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• TUESDAY 24. MAY, 2011
• 07:38 LHC Smashes Particle Collision Record

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  The rate of particle collisions in the world's largest particle accelerator has multiplied 10-fold in the space of a month.  

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• 01:42 Shuttle Endeavour, Space Station Make History: Photo

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  Although this is its last mission to the space station, shuttle Endeavour has just made a first in space history: it is the first shuttle ever to be photographed while docked with the space station.  

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• MONDAY 23. MAY, 2011
• 21:56 Outdoor Exposure Good for Your Health

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  Don't just spend your whole day inside on the computer. Go out and take in a little nature -- and bring your laptop with you.  

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• 20:15 How to Learn a Star's (and Its Planets') Age

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  A star's rotation slows with time, research shows, giving scientists a clock to understand its age.  

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• 18:22 Space Music: The Blind Astrophysicist

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  How could you visualize the Cosmos if you're a blind astrophysicist? Wanda Diaz has the answer.  

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• 18:18 Iceland's Volcanic Ash Cloud 'Threatens Europe'

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  A plume of ash from an erupting volcano in Iceland is being blown south towards Britain and could reach the airspace over mainland Europe later in the week.  

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• 17:51 Llama Poop Helped Inca Thrive

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  Pollen and mites buried in mud layers of the Andes reveal how llama droppings helped the Inca fertilize vital maize crops.  

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• 17:32 Computerized Clothing Could Control Your 'Scent Bubble'

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  Clothing embedded with micro-pumps releases bursts of scents for mood improvement.  

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• 17:31 Iapetus Fights the Battle of the Bulge

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  Why has the Saturnian moon got such an odd shape? It would seem Iapetus was spun up and smacked when it was young.  

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• 17:15 Lingodroid Robots Invent Their Own Spoken Language

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  A pair of robots has made up their own words to tell each other where they are and where they want to go.  

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• 17:06 Rolling Robot Transforms into Helicopter

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  When the road gets rough, this robot goes airborne.  

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• 16:11 Not So Preposterous This High Ancestral Rhinoceros

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  Possible new discovery of a species of ancestral rhinoceros makes a record-high debut.  

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• 15:46 Anti-Pirate Software Tracks Risks at High Seas

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  Jack Sparrow beware: A Navy software program combines multiple data to pinpoint areas at risk of pirate attacks.  

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• 06:47 Tornado Strikes Missouri Town, Killing 24

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  Less than a month after a tornado outbreak devastated the U.S. southeast, a deadly twister touched down in the town of Joplin on Sunday.  

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• SUNDAY 22. MAY, 2011
• 22:50 Mozambique Vaccinates to Reduce Measles Deaths

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  Over the next five days, the African nation will vaccinate 3.6 million children in a bid to reduce measles deaths by 98 percent.  

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• 22:18 Deadly Quakes Inside Continental Plates

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  Our perception of seismic risk is skewed into thinking earthquakes at plate boundaries are more deadly. We're wrong.  

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• 02:37 Iceland Volcano Erupts

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  The active Grimsvoetn volcano began erupting Saturday, spewing a 20 kilometer-high column of smoke.  

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• SATURDAY 21. MAY, 2011
• 20:00 Pope Speaks with Shuttle, Station Crews

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  With two Italian astronauts in orbit and the shuttle program winding down, the Pope Benedict took note and spoke with the shuttle Endeavour and International Space Station crews on Saturday.  

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• 14:21 Future Computers May Be DNA-Based

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  Researchers manipulate DNA strands to solve computational problems.  

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• 14:15 Paraplegic Man Walks After Medical Breakthrough

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  Electrodes implanted in man's body stimulated his spinal cord's neural network to help him take his first steps in four years.  

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• FRIDAY 20. MAY, 2011
• 23:58 It's Not the End of the World -- But Don't Go 'Planking' Regardless

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  This week Discovery News readers took on the new internet trend called 'planking." But don't worry, it's not the end of the world!  

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• 22:36 Ultimate Game of Chance: Tracking the Rapture

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  A revision of earthquake risk is in store following tomorrow's day of rapture, but would have been even without the judgment based on new geophysical reports.  

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• 21:55 Was Roswell 'Flying Saucer' Mystery a Soviet Plot?

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  According to a new book, the Roswell incident of 1947 wasn't a crashed flying saucer, it was an elaborate Soviet plot to cause mass panic in the U.S.  

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• 21:36 Doomsdays: Dubious and Deferred

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  If the world doesn't end tomorrow, as some claim it will, here's what we can expect.  

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• 19:55 Mummy Had Earliest Case of Heart Disease

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  An Egyptian princess who lived more than 3,500 years ago had the oldest known case of coronary artery disease.  

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