' on Earth Found (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - The oldest-known tracks of a creature apparently using legs have been discovered in rock dated to 570 million years ago in what was once a shallow sea in Nevada.

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10/5/2008 1:55 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Gut Reaction: Digestion Revealed in 3-D (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation.

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10/5/2008 2:32 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

AP Investigation: Ike environmental toll apparent (AP)

AP - Hurricane Ike's winds and massive waves destroyed oil platforms, tossed storage tanks and punctured pipelines. The environmental damage only now is becoming apparent: At least a half million gallons of crude oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico and the marshes, bayous and bays of Louisiana and Texas, according to an analysis of federal data by The Associated Press.

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10/5/2008 4:07 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Venus flytraps caught in shrinking natural habitat (AP)

AP - Laura Gadd pauses at the edge of a pristine savanna, delicately lifting her feet to avoid trampling any venus flytraps hidden underfoot.

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10/4/2008 9:12 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

International Space Station changes orbit awaiting tourist: report (AFP)

AFP - The orbital path of the International Space Station (ISS) was successfully adjusted Saturday to accommodate the landing of the world's sixth space tourist in eight days time, Interfax reported citing Russian space programme officials.

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10/5/2008 2:58 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Fossett plane recovery might not resume this year (AP)

AP - California officials say recovery efforts around the site of adventurer Steve Fossett's downed plane might not resume until summer.

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10/3/2008 9:16 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Bacteria Think Ahead (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Bacteria may be humble single-celled creatures, but they're sophisticated enough to anticipate regular events, such as the arrival of day, thanks to their internal circadian clocks. A new study shows that they can also anticipate and prepare for sporadic events, as long as the events are reliably preceded by a signal.

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10/4/2008 2:10 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Grief: The Price of Love (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Years ago while observing a troop of Barbary macaques for behavioral research, I was surprised to see a new mother holding on to her obviously stillborn baby. She clutched the corpse to her chest and made soft cooing sounds, obviously in distress. More remarkable, she held on to that dead baby for more than a week as it began to decompose. Eventually, the mother showed up alone, but then it got even sadder. She began to haunt other mothers, those with live babies. She would sit close to them and try to grab those babies and hug them, as if to make up for her loss...

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Beaches once thick with birds quiet thanks to Ike (AP)

AP - One of North America's renowned bird migration and bird watching areas is strangely silent.

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10/3/2008 10:56 AM - Views: 5 Rating: -

World of Warcraft Video Game Succeeds in School (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - It's not unusual for video game players to speak of a routine that involves ordering pizza, getting a sugar jolt, and then playing "World of Warcraft" for hours. But the person talking in this case is Constance Steinkuehler, an educational researcher who organized an afterschool group for boys to play, for educational purposes, the massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

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10/3/2008 4:23 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Some facts adrift in veep debate (AP)

AP - Republican Sarah Palin criticized a version of a Barack Obama health care plan that doesn't exist and Democrat Joe Biden clung to a misleading charge about Republicans and big oil when the two clashed in the vice presidential debate Thursday.

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Tropical Storm Marie strengthens slightly (AP)

AP - The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Marie has strengthened slightly as it churns out in the Pacific.

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Pollution Makes Oceans Noisier (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - The ocean may soon begin to sound more like New York City to dolphins and whales.

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What Does the Vice President Do, Anyway? (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - In the vice presidential debate Thursday, Republican candidate Sarah Palin differed from Democratic pick Joe Biden on the topic of exactly what the vice president's job is or ought to be.

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10/2/2008 10:54 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

NTSB: Remains found at Steve Fossett wreckage site (AP)

AP - Federal investigators said Thursday they found human remains amid the wreckage of missing adventurer Steve Fossett's airplane in the mountains of eastern California. The remains were found among a field of debris that stretched 400 feet long and 150 feet wide in a steep section of the Sierra Nevada.

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Navy confirms lost WWII sub has been found (AP)

AP - The Navy has confirmed the wreckage of a sunken vessel found last year off the Aleutians Islands is that of the USS Grunion, which disappeared during World War II.

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10/3/2008 8:24 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Big fossil found in paleontologist's yard post-Ike (AP)

AP - A paleontologist whose beachfront home in Texas was destroyed during Hurricane Ike has found a football-size tooth in the debris.

