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Shrubs in a garden patch - soil
Nature   Photos   Soil   Traditional   Wikipedia: Organic  
Searching for organics in a nibble of soil
The instrument is dubbed AstroBioNibbler, or Nibbler for short. Its developers envision it as an end-to-end device (from drilling to extraction to final chemical analysis) that could ride shotgun on s... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
PhysOrg
In this photo provided by Chelyabinsk.ru a meteorite contrail is seen over Chelyabinsk on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. A meteor streaked across the sky of Russias Ural Mountains on Friday morning, causing sharp explosions and reportedly injuring around 100 people, including many hurt by broken glass.
Earth   Photos   Russia   Space   Wikipedia: 2013 Russian meteor event  
Russian meteor largest to hit earth in a century
THE meteor that hit Russia on Friday, measuring 17m in diameter is the biggest object to have hit the earth's atmosphere in more than 100 years, scientists say. | Scientists have found more than ... (photo: AP / Chelyabinsk.ru)
The Daily Telegraph Australia
Russia's envoy to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin speaks to the media at a Global Policy Forum in Russia old city Yaroslavl, located 250 kilometers (160 mi) northeast of Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2011. Deputy Prime Minister Backs New Space Defense System
MOSCOW, February 16 (RIA Novosti) – Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin on Saturday backed calls to establish a new system to identify and neutralize threats in space. | “Humankind must c... (photo: AP / Misha Japaridze) Novosti
Defense   Moscow   Photos   Space   Wikipedia: Dmitry Rogozin  
A circular hole in the ice of Chebarkul Lake where a meteor reportedly struck the lake near Chelyabinsk, about 1500 kilometers (930 miles) east of Moscow, Russia, Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. Russian meteor blast injures at least 1,000 people, authorities say
February 16, 2013 -- Updated 0115 GMT (0915 HKT) | Did you see the meteor? Share your images with CNN iReport. | Moscow (CNN) -- A meteor streaked through the skies above Russia's Urals region Friday ... (photo: AP) CNN
Disaster   Photos   Russia   Space   Wikipedia: 2013 Russian meteor event  
Top Stories
water falling from the top in the wild area - natural source of water in rainy days Alarming water loss in Middle East: NASA
An amount of freshwater almost the size of the Dead Sea has been lost in parts of the Middle East due to poor management, increased demands for groundwater and the effect... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar) Khaleej Times
Nasa   Photos   Research   Water   Wikipedia: Water scarcity  
Activity lead Bobak Ferdowsi, center, wipes tears away after a successful landing inside the Spaceflight Operations Facility for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., Sunday Aug. 5, 2012. NASA's Mohawk Guy Is Having The Time Of His Life At The White House
Bobak Ferdowsi, the man who rose to fame as the flight director of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity mission, is having a great time at the White House as First ... (photo: AP / Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times-POOL) Business Insider
Nasa   Photos   Space   Technology   Wikipedia: Bobak Ferdowsi  
This undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a sow polar bear resting with her cubs on the pack ice in the Beaufort Sea in northern Alaska. An environmental group is pressing ahead with efforts to declare Alaska's polar bears threatened under the Endangered Species Act in an effort to get the Bush administration to focus on global warming. Big Oil Demands the Right to Kill Polar Bears
| The Marine Mammal Protection Act—which bars hunting, killing, capture, or harassment of any marine mammal, and the trade in their body parts, within the United States... (photo: AP / U.S. Fish and Wild Life Service, Steve Amstrup) CounterPunch
Environment   Marine   Oil   Photos   Wikipedia: Alaska  
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman attends the EU-Israel Council at the European Council building in Brussels Israel's Lieberman scoffs at Palestinian deal
| A close ally of Israel's prime minister has called peace with the Palestinians "impossible", saying the conflict between them and Israel can only be "managed". | Former... (photo: AP / Yves Logghe) Al Jazeera
Israel   Mideast   Peace   Photos   Wikipedia: Avigdor Lieberman  
The Curiosity rover is a nuclear-powered Mars rover that is part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission by the United States. The MSL spacecraftwith its payload Curiositywas launched on 26 November 2011 and successfully landed on Aeolis Palus in Gale Crater on 6 August 2012 NASA Mars rover collects first Martian bedrock sample
| WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- NASA's Curiosity rover has used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sampl... (photo: Creative Commons / Chaser) Xinhua
Nasa   Photos   Space   Washington   Wikipedia: Curiosity (rover)  
Indian Hindu Sadhu at Gangasagar Island, some 150 kms south of Kolkata, on the occasion of Makarsankranti festival in Kolkata on Sunday, 13 January 2013. Some three hundred thousand Hindu pilgrims gathered at the Gangasagar Mela (Fair) to take a dip in the Ocean at the confluence of the River Ganges and the Bay of Bengal, on the occasion of Makar Sankranti, a holy day of the Hindu calendar considered to be of great religious significance in Hindu mythology, Eastern India India's Kumbh Mela readies for holiest day
| Tens of millions of Hindus were expected to plunge into India's sacred river Ganges to wash away their sins on the most auspicious day of the world's largest ... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick) Al Jazeera
Culture   India   Photos   Religion   Wikipedia: Kumbh Mela  
The robotic arm on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity delivered a sample of Martian soil to the rover's observation tray for the first time during the mission's 70th Martian day, or sol (Oct. 16, 2012). This image taken later that same sol by the rover's left Mast Camera shows how wind or vibration or both affected the sample after delivery, moving much of it off the tray to the left in this view. Mars rover drill collects rock sample
