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Oil and wind power companies are testing a novel technology-air bubbles-to shield marine mammals from the sound of their offshore operations. More

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The tiny South American rodents were bred as pets throughout 16th- and 17th-century Europe, a new study suggests. More

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News from at at 11:00 AM on Tuesday 2/7

Today the two main experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, submitted the results of their latest analyses. The  new   papers  boost the case for December’s announcement of a possible Higgs signal , but let’s no More

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News from at at 11:00 PM on Monday 2/6

"It's a mystery" why giant, shrimp-like animals found off New Zealand are nearly three times larger than other amphipods, experts say. More

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News from at at 11:00 PM on Monday 2/6

Several Russian news outlets are reporting that Russian scientists have successfully drilled to Antarctica's Lake Vostok , a massive liquid lake cut off from daylight for 14 million years and buried beneath 2 miles (3.7 kilometers) of ice. [More] More

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News from at at 5:00 PM on Monday 2/6

Russian scientists at Lake Vostok are "very, very close" to being the first to penetrate an Antarctic subglacial lake, news reports say. More

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News from at at 3:00 PM on Monday 2/6

A planet in a two-star system can chaotically bounce between its stars for thousands of years before being ejected, a new study suggests. More

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News from at at 11:00 AM on Monday 2/6

People who live farther from the equator have larger eye sockets than their tropical counterparts, a new study finds. And as people inhabited higher and higher latitudes , eye socket size grew along with the northerly or southerly extent of their migrations. [More] More

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News from at at 5:00 AM on Monday 2/6

This has been a big week in Alzheimer's news as scientists put together a clearer picture than ever before of how the disease affects the brain. Three recently published studies have detected the disease with new technologies, hinted at its prevalence, and described at last how it makes its leth More

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News from at at 5:00 AM on Monday 2/6

Astronomers have discovered a trove of exoplanets --more than 700 worlds in orbit around distant stars, with leads on thousands of additional suspects. So now, naturally, they're beginning to ask: What moons might be in orbit about these planets? [More] More

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News from at at 9:00 AM on Sunday 2/5

Today's robots that fly, jump or roll around must refuel or recharge as does any gadget that runs out of energy. Tomorrow's new generation of self-sustaining robots might keep going nearly forever by grazing on dead insects, rotting plant matter or even human waste. [More] More

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News from at at 9:00 AM on Saturday 2/4

At a tiny outpost in the middle of Antarctica, Russian scientists are poised to become the first humans to reach a massive liquid lake that has been cut off from the sunlit world for millennia, and may house uniquely adapted life forms that are new to science.     [More] More

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News from at at 5:00 PM on Friday 2/3

The genetic homeland of Native Americans is a small mountainous region in southern Siberia, a new study suggests. More

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News from at at 5:00 PM on Friday 2/3

For mammals, evolving into bigger sizes takes a lot longer than shrinking, new evolution study shows. More

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News from at at 3:00 PM on Friday 2/3

Hubble captures a Milky Way "twin," winds shape Mars lava fields, stars carve a nebula's face, and more in the week's best space pictures. More

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News from at at 11:00 AM on Friday 2/3

Recent media reports and ongoing protests over the reportedly abhorrent working conditions at factories where Apple's iPhones are produced have left socially conscious Americans with a dilemma: Is it ethical to own an iPhone? [More] More

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News from at at 7:00 PM on Thursday 2/2

A vast iceberg is splitting from Antarctica, thanks to a giant crack in a glacier that's "really important" to sea level rise. More

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News from at at 7:00 PM on Thursday 2/2

Contact lenses that help enhance normal vision with megapixel 3D panoramic images are being designed by scientists using military funding. [More] More

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News from at at 3:00 PM on Thursday 2/2

The likely rocky planet orbits squarely in its star's habitable zone, making it a prime candidate for life, astronomers report. More

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News from at at 3:00 PM on Thursday 2/2

Two tiny satellites add to the planet's swarm of "backward" moons and bring the full Jovian family up to 66 natural satellites. More

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