Explorer tries to settle debate on whether Peary reached North Pole first
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An explorer plans in March to lead an expedition designed to settle a century-old debate over whether the American explorer Robert Peary was the first to reach the North Pole, the Daily Telegraph reported.
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Monash scientist Andrew Prentice ponders the probe that will land on the Saturnian moon Titan in January. Photo: Angela Wylie. NASA&#39;s mission to Saturn, Cassini, will pass a crucial milestone
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By Mary Anne Ostrom, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jan. 30--The search continued today for the pioneering Bay Area computer scientist who went missing after he left Sunday morning for what he told family was a day sailing trip to the Farallon Islands to dispose of his mother's ashes.
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Two polar explorers are to embark on a 4,300km trek across the Arctic to collect data and highlight climate change.
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Scientists from the US reconstruct a 40,000-year record of climate change at the South Pole.
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ACAPULCO, Mexico _ There's a new extraterrestrial suspect in the mysterious, highly debated disappearance of the woolly mammoth some 12,900 years ago. A team of two dozen scientists say the culprit was likely a comet that exploded in the atmosphere above North America.
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By Alicia Chang THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  Scientists are scrambling to find an alternative landing site for a long-armed robot set to launch this summer on a mission to dig into Mars' icy north pole to search for signs of primitive life.
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A question that has long been the subject of sharp debate among experts remains: What is the International Space Station for?
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In a discovery sure to set off a firestorm of debate over human migration to the western hemisphere, archaeologists in South Carolina say they have uncovered evidence that people lived in eastern North America at least 50,000 years ago - far earlier than
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A study on a 15 million-year-old underground Antarctic lake could yield clues on the origins of life.
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At a remote outpost in northern Greenland, an international team of scientists is attempting to resolve the critical mystery of global warming: how quickly will sea levels rise?
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Ice is sliding off the Antarctic continent much faster than it did during the 1990s, several teams of researchers have found. On the Antarctic Peninsula that sticks out from the western side of the continent
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Polar explorer Will Steger will lead a team across Canada's Baffin Island to document the ways global warming is impacting humans in the far north.
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In the growing debate about when people first appeared on this continent, a leading archaeologist said Wednesday he has discovered what could be sooty evidence of human occupation in North America tens of thousands of years earlier than is commonly believed.
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CNET News.com's Charles Cooper got an earful from readers for raising the question. But the debate remains unanswered.
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For years, geologists and devoted amateurs have lobbied for a regional trail dedicated to ice-age floods. At last, their efforts may pay off.
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What could be the oldest known remains of a polar bear are uncovered on the Svalbard archipelago.