| A space-age jack of all trades, NASA's Curiosity rover recorded a first by using its drill to collect a sample from a Martian rock. | The rover sent images of the ... (photo: NASA) CNN
Nasa   Photos   Science   Space   Wikipedia: Curiosity (rover)  
The National Museum in New Delhi is the largest museum in India. It holds variety of articles ranging from pre-historic era to modern works of art. It is run by the Ministry of Culture, part of the Government of India. The museum is situated on the corner of Janpath and Maulana Azad Road. National Museum gets new director general
| New Delhi, February 09: | Venu V., joint secretary in the culture ministry, has taken over as director general of National Museum here, the government said Saturday. | ... (photo: Creative Commons / Miya.m) The Siasat Daily
Culture   Delhi   Museum   Photos   Tourism   Wikipedia: New Delhi  
Solar energy - solar power - solar superstorm 'Earth will have 15 minutes to protect electronics'
| WASHINGTON – Scientists around the globe are joining those in the United States in becoming alarmed at the possibility of a plasma cloud from a solar superstorm that ... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar) WorldNetDaily
Earth   Photos   Scientists   Solar   Wikipedia: Solar storm  
Dinosaur eggs at Fossil exhibit in the Kunming Natural History Museum of Zoology (), Kunming, Yunnan, China. New dinosaur study foils young Earth creationist preachings by Rep. Paul Broun
| Georgia Rep. Paul Broun, is a radical religious conservative from the Deep South. He maintained his seat in the House, because he ran for re-election unopposed, althoug... (photo: Public Domain / Daderot) The Examiner
Earth   Georgia   Photos   Science   Wikipedia: Dinosaur  
This image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows a simulation of asteroid 2012 DA14 approaching from the south as it passes through the Earth-moon system on Feb. 15, 2013. Nasa announces forthcoming asteroid 'near miss'
Nasa said a 45-metre wide asteroid will pass 17,200 miles from the surface of the Earth next week, the closest fly-by for an object of that size the space agency has ever... (photo: AP / JPL-Caltech) The Daily Telegraph
Earth   Nasa   Photos   Space   Wikipedia: NASA  
MCMURDO STATION, Antarctica (Jan. 9)--A rare site is this one of the Coast Guard Cutter's Polar Star (WAGB 10) (foreground) working the ship channel and the cutter Polar Sea (WAGB 11) (background) working the turning basin in the Antarctica.  USCG photo by Lt. Ed Beale (79545) ( ANTARCTIC ICE BREAKING (FOR RELEASE) ) Bacteria found in lakes under Antarctic ice
| For the first time, scientists report, they have found bacteria living in the cold and dark deep under the Antarctic ice, a discovery that might advance knowledge of ho... (photo: US Coastguard / Lt. Ed Beale) South China Morning Post
Antarctic   Bacteria   Lake Whilans   Photos   Science   Wikipedia: Antarctic  
Dinosaurs New Evidence Strengthens Argument That Dinosaurs Died As Result of Asteroid Impact
New study says cosmic impact, dinosaur extinction were 'synchronous events' | Brothers Zayne and Freece Patel look at an animatronic Tarbosaurus dinosaur at the Natural H... (photo: Creative Commons) US News
Asteroid   Dinosaur Extinction   Photos   Wikipedia : Dinosaur extinction   World  
Space Science Astronomy
First space tourist planning historic trip to Mars in 2018
Concert and club listings
First space tourist planning historic trip to Mars in 2018
Russian Ghost Cruise Ship Mysteriously Appears After Two Mon
UN to hold special session in 2014 on population
UN to hold special session in 2014 on population
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Travel Agenda: Somerset; Laugharne; Greentraveller; Gogobot
Space Food Evolution: How Astronaut Chow Has Changed (Photos
Mission Control 'Houston' Helps Launch New Nike Snea
Space Food: NASA's Advanced Food Technology Project
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Space Technology International Space Station
Land scarce Singapore looks underground for space
NASA scientist's new equations decipher 'mysterious&
Land scarce Singapore looks underground for space
Land scarce Singapore looks underground for space
Activity lead Bobak Ferdowsi, center, wipes tears away after a successful landing inside the Spaceflight Operations Facility for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., Sunday Aug. 5, 2012.
NASA's Mohawk Guy Is Having The Time Of His Life At The White House
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Dispute between DirecTV, Sinclair may affect stations in Bir
Field Station Pandora
Space Station Orbit to be Readjusted
Taxi company owner sues over parking spots at LIRR station
Cuba's leader Fidel Castro votes at a polling station during parliament elections in Havana, Cuba, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013.
Fidel Castro appears at Cuban polling station
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Universe Earth Objects
College and University news
Tuning Into the Universe
Nasa to turn ISS into coldest spot in the universe
Higgs boson may spell doom for the universe
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Welcome to the plane of the future
New air style steals nature’s secrets
Asteroid scare prompts calls for space research
Tuning Into the Universe
In this photo provided by Chelyabinsk.ru a meteorite contrail is seen over Chelyabinsk on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013. A meteor streaked across the sky of Russias Ural Mountains on Friday morning, causing sharp explosions and reportedly injuring around 100 people, including many hurt by broken glass.
Russian meteor largest to hit earth in a century
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Planets Science
The Lonely Planet Adventure: Florida at its wildest
Smallest planet discovered
Smallest planet discovered outside our solar system
Ask Lonely Planet: Legendary giant dragons of Bali
This image provided by NASA/JPL-Caltech shows a simulation of asteroid 2012 DA14 approaching from the south as it passes through the Earth-moon system on Feb. 15, 2013.
Nasa announces forthcoming asteroid 'near miss'
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Space Food Evolution: How Astronaut Chow Has Changed (Photos
Mission Control 'Houston' Helps Launch New Nike Snea
Space Food: NASA's Advanced Food Technology Project
'Space Shuttle Atlantis' Exhibit Gets Logo, Opening
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