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5 years ago+16 16 0Don Imus, Legendary 'Imus in the Morning' Host, Dies at 79
The controversial radio personality passed away on Friday morning at Baylor Scott and White Medical Center in College Station, Texas.
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6 years ago+13 14 1Former President George H.W. Bush Dies At 94
The patriarch of a political dynasty, Bush was the last World War II vet to serve in the Oval Office. His son George W. called him "one of the greatest one-term presidents in the nation's history."
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6 years ago+5 5 0Burt Reynolds has died at 82
Burt Reynolds, the mustachioed megastar who first strutted on screen more than half a century ago, died Thursday, according to his agent Todd Eisner.
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6 years ago+3 3 0Here Is One Very Expensive Way to Fight ISIS
The tale of a bombing raid in the Libyan desert, pitting 500-pound bombs against a group of 70 ragtag fighters.
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6 years ago+16 16 0Astronomers discover a nearby free-range planet with incredible magne
A bizarre rogue planet without a star is roaming the Milky Way just 20 light-years from Earth. And according to a recently published study in The Astrophysical Journal, this strange, nomadic world h
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6 years ago+12 12 0Two stars will merge in 2022 and explode into red fury
Get ready for a big nova event.
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7 years ago+15 15 0Hubble Finds an Einstein Ring
These graceful arcs are a cosmic phenomenon known as an Einstein ring - created as the light from distant galaxies warps around an extremely large mass, like a galaxy cluster.
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7 years ago+18 18 0Yale Space Scientists Seeking 100 Earth Analogues
Specifically, 100 planets like Earth: worlds of similar size, with a rocky surface, in the habitable zone, probably holding water, and orbiting a star like our Sun.
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7 years ago+12 12 0Hubble Makes 1st Precise Distance Measurement to Globular Star Cluster
Astronomers for the first time precisely measured the distance to one of the oldest objects in the universe, a collection of stars born shortly after the big bang.
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7 years agoCurrent Event+3 3 0NASA Finds a Large Amount of Water in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere
Scientists used NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes to find the "fingerprints" of water in the atmosphere of a hot, bloated, Saturn-mass exoplanet some 700 light-years away.
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7 years ago+15 15 0List: Nihilistic Password Security Questions
What is the name of your least favorite child? In what year did you abandon your dreams? What is the maiden name of your father’s mistress? At what...
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7 years ago+12 12 0The Great Online School Scam
Students are performing worse than ever, but private companies are making millions.
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7 years ago+29 29 0 x 1Drug maker hikes price of 2-in-1 painkiller >2,000%—$36 drugs now $3,000
The combination is naproxen (in Aleve) and stomach drug esomeprazole (in Nexium).
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7 years ago+20 20 0USAF takes delivery of the GBU-57A/B Penetrator - now there's nowhere to hide
The GBU-57A/B is a GPS-guided 30,000 lb bomb designed to take out hardened underground targets. It can penetrate 200 feet of hardened concrete before its 5,300 pound warhead explodes.
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7 years ago+19 19 0New antibiotic family discovered in dirt
The compounds are called malacidins and can kill several stubborn infections, including superbug MRSA.
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7 years ago+20 20 0Researchers discover efficient and sustainable way to filter salt and metal ions from water
With two billion people worldwide lacking access to clean and safe drinking water, joint research by Monash University, CSIRO and the University of Texas at Austin published today in Sciences Advances may offer a breakthrough new solution.
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7 years ago+22 22 0We asked, you voted: 89 percent said no to Trump’s military parade
More than 51,000 Military Times readers have expressed their views on President Donald Trump's parade request.
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7 years ago+20 20 0Hubble’s View of Little Blue Dots - Sky & Telescope
The recent discovery of a new type of tiny, star-forming galaxy is the latest in a zoo of detections shedding light on our early universe. What can we learn from the unique “little blue dots” found in archival Hubble data?
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7 years ago+23 23 0The 'Firefly' canon is expanding with a series of original books
It may sound like something out of science-fiction, but it's true: More Firefly stories are on the way. EW can exclusively report…
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7 years ago+9 9 0Solar Eclipse Made Bow Waves in Earth's Atmosphere - Sky & Telescope
The Great American total solar eclipse is months behind us, but we're still learning how the Moon, Sun, and Earth interact. New analysis shows that the supersonic motion of the Moon's shadow across the continental U.S. created bow waves in ...