NASA knows its rover, Opportunity, is at risk while exploring a deep Martian crater, but believes the potential rewards are worth it.
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Friday, June 29, 2007
Mars Rover Making Crater Descent; Return Uncertain
NASA knows its rover, Opportunity, is at risk while exploring a deep Martian crater, but believes the potential rewards are worth it.
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Do Stem Cells Grown From Unfertilized Eggs Have Souls?
Science butts up against religious beliefs yet again in the ever-contentious world of stem-cell politics.
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London Police Scour Spycam Footage in Hunt for Car Bomber
Authorities search for the perpetrator who left a possible fuel-air explosive near Piccadilly Circus.
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Name and Shame the Biggest Corporate Privacy Villains
Wired News, with help from readers, compiles and ranks the internet's worst offenders.
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DNA Samples Confirm Egyptian Mummy as Queen Hatshepsut
Archeologists say they're 100 percent certain that the remains are those of a woman who was as mysterious in death as she was eccentric in life.
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June 27, 1954: World's First Nuclear Power Plant Opens
Nuclear power as an energy source makes its first appearance in Obninsk, and a model Soviet science city is born.
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Largest Ice Sheet Stable, but Vulnerable, Researchers Say
Its vastness protects it from the immediate effects of global warming, but the world's largest ice sheet could be damaged if things get worse.
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Effects of Global Warming Overshadow Political, Economic Benefits
Countries who manage their environments better are generally more politically and economically stable, too.
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Grape Expectations: Vines May Love Vivaldi
A Tuscan vineyard is testing to see whether music helps grow bigger vines in less time.
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