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On June 30, 2009 the space orbiter will end an 18 year run of exploration. The Ulysses was the first spacecraft to survey the environment in space above and below the poles of the Sun in the four dimensions of space and time.
“Ulysses has taught us far more than we ever expected about [...]

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While I find Twitter to be one of the most useless and boring things out there , I guess it does have some uses .
The International Space Station (ISS) is easy to spot with the naked eye if you know when and where to look. A new notification service on Twitter will tell [...]

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Now if you are a smoker you have a great excuse not to quit right? Obviously that isn’t the case, but a study recently suggests that the consumption of soy products could greatly reduce the risk in smokers of lung damage.
People who eat lots of soy products have better lung function and are less [...]

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Well…more great news for those that want human life to end. The Greenland ice sheet, according to a new study led by a University of Alaska Fairbanks researcher and published in the journal Hydrological Processes, suggests that it is melting faster than expected.
It also states that the melting may have caused almost 25 percent of [...]

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Was reading Science News today and saw at the bottom of the page a pretty neat interactive Darwin Timeline (Beware that this is a slideshow and will pop up as such. It doesn’t actually have it’s own web page although the link will take you to the timeline over the top of sciencenews.org home page.)
It [...]

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Recording that were made over 150 years ago were revealed at the May 29th annual meeting of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, are the earliest known recordings. A bunch of wavy lines scratched by a stylus onto fragile paper that had been blackened by the soot from an oil lamp date from 1857. That’s [...]

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Well…maybe a show tune for a blue whale. I cannot be sure what the whale artistic expression is like, nor what they consider entertainment .
For the very first time in New York coastal waters, the voices of singing blue whales have been positively identified. Acoustic experts at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s Bioacoustics Research [...]

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