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10/3/2008 8:27 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Tax breaks big and small sweeten financial bailout (AP)

AP - Millions of taxpayers, thousands of businesses and groups as diverse as solar power developers and natural disaster victims will see tax relief with the House vote Friday to approve and send to the president a $700 billion financial rescue plan.

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10/3/2008 4:16 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Rich and Poor Have Same Economic Views (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - With the financial crisis weighing on everyone's minds, many debate whether our government's economic policies cater to the rich over the poor.

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10/2/2008 10:31 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Genes pinpoint people at risk for gout: study (Reuters)

Reuters - Scientists have pinpointed three genes related to the high blood levels of uric acid that cause gout in a step that could help identify people at special risk for this common and painful type of arthritis.

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Strippers, armadillos inspire Ig Nobel winners (AP)

AP - Deborah Anderson had heard the urban legends about the contraceptive effectiveness of Coca-Cola products for years. So she and her colleagues decided to put the soft drink to the test. In the lab, that is.

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Australian boy wreaks zoo havoc while feeding croc (Reuters)

Reuters - The parents of a 7-year-old boy who broke into an Australian outback zoo and fed a string of small animals to its resident crocodile are likely to be sued after police said the boy was too young to be held responsible.

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Chinese pandas fed chicken soup for health (AP)

AP - Everyone needs some chicken soup for the soul ? even pandas.

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Boy wreaks zoo havoc while feeding croc (Reuters)

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Tropical Storm Marie in the Eastern Pacific (weather.com)

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Exxon-led project faces Russian lawsuit over endangered whales (AFP)

AFP - Russian environmental groups launched Friday legal action against an oil and gas project led by US energy giant Exxon for threatening critically endangered whales in Russia's far east.

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Southern States Ranked Worst for Seriously Sick (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - The South is the worst place to live if you're seriously ill, according to a new report that graded each U.S. state for residents' access to palliative care, a fairly new specialty that focuses on patients' quality-of-life issues rather than elusive cures for diseases.

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10/6/2008 9:33 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Arctic Grows Stormier (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - The Arctic has become more stormy in the past 50 years due to the warming climate, which in turn has quickened the pace of drifting sea ice, a new NASA study finds.

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10/6/2008 9:45 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Elite Club Lets Space Tourist Cut to Front of Line (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - American billionaire Charles Simonyi snagged his history-making second space tourist trip to the International Space Station next year thanks to an elite club that gives its members first dibs on private spaceflight seats.

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Small Asteroid To Light Up Sky Over Africa

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NASA Spacecraft Ready to Explore Outer Solar System

The first NASA spacecraft to image and map the dynamic interactions taking place where the hot solar wind slams into the cold expanse of space is ready for launch Oct. 19.

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10/6/2008 7:03 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Huge Planet Defies Explanation (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Astronomers have sighted a very dense planet-sized object that orbits its parent star in just four days and six hours.

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Galaxy Diversity Reveals Clues to Cosmic Evolution (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Astronomers peering out into our cosmic backyard have long understood that the Milky Way's galactic neighbors only seem similar on the surface. Now a detailed survey from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed the diversity of those galaxies as they evolve over time.

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10/6/2008 7:15 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

NASA Primes Spacecraft to Probe Solar System's Fringe (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - NASA is gearing up to launch a new spacecraft to probe the fringe of the solar system this month where material from the sun hits the cold expanse of space.

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NASA And The Adler Planetarium Host NASA Future Forum In Chicago

NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale will deliver a keynote address on Friday, Oct. 10, at the Adler Planetarium, Chicago

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Small Asteroid to Streak into Earth's Atmosphere Tonight (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A very small asteroid will streak into the skies over Sudan tonight, astronomers announced. It is expected to burn up in the atmosphere, creating a show.

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COROT discovery stirs exoplanet classification rethink

COROT has discovered a massive planet-sized object orbiting its parent star closely, unlike anything ever spotted before. It is so exotic, that scientists are unsure as to whether this oddity is actually a planet or a failed star.

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NASA Awards Future Vehicle Aircraft Research Contracts

NASA has awarded research contracts worth a total of $12.4 million to six industry teams to study advanced concepts for subsonic and supersonic commercial transport aircraft that could enter service in 25 to 30 years.

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Comet Capture Capsule Goes On Display (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A NASA capsule that collected the first samples from a comet has become part of a collection itself.

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Astronaut's diary goes on display in Jerusalem (AP)

AP - Pages from an Israeli astronaut's diary that survived the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia and a 37-mile fall to earth are going on display this weekend for the first time in Jerusalem.

