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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.
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