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Hawking launches biggest-ever search for alien life

Hawking launches biggest-ever search for alien life

British cosmologist Stephen Hawking on Monday launched the biggest-ever search for intelligent life in the universe in a 10-year, US$100-million…
Planned Parenthood head sorry for tone in video on fetal tissue use

Planned Parenthood head sorry for tone in video on fetal tissue use

Planned Parenthood's president apologized on Thursday for the "tone and statements" of a senior staff member who was secretly recorded…
Study: Long-term life support on Mars should be possible someday

Study: Long-term life support on Mars should be possible someday

When the first two human colonists land on Mars, they could step into their ready-made living quarters, remove their space…
Venus and Jupiter are coming closer today in Cairo skies

Venus and Jupiter are coming closer today in Cairo skies

Cairenes can enjoy a beautiful view tonight when the planets of Venus and Jupiter appear close together in the sky. According…
Solar-powered plane takes off from Japan for trans-Pacific crossing

Solar-powered plane takes off from Japan for trans-Pacific crossing

A solar-powered plane took off from Japan on Monday on the seventh leg of its journey round the world, a…
DNA-based technology detects meat, dairy fraud

DNA-based technology detects meat, dairy fraud

Researchers at the City of Scientific Research and Technological Applications in Alexandria have developed a new way of detecting fraud…
Japan aims to resume Antarctic whaling later this year

Japan aims to resume Antarctic whaling later this year

Japan says it plans to resume whale hunts in the Antarctic later this year, even though the International Whaling Commission…
Jupiter, Venus visible in Cairo Saturday

Jupiter, Venus visible in Cairo Saturday

Jupiter and Venus will be visible Saturday night in Cairo, said Egypt’s national astronomy body. Ashraf Tadrus, head of astronomy at…
NGO: Famed Syria mosaic museum damaged in barrel bombing

NGO: Famed Syria mosaic museum damaged in barrel bombing

Syria's best-known mosaic museum in the northern rebel-held town of Maaret al-Numan has been seriously damaged in a regime barrel…
Is it a building? Is it a rock? Using technology to chart the ‘unmapped world’

Is it a building? Is it a rock? Using technology to chart the ‘unmapped world’

Load up Google Maps and zoom in on Manhattan and you will see skyscrapers' air vents mapped in three dimensions.…
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