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Milky Way's neighbor galaxy closer than thoughtAstronomers in Chile announced that they are able to measure more accurately the distance to Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy adjacent to the Milky Way.
Kate Upton look-alike: What are the odds?Kate Upton look-alike: A Russian student bears a remarkable resemblance to supermodel Kate Upton. What are the odds of two unrelated people looking exactly the same?
Scientists say they are 99.6 percent certain they found Higgs bosonAfter thousands of checks, Italian scientists said the only remaining thing they need to check is that the Higgs-like particle they found last July isn't another subatomic particle called a graviton.
Inuit, conservationist groups oppose polar bear trade banThe World Wildlife Fund and the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species opposed the US proposal to prohibit global trade in polar bear body parts, and attributed the marked decline in the animal's population to loss of sea ice habitat due to climate change.
Rover Curiosity may resume operation on Mars soonNASA said that its Mars rover Curiosity, which halted its exploration on the Red Planet last Thursday due to a memory malfunction, might get back to work this weekend.
Why are there so many sinkholes in Florida?A combination of limestone geology, unstable rainfall patterns, and a rapidly growing population makes Florida more vulnerable to sinkholes.
Countries could face sanctions for failing to curb ivory tradeThe Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species threatened to keep eight ivory-trading countries: Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, China, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, from trading in legal wildlife products by forbidding other CITES member nations from buying from them.
Camels evolved in the Arctic, say scientistsThe ancestors of modern camels roamed forests in northern Canada, a new fossil discovery suggests.
How did those wolves get to the Falkland Islands? Scientists may have an answer.Australian scientists believe that they now understand how a reddish, dog-sized carnivore could have wound up on the Falkland Islands, 285 miles from the nearest mainland, some 16,000 years ago.
Is Google fueling elephant poaching?A conservation advocacy group, said that there are some 10,000 ads on Google Japan's shopping site that promote the sale of ivory.
- Humongous camels once roamed the Arctic, say scientists
Paleontologists in Canada's northernmost province have unearthed the shinbone of what they say was a giant camel.
How a cold, irradiated Siberian city hopes to cash in on meteor touristsBefore last month's meteor strike, Chelyabinsk was best known for a 1957 nuclear waste disaster. Now officials there are trying to turn the meteor into a tourist attraction.
Volcanic eruptions might lessen greenhouse effectsChemicals emitted during volcanic eruptions might have helped reduce the effects of global warming, suggests new research. A larger volcano could have a much bigger cooling effect.
Humans kill nearly 100 million sharks each year, say conservationistsShark populations have declined rapidly, driven largely by demand for shark fins, a delicacy in many Asian countries.
Curiosity Mars rover suffers computer malfunctionA memory problem with NASA's Curiosity Mars rover's main computer has prompted engineers to switch the rover over to a redundant onboard computer.
How sequester cuts could set back scientific researchThe National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are among those hit hard by the sequester cuts that take effect on March 1.
SpaceX addresses hitch that could have put mission to space station in doubtFriday's launch represents the second formal resupply flight that SpaceX has undertaken under a $1.6 billion contract with NASA to ferry goods to and from the International Space Station.
Alien planet photo: Telescope spots gas giant formationAlien planet photo: In an astronomical first, a telescope in Chile has spotted the formation of a gas giant in the dust cloud orbiting a nearby star.
Satellite detects third radiation belt around EarthNASA's twin Van Allen Probes caught the temporary formation of an third ring of high-energy particles in the Van Allen radiation belts.
Plight of the bumblebee: Disappearance?Honey bees aren't the only ones in trouble. The fuzzy American bumblebee, once the most dominant bee species in the Midwest, seems to be disappearing.
