A Russian cruise ship that has been struggling for days to pass through a huge chunk of ice has finally broken free and reached open water off of the coast of Antarctica.
The Captain Khlebnikov icebreaker, which was carrying 101 passengers, got jammed up in the ice earlier this week in the Weddell Sea off Antarctica. [...]

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Science fiction is one step closer to becoming reality.
A researcher at the NASA Ames Research Center has created a proof of concept gadget that can convert an ordinary, everyday iPhone into a chemical sensor capable of detecting ammonia, chlorine gas, and methane.
The device is about the size of a postage stamp and plugs right into [...]

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I was going to write this post, but then I thought about it for a minute.
Since I know I am going to sit here and write it, then it stands to reason that in the future, this post will already be done. Therefore, if I wait long enough, the post will already be done. [...]

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The Leonid Meteor Shower 2009 is here.  The annual spectacle can be seen November 13-20, but the peak of meteoric activity will occur on Tuesday morning, November 17, 2009.
The best time to spot meteors will be after 1:30 a.m. EST and prior to sunrise.
This year, the view should be spectacular as the moon won’t be [...]

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NASA finished fueling the Space Shuttle Atlantis on Monday morning for an afternoon takeoff to the International Space Station, even though cloud cover continues to increase.
Watch the Atlantis launch in real time on our Live Video page.
Weather forecasters now say that the chances of acceptable weather are at about 70 percent, which is not nearly [...]

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The Vatican just wrapped up a five day conference on astrobiology where some of the world’s greatest scientists gathered to discuss the detection and implications of extraterrestrial life, i.e.: aliens.
The man who was the impetus for this conference was Director of the Vatican Observatory, Father Jose Gabriel Funes. In May 2008, Funes conducted an interview [...]

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On October 8, 2009, a large asteroid smashed into Earth’s atmosphere above South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The resulting explosion could be heard by monitoring stations some 10,000 miles away, according to a report by scientists at the University of Western Ontario.
Many scientists and experts are concerned that this asteroid wasn’t spotted by any Earth-based telescopes and [...]

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Residents of the Gulf Coast region are now on hurricane alert as the Hurricane Ida projected path has turned to northward.
Hurricane Ida was upgraded from a tropical storm to a full-”blown” hurricane on Saturday and has now strengthened to a Category 2 storm with maximum winds at its center in excess of 100 mph. Forecasters [...]

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Not only does Barack Obama want to pay for your health insurance, the President now wants to help you decide what to wear every day too.
Just go to Obama Weather, enter your zip code, and the leader of the free world will tell you what clothing is the best choice given the weather forecast.
You can [...]

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Forget everything you know about ice and watch as it literally burns. How?
When the ice melts, the water reacts with the calcium carbide (place on the bottom, pause the video at the start) to produce acetylene gas and calcium hydroxide. The acetylene gas then explodes into flames when a match is place on top.
It [...]

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