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10 Feb 2012 at 2:43pm
For the first time astronomers have captured highly detailed pictures of a dwarf galaxy consuming a smaller companion, a new study says. 
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10 Feb 2012 at 2:13pm
A star nursery shines, a sun storm erupts, a Mars orbiter spies its cousin, and more in the week's best space pictures. 
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10 Feb 2012 at 1:43pm
The first known fossil of a rare bloodsucker called the bat fly has been found in 20-million-year-old amber, a new study reports. 
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10 Feb 2012 at 8:32am
The shale boom centered in North Dakota lifts U.S. oil production, but the unexpected resurgence won't lessen petroleum's cost. 
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10 Feb 2012 at 9:03am
A pair of Earth-size worlds orbiting a dying star may be the fractured remnants of a single Jupiter-like gas giant, a new study says. 
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9 Feb 2012 at 2:45pm
Stripes may do more than help zebras hide in tall grass?the pattern may scramble the vision of bloodsucking horseflies 
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9 Feb 2012 at 11:51am
An ongoing rocky buffet would explain bright x-ray flares seen around our galaxy's supermassive black hole since 1999, astronomers say. 
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8 Feb 2012 at 11:34am
Russian scientists have confirmed that they have breached the subglacial Lake Vostok in Antarctica?a first. 
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8 Feb 2012 at 9:35am
A new relative of the "corpse flower" growing in Madagscar smells like rotting meat and feces, researchers say. 
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7 Feb 2012 at 2:27pm
Some of the millions of ancient Egyptian ibis mummies were "fed" after death, scans reveal?the better to live the afterlife. 
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10 Feb 2012 at 12:00am  Janice Voss , a space shuttle astronaut and scientist who explored the behavior of fire in weightlessness, how plants adapt to extraterrestrial flight and an array of other phenomena while logging nearly 19 million miles circling Earth , died on Monday at a hospital in Scottsdale, Ariz. She was 55 and lived in Houston. The cause was cancer, her...
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30 Jan 2012 at 12:00am ''Most of my life I went to parties and heard a little groan when people heard what I did,'' says Robert Tibshirani, a statistics professor at Stanford University. ''Now they're all excited to meet me.'' It's not because of a new after-shave. Arcane statistical analysis, the business of making sense of our growing data mountains, has become high...
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30 Jan 2012 at 12:00am  HAT CREEK, Calif. -- E.T. might be phoning, but do we care enough to take the call? Operating on money and equipment scrounged from the public and from Silicon Valley millionaires, and on the stubborn strength of their own dreams, a band of astronomers recently restarted one of the iconic quests of modern science, the search for extraterrestrial...
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27 Jan 2012 at 12:00am Around Town Museums and Sites American Museum of Natural History: Astronomy Live: NASA Missions (Tuesday) A look at NASA missions of the past and for the future, offered by museum personnel, with images and visualizations. At 6:30 p.m., Central Park West and 79th Street, (212) 769-5200, amnh.org/calendar/event/NASA-Missions; $15, or $13.50 for...
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22 Jan 2012 at 12:00am  AFTER 35 years at Columbia University, where he was chairman of the astronomy department and co-director of the Astrophysics Laboratory, David J. Helfand is on leave to serve as president of Quest University Canada, a tiny liberal arts college in British Columbia that graduated its first class last spring. It is Canada's only private, secular...
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