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New Map Suggests Mars Was Wet, Humid

breitbart.com | Posted 11.24.2009 | Technology

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A new detailed map of Mars shows what was likely a vast ocean in the north and valleys around the equator, suggesting that the planet once had a humid...

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Movie Review: The Box

Marshall Fine | Posted 11.06.2009 | Entertainment

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Some bad movies you slag off gleefully. Others provoke a certain disappointment at their failure, a mourning at the difference between the film's ambition and its execution. Richard Kelly's The Box is such a film.

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How Extremophiles Might Help Us Save the World

Levi Novey | Posted 10.18.2009 | Green

Living and thriving in the most inhospitable conditions on Earth, tiny bacteria-like microbes known as extremophiles might soon have an over-sized effect on our human world.

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Weighing In On Blue-Ribbon Panel Exploring NASA's Strategic Options for Human Space Flight

Jeff Goldstein | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

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Something as challenging and expensive as a human space flight program needs a strategic objective that derives from who we are as a species of explorers, not the destination flavor of the month.

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Aldrin: NASA Needs To Put People On Mars

AP | Posted 08.19.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Former Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin says NASA should set its sights on a bigger target in the future: Mars. Aldrin made the commen...

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Mars Flight Simulation: 6 Men Endure 105 Days Of Isolation In Simulated Flight

AP | Posted 08.15.2009 | World

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MOSCOW -- Russian engineers broke a red wax seal and six men emerged from a metal hatch after 105 days of isolation in a mock spacecraft, still smilin...

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Evidence Found For Ancient Mars Lake

Posted 07.19.2009 | Green

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Several studies in recent years have claimed evidence for shorelines and other features that suggest ancient lakes on Mars. Firm evidence has remained...

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Does Doing Good Wear A White Face?

Julia Moulden | Posted 07.07.2009 | Living

Last week's column posed the question, "Is making a difference only for the rich?" A friend sent me a link to an article from the Guardian newspaper a...

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Ethel's Chocolate Lounges Shutting Down In Chicago

Chicago Tribune | Posted 05.07.2009 | Chicago

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Mars Inc. is pulling the plug on its Ethel's Chocolate Lounge concept in the Chicago area, with five of its remaining six local outlets set to close b...

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Mold-A-Rama Madness!

Mike Doyle | Posted 04.25.2009 | Chicago

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Yes, there are several Mold-A-Rama fan sites. Yes, we rabid fans call the shiny molded animals MARs for short. Yes, all of this gives me pause, too.

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Watchmen, Love and Misunderstanding

Paul Snyder | Posted 04.13.2009 | Entertainment

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There has been a lot of press about audiences seeing the movie more than once, but that would really only reward aesthetes and those who found the basic plot incomprehensible the first time.

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Green Guilt

Ben Stoddard | Posted 03.27.2009 | Green

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Recently I got into an argument with my coworker over terraforming Mars. Sure, it's a long way off but things going the way they are, you never know when you might have to jump ship.

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Technology For Brain Health: an Upcoming Revolution

Alvaro Fernandez | Posted 03.27.2009 | Living

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We talk to the CEO of Baycrest, a brain fitness institute, about why Ontario and Baycrest chose to become pioneers in this area, and discuss some of the main opportunities, and challenges.

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Mine Life May Show How Martian Life Exists

United Press International | Posted 01.22.2009 | Home

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Scientists could learn about Martian water life by plumbing a spring in an iron ore mine in Minnesota's Iron Range, University of Minnesota researcher...

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NASA Rover Sees Falling Snow On Mars

AP | ALICIA CHANG | Posted 10.30.2008 | Home

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LOS ANGELES — NASA's Phoenix spacecraft has discovered evidence of past water at its Martian landing site and spotted falling snow for the first...

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Salt In Martian Soil Not Bad For Life, Scientists Say

AP | ALICIA CHANG | Posted 09.06.2008 | Home

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LOS ANGELES — Traces of a rocket fuel ingredient found in the Martian soil would not necessarily hinder potential life, mission scientists said ...

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Harsh Martian Soil May Be Adverse To Life, Scientists Say

Posted 08.13.2008 | Home

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Nasa TV: Water On Mars

Olivia Zaleski | Posted 08.09.2008 | Green

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NASA Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended Breaking news . . . NASA is reporting water on mars. Scientists confirmed the discovery yest...

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Ice On Mars Confirmed By Phoenix Lander

AP | ALICIA CHANG | Posted 08.08.2008 | Home

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LOS ANGELES — The Phoenix spacecraft has tasted Martian water for the first time, scientists reported Thursday. By melting icy soil in one of it...

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Mars Pictures From European Spacecraft Are Incredible (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 07.24.2008 | Home

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The European spacecraft in orbit around Mars has sent back these incredible, high-resolution images of the planet's surface. The photos remind us tha...

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Ice on Mars: Good for the Jews?

Marty Kaplan | Posted 07.08.2008 | Living

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If scientists believe that invisible dark matter and unobservable dark energy make up the vast majority of the universe, then why should mystical accounts of an unseeable cosmos be any more inconceivable?

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Mars Can Support Life: Nasa Scientists "Flabbergasted" At Data Results

Reuters | Jill Serjeant | Posted 07.04.2008 | Home

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"Flabbergasted" NASA scientists said on Thursday that Martian soil appeared to contain the requirements to support life, although more work would be n...

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Exposed Ice Crumbs Found By Mars Lander, NASA Believes

AP | JOHN ANTCZAK | Posted 06.27.2008 | Home

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LOS ANGELES — Scientists believe NASA's Phoenix Mars lander exposed bits of ice while recently digging a trench in the soil of the Martian arcti...

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Ice On Mars: NASA Says Discovery A Step Towards Finding Evidence Of Life

Daily Mail | Posted 06.09.2008 | Home

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NASA scientists yesterday said they had found ice on Mars -- a step towards finding evidence of life. Sharp new images received from their Phoenix l...

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