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• FRIDAY 27. MAY, 2011
• 22:55 Who Needs a Moon?

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  Earth-like extrasolar planets could be suitable for life even if their rotation is not stabilized by a large moon  

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• 21:23 Honey, I Shrunk the Test Subjects

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  Visual perception experiment causes people to misjudge their own size  

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• 15:23 Concerns Aired About Arsenic-Containing Bacteria

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  A debate that erupted 5 months ago over whether a bacterium incorporates arsenic into...  

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• 00:23 Conquistador Silver May Not Have Sunk Spain's Currency

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  Isotopic analysis of Spanish silver coins reveals an origin in Europe, not the New World  

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• 00:22 Senator's Criticism of Science Foundation Draws Fire

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  Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has long railed against wasteful government spending and urged his...  

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• 00:20 Another Look Beneath Hawaii Knocks Islands Off Their Riser Pipe

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  New seismic imaging finds no “plume” of hot rock rising straight from the mantle  

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• THURSDAY 26. MAY, 2011
• 22:23 Cucumbers May be Culprit in Massive E. coli Outbreak in Germany

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  German researchers suspect cucumbers from Spain are the source of a massive enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia...  

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• 19:44 Did Quiet Sun Cause Little Ice Age After All?

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  New evidence suggest the sun really did dim during the 17th century  

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• 18:23 Furor Over Proposed Brazilian Forest Law

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  The passage on Tuesday by Brazil's Chamber of Deputies of an amended forest law...  

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• 00:23 Italian Scientists to Stand Trial for Manslaughter in Quake Case

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  ROME—Enzo Boschi, the president of Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), will...  

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• 00:23 NASA Aims to Grab Asteroid Dust in 2020

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  Today NASA announced the next medium-class science mission to explore the solar system. The...  

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• 00:23 ScienceShot: You Are Here

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  Astronomers unveil new 3D map of the universe  

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• WEDNESDAY 25. MAY, 2011
• 23:23 Switzerland to Phase Out Nuclear Energy; E.U. Strikes Deal on 'Stress Tests'

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  In the wake of the Fukushima disaster, the Swiss government announced today that it...  

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• 23:13 NASA Backs Bush-Era Space Capsule

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  NASA's new spacecraft for exploring space beyond the low Earth orbit is not so...  

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• 22:45 Why Mars Is a Planetary Runt

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  Earth’s diminutive neighbor never grew beyond “embryo stage”  

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• 21:24 Tricking the Brain Into Taking Its Medicine

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  An innovative study might lead to new weapons against Alzheimer’s and other disorders  

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• 21:13 Did Kennedy Privately Denigrate the Moon Shot?

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  The Atlantic reviews transcripts of newly released tapes of President Kennedy in the White...  

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• 20:30 Who You Callin' Shrimp?

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  Prodigious prawns persisted millions of years longer and grew far bigger than previously thought  

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• 18:48 Live Chat: When You're in the Scientific Minority

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  Experts talk about disputes in science and what it's like when your views are on the fringe  

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• 18:18 German Scientists Finger Rare Serotype in Massive E. coli Outbreak

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  BERLIN—German scientists are scrambling to find the source of an outbreak of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia...  

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• 17:23 NSF Hopes Time Could Mean Money for Some Biologists

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  Researchers under the gun to win a federal grant and facing declining success rates...  

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• 16:40 Mars Spirit Rover, 2004-2011

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  NASA has ended efforts to re-establish contact with its Spirit rover. Nothing had been...  

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• 02:23 New Name for U.K. Biolab As Report Revives Site Debate

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  Odds are, people will just call it the Crick. Officials at the UK Centre...  

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• 02:01 C'mon Feel the Noise

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  Related songbirds respond differently to noise pollution, possibly complicating conservation efforts  

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• 02:01 ScienceShot: Why Seabirds Say Smell You Later

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  Frigatebirds opt for mates that are genetically different from themselves  

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