Hottest known exoplanet slowly being 'eaten' by its parent star

Washington, DC: Astronomers have reported that one of the hottest known planets outside our solar system is slowly being "eaten" by its parent star.First described in 2008, the exoplanet-WASP-12b is a Jupiter-like world that orbits its host star so tightly...

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Baby dies while doctors fighting

BRAZILIAN authorities have opened a probe into the death of a newborn baby in a hospital that occurred when two doctors involved in the delivery allegedly came to blows. The medics involved in the incident on Tuesday have both been sacked, the news agency...

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Mysterious headless marine animal washes ashore

Neither local residents Warrick Lovell, Rich Park, Basil Park, or anyone else it seems, knows what the big creature found dead on a beach here this week might be.The Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Corner Brook intends to check out the Lower Cove...

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Killer whale Shamu kills trainer at SeaWorld

ORLANDO, FL - A trainer at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida, was killed by a killer whale Wednesday afternoon, according to authorities.The orca whale grabbed the trainer by the waist while she was talking about the whale, according to a witness. Another...

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Space Junk Mess Getting Messier in Orbit

BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. — The already untidy mass of orbital debris that litters low Earth orbit nearly got nastier last month. A head-on collision was averted between a spent upper stage from a Chinese rocket and the European Space Agency's...

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Relativity now 10,000 times more accurate

PARIS: Einstein's theory of relativity, which states that gravity affects the flow of time, just got 10,000 times more accurate.How quickly time passes depends on where you are, a lesson learnt the hard way by that first-time reviewer of Wagner who observed:...

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400-Million-Year-Old Mystery: Giant Tree-like Object in Epoch Before Trees Existed

The giant fossil Prototaxites is a big 400-million year old mystery. The fossils resemble tree trunks, and yet they are from a time before trees existed. The stable carbon isotope values are similar to those of fungi, but the fossils do not display structures...

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Giant fish swam prehistoric seas

Prehistoric seas were filled with giant plankton-eating fish which died out at the same time as the dinosaurs, new fossil evidence suggests.Scientists from Glasgow, Oxford and the United States have identified fossil evidence which shows the fish existed...

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Pelican Attacks TV Weatherman

SYDNEY, Australia - A TV weatherman is attacked by a pelican on live television.Steve Jacobs was doing his weather from the Taronga Zoo in Sydney, Australia where zoo keepers are training pelicans to be part of the seal show. They must have forgot to teach the pelicans about TV weathermen.A pelican, named Marnie, lunged towards Jacobs during his live segment. A zoo keeper pulled the bird back and...

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Snowboarder saved himself with burning the money from his pocket!

First he shouted for help; then he burned the paper tissues he kept in his pocket; then, he started in on the business cards and restaurant receipts.It was nearly six hours after he'd found himself stranded on the "down" side of a ski lift on the Austrian...

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Volcano climber found dead after fall into Mount St. Helens‎

One day after he fell into the crater at Mt. St. Helens, Joseph Bolig has been found dead.At approximately 2:45 PM, a helicopter from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island located and recovered the body of 52-year-old Joseph Bohlig of Kelso, Washington, off...

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How science will solve the mystery of Tutankhamun

New technology is helping answer the riddles in the life, and death, of the boy pharaoh. And it's cracked other historical puzzles too...His golden funeral mask with its striped headdress has become the symbol of Egypt's ancient grandeur. Yet for all...

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The Mackie Haunting

By now it must be clear to you that not all hauntings are benign. They can sometimes - although rarely - be far more physical and threatening than a fleeting shadow drawn by Casper the Friendly Ghost.What took place at the Mackie farmhouse beginning...

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Kamchatka Showplaces

The Kamchatka peninsula bristles with places of dizzying beauty, but unfortunately there is just one place – and it is the Valley of Geysers – known for those people who haven’t been to the peninsula that can be considered as one of the most beautiful...

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