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Indonesian volcano erupts, 20 hurt by hot ash (AP)

October 26th, 2010

Mount Merapi spews volcanic smoke as seen from Balerante, Central Java, Indonesia, Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2010. Pressure building beneath a lava dome in the mouth of Indonesia's most volatile volcano could trigger one of its deadliest blasts in years, scientists warned Tuesday, as residents living along the slopes were moved to temporary camps. (AP Photo/A.K. Hendratmo)AP - Indonesia’s most volatile volcano started erupting Tuesday, after scientists warned that pressure building beneath its dome could trigger the most powerful eruption in years.


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Scientists say heavy metal in sludge not dangerous (AP)

October 7th, 2010

A wrecked car, washed away by a flood of toxic mud, stands in a field in the village of Kolontar, Hungary, Thursday, Oct. 7, 2010. The toxic red sludge that inundated three Hungarian villages reached Europe's mighty Danube River on Thursday but no immediate damage was evident, Hungary's rescue operations agency said. The European Union and environmental officials had feared an environmental catastrophe affecting half a dozen nations if the red sludge, a waste product of making aluminum, contaminated Europe's second-longest river after bursting out of a factory's reservoir. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)AP - Hungary’s most prestigious organization of scientists and researchers says tests of the red sludge flowing into the Danube show no dangerous heavy metal levels.


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Russian scientists win Nobel Prize in physics (AP)

October 5th, 2010

AP - Russian-born scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov shared the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for “groundbreaking experiments” with an atom-thin material expected to play a large role in…

Sister monument to Stonehenge may have been found (AP)

July 22nd, 2010

** FILE ** This is a Sept. 15, 2004. file photo of tourists looking at The Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain in England. Scientists scouring the area around Stonehenge said Thursday July 22, 2010 they have uncovered the foundations of a second circular structure only a few hundred meters (yards) from the world famous monument. (AP Photo/Dave Caulkin, File )AP - Scientists scouring the area around Stonehenge said Thursday they have uncovered a circular structure only a few hundred meters (yards) from the world famous monument.


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Scientists find most massive star ever discovered (AP)

July 21st, 2010

This image provided by the European Southern Observatory shows a new near-infrared image of the R136 cluster, obtained at high resolution with the MAD adaptive optics instrument at the ESOâ??s Very Large Telescope which provides unique details of its stellar content. At birth, the three brightest stars each weighed more than 150 times the mass of the Sun. The most massive star, known as R136a1 and located at the center of the image, has been found to have a current mass of 265 times that of the Sun. It also has the highest luminosity, close to ten million times greater than the Sun. AP Photo/ESO - P. Crowther/C.J. Evans) EDITORIAL USE ONLYAP - A huge ball of brightly burning gas drifting through a neighboring galaxy may be the heaviest star ever discovered — hundreds of times more massive than the sun,…

Scientists retrieve capsule, seeking asteroid dust (AP)

June 14th, 2010

In this long exposure photo released by Japan's Wakayama University Institute for Education on Space, two streaks of the Hayabusa probe, the first spacecraft to complete a round-trip journey to an asteroid, and its capsule streak across the sky, from left to right, near Glendambo in southern Australia as they reenter the Earth's atmosphere late Sunday, June 13, 2010. (AP Photo/Wakayama University Institute for Education on Space, HO) ** EDITORIAL USE ONLY **AP - A team of scientists flew to the Australian Outback on Monday and recovered a Japanese space capsule that they hope contains asteroid samples providing clues into the evolution…

Scientists begin 520-day Mars mission simulation (AP)

June 3rd, 2010

FILE - In this July 14, 2009 file photo the team of researchers is greeted after ending a three-month simulation mission to Mars at a Moscow research facility, Russia. Another team of researchers will launch a longer, 520-day simulation of Mars mission at the same facility in Moscow on Thursday June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, File)AP - An international team of researchers climbed into a set of windowless steel capsules Thursday to launch a 520-day simulation of a flight to Mars intended to help real space…

8 scientists share $1 million Kavli Prizes (AP)

June 3rd, 2010

AP - Eight scientists from the U.S., Britain and Germany won the $1 million Kavli Prizes on Thursday for work that has helped humans explore distant corners of the universe…

UK ‘Climategate’ inquiry largely clears scientists (AP)

March 31st, 2010

File photo shows a polar bear on the ice outside Churchill, Mantioba, Canada. A foundation set up by Charles Koch, who with his brother controls Koch Industries, a huge privately-owned US company dominated by oil and chemical interests, partly funded a report published in 2007 that said polar bears were not endangered by climate change, a Greenpeace report said.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AP - The first of several British investigations into the e-mails leaked from one of the world’s leading climate research centers has largely vindicated the scientists involved.


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Some scientists defend tsunami warnings (AP)

March 1st, 2010

Seawater moves upward (from left to right) in the mouth of the Kamo River that flows into the Pacific Ocean at Kamogawa in Chiba prefecture, near Tokyo, on Sunday Feb. 28, 2010. The tsunami from Chile's deadly earthquake hit Japan's main islands and the shores of Russia on Sunday, but the smaller-than-expected waves prompted the lifting of a Pacific-wide alert. Hawaii and other Pacific islands were also spared. (AP Photo/Kyodo News)AP - The warning was ominous, its predictions dire: Oceanographers issued a bulletin telling Hawaii and other Pacific islands that a killer wave was heading their way with terrifying force…

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