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The Decade Revisited

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This weekend, Studio 360 broadcasts its special time travel show, recorded in front of a live audience atWNYC’s Jerome L. Greene Performance Space. And with this decade coming to an end, it seems like a good opportunity to revisit some of the events and trends from the 2000’s that we’ll always remember. GOING GREEN If […]

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and his wife, Jackie, watch as the Delta IV Heavy rocket with the Orion spacecraft lifts off on December 5, 2014.

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Mapping Mars From A German Park

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After 520 days of motionless ‘travel’, the Mars500 simulation ended Friday – where in Germany did astronomers study the red planet in the 19th century?

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