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NASA engineers work on alternative moon rocketBy day, the engineers work on NASA's new Ares moon rockets. By night, some go undercover to work on a competing design. These dissenting scientists and their backers insist they have created an alternative rocket that would be safer, cheaper and easier to build than the two Ares spacecraft that will replace the space shuttle.
Mystery insect bugging experts at London museumThe experts at London's Natural History Museum pride themselves on being able to identify species from around the globe, from birds and mammals to insects and snakes. Yet they can't figure out a tiny red-and-black bug that has appeared in the museum's own gardens.
EPA experts detail global warming's health risksGovernment scientists detailed a rising death toll from heat waves, wildfires, disease and smog caused by global warming in an analysis the White House buried so it could avoid regulating greenhouse gases.
Yellow submarine: Unmanned sub studies oceanFar out in the Atlantic, a little yellow submarine is trying to slip from current to current, gliding across the ocean beneath the waves.
US judge blocks gas drilling in Michigan forestA federal judge has overturned a decision by the U.S. Forest Service to allow oil and gas drilling near a forest and a river in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula.