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NASA chief views history-making SpaceX capsule

NASA chief views history-making SpaceX capsule

Officials say the world's first commercial supply ship to visit the International Space Station weathered its maiden voyage well.

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'.Apple,' '.auto' among Internet suffixes proposed

Proposals for Internet addresses ending in ".pizza," ".space" and ".auto" are among the nearly 2,000 submitted as part of the largest expansion in the online address system.

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10,000 germ species live in and on healthy people

Scientists have mapped just which critters normally live in or on us and where, calculating that healthy people can share their bodies with more than 10,000 species of microbes.

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Justice Department conducting cable company antitrust investigation

The Department of Justice is looking into allegations that cable companies are limiting competition from online video providers.

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People with paralysis can now move robotics with their thoughts

People with paralysis can now move robotics with their thoughts

New research shows that people who are paralyzed have the ability to move robotic arms with their thoughts through an implanted chip on the brain. How are scientists finding ways to help people with disabilities?

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When does adulthood begin?

When does adulthood begin?

You can smoke when you're 18. You can drink when you're 21. You can rent a car when you're 25. So what constitutes the age of adulthood in America? What role should new research into brain maturation play in that debate?

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Hawaii telescope sees what could be oldest galaxy

A team of Japanese astronomers using telescopes on Hawaii say they've seen the oldest galaxy, a discovery that's competing with other "earliest galaxy" claims.

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Apple kicks Google Maps off iPhone, adds Facebook

Apple kicks Google Maps off iPhone, adds Facebook

Apple is kicking an important Google application off its iPhone and buddying up with Facebook rather than Google's social network, as it distances itself from a bitter rival in the phone arena.

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Researcher Les Szabo on wheat rust, GMOs

Researcher Les Szabo on wheat rust, GMOs

Les Szabo, research geneticist and acting research leader at the USDA-ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory on The University of Minnesota's St. Paul campus, discusses wheat's resistance to a new rust and how GMOs could help solve the problem.
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Is ur #MD 2 square? Some use e-tech with patients

Is ur #MD 2 square? Some use e-tech with patients

Some physicians are reaching patients by Facebook, Twitter, text message and blog.

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