Another Earth could be 'in our backyard'
RED DWARF WORLD: Earth like planets capable of hosting life could be much closer than we think, says scientists.
5 hours ago from ABC Science
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Magnitude 8.0 earthquake strikes Solomon Islands
Temblor is the largest in a month of seismic activity on Australian-Pacific plate boundary
18 hours ago from ScienceNews
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Impending comet Ison caught on film
A comet that looks likely to dazzle in the night skies later this year is spotted by a spacecraft dedicated to much closer comet observations.
23 hours ago from BBC News
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Elephant poaching 'out of control'
More than 11,000 elephants have been killed by ivory poachers in Gabon since 2004 according to new research
16 hours ago from BBC News
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Amateur astronomer helps Hubble snap galactic monster
An amateur astronomer combined his pictures with images from the Hubble archive to reveal the true nature of galactic oddball M106
Wed 6 Feb 13 from Newscientist
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Deep roots of catastrophe: Partly molten, Florida-sized blob forms atop Earth's core
A University of Utah seismologist analyzed seismic waves that bombarded Earth's core, and believes he got a look at the earliest roots of Earth's most cataclysmic kind of volcanic eruption. ...
3 hours ago from Phys.org
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ScienceShot: How to Tie a Ribbon Round the Solar System
A sky-spanning band of energetic particles may be the sun's own particles thrown back at it
Tue 5 Feb 13 from Science Now
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Handheld Black Hornet Nano drones issued to U.K. soldiers
Drones have become a valuable asset for any military force in recent years for both combat and surveillance. But while scanning a warzone from miles away is great from a tactical standpoint, ...
Wed 6 Feb 13 from Gizmag
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UK Antarctic base up and running
Britain's new "space age" Halley research station in the Antarctic goes into full operation this month.
Wed 6 Feb 13 from BBC News
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India joined with Asia 10 million years later than previously thought
The peaks of the Himalayas are a modern remnant of massive tectonic forces that fused India with Asia tens of millions of years ago. Previous estimates have suggested this collision occurred ...
22 hours ago from Phys.org
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