Four crew members who flew to the International Space Station (ISS) earlier this year to relieve two astronauts who were left stranded by a beleaguered space capsule returned to Earth on Saturday. NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, along with Japan’s Takuya Onishi and Russia’s Kirill Peskov, splashed down …
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In early 2009, University of California at Los Angeles geography researchers not only predicted that Usama Bin Laden wasn’t hiding in a remote cave, they figured out there was an 88.9 percent probability he would be found in a major city about 130 miles from where the terror kingpin was …
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A submarine exploring the ocean’s depths recently returned with an unexpected visitor: a crablike critter that has left many readers startled and horrified. In a posting to social bookmarking site Reddit, a deep-sea technician detailed the finding, asking the site’s readers to help identify what exactly the bizarre looking creature …
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Gigantic, devastating earthquakes have happened more frequently at the San Andreas fault than previously thought — and we’re overdue for the next one, according to a new study. Geologists from the University of California Irvine and Arizona State University concluded that the largest quakes strike San Andreas every 45 to …
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