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Mars crater where rover landed looks 'Earth-like'

Mars crater where rover landed looks 'Earth-like'

The ancient Martian crater where the Curiosity rover landed looks strikingly similar to the Mojave Desert in California with its looming mountains and hanging haze, scientists said.

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NASA mission gives a peek of rover's Mars journey

NASA mission gives a peek of rover's Mars journey

NASA's latest adventure to Mars has given the world more than just glimpses of a new alien landscape.

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Aspen Ideas Festival: Google's Eric Schmidt on technology & democracy

Aspen Ideas Festival: Google's Eric Schmidt on technology & democracy

Google's executive chairman speaks at the Aspen Ideas Festival about the role of the internet in spreading democracy and building community. He says the digital world has removed the limitations of time and space and made society closer. Schmidt urges people to use the "virtual world" to make your "real world" experience bigger and more meaningful.

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Cold fusion chemist Martin Fleischmann dies at 85

British chemist Martin Fleischmann, who stunned the world by announcing that he had created a nuclear fusion device in a glass bottle, has died after a long illness. He was 85.

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Restoring Minnesota's prairies

Restoring Minnesota's prairies

The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources -- along with federal agencies and conservation groups like the Nature Conservancy -- announced a 25-year plan to restore more than two million acres of Minnesota's lost prairie. But a new report shows that we've recently lost more than one million acres of grassland, shrubland and prairieland to commodity crops.

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Defending the teaching of climate change in schools

At an event Monday night at the University of Minnesota, explorer Will Steger and Eugenie Scott, executive director of the National Center for Science Education, discussed teachers coming under fire for teaching global warming and other climate change concepts.

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Robot divers to report on Lake Superior's depths

Robot divers to report on Lake Superior's depths

With its frigid, often ice-choked water and legendary storms, Lake Superior can be a dangerous place for scientists to conduct research. But with two mechanical divers, researchers aim to tap the wealth of information deep inside the big, cold lake.
by Dan Kraker

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NASA releases low-res video of Mars rover descent

NASA releases low-res video of Mars rover descent

NASA's Curiosity rover transmitted a low-resolution video showing the last 2-1/2 minutes of its white-knuckle dive through the Mars atmosphere, giving Earthlings a sneak peek of a spacecraft landing on another world.

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Improving science education in America

Improving science education in America

With low test scores in math and science and a growing need for workers in science-related fields, the spotlight is back on improving science education.
by Emily Kaiser

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