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For many months last year
I walked past a man who
was camped out on a bench
in Waikiki. Had the
very best spot on Waikiki
Beach, just across the
road from ABC stores and
right in the middle of
the beach where all of
the tourists walk
past.This...
There are gadgets that
change everything (the
iPhone, the first Intel
Centrino laptops, Bose's
noise-canceling
headphones), and then
there are devices that
are so spectacularly bad
that they should be
immortalized in their own
way. The last few
decad...
Small space rocks are
carving fresh craters
into the Martian surface
more often than
previously thought,
researchers say. A new
study finds that there
are more than 200
asteroid impacts on the
Red Planet every year.
LONG BEACH, Calif.
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Private suborbital space
planes built by two space
tourism companies will
likely launch some major
test flights before this
year is out, their
builders say.
Thirteen years of
supersized earthquakes,
such as today's (May 24)
magnitude-8.3 in Russia,
have contaminated GPS
sites around the world, a
new study finds.
From the studio that put
Sandra Bullock in a
spacesuit may now come a
movie about the real-life
seamstresses who traded
sewing brassieres for
stitching Neil
Armstrong's lunar
wardrobe.
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio
plans to fly to space on
Virgin Galactic's new
commercial spaceliner,
along with the winning
bidder in a charity
auction at the Cannes
film festival, according
to news reports.
The Irish potato famine
that caused mass
starvation and
approximately 1 million
deaths in the mid-19th
century was triggered by
a newly identified strain
of potato blight that has
been christened "HERB-1,"
according to a new study.