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The new European ship delivered food, water, and clothes. The craft has an extremely bright, if short, future—including a fiery, final reentry into Earth's atmosphere.

April 3, 2008
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With many frog species dying off, Australian zoos are joining a global network to breed the amphibians—including tiny, striking specimens.

April 3, 2008
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An embryonic planet still inside a "womb of gas" has been discovered—and it's set to grow up into a giant, scientists report.

April 3, 2008
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The scientific equivalent of a fine-toothed comb could help astronomers find smaller worlds orbiting within the habitable zones of their stars, a new study says.

April 2, 2008
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Scotland plans to award 10 million pounds (about 20 million U.S. dollars) for the first viable technology to harness the sea's energy for electricity.

April 02, 2008
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The newfound black hole is only 3.8 times as massive as the sun and just 15 miles (25 kilometers) in diameter.

April 2, 2008
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More than 8,000 contractor jobs in the U.S. manned space program could be cut after the space shuttle program is shut down in 2010, the U.S. space agency said.

April 2, 2008
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The tuatara may look the same as it did millions of years ago, but its DNA is rapidly changing, experts say.

March 31, 2008
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Giant sea spiders, spine-crushing daggertooth fish, and pink "sea pigs" are just a sampling of exotic creatures hauled up by scientists during a recent Antarctic expedition.

March 28, 2008
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Scientists have found genetic evidence that Crusaders contributed DNA to the Christian population of Lebanon, while the expansion of Islam left traces in the country's Muslim groups.

March 28, 2008
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A U.S. company unveiled its two-seat ship for space tourists, Lynx, on Wednesday. It plans to begin test flights in 2010.

March 27, 2008
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Humboldt squids can "anchor a knife in Jell-O" by using a gradient of materials to help dissipate stress from their beaks before it can damage soft tissue.

March 27, 2008
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Completing the 22nd night landing in shuttle history, NASA's Endeavour landed successfully last night at Kennedy Space Center.

March 27, 2008
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A nighttime landing capped what NASA described as an exceptionally long—and successful—mission to the International Space Station.

March 27, 2008
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The closest flyby yet of the tiny moon Enceladus allowed a NASA probe to map heat sources as well as "taste" a dense organic brew within the satellite's famous water-vapor plumes, researchers announced.

March 26, 2008

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