Recent Votes

• To the moon? It's not that loony

  GOP hopeful Mitt Romney says that he’d fire anyone who suggested spending hundreds of billions of dollars to build a moon colony — but what about tens of billions of dollars? A former NASA adviser says he and others at the space agency drew up an approach th …

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• Teens send toy above the clouds

  It's very cool that two 17-year-old Canadians sent a flag-toting Lego figurine into the sky on a weather balloon, as part of a weekend project that cost less than $500.

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• Magnetic soap made for oil spills

  Scientists have created the world's first soap that can be controlled by magnets.  That's right: magnetic suds. The breakthrough may revolutionize industrial cleaning products and the response to environmental disasters such as oil spills, reports the research team from Bri …

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• Solar weather stirs up super sights

  Last updated 1:45 p.m. ET Jan. 22: Forecasters say a blast from the sun should strike a glancing blow to Earth's magnetic field, starting Sunday, and create a mild geomagnetic storm.

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• Watch the Milky Way spin

  The International Space Station's crew has been sending down tons of stunning imagery of the planet below, but the main appeal of this video goes in a different direction — toward the gorgeous galaxy right above our heads. The time-lapse video is based on pictures taken on  …

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