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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Seven months after NASA's rover Curiosity landed on Mars to assess if the planet most like Earth had the ingredients for life, scientists have their answer: Yes. Analysis of powdered samples drilled out from inside an ancient and once water-soaked rock at the rover's Gale...
A self-styled street preacher accused of teaming up with a high school student in a deadly plot to lure men with Craigslist job offers and then rob them was found guilty of aggravated murder and could face the death penalty. A jury in Akron returned the verdict in the case against Richard Beasley,...
Venezuela will create a scientific panel to investigate the illness of Hugo Chávez, after an accusation by the interim president last week that the former president’s cancer was mysteriously caused by his enemies. “We have this intuition that our Commander Chávez was...
New Yorkers were still free to gulp from huge sugary drinks on Tuesday, after a judge struck down the city's pioneering ban on supersized sodas just hours before it was supposed to take effect, handing a defeat to health conscious Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The big drinks ban - the first of its kind...
Hackers, mainly from China, have recently been targeting US firms to steal confidential data, which is why the US now considers cyber attacks to be its top security threat. China, which has consistently denied being behind the attacks, says it is ready to co-operate on the issue. The White...
