Playboy Interview: Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins, the patron saint of nonbelievers, caused a stir earlier this year during a debate with the Archbishop of Canterbury, who noted that his opponent is often described as the world?s most famous atheist.

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E. coli bacteria may encourage colon cancer

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Scientists at the University of Liverpool have identified a type of E. coli bacteria that may encourage the development of colon cancer.

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Where Will Curiosity Go First

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 21, 2012
By now it's old news that NASA's new Mars rover Curiosity is resting safely on the surface of Red Planet after a daredevil landing that had the nation holding its breath. Now, mission scientists are anxious to start moving. With such a sweet set of wheels at their disposal and the "open road" before them, just where will they go first? "We won't have to travel far for excitement," says pro

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Voyager at 35: Break on Through to the Other Side

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 21, 2012
Thirty-five years ago, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, the first Voyager spacecraft to launch, departed on a journey that would make it the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune and the longest-operating NASA spacecraft ever. Voyager 2 and its twin, Voyager 1, that launched 16 days later on Sept. 5, 1977, are still going strong, hurtling away from our sun. Mission managers are eagerly anticip

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Russian Mars Water Sniffer Goes Online

Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 21, 2012
A Russian neutron detector on board NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, designed to search for any water that might be bound into shallow underground minerals along the rover's path, was activated on Friday, the manufacturer said. "The first scientific information has been received about the substance of Mars and its radiation background in the landing area," the Russian Academy of Sciences Space

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Russian Booster Rocket Lifts US Satellite in
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Aug 21, 2012
A Russian booster rocket has blasted off from the Odyssey launch pad in the Pacific Ocean as part of the Sea Launch project to deliver a U.S. satellite into orbit, a spokesman for Energiya space corporation said on Sunday. "The launch took place at 10:55 a.m. Moscow time [06:55 GMT]. The designated time for the spacecraft's separation from the DM-SL acceleration unit is 11:25 a.m. Moscow t

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Rover's Laser Instrument Zaps First Martian Rock

Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 21, 2012
Today, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity fired its laser for the first time on Mars, using the beam from a science instrument to interrogate a fist-size rock called "Coronation." The mission's Chemistry and Camera instrument, or ChemCam, hit the fist-sized rock with 30 pulses of its laser during a 10-second period. Each pulse delivers more than a million watts of power for about five one-billionths of

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New NASA Mission to Take First Look Deep Inside
Mars

Washington DC (SPX) Aug 21, 2012
NASA has selected a new mission, set to launch in 2016, that will take the first look into the deep interior of Mars to see why the Red Planet evolved so differently from Earth as one of our solar system's rocky planets. The new mission, named InSight, will place instruments on the Martian surface to investigate whether the core of Mars is solid or liquid like Earth's, and why Mars' crust

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NASA wants to measure 'Marsquakes'

Washington (AFP) Aug 20, 2012
Just 10 days after NASA's Curiosity rover sent back its first color photos of the Martian landscape, the US space agency said Monday it wants in 2016 to take a better look at what's happening beneath the Red Planet's surface. "Does Mars have fault lines like the Earth does? How extensive are those? What kinds of 'marsquakes' are there?" These, NASA official Lindley Johnson told reporters

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Is China Going to Blast Past America in Space

Bethesda MD (SPX) Aug 21, 2012
In recent weeks China has appeared prominently in the international media. To the layman it would seem that the Asian superpower is advancing its space technology and exploration program at warp speed and may overtake the American space program very soon. Most recently its Shenzhou-9 spacecraft successfully docked with the orbiting Tiangong-1 space lab. This was the country's first space f

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