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  • 280 new moon craters identified

    Using ultra-high resolution mapping techniques, scientists from Australia have identified 280 craters on the moon that have never been mapped before. The researchers at Curtin University in Western Australia used computer modelling of lunar gravity and topography data to explore detailed basins that would be obscured using other methods, Xinhua reported. A total of 66 of the craters identified ...

  • Steven and Alex Gerrard soak up the sun in Ibiza on 6th wedding anniversary

    Steven Gerrard and wife Alex lark have been spotted splashing around in the sea, while celebrating their 6th wedding anniversary in Ibiza. The loved-up couple, which got married in a lavish do at Cliveden House in Berkshire in 2007, showed that they are still head over heels in love even after years of marriage, the Sun reported. Alex, the stunning mum of three, wore a printed triangle bikini ...

  • ESAs Herschel telescope finally switched off

    European Space Agency's billion-euro Herschel space telescope has been switched off. Mission controllers sent the final command to the Herschel satellite Monday at 12:25 GMT (14:25 CEST), marking the end of operations for ESA's hugely successful space observatory. Herschel's science mission had already ended in April upon exhaustion of the crucial liquid helium that cooled the observatory's ...

  • Sally Ride and Neil Armstrong Space icons get new round of remembrance

    NASA is paying renewed tribute this week to Sally Ride, America's first woman in space, as well as to Neil Armstrong, the first human to walk on the moon, almost a year after their deaths.Ride's latest day in the spotlight came on Tuesday, for a simple reason: It's been 30 years since her history-making flight on June 18, 1983. Thousands thronged to the shuttle Challenger's ...

  • Australians passing up free bowel cancer screening

    cancer despite it being offered for free, which is putting them at risk from the second biggest cause of cancer death in the country.A study, published in BMC Public Health on Wednesday, found that just 25% of eligible men and 20% of women were screened for bowel cancer during the study period.Spokesperson for the Cancer Council, Associate Professor David Smith, said people need to take more ...

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A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas

A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas

See you in the fourth, Neil Patrick Harris winks to Harold (John Cho) and Kumar (Kal Penn) about midway through their third absurdist odyssey A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas, essentially summarizing just how far we have come since 2004 whe ... ...

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  • Cathay Pacific to revamp first class BOSE headphones more personal space

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  • Surrey high-school space club shoots for stars

    Group photo of NASA Club students at Princess Margaret Secondary ni Surrey who will be going to Texas in August for the International Space Settlement ...

  • For Some Arctic Birds Time of Day Is Irrelevant

    Arctic summers mean migrating animals, a bounty of breeding opportunities, and 24 hours of sunlight. Many plants and animals experience 24-hour cycles telling them when it's time to rest and when it's time to get up--called ...

  • Universities urged to sponsor free schools specialising in maths

    mathematics , in a plan supported by the Office for Fair Access (Offa) to encourage talented students from disadvantaged backgrounds to study maths at degree level.As an incentive to open the new schools, universities will be allowed to fund them using budgets otherwise reserved for improving access ...

  • Black Forest fire victims were members of Air Force Space Command

    narrowing in on a point of origin . He said Tuesday that area is 40 feet by 40 feet. "It's certainly something you do not rush," Maketa said. "It is important to determine if the fire was caused accidentally or intentionally." The sheriff's office on ...

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