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RIP, Orbiting Carbon Observatory
Brief Moment of Glory NASA Early this morning, thousands of scientists had their hearts broken as a NASA satellite crucial to studying climate change suffered a critical failure during launch and...
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Flying Up to Meet Asteroids
Asteroid Ida and Its Moon, Dactyl NASA Partly to help explain solar eclipses, the ancient Egyptians had a story about the serpent god Apep, the Uncreator, who tried to swallow the sun god Ra as he...
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Baguette Dropped From Bird's Beak Shuts Down The Large Hadron Collider (Really)
The Baguette Incident Re-enacted according to eyewitness accounts. CERN; Bird via Foxypar4/FlickrThe Large Hadron Collider, the world's most powerful particle accelerator, just cannot catch a break....
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Undersea Cables Could Be Used as an Early Tsunami Detection System
Tsunami Incoming The 2004 tsunami as seen in Ao Nang, Krabi Province, Thailand. Wikimedia Commons/David Rydevik Monstrous tsunami waves, like the one that killed over 200,000 people in the Indian...
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Giant Floating Crane Searching For Clues to Korean Maritime Disaster
Preparing To Lift: The massive crane prepares to haul up a 1,322 ton South Korean warship. Getty Images A floating crane prepares to raise from the depths a South Korean navy combat corvette that...
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Newly Discovered Underwater Oil Plume Paints a Complex Picture of Gulf Leak...
The Oil Plume Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Oceanographers announced today the discovery of a wispy oil plume at least 22 miles long and 1.2 miles wide floating beneath the surface of the Gulf...
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NASA's Experience With Survival In Isolation Will Help Trapped Chilean Miners
Inside the ISS The cramped, isolated quarters inside the ISS provide a good model for the conditions experienced by the miners trapped in Chile. NASA is advising the Chilean government on how to keep...
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As Cooling Efforts Continue, Japanese Officials Consider Burying Fukushima Plant
Fukushima Daiichi March 17 Damage is visible at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as seen March 17 from DigitalGlobe's satellite fleet. DigitalGlobe Japanese officials conceded today they...
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Workers at Japanese Nuclear Plant Finally Get A Robot Assistant
Monirobo Asahi Shimbun Finally, some news that Japan is actually using its rescue robots. The red Wall-E-esque 'bot seen here is on the scene at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, according to a...
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Japanese Authorities Consider Harvesting Backup Bone Marrow Before Sending...
Radiation Protection Suits This photo was taken at a U.S. Navy exercise in Italy. Wikimedia Commons Japanese authorities are considering harvesting bone marrow from workers at the stricken Fukushima...
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When The Sun Unleashed Its Recent Plasma Blast, Earth Got Lucky
CME NASA View Photo GalleryOn Tuesday, the biggest solar flare in four years erupted from the sun, sending a mass of charged particles hurtling towards Earth. NASA announced that it was an M-2...
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Video: Rescuing Disaster Victims With Snake Robots Deployed By Dogs
Snakebot CMU via YouTube Dogs and robots are both known for their search and rescue abilities, but each has its own flaws. Robots can't sniff, and other than barking, dogs can't relay specific...
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A Model Disaster
Sinking of Titanic PushArt The hundredth anniversary of the wreck of the Titanic on April 15 provides a welcome moment to celebrate the many great strides made by engineers. In 2012, people move...
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Remembering The Brightest Lessons From NASA’s Darkest Days
Space Shuttle Challenger Challenger lifts off on its first mission, STS-6, on April 4, 1983. NASA The days between January 27 and February 1 are the most difficult week of the year for NASA. The...
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A Smartphone App That Detects Radiation In A Disaster
Fake Derailed Train At Disaster City Brent Humphreys Disaster City is your one-stop for about every catastrophe you can think of. Train derailments, hurricanes, and other unfortunate happenings all...
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Oceanographers announced today the discovery of a wispy oil plume at least 22 miles long and 1.2 miles wide floating beneath the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, a sign that…
View ArticleNASA's Experience With Survival In Isolation Will Help Trapped Chilean Miners
When Chilean officials contacted NASA seeking advice from the space agency on how to keep 33 miners trapped in a tiny subterranean chamber both physically and mentally…
View ArticleAs Cooling Efforts Continue, Japanese Officials Consider Burying Fukushima Plant
Japanese officials conceded today they might have to entomb the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in a sarcophagus of sand or concrete in order to contain the…
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Japanese authorities are considering harvesting bone marrow from workers at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power plant, hoping an infusion of their own healthy cells could…
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