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Roll over Einstein: Pillar of physics challenged. Subatomic particles seem to move faster than speed of light

Female tiger in 'love triangle' kills her mate at the El Paso zoo

"Once in a lifetime event" -- Check out the supernova in the Big Dipper constellation!

TIME article: Why Some Languages Sound So Fast

Wildlife photographer captures amazingly intimate portraits of pride of lions

Scientists in US warn NASA the amount of space junk orbiting Earth is at tipping point

Quake risk to reactors greater than thought

Airplane vapor trail mimics tornado descending from sky in front of dazzling Saudia Arabian sunset

New Mars samples 'unlike any seen before'

Photo: the dark nebula Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex

Two photos of damage in North Carolina from Irene, in Hatteras and Nag's Head

Found: Roman port where soldiers launched invasion of Wales 2,000 years ago

Is this the coolest watch ever made? The 1923 Packard even has a star map!

Travel article: Getting to know Argentina's huge glaciers in Los Glaciares National Park

Tempest Milky Way -- "A jaw-droppingly gorgeous video that captures the Milky Way as Earth spins"

Photo: a lion-tailed macaque cub with mother, at the Zoo in Berlin

2 million ordered to leave as Irene takes aim

Bobcat fleeing mountain lion climbs Giant Saguaro Cactus, stays put for 6 hours (photos)

Surprise! Alien Planet Made of Diamond Discovered

A diamond-pointed sun reflection on Heart Lake in the Red Mountains of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

Ocracoke Island, North Carolina is where I spent much of my childhood -- now it's being evacuated ahead of Hurricane Irene

Wild world: Millions of unseen species fill Earth

Beautiful dust pillar in Eagle Nebula looks like a tornado in space

5.9 magnitude earthquake centered northwest of Richmond, Va

Astronaut Ron Garan's image of the moon from his window on the International Space Station

Incredible images of the Milky Way, home to over 200 billion stars and 50 billion planets

What's the age of the moon? It could be waning

Jaguar candid camera! (by Conservation International Suriname)

Newly discovered giant "Necklace Nebula" brightly glows with dense knots of blue, green and red gases

Burned horse makes remarkable recovery; Suki now gives hope to human burn victims

The blackest planet: Astronomers uncover alien world so 'extraordinarily dark' it makes coal look shiny

Quake-hit Christchurch, New Zealand unveils low-rise city plans dominated by parkland

'Remains' of St Edburga (620 BCE) discovered under apartment block

Photo: four medaka fish were sent into orbit aboard Columbia in July 1994 to see if the vertebrates would mate in space

Vitamin D may improve pancreas function

Lost penguin swims 4,000 miles to Peka Peka beach in NZ; critically ill after 2nd surgery to remove sand from stomach

Mirage of entire unknown city appears over Chinese river

Abandoned dog Naki'o outfitted with four prosthetic paws

Incredible image captures thunderstorm passing in front of last week's lunar eclipse on the Greek island of Ikaria

Scientists take temperature of long-gone dinosaurs

Simple Saliva Test Detects Your 'Real' Age

13,000-year-old image of ancient mammoth found on bone fragment in Florida

Gorgeous Siberian Tiger sits in pool of water at Pittsburgh Zoo

Humans May Have 'Magnetic' Sixth Sense

Photo: volcanic ash erupts from the Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano in Chile

Photo: ten light-year-wide nebula found in clouds of dust and gas near tail of constellation Scorpius

Chile volcano ash circles globe, returns home

Diamonds in the sky: image of globular star cluster Omega Centauri --15,000 light years away

Volcano ash turns Asian lunar eclipse blood red

TIME article: Scientists Discover Mother Monkeys Who Kill Their Babies

Photo: a diver feeds a cute whale shark at the Hakkeijima Sea Paradise aquarium

Black holes tell tale of the infant Universe

Photo: 60 million light-years away in the constellation Corvus, two large galaxies collide

Strong quakes again rock New Zealand

The new "dirty dozen" list of high-pesticide residue produce, plus 12 "clean" veggies

Satellite image of Earth shows ash plume from Chile's volcanic eruption

Right next to where I grew up: Blackbeard artifacts exhibit opens at NC museum

Photo: Lightning strikes Turning Torso building in Malmo, Sweden

Gold rush another blight to ailing Amazon jungle

Amazing photo: a cloud of ash billows from Puyehue volcano in southern Chile

Thunderstorms on Earth Hurl Antimatter Into Space

Japanese retirees ready to risk Fukushima front line

Ephemeral Antimatter Trapped for Amazingly Long 16 Minutes

Ever seen a Siberian tiger jump off a waterfall?

Milky Way Galaxy Is Bent Like a Sombrero

Progress in fight against cancer of ovaries, breasts

Ancient Assyrian dictionary finished — after 90 years

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Archaeology: Beneath Jerusalem, an underground city takes shape

Poor Harald the Sturgeon, wired with a transmitter, has died -- highlighting "threat to ancient fish"

Midwives on motorbikes offer sex education in Cambodia

Shuttle Endeavour gone forever from space station

What galaxies look like when they collide: new "train wreck" atlas

Record snow makes spectacular Yosemite waterfalls

Photo: Japanese sea nettles at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach

Aussie student Amelia Fraser-McKelvie finds universe's 'missing mass'

Incredible curved trees look like a bending processional in forest / Gryfino, Poland

Explosive energy: Black hole jets in "Centaurus A" captured in all their glory

Sweet photos from England's biggest penguin pool at the London Zoo

Dog with two broken legs finds owner after tornado

Egypt's lost pyramids: Spied from space by satellite, 17 tombs buried by sands of time

Redshift Survey: Scientists unveil most complete map so far of the universe, extending 380 million light years away

Iran's largest lake turning to salt

Global photo competition yields incredible images, such as the Milky Way above Australia and Iran

'Earliest' Bronze Age battle site containing 100 bodies found on German river bank

World's oldest panda dies in Chinese zoo at age 34

Photo: surfer Tyler Hollmer Cross rides a huge wave in Tasmania

CDC's 'zombie apocalypse' advice an Internet hit

When Doomsday Isn't, Believers Struggle to Cope

Photo: sunset over the flooding Mississippi river in Vicksburg

Cool Photo: a mountain goat climbs a hill under a rising moon in Phoenix

Egyptian princess died of heart disease, shattering myth that it's only a modern problem

Photo: a Solar System fountain in Poland

Meteor Shower Spawned by Halley's Comet Peaks Friday

TIME article: A Spanish Island's Quest to Be the Greenest Place on Earth

Translucent goby fish are cute

Six Planets Now Aligned in the Dawn Sky

New York bookstore stocks only one book, with the author as cashier -- "Ed's Martian Book"

An artist's vision of liquid methane rain on Saturn's largest moon, Titan

Trapping threatens near-extinct Philippine eagle