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Climate Change: A Threat to US Security
Nov 17, 2011 05:01 AM ET // Tim Wall
The United States' Department of Defense needs to know more about how climate change affects global security, recommends the department's science advisers.
Mapping A City's Smell
Nov 23, 2010 12:54 PM ET // David Teeghman
The U.S. government wants to create a virtual map of a city's smells in order to help recognize a chemical terrorist attack.
When the Dyna-Soar Went Extinct
Dec 12, 2012 01:55 AM ET // Amy Shira Teitel
The Dyna-Soar, which might have been history's first space shuttle, was unceremoniously cancelled in 1963.
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The Must Reads
Massive Asteroid to Make 'Royal' Flyby
What's It Really Like to Be a Spy?
Dust Devils Rip Up Mars' 'Etch A Sketch' Surface
Opportunity Breaks NASA's 40-Year Roving Record
When (Part of) Apollo 13 Reached the Moon
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The Mind Blowers
Australian Politician Attacked by Kangaroo
Victorian Era Brits Were Smarter Than Us
Swirling Waters Seen From Space
Word Bubbles
Big Bang 'Blood Spatter' Produced by Atom-Smasher
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UK to Send First Astronaut to Space Station
The Big Number
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The Big Number
-- Million: The value of jewels stolen from the hotel room of a Swiss luxury watchmaker and jeweller at the Cannes film festival
Big Quote
"I don't ever want to lose my kids."
-- Melissa Torrez who hopped in her car and gave chase after a man who had grabbed her 4-year-old daughter from her family's yard. The suspect was caught and charged with attempted kidnapping
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