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RAW VIDEO: Russia meteor injures 1,100 in atomic bomb-like explosion
MOSCOW (AP) — With a blinding flash and a booming shock wave, a meteor blazed across the western Siberian sky Friday and exploded with the force of 20 atomic bombs, injuring more than 1,000 people as it blasted out windows and spread panic in a city...
Tags: Mexico, Astronomy, Science, Science and Technology, Space Programs
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Ex-NASA worker says fired over intelligent design
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The case of a computer specialist who alleges he was terminated by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory because of his belief in intelligent design is winding down. Closing arguments in David Coppedge's wrongful termination case...Tags: Science and Technology, Space Programs, NASA
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NASA starts off new year with mission to the moon
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The cruise to the moon took 3½ months and covered 2½ million miles — far longer than the direct three-day flight by Apollo astronauts.
Over the New Year's weekend, a pair of NASA spacecraft arrived back-to-back at their...Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Astronomy, Science, Galileo Galilei, Space Programs
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Location of NASA's JPL is a bit of a curiosity
Readers' Representative JournalIf we can land a rover on Mars, surely we can identify the city where NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is located. Right? When it came to The Times' recent coverage of Mars rover Curiosity, reader Sabrina Peck of Pasadena wasn't...... -
Dark, massive asteroid to fly by Earth on May 31
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.It's 1.7 miles long. Its surface is covered in a sooty black substance similar to the gunk at the bottom of a barbecue. If it impacted Earth it would probably result in global extinction. Good thing it is just making a flyby. Asteroid 1998 QE2 will make... -
Local stargazers escape to the desert
They traveled more than 200 miles from the San Gabriel Valley to reach one of the darkest corners in Southern California. Three hours before sunset on Saturday, half a dozen amateur astronomers unloaded high-powered telescopes onto a concrete platform...
Tags: Mojave National Preserve, Astronomy, Saturn
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Judge rules in favor of JPL scientists disciplined for emails sent from work accounts
Scientists and engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory were unfairly disciplined for sending emails about a U.S. Supreme Court decision involving background checks at the agency, a judge has ruled. The ruling comes after the JPL employees...
Tags: Science, Employees, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges, U.S. Supreme Court
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La Cañada Library still serving its purpose
La Cañada was one of the first communities in Los Angeles County to lend books to residents, setting up a library at the back of a general store in 1913. The library was located at the intersection of Union and Michigan avenues, near the current...Tags: Libraries, Arts and Culture, Human Interest
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Caltech to appeal judge's order to rescind disciplinary actions
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Tuesday said it planned to appeal a National Labor Relations Board judge’s order to rescind disciplinary actions against five engineers and scientists who shared emails at work about a Supreme Court decision...Tags: Justice System, Michael Jackson, George W. Bush, Science and Technology, Labor Legislation
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JPL to appeal NLRB order rescinding discipline of 5 employees
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Tuesday said it planned to appeal a National Labor Relations Board judge's order to rescind disciplinary actions against five engineers and scientists. "Caltech respectfully disagrees with the decision and intends...Tags: Justice System, Labor Legislation, Science and Technology, George W. Bush, Employees
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Judge orders JPL to drop discipline over scientists' email
A National Labor Relations Board judge has ordered NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to rescind disciplinary actions against five scientists who shared emails at work about a Supreme Court decision on background security checks for JPL employees....Tags: Science, George W. Bush, Employees, Crime, Law and Justice, Judges
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Rain and fire is a 'double jeopardy' situation, scientists say
When it comes to Southern California's increasingly perilous fire season, you can blame both the lack of rain and the little rain we did have. Scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and at Chapman University said satellite data show the...
Tags: Wildfires, National Weather Service, Science and Technology, NASA
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