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Ice Ice Baby: When Things Get Steamy Between Antarctic Researchers

Argentina’s Antarctic bases are staffed by isolated and often young scientists confined in close quarters.

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How The Centre Pompidou’s Original Sketches Were Rediscovered — In A Parking Lot

Four hundred tubes that tell the story of the architectural adventure of the making of Beaubourg, which is about to undergo a major renovation project as its 50th anniversary approaches.

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Future Society

Star Trek And The Journey From Science Fiction To Pseudoscience

Fans of Star Trek live in a Golden Age where old and new series are readily available. As one hardcore Trekkie points out, the franchise is a reminder of the similarities and differences between pseudoscience and science fiction.

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Water On Mars, New Ocean Reserve, The World In NY

OBAMA AND PUTIN TALK SYRIA Photo: Klimentyev Mikhail/TASS/ZUMA Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin met Monday evening on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York to discuss the Syrian conflict and efforts to end it. “WATER ON MARS” FRONT PAGES Take a look at our collection of front pages from planet Earth […]

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“Water On Mars” Front Pages From Planet Earth

Plus, bonus coverage from the *celestial* hometown rag …

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Extra! South Africa Celebrates ‘Giant Step’ For Humanity

The Star, Sept. 11, 2015 “One Giant Step,” Friday’s Johannesburg-based The Star reads, celebrating the discovery of Homo naledi, a new human-like species, in a South African cave. A team led by Kansas-born paleontologist Lee Rogers Berger (pictured here kissing a skull replica of a skull of the Homo naledi) dug up more than 1,500 […]

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Mussolini’s Last And “Most Secret” Bunker Found Below His Rome HQ

LA STAMPA (Italy) Worldcrunch ROME– Workers restoring Rome’s historic Palazzo Venezia have discovered what they are calling Benito Mussolini’s 12th and most secret bunker, reports La Stampa. There are no records or mentions of this bunker, which was abandoned and left incomplete. City superintendent Anna Imponente and architect Carlo Serafini made the discovery after they […]

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US Doctors “Cure” Child Born With HIV For First Time

CNN (USA), THE GUARDIAN (UK), THE VOICE OF RUSSIA (Russia) Worldcrunch ATLANTA – Mississippi doctors say they have cured a two-year-old girl born with HIV after very early treatment with standard drug therapy – the first time such a case has been documented. Dr Deborah Persaud, a virologist at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore who […]

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Dawn Of It All: New Mega Telescopes Will Let Us Travel Back To Origins Of Universe

PARIS – To infinity … and beyond! Within the next decade, if all goes according to plan, we Earthlings will have two crucial instruments at our disposal to probe the outer reaches of the universe. Doing so, will allow us to go back in time to the very birth of the universe, 13.7 billion years […]

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Lost Beethoven Piece Unearthed – Watch (And Listen!)

UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, BBC NEWS (UK) Worldcrunch MANCHESTER – A piece of music composed by Ludwig van Beethoven nearly 200 years ago has been unearthed by a University of Manchester scholar. Professor Barry Cooper, a leading Beethoven expert, spotted the work which the German composer wrote around 1820 alongside some original sketches of the famous […]

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