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Rare Monkeys Found
A new population of one of the world's rarest primates has been found in a Colombian park, conservationists announced today.
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Stonehenge Precursor Found?
A remote Scottish island complex may have been the model for England's famous stone-circle site, new data suggest.
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3.6-Million-Degree Matter Made
By zapping a scrap of metal with superpowerful x-rays, scientists created plasma that rivals the sun for heat.
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Active Sun Cleaning Up Space Junk
The recent uptick in solar flares and other sun activity has been causing orbiting debris to fall faster, a NASA scientist reports.
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Space Pictures This Week
Plasma arcs over the sun, Earth shines in high resolution, a colorful halo surrounds the moon, and more in the week's best space pictures.
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Intense Auroras Fueled by Sun Storm
A new time-lapse video shows spectacular northern lights, triggered by this week's solar storm, over the Swedish province of Lapland.
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Spiders Pounce Better in Green Light
See spiders jump with deadly accuracy in green light (and fumble in red)-proof of a unique newly discovered type of bug vision. Video.
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"Cold Plasma" Found Around Earth
Clouds of slow-moving charged particles reach from the top of Earth's atmosphere to a quarter of the distance to the moon, new data show.
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Death Valley Volcano Active?
It may be barren, but California's Ubehebe Crater is anything but dead, according to a new study.
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Photos: Solar Storms Spark Auroras
Intense northern lights displays dazzled sky-watchers this week as the strongest solar storm since 2003 swept over Earth.
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