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SpaceX may soon start landing rockets on a platform after they've left Earth

SpaceX may soon start landing rockets on a platform after they've left Earth

HAWTHORNE, Calif., Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Elon Musk of SpaceX has announced his spacecrafts could soon be returning to Earth and landing on platforms.
Thor Benson
Hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil from BP spill may be on the ocean floor

Hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil from BP spill may be on the ocean floor

SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Oct. 27 (UPI) -- A new study finds that as much as 620,000 barrels of oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 is resting on the ocean floor.
Thor Benson
Officials: still no Asian carp in Great Lakes

Officials: still no Asian carp in Great Lakes

KALAMAZOO, Mich., Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Testing by Michigan's Department of Natural Resources shows there is no evidence of an Asian (or silver) carp population in Lake Michigan.
Brooks Hays
Century-old notebook reveals details of ill-fated Antarctic expedition

Century-old notebook reveals details of ill-fated Antarctic expedition

WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- Conservationists recently located a notebook that has been frozen in Antarctic ice for a century, left behind by the ill-fated Scott expedition.
Brooks Hays
Giant sunspot won't stop shooting solar flares into space

Giant sunspot won't stop shooting solar flares into space

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- It's no longer just the largest sunspot in more than 20 years; it's the sunspot that just won't quit.
Brooks Hays
Astronomers capture images of exploding white dwarf fireball

Astronomers capture images of exploding white dwarf fireball

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- The fireball of a nova explosion from a white dwarf star has been captured by astronomers in remarkable detail -- a first.
Brooks Hays
New paper Ebola test can detect strains within 30 minutes

New paper Ebola test can detect strains within 30 minutes

BOSTON, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- A team of synthetic biologists have developed a prototype paper test that they say can detect the presence of Ebola strains within 30 minutes.
Brooks Hays
Microbes released from melting permafrost speed up climate change

Microbes released from melting permafrost speed up climate change

TUCSON, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- New research suggests microbes released from melting permafrost are speeding up climate change.
Thor Benson
Death and social media: what happens next when a user is gone

Death and social media: what happens next when a user is gone

Oct. 26 (UPI) -- What happens to someone's social media after they die? The laws are changing and the number of dead people on social media is growing exponentially.
Thor Benson
SpaceX Dragon returns safely from ISS, splashes into Pacfic Ocean

SpaceX Dragon returns safely from ISS, splashes into Pacfic Ocean

Oct. 25 (UPI) -- The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft that was residing at the International Space Station for the past month has successfully returned to Earth.
Thor Benson
Google exec breaks skydive record with dive from near-space

Google exec breaks skydive record with dive from near-space

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Alan Eustace, a 57-year-old senior vice president at Google, spent 15 minutes of his Friday free-falling from the top of the stratosphere -- a world record.
Brooks Hays
Massive sunspot sending violent flares toward Earth

Massive sunspot sending violent flares toward Earth

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Sunspot region AR2192 on the solar surface is currently both massive and active, scientists with NASA say.
Brooks Hays
Powerful new microscope sees cell division in real time

Powerful new microscope sees cell division in real time

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- A team of more than 30 scientists have developed a super-powered microscope capable of seeing cellular life in greater detail than ever before.
Brooks Hays
Stone tools reveal Ice Age settlement in the Andes

Stone tools reveal Ice Age settlement in the Andes

LIMA, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- Stone artifacts have forced scientists to add two new sites to the list of highest Ice Age human settlements, both situated in the Andes of southern Peru.
Brooks Hays
Astronomers discover worst-smelling comet in space

Astronomers discover worst-smelling comet in space

BERN, Switzerland, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- According to ESA's Rosetta probe and its nose-like instruments, scientist know now that comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko smells awful.
Brooks Hays
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