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Dozens of Flamingos Missing From Hialeah Park

Dozens of flamingos have gone missing from the racetrack at Hialeah Park, and officials believe it could be foul play. The flamingos have been a fixture at the racetrack for decades and dozens of chicks were born there weeks ago. But last week park ... >> view original

Secrets of 15-Million-Year-Old Monkey Skull Revealed

Scientists uncovered a few surprises hidden in a 15-million-year-old monkey skull thanks to 3-D computer imaging. They were examining Victoriapithecus, an ancient Old World monkey, a family of primates that includes baboons and macaques. The skull was ... >> view original

Alien life 'unlikely' on Rosetta comet, say mission scientists

Scientists have dismissed claims that the Rosetta comet could harbour alien life after researchers said micro-organisms could exist on the icy rock. At the National Astronomy Meeting in Llandudno this week astrophysicists from Cardiff and Buckingham ... >> view original

Coral bleaching threat increasing in western Atlantic and Pacific oceans

Bleached and dead Acorpora coral in the National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa. Warm Pacific ocean temperatures may lead to an increase in coral bleaching, NOAA scientists said. (Credit: NOAA). As unusually warm ocean temperatures cover the ... >> view original

Driverless cars good for our future: Study

If driverless taxis roaming our cities become a reality, they would not only help cut our expenses but would also greatly reduce emissions of greenhouse gases, says researchers, including one of an Indian-origin. The per-mile greenhouse gas emissions ... >> view original

Nasa spacecraft closing in on Pluto hits speed bump, but recovers

A computer overload prompted the spacecraft to partially shut down on 4 July— just days before the first-ever close flyby of Pluto. Photo: AFP/NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Cape Canaveral, Florida: Nasa's New Horizons ... >> view original

NASA time-lapse shows robot's-eye-view of Martian marathon that took ELEVEN ...

NASA's Opportunity rover has been exploring Mars since 2004 and in April this year completed the distance of a marathon, having travelled 26.2 miles from its landing location. The space agency has now released a rover's-eye-view of the epic journey as ... >> view original

USA vs. Japan Part II: Giant robots set to duel

(CNN) "Suidobashi, you have a giant robot, we have a giant robot. You know what needs to happen." With these fighting words, a new, robo-martial space race era was born. U.S.-based robotics company MegaBots issued the challenge late last month, as it ... >> view original

Water "dances" make spiders expert sailors

Spiders can dance on water like tiny ballerinas pirouetting across a slippery stage. But unlike a ballet, this arachnid dance routine isn't just for show, a new study finds. Researchers discovered that spider dancing (also known as spider sailing) is a ... >> view original

Behold the mighty Swiss SPACE JUNK NOSHER PODULE

Vid The CleanSpace One Project is going to deploy a conical net on its orbital dustpan ship to capture a small SwissCube satellite, which had been purposefully littered into orbit as a demonstration of a interstellar debris collection. A 10cm3 ... >> view original