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High Winds Ravage British Radio Telescope

Posted Fri Feb 17, 2012 02:26 PM ET   |   0

Volunteers are drafted in to repair extensive damage to the UK-based component of the LOFAR array. Read more

LOFAR damage

Jealousy a Problem During 'Mars Mission'

Posted Sun Nov 6, 2011 04:38 PM ET   |   0

During the 520-day fake mission to the Red Planet, nerves were sometimes frayed. Read more

Mars-500

Batphone App Will Record Ultrasonic Bat Sounds

Posted Fri Jun 24, 2011 11:37 AM ET   |   0

Volunteers using the app can upload the recordings to a website to keep track of bat populations. Read more

bat

Cell Phone Survey to Aid Haitians

Posted by  Clark Boyd  Thu May 27, 2010 11:33 AM ET   |   0

A team of volunteer statisticians asks for help in funding a cell phone survey in Haiti. The goal: to determine the ongoing economic impact of the quake on Haitians. Read more

cell-phone-haiti

Nearly 18,000 Still 'Missing' on China Quake Anniversary

Posted Tue May 11, 2010 11:30 AM ET   |   0

Nearly two years have past, and families throughout China still don't know what happened to their loved ones. Read more

China Earthquake

Couple Makes Clean Water for the World

Posted Wed Apr 14, 2010 10:55 AM ET   |   0

A trip to El Salvador inspires a husband and wife to build low-cost water purification units in their garage. Read more

first drink

Intrepid Volunteers Simulate Mars Mission: Discovery News

Posted Tue Jun 30, 2009 09:25 PM ET

Six volunteers will spend three months inside an isolated capsule in Moscow to simulate conditions for a manned mission to Mars. Read more

Photo of Mars

Fargo Flood Fears Rising With Red River : Discovery News

Posted Tue Jun 30, 2009 09:25 PM ET

As the Red River approaches record highs, officials in Fargo, N.D., raise the dikes. Read more

Photo of Fargo Flooding

Two Teachers to Blast Into Space: Discovery News

Posted Tue Jun 30, 2009 09:25 PM ET

Two science teachers who have spent the past five years under NASA's tutelage are about to graduate with high-flying honors. Read more

Joseph Acaba

June: Why So Wet?: Discovery News

Posted Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:21 AM ET

Mud season has been extended. From North Dakota to Long Island, rain after rain after rain has dampened spirits and swamped roads. Picnics and kids' baseball games have been washed out, rescheduled and rained out again. Big-time sports, too. Read more

Rain Rain Go Away...

'Pinups for Pit Bulls' Rally for Breed : Discovery News

Posted Wed Jan 7, 2009 08:57 AM ET

"Fight the deed, not the breed" is the motto of this rare group of pioneering pinup models. Read more

Photo of Pinup Models

Oldest Hebrew Writing Possibly Found : Discovery News

Posted Fri Oct 31, 2008 12:34 PM ET

Ancient inscriptions on a 3,000-year-old pottery shard could be the oldest known Hebrew writing. Read more

Still Legible

One in Four Mammals at Risk : Discovery News

Posted Mon Oct 6, 2008 10:13 AM ET

Conservationists have taken the first detailed look at the world's mammals in more than a decade, and the news isn't good. Read more

At Risk

'Leaf Peepers' Study Climate-Foliage Connection : Discovery News

Posted Wed Sep 24, 2008 01:17 PM ET

Could global warming dull the blazing colors of New England's fall foliage? Biologists want to know. Read more

Autumn, For Now

Humpback Whales on Road to Recovery : Discovery News

Posted Tue Aug 12, 2008 05:18 AM ET

Once hunted nearly to extinction, the humpback whale is making a striking comeback. Read more

Humpback Whales
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