Scientists remove Hunley's rear hatch
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Scientists on Tuesday removed the rear hatch on the Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley, although the work won't immediately remove the questions surrounding the sinking of the sub in 1864.
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Europe&#39;s Huygens probe successfully separated from NASA&#39;s Cassini spacecraft Friday night, on its way to a mid-January rendezvous with Saturn&#39;s mysterious moon Titan.
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The European Space Agency&#39;s Huygens probe successfully detached from NASA&#39;s Cassini orbiter to begin a three-week journey to SaturnÂ¢Â¯s moon Titan.
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The space shuttle Atlantis is moved back to its hanger to repair hailstorm damage sustained last week.
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Two years ago, scientists at the NASA Ames Research Center at Moffett Field were stunned when the Columbia space shuttle came apart as it returned to Earth.
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A closer view of the Cassini image of the Huygens Probe after its successful release. The image was taken about 12 hours after the probe&#39;s release from the orbiter.
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Wash. Teenage Girl Found Alive in Back of Wrecked Car Eight Days After It Plunged Down Ravine. Laura Hatch&#39;s car is seen at the bottom of an embankment where she was found alive, in Redmond, Wash.
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The bodies of two people who died in a helicopter crash in North Yorkshire are due to be removed from the wreckage.
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It shouldn&#39;t happen to a scientist: investigators have found that the $250m (Â£139m) Genesis space probe, which crash-landed in the Utah desert last month, failed because the switches designed to trigger its parachute were installed backwards.
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It's been described as outdated, bureaucratic, out of touch and at least one leading fertility expert has called for it to be scrapped.
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The death has prompted officials to change the habitats of some zoo animals.
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A death sentence hanging over hedgehogs on a remote Scottish island was lifted, after conservationists agreed to end an annual cull that has become a prickly issue among animal welfare groups.
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A glacial lake on the southern tip of Chile has vanished, leaving behind a dry crater and a scientific mystery.
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An organism that may have played a part in killing thousands of bighorn sheep in the West over the last five decades and in thwarting repopulation efforts has been isolated in a lab and found in struggling bighorn herds in the wild, biologists say.
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U.S., Canadian and British scientists have created a new way of determining how extinct species moved that's independent of analyses of limb structure.
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The crew of the US space shuttle Atlantis and the three occupants of the International Space Station have opened the hatch separating their joined spacecraft, NASA said.
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The Serbian government has reversed an order to ban Charles Darwin&#39;s theory of evolution from schools, following widespread criticism from scientists.