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• MONDAY 6. FEBRUARY, 2012
• 11:30 Works on the European Extremely Large Telescope Begin

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  At least three giant-telescope projects are now under way, and the biggest of them, the European Extremely Large Telescope, is finally breaking ground in Chile  

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• FRIDAY 3. FEBRUARY, 2012
• 10:00 New 'Super-Earth': A Potentially Habitable Planet?

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  In an improbable spot, scientists say they've discovered a world like our own where water and biology might exist  

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• WEDNESDAY 1. FEBRUARY, 2012
• 11:00 Sharpest telescope ever

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  A new system provides all the clarity of stargazing from space and none of the challenges  

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• TUESDAY 31. JANUARY, 2012
• 11:05 The Coming U.S.-China Solar War

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  Tariffs on Chinese imports is a feel-good solution that could do a lot of harm  

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• THURSDAY 26. JANUARY, 2012
• 08:55 Happy Birthday Opportunity! The Mars Rover Turns Eight

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  Since 2004, the interplanetary car has been trundling across the Martian surface  

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• TUESDAY 24. JANUARY, 2012
• 08:10 Climate Change and Farming: How Not to Go Hungry in a Warmer World

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  Earth's population broke 7 billion late last year because we've become amazingly proficient at raising food. But our distribution is far from perfect  

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• MONDAY 23. JANUARY, 2012
• 07:25 New Mexico Is Stretching, Slowly but Surely

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  The driving distance between Phoenix and Dallas is getting farther. It's a minuscule difference -- not even a millimeter a year -- but it's a tangible phenomenon, and you can blame on the middleman: New Mexico  

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• FRIDAY 20. JANUARY, 2012
• 07:10 The 'Choking Game': 1 in 7 College Kids Has Tried It

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  The potentially lethal Choking Game, which involves cutting off the blood supply to the brain, appears to be popular with some college students who think it's not as dangerous as using illicit drugs  

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• THURSDAY 19. JANUARY, 2012
• 10:25 The Milky Way's Babies

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  Our galaxy ought to have a lot more company -- so where is it?  

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• WEDNESDAY 18. JANUARY, 2012
• 11:55 Gravitational Lensing: The Optical Illusion That Explains the Cosmos

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  You may never have heard of gravitational lensing, but it's redrawing the very map of space  

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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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