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Space Pioneer Sally Ride Dies at 61
Sally Ride’s official astronaut portrait. She joined the astronaut corps in 1978. (Photo: NASA) Dr. Sally Kristen Ride, the first U.S. woman in space, died at age 61 on Monday after a 17-month battle...
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Scientists Confirm Higgs Boson Discovery
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN (CERN) Scientists working with the world’s largest atom smasher say the mystery particle they found last summer was a Higgs boson, which is believed to give mass to...
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Stephen Hawking: There May Be a Way Out of a Black Hole
Nobel physics laureate Gerard ‘t Hooft, of Utrecht University, the Netherlands, confers with Stephen Hawking after the Cambridge professor presented his solution to the information loss paradox....
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Nearby Supernovae Showered Earth and Moon With Radioactive Iron
Artist Animation of Star Explosion (NASA/JPL/Australian National University) Two new studies suggest radioactive bits of a nearby star or stars that exploded into a supernova or supernovae showered...
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Researchers Doubt the Existence of Dark Energy
Timeline of the Universe. (NASA/WMAP Science Team) According to NASA, the universe is composed of three things. About 4.6% of it is normal (visible) matter, 24% is dark matter and the remaining 71.4%...
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