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Space tech helps to reach long-jump world record

German athlete Wojtek Czyz, running with a space-tech enhanced prosthetic leg, set a new world record at the Paralympics 2008 in Beijing, reaching an amazing 6.50 m and beating the previous world record by 27 cm.

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ATV: the next step

Europe's ATV - the Jules Verne - ended its first mission with a controlled break-up over the Pacific. Its developers are already thinking about the future of Automated Transport Vehicles, and hope to develop a craft that can not only return to earth intact, but can also carry a crew of astronauts.

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10/3/2008 7:45 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

NASA Moves Up November Shuttle Launch (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - The space shuttle Endeavour is set to blast off two days early next month while engineers on Earth continue to study a Hubble Space Telescope glitch that added months of delay to a separate orbiter flight, NASA officials announced Friday.

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10/2/2008 11:00 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Two Companions Found Near Dog-bone Asteroid (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A team of astronomers led by F. Marchis, PI, at the SETI Institute and at UC-Berkeley, and P. Descamps from Paris Observatory announced recently the discovery of two moons around an intriguing asteroid. The main-belt asteroid 216 Kleopatra has two companions.

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GOCE team gearing up for new launch date

ESA and European industries have updated the planning of the preparatory activities for a new tentative launch date of 27 October 2008 for the GOCE satellite.

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NASA Selects Science Teams For Astrobiology Institute

NASA has awarded five-year grants to study the origins, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe.

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NASA at 50: The Shuttle, Space Station and Beyond (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - One vehicle's operative life is coming to a close, while the other's is still in its formative stages. Their legacies will be inexorably linked: Without the space shuttle, delivery and assembly of the International Space Station's (ISS) key components would have been difficult at best, and probably could not have happened.

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10/2/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

NASA to Discuss Mission to Explore the Edge of the Solar System

NASA will hold a media teleconference on Monday, Oct. 6, at 1 p.m. EDT, to discuss the upcoming launch of the first spacecraft that will image and map the dynamic interactions taking place where the hot solar wind slams into the cold expanse of space.

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NASA Extends International Space Station Contract

NASA has awarded a two-year, $650 million contract extension to The Boeing Co. to continue engineering support of the International Space Station to Sept. 30, 2010.

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NASA TV Coverage Set For Space Station Crew Exchange

NASA Television will broadcast the launch of the next International Space Station crew Oct. 12.

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Listening In: Lander to Record Mars Sounds (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - NASA scientists hope to hear what it sounds like on the surface of Mars for the first time when they attempt to switch on the Phoenix Mars Lander's microphone in the next week or two, mission leaders announced on Monday.

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NASA'S Messenger Spacecraft Returns To Mercury

A NASA spacecraft will conduct the second of three flybys of Mercury on Oct. 6.

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Planck update in pictures

The Planck spacecraft has almost completed its final testing phase and is on its way to being launch-ready. The testing phase began in late March this year, and has taken the spacecraft all over Europe, making it go hot, cold and shaky to test its robustness.

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Hubble enters safe mode

At approximately 02:00 CEST on Sunday, 28 September, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope automatically entered safe mode when errors were detected in the Control Unit/Science Data Formatter-Side A.

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U.S. spacecraft poised to fly past Mercury next week (Reuters)

Reuters - A NASA spacecraft will whiz over Mercury's crater-scarred surface next Monday, getting a look at the third of the planet closest to the sun that has never been seen close-up before.

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9/30/2008 7:44 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Jules Verne re-entry video

Video showing the destructive re-entry of Jules Verne ATV at the end of a successful mission to the International Space Station. The re-entry took place over an uninhabited area of the Pacific Ocean after two deorbit burns. (Credits: ESA/NASA)

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NASA Assigns Crew For Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-129 Mission

NASA has assigned the crew for space shuttle Discovery's STS-129 mission

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Cabana to Succeed Parsons as Kennedy Space Center Director

NASA announced Tuesday that William Parsons, director of the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida, is leaving the agency in mid-October to pursue opportunities in the private sector.

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9/29/2008 9:01 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

NASA extends Phoenix mission as snow falls on Mars (Reuters)

Reuters - NASA extended the mission of the busy Phoenix lander Monday, saying it will operate the lander until it dies in the cold and dark of the Martian winter.

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'Smog Blog' For Central America And Caribbean Debuts

NASA and its partners today unveiled a new way to connect satellite air quality data with communities in Central America and the Caribbean.

