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Cramped quarters, no privacy, and the stress of working together every day. Psychology, more than aerospace engineering, may be the key to sending human crews to Mars. This is Mars on Earth, a station that was built to help us learn how to live on t
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Scientists from a South African university have found evidence of a population of what they say were small-bodied modern humans on an island of Palau, east of the Philippines. Lee Berger has spent his professional life searching for evidence of mank
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Critics like Elizabeth Warren believes that there would be fewer complains if the credit card industry clearly disclosed how its business works, particularly when it comes to the minimum monthly payment. If people knew that the cost of minimum month
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Scientists investigating the icy waters of Antarctic said on Tuesday they collected mysterious creatures including giant sea spiders and huge worms from the murky depths. Australian experts taking part in an international program to take a census of
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Kill them all. You know I did and that was tough to live with, er, for a long time. I was angry, because the, the, the way we prosecuted that particular mission--you know, send the Tank Company down this crowded road that was already covered in burni
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When the wind picks up at the foot of the Rockies, there are those who believe they can hear the future. At the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, making alternative power sources competitive with fossil fuels has been a mission since the energy
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In Kenya, a Massaai elder is changing cultural practices that could help HIV infections spread. Learn how education and traditional customs affect the spread of diseases in Africa. This is Kibera, a slum in Nairobi, Kenya, home to about 1 million pe
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We are here in Yellowstone National Park to follow some grey wolves and observe the deadly brilliance of the pack. Theyve learned to cooperate, hunting their prey with many acting as one pack. This mother grizzly knows how to protect its cub and its
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Its being called the worlds worst food crisis since the 1970s. Around the globe, food prices have risen about 40% in the last year, sparking protests and violence in at least 14 countries, and pushing the problem to center stage at the United Nation
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The United Nations International Labor Organization marked the annual World Day Against Child Labor on Thursday to raise global awareness about the cycles of poverty that force millions of children into work, often denying them the chance to an educ
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Chinese soldiers used anti-tank weapons to blast away rocks and mud, holding back waters in an earthquake-formed lake that threatens more than 1 million people living downstream. Soldiers fired at rocks to dislodge enough debris to speed the drainag
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A volcano that started erupting on one of the Galapagos Islands last week may be changing the landscape of the island. According to the Associated Press, rangers and tour guides spotted lava flowing down the northeastern flank of the Cerro Azul Volc
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The City of the Dead is one of the largest graveyards in Egypt, home to thousands of tomb stones dating back as early as the 14th century. It was traditionally a burial ground for Arab conquerors and their relatives. From a distance, set against the
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In Northern Canada, winter slowly loosens its grip, and a young polar bear is hungry. It sniffs a meal already in progress, and decides to play a dangerous game, a food snatch. His opponent is larger, older, and wont tolerate a rival. A second try,
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Did the pandas in Chinas Wolong Reserve know that Mondays earthquake was coming before it hit? A British tourist watching the pandas as the quake struck offered a keen observation. They had been really lazy and just eaten a little bit of bamboo and,
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An underwater museum is open for visitors off the coast of Israel in the ancient town of Caesarea . The Port of Caesarea was commissioned by Herod the Great , King of Judaea, and the harbor quickly became the main political and economic artery of th
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Cambodias ancient temples at Angkor Wat are under threat from the large numbers of tourists who are now visiting the site. There are fears that ongoing damage to the temples soft stone may mean they could eventually be destroyed. The temples at Angk
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Walk through any town or village in the Faroe Islands, located between Iceland and Scotland, and it will be hard not to notice the green grass roofed houses on every street. A local historian says, because of the lack of natural building resources o
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China has more plants than anywhere else in the temperate regions of the world. In fact, it has almost twice as many kinds of plants as there are in the United States which is about the same size and about three times as many as there are in Europe.
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Almost ninety percent of all alligators die in their first two years of life, falling prey to other predators including their own. But normally they don't prey on humans, so why would an alligator attack a woman. Yovy Jimenez's fatal encounter is the
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