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Canadian Spots Long-Lost Soviet Rover on Moon

Posted: 03/18/10 12:57PM
Filed Under: Canada, Top News, Science & Tech, Space

An astronomer at the University of Western Ontario has found a Soviet moon rover in recently released images from a NASA satellite.

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Phil Stooke of the University of Western Ontario spotted tracks made 37 years ago by Lunokhod 2, a Soviet moon rover, on this new image from the U.S. Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. The tracks can be seen running up from the bottom right of the photo then veering left past a crater.

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Views From Space

This undated handout photo provided by NASA, taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows a snapshot of when the universe was just a toddler, 600 million years after the Big Bang, the earliest image yet.

Views From Space

An image released by NASA Jan. 5, 2010, shows Sagittarius A, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy made from data provided by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. The Chandra image of Sagittarius A and the surrounding region is based on data from a series of observations lasting a total of about one million seconds, or almost two weeks.

Views From Space

This recent photo provided by NASA and the European Space Agency, and captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, shows the deepest image of the universe ever taken in near-infrared light. The faintest and reddest objects in the image are galaxies that formed 600 million years after the Big Bang. No galaxies have been seen before at such early times. The new deep view also provides insights into how galaxies grew in their formative years early in the universe's history.

Views From Space

This undated image provided by NASA/CXC/UMass/D. Wang ,from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, shows the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The mosaic of 88 Chandra pointings represents a freeze-frame of the spectacle of stellar evolution, from bright young stars to black holes, in a crowded, hostile environment dominated by a central, supermassive black hole.

Views From Space

This artist rendering provided by the European South Observatory shows some of the 32 new planets astronomers found outside our solar system, adding evidence to the theory that the universe has many places where life could develop.

Views From Space

This artist's rendering released by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Tuesday Oct. 6, 2009 shows the biggest but never-before-seen ring around Saturn, spotted by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The inset shows an enlarged image of Saturn, as seen by the W.M. Keck Observatory at Mauna Kea, Hawaii, in infrared light. The bulk of the ring material starts about six million kilometers (3.7 million miles) away from the planet and extends outward roughly another 12 million kilometers (7.4 million miles). The newly found ring is so huge it would take 1 billion Earths to fill it, JPL said.

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This undated handout image provided by NASA, released Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009, taken by the refurbished Hubble Space Telescope, shows Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 6217.

Views From Space

A massive gamma-ray burst picked up by a NASA satellite in April has been determined to be the oldest object ever witnessed. Light from the massive explosion 13 billion years ago was detected by NASA's Swift Gamma-Ray Burst spacecraft on April 23. Scientists say the blast happened a relatively short time after the big bang, and represents the earliest evidence of our universe's beginnings.

Views From Space

Gamma-ray bursts are the universe's most luminous explosions. Most occur when massive stars run out of nuclear fuel. As their cores collapse into a black hole or neutron star, gas jets -- driven by processes not fully understood -- punch through the star and blast into space. There, they strike gas previously shed by the star and heat it, which generates short-lived afterglows in many wavelengths. (Source: NASA)

Views From Space

FILE - This undated file image provided by NASA shows the surface of Mars as seen from the stuck Mars rover, Spirit. Spirit has always been the unluckier of NASA's twin Mars rovers. Soon after landing in 2004, its computer went haywire, transmitting gibberish or sporadic data to Earth. Engineers eventually nursed it back to health. As Spirit and Opportunity approach their sixth year of exploration, Spirit finds itself stuck in a Martian sand trap. The robot geologist has been in jams before, but this is by far the toughest challenge it has faced.

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Proposed iPod Tax Comes Under Fire

Posted: 03/18/10 8:56AM
Filed Under: Canada, Top News, Science & Tech, News That Stunned Us, Politics

OTTAWA - Conservatives are Canada's new iPod freedom fighters. Cabinet ministers and MPs are putting up a vigorous defence against the NDP's move to have a levy applied to all new MP3 players, hard drives and laptops.

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U.S. Feds Snooping on Facebook

Posted: 03/17/10 9:46AM
Filed Under: Crime Files, Top News, Science & Tech, World

A recently released document shows how U.S. federal investigators are using Facebook — and MySpace, LinkedIn and Twitter — to gather evidence and uncover suspects' private information.

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Computer Program 'Reads' Minds

Posted: 03/13/10 12:06PM
Filed Under: Top News, Science & Tech

U.K. researchers have used a computer program to analyze human brain activity and "read" a person's memory of watching a short film.

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In an experiment on how the brain records memories, researchers showed volunteers three short films and asked them to memorize what they saw. In one of the movies, a woman looks through her purse for envelope and then drops it in a mailbox.

Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL

Amazing Discoveries

In this Yukon mountain, a maroon-coloured, iron-rich layer of glacial deposits 716.5 million years old can be seen on top of older, grey carbonate reef.

Amazing Discoveries

This undated photo released by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities in Cairo, Wednesday March 3, 2010, shows part of the unearthed burial chamber with well preserved religious texts for the more than 4,000 year old Queen Behenu from Egypt's Old Kingdom, at the ancient burial site in Saqqara, Egypt.

Amazing Discoveries

This sculpture by Tyler Keillor of the University of Chicago is a reconstruction of the scene preserved in the 67-million-year-old fossils, with the ancient snake Sanajeh indicus poised to strike at the newly hatched titanosaur.

Amazing Discoveries

Love letters from John F. Kennedy to his Swedish mistress are set to hit the auction block.

Amazing Discoveries

In this Nov. 4, 2007 file photo, an archaeological worker looks across at the face of the linen-wrapped mummy of King Tut as he is removed from his stone sarcophagus in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his mummy.

Amazing Discoveries

This file photo provided by the Supreme Council of Antiquities shows a CT scan done on Jan.5, 2005 of the skull of King Tutankhamun's mummy, in Luxor, Egypt. Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his mummy.

Amazing Discoveries

In this photo taken on Nov. 4, 2007, the feet of King Tutankhamun are seen at the moving of the linen-wrapped mummy of King Tut from his stone sarcophagus in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his mummy.

Amazing Discoveries

This undated file photo shows Howard Carter, the archaeologist who discovered King Tutankhamun's tomb, examining King Tut's sarcophagus. Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his mummy.

Amazing Discoveries

In this Nov. 4, 2007 file photo, Egypt's antiquities chief Dr. Zahi Hawass, center, supervises the removal of the mummy of King Tutankhamun from his stone sarcophagus in his underground tomb in the famed Valley of the Kings in Luxor, Egypt. Egypt's famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study ever of his mummy.

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Astronomers Back Up Einstein

Posted: 03/11/10 10:32AM
Filed Under: Top News, Science & Tech, Amazing Discoveries, Space

An international team of astronomers has confirmed that the universe, at least within a distance of 3.5 billion light years of Earth, obeys Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity.

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Giant Quake Fish Startles Japan

Posted: 03/09/10 3:48PM
Filed Under: Environment, Top News, Science & Tech, Weird News, Animals in the News

Rare, deep-sea oarfish have been washing ashore, and they've got ecologists and superstitious fishermen worried.

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Oar fish live in the depths of the ocean, surfacing infrequently when they are sick or damaged. In Japan it is believed the appearance of oar fish means an earthquake is imminent. Since November, over 19 of the rare fish have washed up on the shores of Japan. The animal is thought to be the origin of ancient mariner myths of sea serpents.

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In this photograph taken in Englewood, Colo., on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010, unsold 2010 Prius sedans sit at a Toyota dealership. A California Highway Patrol officer helped bring a runaway Toyota Prius travelling 151 kilometres an hour to a safe stop on Monday after the car's accelerator became stuck on a San Diego County freeway.

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Governor General Michaelle Jean eats the heart of a seal during a community feast in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut on Monday May 25, 2009. Seal meat hors-d'oeuvre and main courses will be on the lunch menu at the parliamentary restaurant on Wednesday.

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Winnipeg police and firefighters confer at the scene of Saturday night's shooting in the West End area.

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A computer-addicted couple in South Korea has been arrested after they left their three-month-old baby to starve to death as they raised a virtual child online.

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This online classified ad offered the free removal and relocation of aboriginal youth from parts of Winnipeg. CBC News has blurred the faces in the picture. The ad has since been pulled down.

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Jeremy Peters-Fransen says St. Boniface Hospital should be showing more concern about the patients' records he receives by mistake.

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Deputy Commissioner Raf Souccar flew on RCMP planes to the Royal Winter Fair in Toronto, to a G8 regimental dinner in Barrie, and to the Ontario Provincial Police annual mess dinner in Borden.

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Comedy writer Ariane Sherine, 28, poses for pictures beside a London bus displaying an advertising campaign with the words: 'There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life," in London. New research from the London School of Economics suggests that liberal, atheist adults who believe in monogamy have higher IQs than their conservative, religious, philandering contemporaries.

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Saskatchewan RCMP Const. Kevin Gregson was suspended from the force at the time of the killing he is charged with committing. A written decision by the RCMP adjudication board details Gregson's behaviour during the three years he was suspended from the force.

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