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U.S. Billionaire to Make Second Private Spaceflight (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - WASHINGTON ? American billionaire Charles Simonyi, a computer software executive who paid more than $20 million to fly to the International Space Station aboard a Russian-built Soyuz capsule in spring 2007, will train for a second Soyuz trip to the space station in spring 2009.

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9/30/2008 3:33 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Software billionaire plans 2nd space station trip (AP)

AP - A Virginia space company says a software billionaire plans to become the first private traveler to make a second trip to space

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ESA at space forum in Glasgow

The 59th International Astronautical Congress, IAC 2008, is taking place between 29 September and 3 October in Glasgow, Scotland. HRH Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, visited IAC 2008 and opened the exhibition at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC).

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9/30/2008 5:01 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Is the Broken Hubble Telescope Worth Saving? (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - In light of the most recent glitch on the Hubble Space Telescope, a serious equipment failure that means the observatory is unable to send data back to Earth, some are beginning to wonder, is Hubble still worth saving?

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NASA Challenges Students To Design Tools For Moon Rovers

A new NASA contest challenges college-level students to design tools for moon rovers.

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NASA to Discuss Hubble Anomaly and Servicing Mission Launch Delay

NASA will host a media teleconference at 6 p.m. EDT today to discuss a significant Hubble Space Telescope anomaly that occurred this weekend affecting the storage and transmittal of science data to Earth.

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NASA Updates Aviation Safety Data Web Site

NASA will update its National Aviation Operations Monitoring Service, or NAOMS, Web site Tuesday to add more information from pilot survey responses.

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NASA to Preview Second Mercury Flyby

NASA will host a media teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, Oct. 1, to preview the Oct. 6 flyby of Mercury by the MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging, or MESSENGER, spacecraft.

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Successful re-entry marks bright future for ATV

ESA PR 41-2008. Europe’s first Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) Jules Verne successfully completed its six-month ISS logistics mission today with its controlled destructive re-entry over a completely uninhabited area of the South Pacific.

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Hubble Space Telescope Suffers Serious Failure (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A serious equipment failure aboard the Hubble Space Telescope is preventing it from relaying data and images to scientists on Earth and will likely delay a shuttle mission to overhaul the observatory next month, NASA officials said Monday.

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9/29/2008 3:39 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

ATV re-entry: First pictures (updated)

Taken at approximately 15:36 CEST (13:36 UT) from the DC-8 aircraft. Click on 'Full story' for more images received overnight.

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NASA Mars Lander Sees Falling Snow, Soil Data Suggest Liquid Past

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds.

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Hubble Telescope Glitch May Delay Shuttle Launch (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A serious equipment failure aboard the Hubble Space Telescope is preventing it from relaying data and images to scientists on Earth and may impact plans to launch a shuttle mission to overhaul the orbital observatory next month, NASA officials said Monday.

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Trouble on Hubble telescope delays space shuttle launch: NASA (AFP)

AFP - NASA on Monday delayed the upcoming launch of the Atlantis space shuttle to allow time to repair a "significant anomaly" that occurred at the weekend on the Hubble space telescope.

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China's first spacewalk team feted with parade (AP)

AP - Three Chinese astronauts arrived Monday in Beijing to a homecoming parade after completing China's first spacewalk and putting the country closer to building a space station and landing a man on the moon.

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Scientists Eager to See European Spacecraft's Death Dive (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A European space freighter the size of a London double-decker bus is headed for a fiery death on Monday with a team of scientists hoping for a ringside seat.

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China's first spacewalk team returns to Earth (AP)

AP - Three Chinese astronauts emerged from their capsule Sunday after a milestone mission to carry out the country's first spacewalk, showing off China's technological know-how and cementing its status as a space power and future competitor to the United States.

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10/6/2008 9:30 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Vikings edge Saints, overcome 2 Bush TDs (AP)

The Saints gave a national audience a taste of what New Orleans' long-suffering fans have bemoaned for years. Not that the Minnesota Vikings will complain about being the latest to play a supporting role in the Saints' stranger-than-fiction, four-decade history of bizarre and dramatic losses. Even Reggie Bush's record-tying two punt returns for touchdowns couldn't make up for New Orleans' numerous...

