October 31st 2011, that's the date the U.N. says the 7 billionth person will be born on Earth,7 billion.That's a crowded planet, says Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, the director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and author of the Price of Civilizatio

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On November 8th, Russia launched a probe toward the tiny Martian moon Phobos. The launch was picture-perfect, and the spacecraft, called PhobosGrunt, soared into the night sky over Kazakhstan. The good news stops there. For instead of boosting itself

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This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm John Matson. Got a minute? On November 8th, Russia launched a probe toward the tiny Martian moon Phobos. The launch was picture-perfect, and the spacecraft, called PhobosGrunt, soared into the nigh

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LOS ANGELES, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Near-Earth asteroid 2011 MD will whip past Earth on June 27, but will not pose any threat, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said on Friday. The asteroid will pass only 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles) above the E

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Amazing images. But what can you get out of these asan expert? What it shows us, first of all, is a great record ofthe entry of the object into the Earths atmosphere. So you see it right fromthe moment it really penetrated. And there it is. That is t

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Chicxulub is buried under two to three kilometers of limestone and mostly offshore, 奇克休留布大坑在两三公里的灰岩深处,而且大部分在近海。 which makes it difficult to study, Anderson went on, while Manson is really quite ac

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