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• WEDNESDAY 16. FEBRUARY, 2011
• 01:01 Killer Plant Sucks in Prey at Record Speed

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  Plants would seem to live in the slow lane, but this carnivorous plant may be an exception.  

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• TUESDAY 15. FEBRUARY, 2011
• 23:03 Stunning Photos from a Comet Near-Kiss

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  Mission success! Stardust-NExT completes comet Tempel 1 flyby.  

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• 22:05 Coca-Cola's Secret Recipe Bubbles Up

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  The Coca-Cola Company takes pride in keeping founder John Pemberton's recipe a mystery.  

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• 16:47 Local Vines On a Tropical Rampage

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  Native tropical vines are advancing to the top of forest canopies and taking over everything in their way.  

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• 15:53 Smart House Feels Your Pain

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  A house system in development can sense if an occupant spikes a fever or takes a fall.  

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• 13:00 Beam Me Up: Could Lasers Launch Rockets?

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  Beamed energy propulsion would be cheaper, safer and more efficient way to launch rockets into space.  

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• 11:46 Laser Rocketeer Shoots for Liftoff

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  LaserMotive's Jordin Kare aims to propel rockets and helicopters with light.  

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• 11:38 First Stardust Images of Comet Tempel 1

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  After a delayed start to the Valentines Day proceeds, the first photos of comet Tempel 1 were received by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., early Tuesday morning.  

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• 10:25 IBM Computer and Jeopardy! Champ Tied After First Day

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  On the opening day of the Man V. Machine 'Jeopardy!' competition, machine and man are tied at $5,000.  

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• 01:20 Kepler's Exoplanets Visualized

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  What would it look like if all 1,236 of Kepler's candidate exoplanets were placed in the same "solar system"?  

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• 00:41 BP Oil Spill Also A Deep-Sea Gas Leak

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  Taking into account the gas leaked during the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico last year indicates the spill was 33 percent larger than estimated.  

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• 00:32 Is eHarmony Scientific?

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  Several online dating sites, including eHarmony, claim a scientific approach to making matches. But where's the science?  

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• MONDAY 14. FEBRUARY, 2011
• 22:26 Wayward Asteroid Gets Bent

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  The truck-sized asteroid 2011 CQ1 didn't get "bent" but its orbit sure did.  

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• 21:50 Orangutan Couple Marries in Thailand

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  Orangutan bride Nancy, aged 20, might be considered more cougar than orangutan, since her groom was a male nearly half her age.  

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• 21:44 Big Bird Brains - not in Chernobyl

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  The nuclear fall-out from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster still has lingering effects on neurological development for wildlife.  

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• 21:32 Van Gogh's Paintings Fading Due to UV Exposure

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  Despite restoration efforts, some paintings may appear less brilliant when they did when they were originally crafted.  

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• 21:15 Birds Loving Honeysuckle Invaders

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  Your friendly neighborhood honeysuckle is probably an invasive species -- and that's OK.  

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• 20:12 Solar Power that Honors the Moon

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  This desert design will be a landmark as well as an energy generator.  

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• 18:19 Comet Close Encounter Set for Valentine's Night

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  A spacecraft will zoom within 125 miles of the comet at more than 24,000 miles per hour.  

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• 18:00 Friday News Feedbag for Friday, February 11, 2011!

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  The Friday News Feedbag podcast pits Discovery News reporters James Williams and Jorge Ribas in a head-to-head match with only one science story at their disposal. Host Will Johnson keeps order. If this is your first exposure to the Friday ...  

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• 17:30 Mars 500 Crew Simulates Space Walk

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  The volunteers are part of a 520-day experiment to test the readiness of humans for an extended mission to the Red Planet.  

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• 16:28 Slaves Hid Charms in Colonial Greenhouse

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  A plantation greenhouse where Frederick Douglass spent part of his childhood was not as uniquely European as once thought.  

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• 15:14 Best First Date Questions

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  Analysis from a dating website offers surprising advice for those who really need to know.  

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• 14:22 King Tut Statues Stolen From Egypt Museum

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  Following the exit of Egypt's President Mubarak, the minister of antiquities reverses an earlier statement and reveals valuable objects were stolen during a recent break-in.  

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• 11:30 Great Barrier Reef In Jeopardy Following Cyclone

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  Localized cyclone strike and flooding stress on the Great Barrier Reef likely to have far-reaching effects.  

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