Should Monkey's have taken the Mercury?
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Arctic Monkey's walked away with this year's Mercury music Prize in a shock result. Do you agree with it?
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By Joel Thurtell, Detroit Free Press  May 27--What impressed me most about these astronauts was their seriousness.   With "Roger this" and "Check that" on their handheld radios, they could have been live at Cape Canaveral.
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For the first time, researchers observe a chimpanzee fashion a spear from a branch then use it to kill prey. Is this an anomaly, or are chimps really that smart? By the Associated Press.
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A well-researched study by the National Academy of Sciences makes a persuasive case for refurbishing the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA, which is reluctant to take this mission, should rethink its position.
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Beams back images of first approach NASA's Messenger yesterday successfully completed its first fly-by of Mercury, passing roughly 124 miles (200km) above the surface of the planet.â¦
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Yes, and the explorers can drop even harder. Therein lies opportunity.
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Researchers train a monkey to feed itself by guiding a mechanical arm with its mind. It could be a big step forward for prosthetics. By David Cohn.
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The Messenger spacecraft that zipped past Mercury two weeks ago found more evidence of the innermost planetâs turbulent past.
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Will NASA hire Dear Abby as a consultant in the revision of its procedures regarding interoffice romance now that one of its shuttle jockeys has seemingly gone astronuts? Let's hope not. Capt.
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Blog: Problems with technology could be random. Or, they could be because of Mercury in retrograde
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The complexity of life took    billions of years to push and stretch and reshape the biological niche that    is Earth. It would seem prudent Â if one had the means Â to save some portion    of the blueprints of this majesty, so that the process would not have to start    over from scratch in the event of a global cataclysm.
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NASAâs Messenger spacecraft has captured a new view of the planet Mercury.
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Chimpanzees have been observed making and using wooden spears to hunt other primates.
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BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell reflects on a vote in the European Parliament to ban mercury and a possible slip-up by French presidential hopeful Segolene Royal.
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A new national study on mercury backs up the Times's findings on mercury in tuna sushi in New York City.
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Mercury program astronaut Gordon Cooper was remembered Friday by NASA officials and fellow space pioneers as "not too bad of a pilot, but a heck of a good astronaut."    Cooper, who on the final flight of the Mercury program became the first American to spend more than 24 hours in space, died of natural causes Oct. 4 at his home in Ventura, Calif...
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Space scientists offer thoughts, both practical and far-fetched, for what to do if thereâs a space rock out there with our planetâs number on it.