Couple born hours apart die within days

A US couple born just hours apart at the same hospital have died within days of each other, when the wife passed away while visiting his body at a funeral home. Ronald Clark Oman died on April 16, only weeks after being diagnosed with cancer. His wife of 58 years, Linda, died t …

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Humans Are Not Naturally 'Nasty' : Discovery News

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Did Life Start in a Pond, Not Oceans? : Discovery News

Life may have gotten its start inland, inside ponds of volcanic condensate, not in the oceans. Modern life is more chemically compatible with conditions in venting geothermal fields, such as Yellowstone National Park, than in the ocean, even a primitive ocean, new analysis shows.

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"Waterworld" Super-Earth Discovered : Discovery News

A "super-Earth" has been discovered orbiting a red dwarf star on our cosmic doorstep, only 42 light years away.

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Patriots brace for rain, shine and rescues

The day that brings Australians together should be typical enough - with citizens sweltering in a heatwave on one coast and staving off floods on another. Australia Day will surely bring on the usual patriotic fervour at beaches, barbecues and bottle shops but official events wi …

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Flights rerouted as solar storm slams Earth

Solar radiation from a massive sun storm -- the largest in nearly a decade -- collided with the Earth's atmosphere on Tuesday, prompting an airline to reroute flights and skywatchers to seek out spectacular light displays. US carrier Delta Air Lines said it had adjusted flight …

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Syria agrees to extend Arab mission

Syria has agreed to extend a widely criticised Arab League observer mission for a second month, just hours after launching an angry tirade against the bloc's efforts to mediate in the crisis. League officials had warned that the monitors, already depleted by the withdrawal of th …

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'Intelligent' slime able to navigate its way out of maze - Telegraph

Toshiyuki Nakagaki, a professor at Future University Hakodate, northern Japan, cultivates the slime in petri dishes and has discovered how the brainless organism is capable of finding its way out of a maze.

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Namibian 'space ball' identified

A mysterious metal ball that thudded to Earth in Namibia has been identified as run-of-the-mill space junk. The hollow ball, which weighed six-kilograms and had a diameter of 35-centimetres, was found in mid-November near a village in the north of the country.

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Subsurface of Mars 'could be habitable'

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