Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Board announces alternate site for controversial TMT project and other top stories.

  • Board announces alternate site for controversial TMT project

    FULLERTON, Calif.—The No. 14 University of Hawai’i women’s volleyball team (16-5, 9-1 Big West) swept Cal State Fullerton, 25-19, 25-13, 25-…
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  • Venus, Saturn near crescent moon today, Wednesday

    Venus, Saturn near crescent moon today, Wednesday
    Temperatures today and Wednesday evening will be very warm for this time of year. And that pairs up nicely with two nights of stargazing, according to Storm Center 7 Meteorologist Kirstie Zontini. The thin crescent moon will be your guide. Head outside after sunset and look to the southwest. Find the moon and look up and to the left, and you should see two very bright stars that are actually the planets Saturn and Venus. Breaks in the clouds Tuesday will make it a better evening than Wedne..
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  • Falcon 9 explosion: SpaceX replicates fatal flaw, but root cause still unclear

    Falcon 9 explosion: SpaceX replicates fatal flaw, but root cause still unclear
    Following a joint investigation with the Federal Aviation Association (FAA), NASA, and the US Air Force, the private space company SpaceX has finally zeroed in on the likely system flaw that caused one of its Falcon 9 rockets to explode on the launch pad in Cape Canaveral, Fla., two months ago.The explosion occurred while the fuel tanks were being prepped, leading SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and President Gwynne Shotwell to believe that the problem was with fueling process rather than a vehicle design..
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  • Scout, NASA's new asteroid-tracking system, just passed an important test

    Scout, NASA's new asteroid-tracking system, just passed an important test
    An asteroid passed by Earth Sunday night but, thanks to a new asteroid-spotting system, it didn't catch astronomers off guard. The space rock was discovered a few days ago by NASA's new computer program, Scout, which sifted through telescope data to identify the Near Earth Object and run a quick calculation to determine that it would pass at a safe distance of 310,000 miles from the planet. "The NASA surveys are finding something like at least five asteroids every night," Jet Propulsion Laborat..
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  • Watch the moon shadow the sun with an eclipse seen from space

    Watch the moon shadow the sun with an eclipse seen from space
    Watch the moon shadow the sun with an eclipse seen from spaceGet on board with the Solar Dynamics Observatory for a close look at a spectacular partial solar eclipse.
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  • These bionic spinach plants can sniff out bombs

    These bionic spinach plants can sniff out bombs
    MIT researchers have engineered a bionic plant that can detect explosives and send a warning signal — without wires! — to scientists nearby. Talk about spinach as superfood, Popeye! In a new paper in the journal Nature Materials, the scientists explain how they can turn plants into bomb-sniffing machines with the help of tiny cylinders of carbon that can detect “nitroaromatics” — chemical compounds often used in explosives. As the plant absorbs air and groundwater from the environment around it..
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  • Why Christianity's holiest shrine is guarded by two Muslim families

    Why Christianity's holiest shrine is guarded by two Muslim families
    Roman Catholic clergymen celebrate Holy Thursday Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City in March. ( Gali Tibbon/AFP/Getty Images) The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City is Christianity's most hallowed shrine. It's believed that the rock-cut tomb at the heart of the church was where the body of Jesus Christ was once laid. Over the past week, for the first time in centuries, a team of conservationists and researchers removed a marble slab that lay in..
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  • Moon's Tilted Orbit Explained As Relic Of Impact That Created Earth-Moon System

    Moon's Tilted Orbit Explained As Relic Of Impact That Created Earth-Moon System
    It was only 10 days ago that a team of astronomers from the California Institute of Technology came up with a theory to explain the six degrees of separation between the axes at which the planets orbit the sun and the solar equatorial plane, attributing the anomaly to the undiscovered Planet Nine. And on Monday, researchers from the University of Maryland proposed an explanation for the weird orbit of the moon around Earth.How exactly is the moon’s orbit weird? As the largest moon in the solar s..
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  • Brown Pebble Turns Out To Be First Known Fossilized Bit of Dinosaur Brain - Sci

    Brown Pebble Turns Out To Be First Known Fossilized Bit of Dinosaur Brain - Sci
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Tesla Expects to Demonstrate Self-Driven Cross-Country Trip Next Year .Barcelona vs. Manchester City will be decided on the wings .
It's a new Alabama, but the results stay the same .Samsung's bogus copyright claim couldn't block this video of the Note 7 bomb hack in GTA 5 .

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