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Fermilab Scientists Optimistic About Finding Higgs Boson Particle

Scientists at CERN in Geneva say they are encouraged by new data in the search for so-called "God Particle"

Hubble space telescope image, Sept. 2009 (file photo).

Hubble Captures Rebellious Star Behavior

Earth-orbiting telescope spots a young star causing havoc with its parent nebula

Smoke bellows out of chimney stacks at BlueScope Steel's steelworks at Port Kembla, south of Sydney, Australia, (File)

Australia Claims Carbon Storage Breakthrough

Scientists working on the carbon sponge project say they can now prove that this type of carbon sequestration can work safely

LHC (large hadron collider) in its tunnel at CERN

Physicists May Have Detected Elusive Higgs Boson Particle

Scientists at Large Hadron Collider say they have seen tantalizing hints of existence of Higgs boson subatomic particle

NASA: Earth's Prehistoric Record Warns of Nearing Rapid Climate Change

New US space agency study warns this century could see catastrophic impact if man-made global warming levels exceed ‘safe limit’

Students pose with the complete reconstruction of the neck vertebra of an Alamosaurus.

Paleontologists Find Biggest Dinosaur in North America

Fossils from an Alamosaurus indicate the animal was one of the biggest animal to ever live

Thousands march in Istanbul to protest Internet filtering plan by Turkish government, May 2011 (file photo).

Clinton to High-Tech Firms: Don't Aid Web Repression

Secretary of state urges software companies, high-tech firms to deny repressive governments tools that restrict Internet freedom

This image provided by NASA shows a fragment along the rim of Endeavour Crater where the Mars rover Opportunity has been exploring since August.

NASA Rover Finds New Evidence Water Once Flowed on Mars

Uncovered mineral deposits on Red Planet appear to have come from flowing water

This artist's conception illustrates Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star.

Space Telescope Spots 'Earth-Like' Planet 600 Light Years Away

NASA’s Kepler space telescope confirms super-Earth is 2.4 times size of Earth and has 22-degree Celsius surface temperatures

Keyboard file photo.

India Demands Web Content Filters

Government warns Internet companies it will take action to remove offensive content from their sites if they refuse to do so voluntarily

Top 2011 winner Angela Zhang with Eric Spiegel, CEO of Siemens Corporation.

US High School Students Shine in Prestigious Science Competition

More than prize money, young competitors hope their innovations will make positive difference in world

An artist's conceptualization of the stellar environment around a supermassive black hole

Supermassive Black Holes Biggest Ever Found

New discovery may provide new insights into early universe

In this photo distributed by Russian Roscosmos space agency on November 9, 2011, the unmanned Phobos probe is seen at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

ESA Abandons Attempts to Contact Stranded Russian Space Probe

European Space Agency tried unsuccessfully to reach spacecraft on planned mission to Mars

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