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Space History Photo: X-38 Prototype Lands on Rogers Dry Lakebed

Source: Space.com

The X-38 research vehicle touches down on Rogers Dry Lakebed. CREDIT: NASA | Tom Tschida In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, the X-38, a research vehicle built to help develop technology for an ...
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Royal Society Young People's Book Prize shortlist announced | @GrrlScientist

Source: Guardian Unlimited

Build the Human Body by Richard Walker [Templar Publishing, 2013; Guardian Bookshop; Amazon UK; Amazon US] The publisher says: The ancient Greeks had it right: "Know thyself." The editors at Silver Dolphin agree and believe th ...
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How nanotechnology could keep your heart healthy

Source: PhysOrg.com

Since the heart is such a delicate and critical organ, clinicians usually opt not to intervene with the dead cells that remain after a heart attack or cardiac disease. "But we think that all heart attacks de ...
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Canada’s Space Commander Superstar

Source: The Epoch Times

Astronaut Chris Hadfield is feeling the love. In his five months in space, Hadfield—who’s in spaceman rehab at the moment readjusting to a life of gravity and enduring a barrage of tests—became a social media superstar, tweeting a veritable meteo ...
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Go Fish (Somewhere Else): Warming Oceans Are Altering Catches

Source: KQED

Crew members unload a catch of sockeye salmon at Craig, Alaska, in 2005. Researchers say fish are being found in new areas because of changing ocean temperatures. Photo: Melissa Farlow/National Geographic/Getty Images Climat ...
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Sierra Nevada Corporation Dream Chaser Testing Begins at NASA Dryden, Langley

Source: Space Ref

Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) Space Systems Dream Chaser flight vehicle arrived at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in Edwards, Calif., Wednesday to begin tests of its flight and runway landing systems. The tests are part of p ...
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Les signalements d'ovnis en hausse au Canada, notamment au Manitoba

Source: The Huffington Post

Lanterns These candle-lit Chinese lanterns can rise high into the sky and are often mistaken for UFOs. Melbourne, Australia, Feb. 2013 This is a composite image of how three alleged UFOs maneuvered about in the sky over Melbourne, Australia, in ea ...
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Ground control to commander: Thanks for bringing sexy back to space

Source: Vancouver Sun

Could it be any more Canadian, any more apparent that we are a populace not given to overt patriotism or unabashed admiration of those among us who possess extraordinary qualities? Is it any wonder that in order to achieve recognition, the ...
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Best pictures from the past 24 hours

Source: Globe and Mail

An Indian Muslim Sufi devotee offers prayers at the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti during the Urs festival in Ajmer, India. Thousands of Sufi devotees from different parts of India travel to the shrine for th ...
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Precision Aerospace Components Inc. Today Reported Financial And Operating Results For The Three Months Ended March 31, 2013

Source: iStockAnalyst

BENSALEM, Pa., May 15, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Precision Aerospace Components Inc. (PAOS:OTCQB) is a one-stop source for standard, self-locking, semi-special and special nuts, bolts and washers manufactured to several military, aerospa ...
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