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• New 'Life' Trailer Brings Terrifying Thrills from Mars (Exclusive)

  05-02-2017 19:00
  
  In this Space.com exclusive look, we get a 2-minute, 32-second look at what just might happen if we actually do discover alien life on Mars. The year is 2017 (hey, that's now!) and a crew of astronauts on the International Space Station are about to make history by retrieving the first sample-preturn probe from Mars. Jake Gyllenhaal portrays astronaut David Jordan in "Life," a science fiction thriller that hits theaters March 24, 2017.
  
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• About 300 rebels from Colombia's FARC have not demobilized, general says

  05-02-2017 16:02
  By Luis Jaime Acosta SAIZA, Colombia (Reuters) - Around 300 fighters from Colombia's Marxist FARC rebels will not demobilize under a peace deal, a military commander said, giving the first official figure of guerrillas who may join with crime gangs seeking control of lucrative rebel drug territory. The Andean country and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) rebels agreed late last year to end more than 52 years of war. Colombia's conflict with guerrilla groups and paramilitaries has
  
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• US: Oceanic whitetip shark warrants 'threatened' listing

  05-02-2017 15:54
  
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The oceanic whitetip shark's declining status in the wild warrants listing as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, an arm of the federal government has determined.
  
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• More pregnant women are smoking weed in the US

  05-02-2017 15:30
  
  Some expectant mothers use the drug to help with morning sickness.
  
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• NASA 'Space Bowl' Video Takes Super Bowl 2017 Out of this World

  05-02-2017 15:04
  
  NASA is truly ready for some football! In a new video, NASA employees and affiliates virtually toss a football from space to various centers across the United States to celebrate the Super Bowl, as well as NASA's journey to Mars. A NASA astronaut poses with Pat Patriot, mascot of the New England Patriots, during a visit to Mission Control in Houston at Johnson Space Center ahead of Super Bowl LI.
  
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• How NASA Sent the Winning Super Bowl LI Team's Jersey to Space — Before Game Day

  05-02-2017 14:50
  
  HOUSTON — It is a familiar scene: mere seconds after the game ends, out come the shirts celebrating the winner of the Super Bowl. On Sunday (Feb. 5), the same thing is expected to happen at NRG Stadium in Houston. That is because the Super Bowl LI winning team's jersey is already on board the International Space Station.
  
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• Astronauts Make Super Bowl 2017 Picks from Space

  05-02-2017 14:02
  
  Sporting football jerseys and with a pigskin in hand, two International Space Station astronauts have made their picks for Super Bowl LI, which kicks off in Houston – home of NASA's Johnson Space Center – later today (Feb. 5). One astronaut gave an actual Super Bowl pick for winner while another said the station crew has definitely picked the menu for watching the Atlanta Falcons battle the New England Patriots from their home in space.
  
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• ‘Cannibalism’ chronicles grisly science of eating your own

  05-02-2017 14:00
  
  In "Cannibalism", a zoologist explores a grisly topic that scientists have only recently begun to study seriously.
  
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• Newly Discovered Bus-Size Asteroid Zips Harmlessly by Earth (Video)

  05-02-2017 13:00
  
  The asteroid, dubbed 2017 BS32, was first identified by the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System, or Pan-STARRS, on Jan. 30, and came to within half the distance between the Earth and the moon on Feb. 2, according to Slooh. An inverted night-sky image from the Slooh Community Observatory telescopes in the Canary Islands, showing the location of asteroid 2017 BS32 as it passed between the moon and Earth.
  
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• Go Deep! Astronaut's Football Pass May Be Longest Ever

  05-02-2017 13:00
  
  The space station orbits the Earth at a speed of about 17,500 mph (28,163 km/h). Kopra returned home from his latest trip to the orbiting laboratory in June 2016, so it seems NASA has been holding on to this potentially record-setting footage for a while, and chose to release it ahead of the 2017 Super Bowl this Sunday (Feb. 5).
  
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• Bawdsey Radar Station set for restoration in 80th year

  05-02-2017 11:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Work to preserve the crumbling birthplace of radar is to get under way later this year.
  
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• Norfolk beach rhino fossil revealed by storm surge

  05-02-2017 11:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The rhino found on a Norfolk beach dates back about 700,000 years.
  
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• 'Sad for science:' After travel ban, Iranians at Harvard wonder if they should take their expertise elsewhere

  05-02-2017 11:00 via cbc.ca
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump's contentious travel ban is making top scientists from Iran studying at Harvard and other institutions wonder if the U.S. is still the right place for them to pursue their education.
  
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• Terahertz wireless could make spaceborne satellite links as fast as fiber-optic links

  05-02-2017 06:00
  
  (Hiroshima University) Hiroshima University, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, and Panasonic Corporation announced the development of a terahertz (THz) transmitter capable of transmitting digital data at a rate exceeding 100 gigabits (= 0.1 terabit) per second over a single channel using the 300-GHz band. This technology enables data rates 10 times or more faster than that offered by the fifth-generation mobile networks (5G), expected to appear around 2020.
  
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• Sitting not linked to incident diabetes: New research

  05-02-2017 06:00
  
  (University of Sydney) Sitting may not be as deadly as previously thought, with new research led by the University of Sydney ruling out sitting as a direct cause of diabetes.The findings, published in the latest British Journal of Sports Medicine, cast doubt on the popular maxim that 'sitting is the new smoking' and indicate the complexity of factors determining whether sitting is harmful to human health.
  
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• Psychology explains how to win an Oscar

  05-02-2017 06:00
  
  (British Psychological Society) If you want to win an Oscar it is best to be an American actor in a film that portrays American culture.
  
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• Trump says U.S. will work with Kiev and Moscow to end Ukraine conflict

  05-02-2017 02:55
  By David Shepardson and Natalia Zinets WASHINGTON/KIEV (Reuters) - U.S President Donald Trump said he was willing to work with both Kiev and Moscow to resolve a separatist conflict in eastern Ukraine, following a telephone call with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Saturday. The call was the first direct contact between the two leaders since the inauguration of Trump, whose aim to improve relations with the Kremlin has alarmed Kiev while the nearly three-year-old conflict remains unresolv
  
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