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Egypt finds Pharaonic false door to the afterlife |
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Monday, 29 March 2010 13:50 |
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CAIRO (Reuters) - Archaeologists in Luxor have uncovered a 3,500-year-old false door belonging to the tomb of a Pharaonic official, the Ministry of Culture said on Monday.
The red granite door was built to provide a passage for the spirit to the afterlife. It belonged to the tomb of User, a high-ranking official of Queen Hatshepsut.
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Single gene powers hybrid tomato plants |
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Sunday, 28 March 2010 12:59 |
 By JoAnne Allen
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A mutation in a single gene can turn hybrid tomato plants into super producers capable of generating more and much sweeter fruit without genetic engineering, scientists said in a study released on Sunday.
The study also showed that using classic plant-breeding techniques can boost yield as dramatically as using genetically modified organisms, said researcher Zachary Lippman of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York.
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T.Rex stalked Australia, albeit a mini-me version |
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Thursday, 25 March 2010 22:15 |
 SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia scientists have found evidence that Tyrannosaur dinosaurs stalked southern hemisphere continents, with the discovery of a hip bone fossil of a small T.Rex in the south of the country.
Previously tyrannosaur fossils had only been found in northern continents, the researchers said in their findings published in Science magazine.
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NASA sets next shuttle launch for April 5 |
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Friday, 26 March 2010 17:44 |
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By Irene Klotz
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA on Friday cleared space shuttle Discovery for launch on April 5 on one of its final cargo runs to the International Space Station before the fleet is retired later this year.
Liftoff of the spaceship and seven astronauts is targeted for 6:21 a.m. EDT (1021 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Space firms relaunch commercial rocket program |
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Thursday, 25 March 2010 19:43 |
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By Irene Klotz
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin and Alliant Techsystems Inc said on Thursday they were teaming up to build and sell a booster rocket known as Athena, hoping to tap into a growing market for small satellites.
The joint venture restructures and re-introduces for commercial sale a booster that flew seven times between 1995 and 2001 with five successful missions, including putting NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft into orbit around the moon.
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