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- Why you should never arm wrestle a saber-toothed tiger- New US satellite to monitor debris in Earth orbit
- Obama gives $2 billion to solar energy companies
- Researchers use super-high pressures to create super battery
- Japanese probe yields insights into Moon's inner life
- Russian resupply ship docks at International Space Station
Space & Earth news
Ohio lake's algae dangerous to swimmers, economy
(AP) -- Patches of green and turquoise slime floated like thick paint in the channel behind Kyle Biesel's home. His pontoon boat sat covered up, unused for weeks, on a wooden lift stained by the algae.
Moynihan, as Nixon aide, warned of global warming
(AP) -- Documents released Friday by the Nixon Presidential Library show members of President Richard Nixon's inner circle discussing the possibilities of global warming more than 30 years ago.
US oil spill clean-up resumes after storm
Clean-up work gathered speed in some areas of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill Sunday, but heavy swells kept many boats docked, halting efforts to fight the ecological disaster.
New US satellite to monitor debris in Earth orbit
(AP) -- A new U.S. Air Force satellite will provide the first full-time, space-based surveillance of hundreds of satellites and thousands of pieces of debris that could crash into American and allied assets circling the Earth.
Japanese probe yields insights into Moon's inner life
Japanese astronomers on Sunday said they had found traces of a mineral that adds an important piece of knowledge to the puzzle of the Moon's geological past.
Russian resupply ship docks at International Space Station
An unmanned Russian resupply vessel docked at the International Space Station (ISS) Sunday, two days after an earlier attempt failed, the Russian and US space flight control centres said.
Technology news
US largely ruling out NKorea in 2009 cyberattacks
(AP) -- U.S. officials have largely ruled out North Korea as the origin of a computer attack last July that took down U.S. and South Korean government websites, according to cybersecurity experts.
Japan donates 10 million dollars for Galapagos solar energy
Japan has donated 10 million dollars to Ecuador to help fund a solar energy project in the Galapagos Islands, a UN-designated World Heritage site, Ecuador's Electricity Ministry said Friday.
A picture is worth 1,000 lines of C++ code
If a picture is worth a 1,000 words, then the computer science corollary must be "a picture is worth a 1,000 lines of C++ code."
Newspapers look for ways to profit in Internet age
Newspapers worldwide are being forced to reinvent themselves for the Internet age -- and will be watching closely the success of two experiments launched in London, analysts say.
Obama gives $2 billion to solar energy companies
US President Barack Obama announced on Saturday the awarding of nearly two billion dollars to two solar energy companies that have agreed to build new power plants in the United States, creating thousands of new jobs.
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