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NASA has detected the brightest cosmic explosion ever recorded, 7.5 billion light years away.
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Cuban-born jazz musician Israel “Cachao” Lopez, credited with inventing the mambo, has died in Miami at the age of 89.
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Harry Potter author JK Rowling has admitted she had “suicidal thoughts” while suffering from depression after her first marriage broke down.
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Four members of a fishing boat crew are confirmed dead after it sank off the Alaskan coast in high seas.
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Bhutan is preparing for its first parliamentary elections, ending over a century of royal rule.
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Friday marked the 10th anniversary of the Good Friday accord, when Republican and Unionist leaders in Northern Ireland agreed to share power.
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The Supreme Court is throwing itself back into the debate over indecency on television, and that may not be a good thing.
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A small robotic aircraft powered by rotating “paddle-wheel” wings could yet rule the skies, if renewed interest in an antique design bears fruit.
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A neckband that translates thought into speech by picking up nerve signals has been used to demonstrate a “voiceless” phone call for the first time.
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Researchers at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston say they have figured out the biochemical basis of priapism.
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A recently declassified US Army report on the biological effects of non-lethal weapons reveals outlandish plans for “ray gun” devices
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Mamun Or-Rashid at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada, and colleagues compared the fatty-acid content of cheese made from a Nepalese yak’s milk and a standard Canadian cheddar.
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Amar Bakshi is a blogger who spent the last year jumping borders, hailing rides and asking people around the world what they think of the United States.
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Eighteen Ukrainian sailors are feared dead after they were trapped underwater in their capsized tugboat in Hong Kong for nearly 40 hours amid strong currents.
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Battlespace is an online exhibition of photojournalism from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Campaigners are calling for social networking websites, such as Facebook and MySpace, to clamp down on pro-anorexia sites.
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Backstage at the 2008 SF Fetish Ball, courtesy of Lithium Picnic
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A report predicts global warming will significantly alter the Emerald Isle’s culture and environment.
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As a not-running-for President guy, Al’s in a position to be logical about the best public policy to drive climate action: a carbon tax.
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Wildly varying prices, questions of accountability, and the carbon neutral myth, TreeHuggers everywhere we can imagine, are trying to make sense of the carbon offset business.
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Healthy soil can retain and purify water, provide an abundance of food, and even act as way to sequester carbon dioxide. One key to getting there is amending soil with biochar.
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