UK man jailed for life for murdering GTA-obsessed partner
A man murdered his partner in front of their 10-year-old son because she obsessively played Grand Theft Auto.{ad} Malcolm Palmer repeatedly stabbed Carol Cannom at their home in Lincolnshire, England,...
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If you spent as much time as I did in the arcades growing up, you too would recall how quarters disappeared faster than you could earn them, but also during that time you might remember a…
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20 Life Lessons you can learn from the New Super Mario Bros. Wii
Being a gamer for most of my life, I can testify that like good books, movies, and music, video games can teach you important lessons that can be used later in life. Take for…
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Science team creates synthetic life using computer generated genome
This story almost sounds like the plot to a science fiction movie set in a future starring Harrison Ford as the lead, but this news is indeed the real deal. A team of…
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NASA’s new arsenic-based bacteria decried by scientists as flim-flam
Last week, NASA triumphantly announced that they had discovered a new form of bacteria that could not only survive in arsenic, but seemed to have traded arsenic for phosphate in its DNA strands.…
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Phobos-Grunt launching today in a bid to collect Mars moondust
Russia is hoping to launch its Phobos-Grunt spacecraft today in a bid to collect Moondust from the surface of Mars‘ larger moon named Phobos. The mission is Russia’s first trip to Mars since…
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Mars rover Opportunity finds gypsum, a strong indicator of water
NASA has announced that its Mars rover, Opportunity, has found the most convincing evidence to date of traces of water on the Red Planet. Pictured above is a thumb-sized vein of what appears…
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The first words you read when Apple hires you
Starting a new job always creates a mix of emotions. Excitement, trepidation, nervousness. Landing a job at Apple is only going to enhance any and all emotions due to the reputation and high…
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Opportunity rover discovers conditions favorable to ancient Martian biology
NASA’s Opportunity rover has been on the red planet since 2004, traversing the rocky terrain and searching out interesting geology and Martian features. It was only designed for a 90 day mission, but…
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Geek Answers: Why is all life carbon-based?
Why is carbon the basis of all life currently known? Why do most writers turn to silicon as the most likely substitute for carbon?
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Curiosity proves that bits of Mars fall to Earth as meteorites
The speculation ends: Mars rover Curiosity has positively identified hundreds of meteorites found all over the Earth as Martians.
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Life on Earth won’t be extinguished as soon as we thought
Good news, everyone. You can feel free to make plans for the future — a new analysis of the sun finds that it won’t burn the Earth to a crisp as early as […]
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Slow Life exposes the beautiful movements of coral reefs at 4K
We humans live life fast, so it makes sense that our perception matches that pace. Though, not all creatures on the planet are so rushed. Corals and sponges go about their lives so […]
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Handy tool reveals how much of your life you’ve thrown away watching TV
If you live in certain cities, you may feel that everyone is so distracted nowadays by their important, busy lives. School has become an arms race, requiring ever-increasing degrees in order to secure […]
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First Earth-like planet found in the habitable zone of a nearby star
NASA's Kepler, the planet-hunting space telescope, has spied the most Earth-like planet ever found, and it's sitting in the sweet spot for developing life.
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Roadmap to physical immortality: The end of death in 7 easy steps
A series of info graphics lays out the detailed steps we'd need to take to get from our current level of technology to the end of death.
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NASA figures out how to smell Uranus (and other planets)
A new technique lets NASA scientists look deep into the atmosphere of alien worlds -- and figure out how bad they smell.
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Cassini data says the ocean inside Titan is as salty as the Dead Sea
The Cassini probe has been hanging around Saturn for a decade now, but it’s still getting good science done. The most recent discovery to come out of Cassini has to do with Titan, […]
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New research says any planet with alien life will have oceans
Even with the planet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope now partially disabled due to a busted reaction wheel, astronomers are still hard at work looking for new exoplanets. Each time a new rocky object is...
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We might find aliens by searching the stars for pollution
Astronomers hold out hope that when the James Webb Space Telescope is finally launched in a few years, it will be able to spot signs of life out there among the stars. When […]
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