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  Mexico discovers 'huge' oil field

  Mexican President Vicente Fox speaks in front of the Noxal 1 deep water drilling platform Mexican President Vicente Fox has announced [...]

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  A Continent Splits Apart

  Normally new rivers, seas and mountains are born in slow motion. The Afar Triangle near the Horn of Africa is another story. A new oce[...]

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  Explore Mars from Google Maps

  LOS ANGELES First there was Google Earth, then Google Moon.On Monday, Google Inc. expanded its galactic reach by launching Google Mars,[...]

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  Red Rain Proof of Extraterrestrial Life?

  The best article so far on the the "red rain" phenomenon is in New Scientist. The Observer had a decent article too. An Indian scienti[...]

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  Shortness of Dark

  Depending on who you ask, the first practical light bulb was invented by Joseph Wilson Swan of Britain in 1878, or Thomas Alva Edison of the U.S. in 1[...]

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  Solar Storm Warning

  Recommended Read: Like the quiet before a storm. This week researchers announced that a storm is comin[...]

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  NASA mission leads to a watery rave

  Towering geysers of water -- regular, Earth-like, life-sustaining water -- apparently erupt from a tiny moon of Saturn, scientists anno[...]

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  The beavers are back: Bronx River cleanup pays off

  After a multi-million dollar cleanup effort the Bronx River, which for years was a polluted slough, is finally healthy enough to bring back one of its[...]

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  Action urged to save polar bear from extinction

  Vanishing arctic sea ice could make polar bears the first high-profile casualty of global warming. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering [...]