Dinosaur-killing space rock ‘was a comet’
The space rock that hit Earth 65 million years ago and is widely implicated in the end of the dinosaurs was likely a speeding comet....
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Second computer glitch shuts down NASA Mars rover
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 18 – The Mars rover Curiosity has had a second computer glitch, extending an unplanned work break for the NASA robot...
Cosmos may be inherently unstable
Scientists say they may be able to determine the eventual fate of the cosmos as they probe the properties of the Higgs boson. A concept...
Small brown-and-white owl with whistling song identified as new species in Indonesia
JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Researchers looking for a nocturnal bird in Indonesia accidentally identified a new species of owl – one that has a distinct...
Ford’s open-source kit brings era of smart car apps
OpenXC will set the hacker community loose on Ford’s car computer systems – expect a host of apps to improve vehicles’ performance and efficiency MIRROR,...
Last-stand Neanderthals queried
We may need to look again at the idea that a late Neanderthal population existed in southern Spain as recently as 35,000 years ago, a...
Researcher Denies Seeking “Adventurous” Woman To Carry Neanderthal Baby
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Several media reports popped up around the web over the past day or two saying Harvard Medical Schoolgenetics...
Neanderthal cloning chatter highlights scientific illiteracy
(Reuters) – After spending the weekend reading blog posts claiming that he was seeking an “extremely adventurous female human” to bear a cloned Neanderthal baby...