EUROPE LAUNCHES SATELLITE TO MAP 1 BILLION STARS
By FRANK JORDANS and DANICA COTO This photo provided by ESA (European Space Agency), taken on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2013, shows the Gaia satellite at the Kourou space base, French…
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NASA: ANCIENT MARTIAN LAKE MAY HAVE SUPPORTED LIFE
By ALICIA CHANG This Feb 3, 2013 image provided by NASA shows a self portrait of the Mars rover, Curiosity. NASA’s Curiosity rover has uncovered signs of an ancient freshwater…
DILIGENT ASIAN STUDENTS DOMINATE GLOBAL EXAM
By DIDI TANG FILE – In this Nov. 7, 2013 file photo, South Korean students cheer their seniors’ success in the Scholastic Aptitude Test in front of the main gate…
DID COMET ISON SURVIVE? SCIENTISTS SEE TINY HOPE
By KARL RITTER In a composite image provided by NASA, Comet ISON nears the sun in an image captured at 10:51 a.m. Eastern Standard Time on Thursday, Nov. 28, 2013.…
Study: US spewing 50% more methane than EPA says
By SETH BORENSTEIN This undated handout photo provided by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/ Energy Department shows a Cessna plane, making continuous observations of carbon dioxide, flying over an Atmospheric…
GUILTY PLEA EXPECTED IN MASS. DRUG LAB SCANDAL
FILE – In this Dec. 20, 2012 file photo, former Masachusetts state drug lab chemist Annie Dookhan sits in Suffolk Superior Court before her arraignment in Boston. Dookhan, who allegedly…
Puerto Rico bioluminescent lagoon goes nearly dark
By DANICA COTO FILE – This April 1, 2005 file photo shows the Fajardo Grand Lagoon at the Nature Reserve of Las Cabezas de San Juan at dawn, about 35…
‘Montana Dueling Dinos’ fail to sell at NY auction
By ULA ILNYTZKY and DEEPTI HAJELA In this Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013 photo, Clayton Phipps poses for a picture with one of the two “dueling dinosaurs” he discovered in New…