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Click for video: The broken wind turbine at right, coupled with sightings of lights in the night sky, prompted a flurry of UFO claims in the British press this week. Click on the image to watch a report from Jenny Wivell for Britain's Channel 4 News.
What do you get when you take one wrecked wind turbine, and then add an ample serving of eyewitness reports about mysterious lights in the sky? Those ingredients were blended this week in Britain to whip up a rip-roaring UFO sensation.
The Sun newspaper splashed the story today under the headline "UFO HITS WIND TURBINE." It was just one of the many reports appearing in the British press about Sunday's incident in North Lincolnshire. CONTINUED >>
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A purple-gloved lab worker handles a clump of still-green marijuana found in the 2,700-year-old grave of a man in the Gobi Desert — part of an ancient stash.
Ancient civilizations may not have perfected frat-party technology, but the weirdest stories of the past year demonstrate that they could get just as high - and indulge in humor just as low - as your typical contemporary college crowd. CONTINUED >>
Mark Witton / U. of Portsmouth via JHU
Giant pterosaurs were about the size of a modern-day giraffe.
How did a giant flying reptile get off the ground? It's not a simple question: A computerized analysis of pterosaur fossils and modern-day bird bones shows that the biggest pterosaurs couldn't simply lift off into the air like a bird, because their hind legs were too weak.
The researcher behind the analysis says the forelimbs were much stronger - so much stronger, in fact, that the creatures must have used their "arms" as well as their legs to propel their leap into flight. But will that claim fly with other experts? That remains to be seen. CONTINUED >>
Babak A. Tafreshi / 100HoursOfAstronomy.org
Iranian stargazers observe the moon and the Pleiades star cluster.
The organizers of the International Year of Astronomy are using an instrument that's bigger than the twin Keck Telescopes to focus on the sky in 2009: the World Wide Web. CONTINUED >>
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This portion of a 360-degree mosaic known as the "Bonestell Panorama" shows McCool Hill, named after one of the astronauts lost in the Columbia tragedy, and some of the Spirit rover's tracks on the Martian surface.
NASA's Mars rovers were designed to last for at least 90 days on the Red Planet, and from the start, mission scientists hoped that they'd keep working well after their "warranty" expired. But few dared to predict that both Spirit and Opportunity would still be on the move five Earth years after they bounced to the surface.
To celebrate Spirit's five-year anniversary, mission managers have released a sweeping new panorama of the rover's winter refuge in Gusev Crater. CONTINUED >>
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