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Prehistoric warming linked to CO2A study of 20,000- to 10,000-year-old Antarctic ice indicates that a rise in temperatures was driven by natural carbon dioxide emissions.
Scientists discover new belt of radiation around EarthNASA's twin Van Allen space probes detected a previously unknown temporary ring of high energy particles around our planet.
Scientists link rat brains via InternetElectrical impulses generated in one rat's brain can be decoded by another, found researchers who used electrodes to connect the motor cortices of rodents thousands of miles apart.
Telescope spots formation of alien planetIn the first discovery of its kind, a telescope in Chile has detected a baby gas giant forming in the dust cloud around a nearby star.
How did supermassive black holes get so big? New data give a clue.Scientists have now measured the spin of a supermassive black hole, describing the rate in terms of the energy needed to sustain the spin. These black holes are thought to occupy the center of virtually every galaxy.
Mind meld rats? Scientists link rat brains via the Internet.Mind meld rats: Researchers have demonstrated that electrical signals generated in the brain of one rat can be decoded by the brain of another, in an experiment involving rodents that are thousands of miles apart.
Scientists graft working eyes onto tadpole tailsResearchers surgically removed the eyes of tadpoles and then grafted new eyes onto their tails. Some of these tadpoles were able to pass a vision test with their new eyes.
2018 Mars mission: Who should go?Billionaire Dennis Tito announced plans Wednesday for a two-person private mission to Mars, in 2018. The project seeks a married couple with technical backgrounds and a healthy dose of courage.
Dennis Tito plans to send couple to Mars and backMultimillionaire space tourist Dennis Tito has established Inspiration Mars Foundation a nonprofit intended to organize a mission to Mars by 2017. The project's chief technical officer Taber MacCallum dubbed this a no-frills, 'Lewis and Clark trip to Mars'.
- Millionaire plans to send couple to Mars in 2018. Is that realistic?
The Inspiration Mars Foundation, led by space tourist and multimillionaire Dennis Tito, announces its plan to send a married couple on a flyby mission to the Red Planet beginning in 2018.
- Oreo Separator Machine: Modern-day Robert Oppenheimer splits the Oreo
Oreo Separator Machine: Scientist David Neevel doesn't much care for the creme inside Oreo cookies. So he did what any man with too much time on his hands would do: He invented a revolutionary technology.
Extinct sea predator sliced prey with toothy spiral jawHelicoprion, an extinct creature that roamed the seas some 225 million years ago, might have used its toothy spiral jaw to slice and dice prey before swallowing it, suggests a new study of its fossilized jaw.
Where did that Russian meteor come from? Astronomers determine origins.Relying on the many publicly available videos of the meteor that exploded over Russia's Ural Mountains earlier this month, a pair of Colombian astronomers say that they have calculated the space rock's orbit.
- New Jersey 'sea monster' is likely a lamprey
Photos of an eel-like creature captured in New Jersey have gone viral, prompting speculations of a 'sea monster.' The animal appears to be a sea lamprey, a type of parasite common in northern Atlantic waters, experts say.
Astronomers clock supermassive black hole's spin for first timeHow fast does a supermassive black hole spin? For the first time, scientists have made a reliable measurement of these behemoths, thought to be at the center of most, if not all, galaxies.
Dennis Tito to announce private mission to MarsSpace tourist millionaire Dennis Tito, who in 2001 paid $20 million to visit the International Space Station, is planning a privately funded trip to the Red Planet.
US scientists seek to prevent another meteor explosionNASA and the Air Force are working together to develop plans to prepare for future meteor strikes like the one in Russia earlier this month.
'Gigantic jet' lightning over China reaches 55 miles high'Gigantic jet' lightning isn't well understood, but could balance out the electrical charge of thunderstorms. One of the biggest ever observed was documented over China, scientists reported this week.
Were those the bones of Cleopatra's murdered sister?Experts doubt that the 2,000-year-old bones, unearthed in 1904 in what is now Turkey, belonged to Arsinoe IV, Cleopatra's younger half-sister whom she ordered killed.
- Scientists reconstruct Russia meteor trajectory
Relying on videos of the meteor as it streaked across the sky over the Ural mountains, a pair of Colombian astronomers say they have reconstructed the space rock's orbit.