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Cricket: Duncan Fletcher prepares to reunite with Kevin Pietersen in Hampshire role

Former England coach Duncan Fletcher revealed that he will take up a consultancy role at Hampshire next season

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'It will happen: England v Mexico and my friend Sven'

David Davies, the former FA executive director, recalls fun days with Sven-Goran Eriksson and the episode that scarred him

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Premier League: Ramos feels safe in his job after meeting Spurs chairman

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy assured Juande Ramos that his job is safe but stressed that their results must improve

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Football: Spurs long for strike force of old as Ramos is left with mishmash of forward options

Sporting director Damien Comolli has been criticised after his transfers left Spurs devoid of striking options, writes Dominic Fifield

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Athletics escapes major cut in Olympic funding

British athletics will escape a major cut in funding for the 2012 Olympics despite falling short of its medal target in Beijing

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Cycling: Golden Chris Hoy would welcome a knighthood

Chris Hoy hinted that he would not refuse a knighthood but insisted that it was 'all media speculation'

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Digger: Club takeovers under scrutiny

Gerry Sutcliffe and Sepp Blatter have both demanded a revised framework to govern ownership of football clubs

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Premier League: West Ham may soon not be the only club where bubbles burst

The current indebtedness of England's leading football clubs ought to be filling everyone involved with profound unease

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Is this the worst kit ever?

Stade Français' new Andy Warhol-inspired attire has raised questions of just what is the worst kit ever

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Boxing: Ricky Hatton likely to retire if he loses Paul Malignaggi contest

Ricky Hatton admitted he would most probably retire if he loses his next fight against the American Paul Malignaggi

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10/6/2008 11:26 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Football: Wales hamstrung by triple setback

Joe Ledley, Freddy Eastwood and Robert Earnshaw have all withdrawn from Wales' squad with hamstring injuries

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10/6/2008 11:26 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Football: Ince rejects Berbatov rating

Paul Ince believes comparisons between Dimitar Berbatov and Eric Cantona are unfair and inaccurate

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10/6/2008 11:01 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Seven years for footballer who killed brothers in 100mph drink-drive crash

Professional player jailed for causing death of children while driving drunk and jetlagged

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Kevin McCarra: Capello is bound to strike problems by shunning Owen's cunning

Fabio Capello should beware the omission of Michael Owen on the basis that he is 'only' a goal-poacher, writes Kevin McCarra

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Rugby league: Candid cameras anger Jon Wilkin

Jon Wilkin described the RFL's decision to allow cameras into the dressing rooms at the Super League grand final as a "joke"

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10/5/2008 11:14 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Anderson's rocket not enough to rescue Saints' blasted hopes but switch in play-off format might help

A top-eight series will remove the dilemma about whether to rest before the Old Trafford finale

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10/5/2008 11:14 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Hull frustrate Bale and Spurs with their contain-and-break game

'Simplicity is genius'. Tottenham must return to basics in order to move forward

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False start floors Overdose after 1,700km journey

False start almost ended France's premier Flat meet before it had begun

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Poker: 06/10/2008

Here is a fascinating hand from my table on day three of the World Series Europe. American expat Brian Johnson raised to 4,500 (blinds 1K-2K) from mid-table. Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott called on the button. The flop came 7 of clubs K of hearts Q of hearts. Johnson checked. Devilfish fired out 15,000. Johnson smoothly called

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World Superbikes: Troy Bayliss claims third title with third-place finish at Magny Cours

A third-place finish was enough to seal the World Superbikes title for Troy Bayliss at Magny Cours

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Touring cars: SEAT dominates at Monza as Yvan Muller closes on World Touring Car Championship title

Yvan Muller's win in race one at Monza was followed by another SEAT triumph for Gabriele Tarquini in race two

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Football Weekly podcast: Is Joe Kinnear a bully or being bullied?

James Richardson and the pod almost come to blows when discussing the bizarre behaviour of the Newcastle manager

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Touring cars: Mattias Ekstrom wins in the wet as Paul di Resta cuts Timo Scheider's DTM championship lead

British driver Paul di Resta moved to within two points of Timo Scheider at the top of the drivers' standings with one race to go

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10/6/2008 3:51 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Status of Bills QB Edwards uncertain (AP)

Buffalo Bills quarterback Trent Edwards was described as alert but still experiencing post-concussion symptoms Monday, leaving his status uncertain as the team enters its bye week. Coach Dick Jauron sidestepped questions regarding the quarterback's health, except to say that Edwards showed up at the Bills' headquarters a day after being slammed to the ground on the third play from scrimmage during...

