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• TUESDAY 17. JANUARY, 2012
• 10:30 NASA's Lunar Orbiter Finds the Moon's Wetter Regions

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  The darkest, least habitable spots on the lunar surface turn out to be the wettest too  

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• FRIDAY 13. JANUARY, 2012
• 11:00 Astronomers Are Hunting for Exomoons with Kepler's Help

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  If distant stars have their own worlds, why shouldn't distant worlds have their own moons?  

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• WEDNESDAY 11. JANUARY, 2012
• 21:35 Space Sabotage

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  The failure of a Russian space probe leads to charges of sabotage  

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• 10:00 Why Do We Find John Edwards So Particularly Loathsome? Here Comes the Science

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  As John Edwards petitions for yet another postponement of his campaign finance trial, a look at why the human brain recoils at the former pretty boy of politics  

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• TUESDAY 10. JANUARY, 2012
• 15:20 The Year That Winter Forgot: Is It Climate Change?

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  What unusually mild temperatures do -- and don't -- tell us about climate change  

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• MONDAY 9. JANUARY, 2012
• 11:05 An Oily Case: Chevron's Never-Ending, Record-Breaking Lawsuit in Ecuador

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  How long has the legal battle between indigenous groups in the Ecuadorean Amazon and the oil giant Chevron been going on?  

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• WEDNESDAY 4. JANUARY, 2012
• 11:00 China's Going to the Moon -- And That's Good for Everyone

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  Until the U.S. gets its Apollo-era mojo back, it could do worse than rooting for China to go the places the U.S. won't  

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• 11:00 Why Wild Animals and Hollywood Don't Mix

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  Nonhuman actors have always been featured in movies; they shouldn't be  

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• SUNDAY 1. JANUARY, 2012
• 15:15 Spacecraft Twins Arrive at the Moon

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  These satellites probing deep beneath the Moon's surface will analyze its interior structure in unprecedented detail  

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• THURSDAY 29. DECEMBER, 2011
• 10:00 Dry-roasted planets: A Sun-Like Star That Tried To Eat Its Young

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  In the KOI 55 system, the Kepler probe finds evidence that two dry-roasted planets survived the fiery death-throes of their parent sun  

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• WEDNESDAY 28. DECEMBER, 2011
• 12:00 Scientists Find that Pigeons Are Capable of Simple Math

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  It's not just humans and other primates than can master simple math; the most ordinary of birds can too  

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• THURSDAY 22. DECEMBER, 2011
• 11:40 Is Fear of Divorce Keeping People From Getting Married?

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  A new study suggests that young cohabiting couples are refraining from marriage out of fear of divorce  

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• WEDNESDAY 21. DECEMBER, 2011
• 15:20 Got Money? Then You Might Lack Compassion

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  Are the rich really the unfeeling boors they're made out to be? Studies suggest that the richer people are, the less compassion they show  

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• 11:10 Two Earth-Size Planets Found Orbiting a Distant Star

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  Using the powerful Kepler space telescope, a team of astronomers has found two rocky worlds similar in size to our own, orbiting a star known as Kepler-20, some 950 light-years away  

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• TUESDAY 20. DECEMBER, 2011
• 10:05 The Conservation War: How to Manage the World We Live In

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  A pristine planet is never coming back, but that doesn't mean it can't become O.K.  

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• MONDAY 19. DECEMBER, 2011
• 12:30 Fish democracy

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  Political parties are not so different from schooling fish -- and that can be a good thing  

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• THURSDAY 15. DECEMBER, 2011
• 12:20 Gringrich and science

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  Moon mining! Space Mirrors! The GOP front runner is full of ideas  

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• TUESDAY 13. DECEMBER, 2011
• 19:15 'God Particle' Found? Search for the Higgs Boson Narrows

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  Physicist close in on an explanation for why the universe has any mass at all  

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• 11:35 Study: Indoor Tanning Linked With Early Onset of Skin Cancer

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  Given that indoor tanning beds were officially classified as a human carcinogen in 2009 -- up there with cigarettes and asbestos -- it should be fairly obvious that frequent tanning-booth exposure would increase your risk of skin cancer  

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• 10:00 NASA's Mars Rover Finds Mineral Traces Left by Water

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  A new discovery in a Martian crater yields clues to the planet's watery past  

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• 10:00 Renewable Energy Faces a Scary 2012

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  Expiration of federal subsidies could cripple a growing industry  

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• MONDAY 12. DECEMBER, 2011
• 07:35 U.N. Global-Warming Talks: Good for Diplomats, Indifferent for the Climate

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  There are deals and then there are deals. That's my takeaway from the U.N. climate negotiations in the South African city of Durban, which finally concluded early Sunday local time  

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• FRIDAY 9. DECEMBER, 2011
• 10:00 The Blackest Black Hole: Scientists Find a Monster the Size of 21 Billion Suns

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  The discovery of two new black holes, each about 330 million light-years away or so, was just announced in the journal Nature. The smaller of the two is nearly 30% bigger than anything we've ever seen before  

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• WEDNESDAY 7. DECEMBER, 2011
• 15:30 New Earth Found?

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  The Kepler Space telescope finds a world that looks tantalizingly like our own  

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• 07:05 A Key Trick to Bed Bugs' Persistence: Inbreeding

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  If bed bugs seem to be everywhere, it's probably because they are  

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