Cloned Horses Coming to the Olympics? - 0 views
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July 2012 the Féderation Equestre Internationale (FEI) lifted a ban on cloned horses and their progeny competing in the Olympic Games
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cloning isn't easy, it isn't cheap, and there are no guarantees that the clone will match the talent of the original
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cloning process can cost more than a hundred thousand U.S. dollars.
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Cheetah Breaks Speed Record-Beats Usain Bolt by Seconds - 0 views
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Sarah the cheetah has shattered the world record for the standing 100-meter dash, clocking a time of 5.95 seconds—making Olympian Usain Bolt's world record of 9.58 seconds look positively stodgy by comparison
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USA Track & Field-certified course established by the Cincinnati Zoo, the 11-year-old cheetah was radar-timed at up to 61 miles (98 kilometers) an hour
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National Geographic magazine
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Summer Olympics: 2020 | Popular Science - 0 views
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HOLOGRAPHIC OBSTACLES
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100 riders are injured in eventing falls every year, and when a multimillion-dollar horse goes down, even a minor injury like a twisted ankle can end its career
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Line-of-sight infrared beams could monitor the edges of the obstacles; if the horse breaks the beam, the system would instantly alert the judges—and the crowd—to the fault
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NASA's Morpheus lander in fiery crash at Cape Canaveral | Reuters - 0 views
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The insect-like vehicle, designed and built by engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, had made several flights attached to a crane before Thursday's attempted free-flight
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Morpheus' engines, which burn liquid oxygen and methane, appeared to ignite as planned, lifting the 1,750-pound (794 kg) vehicle into the air. But a few seconds later, Morpheus rolled over on its side and plummeted to the ground.
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An investigation is under way
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Morpheus Lander Crashes and Burns - 0 views
ScienceShot: New Species Discovered, Thanks to Flickr - ScienceNOW - 0 views
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Researchers recently spotted a previously unknown species of lacewing while randomly flipping through images posted on the online database Flickr
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The images of the new lacewing, which has a 30-millimeter wingspan, were taken in a forested park north of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, by an amateur photographer and then posted online
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entomologist randomly viewing the images
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Mars Science Laboratory: Images - 0 views
Winds of Change at the Edge of the Solar System - 0 views
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near the 35th anniversary of their launch
areo.info: PanCam true color images from Spirit and Opportunity Mars Exploration Rovers - 1 views
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Every Martian day (Sol) new raw images are downloaded
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raw images are black & white images, each taken through a colored glass (filter) by the Panoramic Camera on the Rover
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using 3 filters, each one only letting pass red, green and blue light, a true color image can be created
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Voyager 1 Spacecraft Nearing Solar System's Edge | Space.com - 0 views
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Researchers are eyeing three key parameters for signs that Voyager 1, which launched in 1977, has escaped into interstellar space
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two of these three parameters are now changing faster than at any other time in the last seven years
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a single day (July 28), the probe measured a 5-percent jump in the level of high-energy cosmic rays coming from outside our solar system, researchers
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NASA - Signs Changing Fast for Voyager at Solar System Edge - 0 views
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third key sign is the direction of the magnetic field, and scientists are eagerly analyzing the data to see whether that has, indeed, changed direction
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Scientists expect that all three of these signs will have changed when Voyager 1 has crossed into interstellar space
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preliminary analysis of the latest magnetic field data is expected to be available in the next month
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Moon Lander Project to Continue Despite Crash | Space.com - 0 views
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NASA engineers are forging ahead on work
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that's part of development, especially lean development
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also testing out automated hazard-detection technology, which would use lasers to spot dangerous boulders or craters on the surface of another world
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