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CO2 Linked To Ice Ages & Past Global Climate Changes

photo: Dominic Alves via flickr Taking a look back to past global climate changes, researchers led by Timothy Herbert of Brown University have determined that for at least the past 2.7 million years tropical temperatures have “changed in lockstep” with the cyclical spread and retreat of ice sheets, and that CO2 has been the main factor dictating global climate patterns. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Hubble Finds Star Eating a Planet

The hottest known planet in the Milky Way galaxy may also be its shortest-lived world. The doomed planet is being eaten by its parent star, according to observations made by a new instrument on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS). The planet may only have another 10 million years left before it is completely devoured. added by: danteglam

New Ncaa Hubble Telescope photos

In this photo provided by NASA on Thursday, April 1, 2010, a unique image of young stars in the Orion nebula is provided by NASA#39;s Spitzer Space Telescope, as the orbiting observatory winds down and loses its coolant. It took 80 pictures of these young stars, about one million years old compared to our sun which is 4.6 billion years old, over 40 days seeing them twinkle as they pulsate light and heat. This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image captures the tempestuous stellar nursery called the

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Dr. Conrad Murray: No Longer a Deadbeat Dad

The baddest physician around, Dr. Conrad Murray, is no longer a deadbeat dad

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Big Bang machine is back!

Quick restart of Big Bang machine stuns scientists —ALEXANDER G.

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3 ancient species of Crocs found

The three new species, along with new examples of two previously known ancient crocodiles, were detailed Thursday by researchers Paul Sereno of the University of Chicago and Hans Larsson of McGill University in Montreal. They spoke at a news conference organized by the National Geographic Society, which sponsored the research.

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Hayden Panettiere Has Flaws Just Like Us

Heroes actress Hayden Panettiere has said she ‘never pretends to be perfect’.

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Tiniest dinosaur in North America found

The Fruitadens haagarorum, found in Colorado, was just 28 inches (70 centimeters) long, weighed less than two pounds (one kilogram) and lived about 150 million years ago. added by: knews121 0 comments

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Chuck Norris writing his own book of Chuck Norris facts

Chuck Norris has signed a book deal with Illinois-based Christian publisher Tyndale House. According to acquiring editor Jonathan Farrar, Mr.

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Velociraptor’s ‘killing’ claws were for climbing

ACCORDING to Jurassic Park, everyone's favourite fleet-footed predators dispatched their prey by disembowelling them with deadly “killing claws”. Not so, say palaeontologists who have studied the biomechanics of Velociraptor claws.

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Velociraptor’s ‘killing’ claws were for climbing