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NASA has confirmed the inevitable: After landing in May and studying the Martian surface the Phoenix Lander has gone quiet. Scientists, however, will still be analyzing data from the lander for months....
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One of science fiction's most famous voices is gone: Michael Crichton died Tuesday in his home at age 66. Crichton will be greatly missed by readers and moviegoers who admired his fast-paced, thought-provoking thrillers....
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Kamen spoke with Popular Mechanics editor-in-chief Jim Meigs and an audience of journalists and FIRST competitors at the magazine's headquarters, in New York City. Kamen's core message: American culture needs a geek overhaul....
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Armadillo Aerospace's "Pixel" craft passed level one of the Lunar Lander Challenge in New Mexico, flying for 90 seconds twice, but an electrical failure stalled its stage two flight....
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2007 Breakthrough Award winner Shawn Frayne proved what a difference 12 months can make. The current generation of his Windbelt technology is 100 times more efficient than the original, capable of producing 3 to 10 watts of power....
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Microsoft believes that video games can make science and mathematics attractive to middle school students, and yesterday it took a step toward developing the games that could make it happen....
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Three scientists—Osamu Shimomura from Japan and Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien—made tracking individual proteins and genes possible using jellyfish as their starting point. They won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their efforts....
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Nearly a month after CERN's Large Hadron Collider went online, and weeks after it's premature deactivation, a topsy-turvy season for particle physics culminated today with the announcement of this year's Nobel Prize winners in Physics....
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Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier jointly received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering the HIV virus and identifying it as the cause of AIDS, and a third was awarded to HPV researcher, Harald zur Hausen....
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