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10/6/2008 5:14 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Cardinals' Warner considers retirement (AP)

Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner says that after this season he will take his closest look yet at retiring from the NFL. The scary injury to teammate Anquan Boldin, combined with other factors, has led him to give more serious consideration to leaving the game. "I'm definitely considering retirement more than I ever have before," the 37-year-old quarterback said Monday, "but that doesn't...

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Vikings lead Saints 20-10 at halftime (AP)

The Minnesota Vikings forced three turnovers and used two big plays by cornerback Antoine Winfield to take a 20-10 halftime lead over the New Orleans Saints on Monday night. On the first play of the second quarter, Winfield, who already had returned a blocked field goal 59 yards for a touchdown, stripped Drew Brees of the ball on a sack and returned the fumble 9 yards to the Saints 5.

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10/5/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Premier League: West Bromwich Albion 1-0 Fulham

Bednar strike gives back-to-back wins to a Baggies team starting to find their feet

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10/5/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Scottish Premier League: St Mirren 1-0 Rangers

Stephen McGinn produced a moment of brilliance to give St Mirren their first home victory over Rangers in 22 years

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Premier League: Everton 2-2 Newcastle United

Newcastle United came from 2-0 down to earn a draw against Everton at Goodison Park

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Resurgent Derby defy the odds

Derby and Barnsley overcame the loss of key players to record wins against the odds

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10/6/2008 12:12 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Tennis: Jankovic celebrates No1 ranking with another title

Jankovic wins second title in as many weeks beating Petrova in Stuttgart

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Basketball: Calvin Davis leads Cheshire to second victory of weekend

Cheshire Jets edged past Guildford Heat 75-71 to move to the top of the BBL standings

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Fans pay over the odds to catch NHL opener in Prague

The NHL season started in Europe with tickets reportedly going for $1,000 each in Prague

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Brewers 2B Weeks has knee surgery (AP)

Brewers second baseman Rickie Weeks had surgery Monday to repair a cartilage tear in his left knee and is expected to be ready for spring training. Weeks had part of the damaged meniscus removed by team physician Dr. William Raasch. Weeks will begin rehabilitation at home this week. A first-round draft pick by Milwaukee in 2003, Weeks hit .234 with 14 homers and 46 RBIs in 129 games in his fifth...

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Football: Poland set to remain Euro 2012 co-hosts after 11th-hour deal

The Polish FA and government have reached an agreement over the dispute that was threatening the country's status as Euro 2012 co-hosts

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10/6/2008 5:24 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Rays finish off White Sox, head to ALCS (AP)

They rushed toward the mound, these remarkable Rays, and immediately formed a circle. Jumping together like fraternity brothers, they resembled party regulars in the postseason. Worst in the majors last year, Tampa Bay will play for a spot in the World Series. "It means everything. We've been at the bottom of the barrel for so long," B.J.

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Hewitt targets January return in Sydney (AP)

Former world No. 1 Leyton Hewitt will make his comeback from hip surgery at the Sydney International tournament in January ahead of the Australian Open. Hewitt said his recuperation from an operation after the Beijing Olympics was going well. "My recovery is going well and I am really looking forward to the Australian summer," he said in a statement Tuesday.

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Red Sox reach ALCS after ousting Angels (AP)

The Boston Red Sox brushed aside the 100-win Angels in four games, dismissing their best-in-baseball regular season as last month's news. When it turns to October, no one dominates like Boston. Jason Bay slid headfirst into home plate to score on Jed Lowrie's two-out single in the ninth inning Monday night as the defending World Series champions beat Los Angeles 3-2 in Game 4 of their first-round...

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10/5/2008 11:07 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Football: No room for Owen as Capello recalls Crouch

Fabio Capello has recalled Peter Crouch to the England side but there is still no place for Michael Owen

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10/6/2008 10:59 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Leander Schaerlaeckens: FC Groningen revel in Eredivisie top spot

FC Groningen's stay at the top of the Eredivisie continued for another week, just a decade after nearly going bankrupt

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Former goalkeeper Luke McCormick given seven years for fatal car crash

Ex-Plymouth player pleads guilty to killing two young brothers by dangerous driving while twice the alcohol limit

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10/6/2008 11:35 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Bridge: 06/10/2008

England have five teams entered in the current International Mind Sports Games in Beijing - Open, Women, Seniors, Under 28s and Under 21s. The country's best performance in international competition in recent years was their fourth-place finish at the 2000 Olympiad in Maastricht

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