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  • 8 great heroes of human rights

    Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:07 AM

    by Melissa Breyer

    From Nelson Mandela to Mahatma Gandhi to Jimmy Carter, these tireless advocates have made the world a better place.

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  • Microbes beneath the seafloor are alive and thriving

    Wed, Jun 12, 2013 1:40 PM by Douglas Main, LiveScience

    A new study proves that these vital organisms are playing an active role in the oxygen-devoid seafloor, which can have implications for Earth's climate.

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  • Space station's first treadmill to be jettisoned

    Wed, Jun 12, 2013 1:00 PM by Robert Z. Pearlman, collectSPACE.com

    After more than 12 years, the TVIS has been replaced by a Russian-built unit and will meet its fiery destruction in late July.

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  • Bee semen could help combat colony collapse disorder

    Wed, Jun 12, 2013 12:28 PM by John Platt

    Researchers hope to create a sperm bank to breed hardier bees and preserve threatened subspecies.

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  • Send your messages to deep space aliens through new project

    Wed, Jun 12, 2013 12:26 PM by Miriam Kramer, SPACE.com

    The Lone Signal project asks everyone to join in as it attempts to send continuous messaging to extraterrestrial intelligence.

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  • Fish on Prozac: Anxious, anti-social, aggressive

    Wed, Jun 12, 2013 11:39 AM by Environmental Health News

    The EPA considers pharmaceuticals in water to be an 'emerging concern.'

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  • 7 most outrageous intelligence leaks in U.S. history

    Wed, Jun 12, 2013 10:54 AM by Tanya Lewis, LiveScience

    From false leaks during World War II to newspaper op-eds in the 2000s, secret information finds a way into the public eye.

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  • Did woman see a UFO at castle near Amsterdam?

    Wed, Jun 12, 2013 10:22 AM by Marc Lallanilla, LiveScience's Life's Little Mysteries

    An expert suspects that the mysterious object in the photograph is probably an insect of some sort.

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  • NASA tracks greenhouse gases emitting from thawing permafrost

    Wed, Jun 12, 2013 10:10 AM by Becky Oskin, LiveScience

    The mission aims to track the potential impact of methane and carbon dioxide emissions on climate change.

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  • Fire threatens Colorado's Royal Gorge

    Wed, Jun 12, 2013 9:38 AM

    Video: A wildfire has forced homeowners and campers to be evacuated from Colorado's Royal Gorge area.

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  • Meteorite reveals that Mars had key component to life

    Wed, Jun 12, 2013 9:38 AM by Megan Gannon, SPACE.com

    Billions of years ago, Mars may have been rich in RNA, the molecules that used to pass traits on between generations before DNA took over that role.

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  • Bloomberg: NYC is prepping for warming world

    Wed, Jun 12, 2013 9:32 AM

    Video: The projections paint an unsettling picture of New York's future: A city where by the 2050s, 800,000 people could be living in a flood zone that would cover a quarter of the land, and as many 90-degree days as is now normal for Birmingham, Ala.

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  • Hardy habitats offer hope as climates change

    Wed, Jun 12, 2013 9:24 AM by Russell McLendon

    Armed with $5.5 million in funding, U.S. conservationists are trying to protect four 'resilient landscapes' as ecological strongholds in the face of global warming.

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  • How fires burn in space

    Wed, Jun 12, 2013 9:23 AM by Rod Pyle, SPACE.com

    Undergrad students try to figure out the best way to contain and fight fire in zero gravity.

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  • Just how big is the smallest galaxy in the universe?

    Tue, Jun 11, 2013 7:03 PM by Bryan Nelson

    The smallest galaxy ever found is so extraordinarily tiny that it's 'like discovering an elephant smaller than a mouse.'

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  • Captive chimps may get endangered status in U.S.

    Tue, Jun 11, 2013 3:16 PM by Douglas Main, LiveScience

    The proposed rule would have implications for privately held chimpanzees and those used in animal testing.

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