1. WWII in color: Rare photos from 1942
(Millions of poignant black-and-white photos have come out of the World War Two era, but it is not often that scenes from the deadliest conflict in human history can be seen in living color. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2294284/WWII-)
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Category: Humanity

2. How Massive Stars Form: Simple Solution Found
(The existence of massive stars — up to a whopping 120 times the mass of the sun — has long perplexed astronomers.)
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3. The Door To Hell
(In 1971 while drilling in Turkmenistan geologists hit a pocket of methane gas and rather than venting it they set it on fire 49 years later its still burning.)
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Category: Earth Sciences

4. Mathematician Suggests Extra Dimensions Are Time-Like
( space-time may have six dimensions, with the extra two being time-like.)
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Category: Astronomy

5. Messenger Spacecraft About To Orbit Mercury
(At 8:45 EDT NASA's Messenger spacecraft will fire its thruster for nearly 14 min. slowing the spacecraft by 862 meters per second to move into orbit around Mercury at a minimum altitude of 200 kilometers.)
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Category: Astronomy

6. Building a Schizophrenic Computer
(To try to understand how schizophrenia affects the brain, scientists tweaked a computer system until it began to exhibit the same symptoms as a schizophrenic human mind. )
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Category: Technology

7. New Photos Of The Sun
(A new series of false-color images of the Sun released by NASA. )
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Category: Astronomy

8. Earthquake Shakes Ice From Glacier
(The magnitude 6.3 earthquake that ravaged Christchurch, New Zealand, on February 22, 2011, also broke a 30 million-ton piece of ice off the Tasman Glacier.)
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Category: Earth Sciences

9. Speed of Light May Not Be Fixed
(Two forthcoming European Physical Journal D papers challenge established wisdom about the nature of vacuum. )
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Category: Physics

10. Parts of Canada Is Missing Gravity
(Large parts of Canada has less gravity then normal, here are the theories why.)
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Category: Earth Sciences

1. Giant Propellers Discovered in Saturn's Rings
(Giant propeller-shaped structures have been discovered in the rings of Saturn and appear to be created by a new class of hidden moons, NASA announced Thursday. )
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Category: Astronomy

2. James Webb Space Telescope In Danger
(For years, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been the most likely candidate as a successor to the legacy of Hubble, but now that has come under serious threat.)
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Category: Astronomy

3. Human Brain Map
(An interactive map of the human brain.)
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Rating: 3.01
Category: Biology & Medicine

4. Rapid Plant Movement
(The Venus Flytrap has the ability to move rapidly on command.)
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Rating: 3.01
Category: Earth Sciences

5. Honey Bee Population Crashes
(For an unknown reason, bee populations are dying world wide.)
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Rating: 3
Category: Living World

6. History's Biggest Lungfish
(The biggest lungfish on record has been uncovered in an unexpected place – a drawer in the Nebraska State Museum in Lincoln.)
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Category: Living World

7. The Casualties of Meteor Showers
(Meteor showers produce gorgeous light shows. But the space debris responsible for them can seriously damage spacecraft.)
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Category: Astronomy

8. No Slowdown of Global Warming
(Despite recent fluctuations in global temperature year to year, which fueled claims of global cooling, a sustained global warming trend shows no signs of ending.)
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Category: Living World

9. Researchers Create New Form of Matter
(Physicists at the University of Pittsburgh have demonstrated a new form of matter that melds the characteristics of lasers with those of the world's best electrical conductors - superconductors.)
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Rating: 3
Category: Astronomy

10. NASA's Curiosity rover revving up for more science
(NASA's Curiosity rover, which has been exploring Mars since it landed to much fanfare last August, should be running at full capacity next week, after a memory glitch set the robot back. )
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Category: Astronomy