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Moon is shrinking, say astronomers - 2010-08-20

WASHINGTON- The Man in the Moon has become the latest victim of contraction in the housing market. Astronomers reporting on Thursday in the US journal Science said they had found previous...

Trip to Mars could leave crew dangerously weak - study - 2010-08-19

PARIS- If a human ever sets foot on Mars, will it be a giant step or an exhausted shuffle? Long-term space flight so weakens fitness that an astronaut heading to the Red Planet may lose up to half...

First use of tools pushed back a million years - 2010-08-13

PARIS, Marlowe Hood- Human ancestors were using stone tools to carve meat from the bone of wild animals nearly a million years earlier than thought, according to a study unveiled Wednesday. Two...

Mankind must abandon earth or face extinction: Hawking - 2010-08-09

LONDON- Mankind's only chance of long-term survival lies in colonising space, as humans drain Earth of resources and face a terrifying array of new threats, warned British scientist Stephen Hawking...

Climate change sparks quickest evolution ever: study - 2010-08-07

VANCOUVER- At least one fish species can adapt in just three generations to survive a sharp change in temperature, researchers said in a study on the fastest rate of evolution ever recorded in wild...

Australians find spongy links to origins of man - 2010-08-06

SYDNEY- Mankind may be descended from apes but Australian scientists have found proof of links much closer to the sea floor, with a study revealing that sea sponges share almost 70 percent of human...

Human lineage split from monkeys later than thought: study - 2010-07-14

PARIS, Marlowe Hood- The last ancestor shared by monkeys and humans probably lived between 28 and 24 million years ago, several million later than previously thought, fossils unveiled Wednesday have...

US, Indonesian scientists journey to bottom of sea - 2010-07-09

JAKARTA- US and Indonesian scientists on Thursday launched a joint expedition to map some of the deepest oceanic trenches in the world for clues on biodiversity and volcanic vents, officials said....

Spark of multicellular life two billion years old: study - 2010-07-01

PARIS- Scientists unveiled fossils from west Africa Thursday that push back the dawn of multicellular life on Earth by at least 1.5 billion years. Just how complex the newly discovered organisms...

Study indicates life was possible all over Mars - 2010-06-26

PARIS- Conditions suitable for life -- most notably the presence of water -- may once have existed all over Mars, the European Space Agency (ESA) said Friday. Hydrated silicate minerals were found...
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