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Assange: Facebook, Google, Yahoo are Spying Tools

In Julian Assange's exclusive interview with RT he discusses everything from the uprisings in MENA, to his extradition fight, the Guantanamo and US Cable files, his relationship with The Guardian and The New York Times, global political youth movements,
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NASA's Cassini Probe Finds New Saturnian Ocean

While Enceladus has been familiar to us since it was first spotted in 1789, the discovery of its ocean, courtesy of the venerable Cassini spacecraft, is a whole new and possibly game-changing thing.
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Crippled Russian Probe Falling To Earth

A crippled Russian spacecraft is likely to crash to Earth sometime on Sunday at an unspecified location.
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Is a cure for the common cold on the way?

Draco, an antiviral currently in development at MIT, could be a solution for many viruses, from the common cold to Ebola.
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Why The Moon Is Important

You see the thing your entire life. A lot of people take it for granted, never look at Luna.
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Earth May Once Have Had Two Moons

A brief explanation of a theory stating that two moons may have once existed, and collided to form one.
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Sept. 24th Solar Flare - Multispectral Videos

Available in several formats, this website has several different videos on the Sept 24th solar flare.
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Fifty New Exoplanets Discovered

The bumper haul of new worlds includes 16 "super-Earths" - planets with a greater mass than our own, but below those of gas giants such as Jupiter.
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Meteorite Storm Showered Earth in Gold

FOUR billion years ago, the newly formed Earth took a walloping. A storm of meteorites slammed into it, delivering gold and other new metals to the planet.
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James Webb Space Telescope In Danger

For years, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been the most likely candidate as a successor to the legacy of Hubble, but now that has come under serious threat.
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