Egg-laying beginning of the end for dinosaurs

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Their reproductive strategy spelled the beginning of the end: The fact that dinosaurs laid eggs put them at a considerable disadvantage compared to viviparous mammals.

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Those dangerous dinosaurs

post from Top stories on 17 April 2012 10:19:18 PM. © Top stories

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I am a little late to this story about how in the US extreme sensitivity to religious people?s beliefs can result in the most bizarre policies being implemented.

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Niceness is at least partly in the genes

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What makes some people give blood and bake casseroles for their neighbors, while others mutter about taxes from behind closed blinds?

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Crowd computing taps artificial intelligence

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The two hundred people packed into a small screening room in Midtown Manhattan on a recent Tuesday night made quite a throng. Engineers, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs sipped Sam Adams and nibbled bits from a fruit plate.

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Steam Power

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I just wound up my cuckoo clock and it got me thinking.

A few weeks ago my friend?s 13 year-old son came to stay with me for a couple of weeks and he was quite interested in my cuckoo clock (a gift from his mother, as it happens). He?d never seen a mechanical clock before.

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Uranus auroras glimpsed from Earth

post from Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 17 April 2012 09:16:04 PM. © Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News

Washington DC (SPX) Apr 18, 2012
For the first time, scientists have captured images of auroras above the giant ice planet Uranus, finding further evidence of just how peculiar a world that distant planet is. Detected by means of carefully scheduled observations from the Hubble Space Telescope, the newly witnessed Uranian light show consisted of short-lived, faint, glowing dots - a world of difference from the colorful curtains

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Russian Space Agency eyes Moon explorations

post from Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 17 April 2012 09:16:04 PM. © Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News

Moscow (Voice of Russia) Apr 18, 2012
Luna-Glob, a Moon-exploration program, will be a priority for the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) for the next 10 years, academician Lev Zeleny, director of the Space Research Institute of the Russian academy of sciences said. On the surface of the Moon the Russian scientists plan to master the technologies and operations for the future mission to Mars and Fobos. The Russian Space

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Designing the interplanetary web

post from Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 17 April 2012 09:16:04 PM. © Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News

Paris (ESA) Apr 18, 2012
Reliable Internet access on the Moon, near Mars or for astronauts on a space station? How about controlling a planetary rover from a spacecraft in deep space? These are just some of the pioneering technologies that ESA is working on for future exploration missions. What do observation or navigation satellites orbiting Earth have in common with astronauts sending images in real time from th

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A double arrival for Arianespace's next
dual-payload Ariane 5 mission

post from Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News on 17 April 2012 09:16:04 PM. © Space Tourism, Space Transport and Space Exploration News

Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Apr 18, 2012
The two Lockheed Martin-built satellites for Arianespace's upcoming Ariane 5 dual-payload mission are now at the Spaceport for a fast-paced launch campaign that will lead to the orbiting of JCSAT-13 and VINASAT-2 from French Guiana on May 15. Both spacecraft arrived yesterday aboard an Antonov An-124 cargo jetliner, which touched down at Cayenne's Rochambeau International Airport on a char

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Farewell, Shuttle Discovery

From Discovery News - Top Stories: Live long and prosper in your new home, Discovery. If androids dream of electric sheep, you will never stop flying. Read the whole article

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