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  • Why The New Google-NASA Partnership Marks A New Era In The History Of Computing

    It's easy to become jaded about announcements in the tech world. Slick, media savvy CEO's announce "revolutionary" new products with metronomic regularity. Version 1.0 becomes 1.1 and eventually 2.0 and on and on. It all seems like a ...

  • UKs first official astronaut Tim Peake absolutely delighted to get ISS mission

    Former helicopter pilot Tim Peake, who will carry out experiments and be eligible for spacewalks during his ISS mission. Photograph: Suzanne ...

  • Alien Big Apple Artist Envisions NYC on Other Planets

    New York City seems alien enough to many of its visitors, but imagine how strange it would look if whisked away to another planet. A new art project does just that, transplanting the Big Apple to ...

  • Majestic Milky Way Shines Over Acadia National Park

    '); Christopher Georgia took this photo of the Milky Way galaxy from Hunter's Head at Acadia National Park, Maine. He used a Nikon D3s camera with a Nikon 14-24 mm at 18 mm lens, 20-second exposure, ISO 2500 and F/2.8. The photo is a nine shot panorama taken in portrait position released to SPACE.com on May 11, ...

  • Hypersonic Weapons Could Hit Battlefield by 2025

    High-tech weapons may be screaming through the skies at five times the speed of sound by the middle of the next decade, U.S. military officials say. That's the most optimistic timeline for the battlefied debut of a superfast new strike capability, officials said, and it depends on continued research into hypersonic vehicles like the Air Force's X-51A Waverider, which completed ...


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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan [Blu-Ray]

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan [Blu-Ray]

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is the best of the Star Trek film series, a gloriously operatic revenge tale full of sound and fury, violence and vengeance, humor and empathy. It followed three years after Robert Wises elegant, but somewhat tedious Star Trek: The Mot ... ...

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  • How NYC Would Look on Other Planets

    Saturn's atmosphere is similar to that of Jupiter. Again, NYC is shown at about 62 miles above a layer of liquid hydrogen and helium, amid clouds of ammonia ice with occasional thunderstorms. As with Jupiter, atmospheric gases are highly reducing and would slowly dissolve any metal oxide surface, like the green patina that covers the Statue of ...

  • Dolphins Working For The Navy Discover Rare 19th Century Torpedo

    The US Navy has recovered an exceptionally rare artifact off the coast of Coronado, California - and if that wasn't enough, the item in question was actually discovered not by humans, but by ...

  • College costs soar but why

    Students milling about the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) campus, which has faced steep state cuts. … When high school senior Jenny Bonilla got her college acceptance letter in March, she felt shock and heartbreak rather than joy. That's because the letter from Goucher College, a private liberal arts school in Baltimore, also brought news that she would owe an ...

  • Autism vaccine scare leads to measles epidemic in UK

    View Photo Associated Press/Owen Humphreys, PA - In this photo Thursday, April 25, 2013 Lucy Butler,15, getting ready to have her measles jab at All Saints School in Ingleby Barwick, Teesside, England, as a national ...

  • Car bombs in Baghdad south Iraq kill dozens

    Sunni and Shiite civilian targets over the past week. The bloodshed has raised fears of a return to the widespread sectarian violence of 2006-2007 that brought the country to the edge of civil war. In the Iraqi capital, nine car bombs went off, striking at bus stops, market places and in the streets of Shiite areas during the busy morning hours, killing 24 people and wounding 112, according ...

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