In August a four tonne capstone was removed to reveal a burial chamber
Astronaut Edwin E 'Buzz' Aldrin Jr. walks on the surface of the moon. Future lunar travelers face a radiation dose 30 percent to 40 percent higher than originally expected from radioactive lunar soil. NASA/Neil Armstrong
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Mike Erickson, of Webster Groves, checks out a Sony Reader an e-book at Best Buy, Friday aternoon. "I'm just waiting to see what other kinds of books will be available." Erickson said. Erickson is at the Best Buy in Brentwood. (Dawn Majors/P-D)
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New research shows that the outermost layer of the atmosphere will lose 3 percent of its density over the coming decade, a sign of the far-reaching impacts of greenhouse gas emissions. As the density declines, orbiting satellites experience less drag. Credit: ©UCAR.
Planetary Skin Satellites join forces with drones and
Spin row: Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore makes his controversial speech during a presentation of a report on the melting of the Greenland ice sheet, at the Bella centre of Copenhagen yesterday
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Artist's impression of Chi Cygni. As the red giant star runs out of fuel, it pulses in and out, beating like a giant heart and ejecting shells of material. Credit: ESO/L. Calçada
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Seattle skyline with Mount Rainier in the background. (Credit: iStockphoto/Natalia Bratslavsky)
After three stokes of bad luck, the group launches the unmanned aerial vehicle in mission No. 4, a 15-hour trip to Terra Nova Bay and back. Credit:Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science.
Cracking the Cancer Code A cluster of breast cancer cells, with blue ones marking actively growing cells and yellow marking dying cells. Could scientists crack their code next? Wellcome Trust 
Climategate just got much, much bigger. And all thanks to the Russians who, with perfect timing, dropped this bombshell just as the world’s leaders are gathering in Copenhagen to discuss ways of carbon-taxing us all back to the dark ages.
Feast your eyes on this news release from Rionovosta, via the Ria Novosti agency, posted on Icecap. (Hat Tip: Richard North)
A discussion of the November 2009 Climatic Research Unit e-mail hacking incident, referred to by some sources as “Climategate,” continues against the backdrop of the abortive UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen (COP15) discussing alternative agreements to replace the 1997 Kyoto Protocol that aimed to combat global warming.
Most countries do not permit commercial surrogacy, say experts (Source: iStockphoto)
Lava flows down the slopes of the Mayon volcano in the Philippines
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Artist's rendering of neurons. (Credit: iStockphoto)
A new study indicates part of the northern Alaska coastline is eroding by up to 45 feet annually due to declining sea ice, warming seawater and increased wave activity. Credit: Robert S. Anderson, University of Colorado.
Spandau Ballet
Language hotspots are areas with extreme linguistic diversity, containing many highly endangered and underdocumented languages
10000 to 7600 year old woolly mammoth DNA was found frozen in Alaska tundra. So this begs the obvious question: Is the DNA good enough to sequence and use some day to bring back the woolly mammoth?
The work of U of A Earth and Atmospheric Sciences professor Duane Froese and his colleagues counters an important extinction theory, based on radiocarbon dating of bones and teeth. That analysis concluded that more than half of the large mammals in North America (the 'megafauna') disappeared about 13,000 years ago.
Professor Hiroshi Ishiguro developed his own robot doppelganger in 2007
Baby black holes occur when two types of dead star merge
Image: PREHISTORIC MYSTERY: Mastodons feeding on black ash trees. The disappearance of such megafauna has perplexed scientists. COURTESY OF BARRY ROAL CARLSEN, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON
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A discovery by scientists at the University of East Anglia could contribute to the development of systems that use domestic or agricultural waste to generate clean electricity. (Credit: Image courtesy of University of East Anglia)
Despite having access to computers and other electronic distractions, Americans on average spend about 60 percent of their information consumption time watching TV or listening to radio. Credit: UCSD
Got a Bad Bottle? Not to worry, researchers can still salvage some
Tom Courtenay in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner.
Employees cheer as the Dreamliner takes off for the first time
Nate Murphy doing what he did best - unearthing dinosaurs
An artist’s rendition of the proposed facility. Rentech
Photo: Fresh-faced actor Leonardo Di Caprio might expect a long life.
By boosting the number of pores in leaves, scientists hope to one day absorb more CO2 from the atmosphere. Credit: iStockphoto
To better understand the role that black soot has on glaciers, researchers trekked high into the Himalayas to collect ice cores that contain a record of soot deposition that spans back to the 1950s. (Credit: Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Chimps and apes are genetically so similar to humans - and their human-like gestures do remind us how close we are on the family tree - that scientists have long been puzzled why they don't live as long as we do. Diet-related evolutionary changes may explain it. Image credit: stockexpert.
Director James Cameron holding an antique stereoscope. (Photographed By Joe Pugliese, Sept. 19, 2009, at Fox Studios in Los Angeles, Calif.)
