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  SpaceX Aborts Falcon 9 Launch

  An engine problem caused the rocket to automatically abort seconds before liftoff. Mission managers now hope to try again Tuesday.

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  Harnessing Pedestrian Power

  In areas with high foot traffic, special flooring may prove that the answer to meeting energy demand lies right beneath our feet.

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  Space Pictures This Week

  Stars whirl in a psychedelic sky, NASA spies a ghostly eye, a cloud-stained moon rises, and more in the week's best space pictures.

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  Measuring Impact of Amazon Highway

  Scientists deploy "leaf packs" to survey threatened water quality in Peru.

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  Asteroid to Smash Satellites?

  The newfound space rock 2012 DA14 will pass so close to Earth in February that it could hit a communications satellite, scientists say.

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  Slow-Motion Life Discovered

  Buried for 86 million years, a bacterial community lives so sluggishly it's still surviving on a "lunch box" from dino days, a new study says.

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  Shining a Light on Stressed Resources

  Executives gathered in Rotterdam Wednesday at a business forum focused on the linked stresses that the planet faces over water, food, and energy.

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  Photos: First Elephant Underpass

  A corridor beneath a busy highway in northern Kenya is helping isolated elephant populations reunite, conservationists say.

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  Everest Team Changes Route

  Unsafe conditions on Mount Everest have forced a Nat Geo team to cancel plans to ascend via the West Ridge, the expedition leader says.

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  Hundreds of Superflares Spotted

  But the new data from a NASA spacecraft cast doubt on a popular theory for what triggers the planet-roasting bursts of energy.