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The annual Geminid shower will take place against a dark, moonless sky, with peak rates of 110 meteors an hour or more, astronomers say.

December 10, 2007
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Life on Earth began with a soup and sandwich, according to a new theory proposing sheets of flaky minerals as the birthing places of the first complex organic molecules.

December 10, 2007
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The discovery, detected in hominid remains found in Turkey, could shed new light on the roles of climate, health, and evolution in ancient human migration, experts say.

December 7, 2007
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A new Ebola strain has killed health care workers in Uganda. There's no cure for the disease, and this subtype doesn't always show the classic symptoms.

December 07, 2007
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Emperor penguins can deplete their blood oxygen to near zero during long dives without suffering tissue damage, a new study shows.

December 7, 2007
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Atlantis won't launch until Saturday—at the earliest—NASA says. If the shuttle isn't flying by next week, it may have to wait until January.

December 7, 2007
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Long seen as solid remnants of an ancient collision, the tiny satellites are getting a fluffy new origin story.

December 6, 2007
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Disintegrating dark matter could have created "dark stars"—vast, invisible giants totally unlike the blazing suns of today—scientists say.

December 6, 2007
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Magnetic waves that likely send particles from our star flying through space have been spotted by a recently launched orbiter, a suite of new studies reports.

December 6, 2007
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Mysterious modern mummies draw tourists to a small Colombian village. Although scientists don't know how the corpses were preserved, some locals credit a spiny, berry-like fruit.

December 06, 2007
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A giant gush of fresh water into the North Atlantic altered a deep ocean current and triggered a century-long chill in Europe and North America some 8,200 years ago, according to a new research.

December 6, 2007
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The tropical jewel wasp injects a venom into the cockroach brain that disables the victim's motivation to escape, scientists have found.

December 6, 2007
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Faulty fuel gauges forced NASA to postpone the mission to deliver a European lab to the International Space Station. Astronauts now hope for Friday launch.

December 6, 2007
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The theory could explain a long-standing mystery about the composition of inner Earth and cause experts to rethink the origins of the world's magnetic field.

December 5, 2007
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Volcanoes were spewing on the moon just 150 million years after its formation, reveals new research that also provides a rare glimpse into conditions on early Earth.

December 5, 2007

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