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A village on Moon after Rosetta
After Europe terminates its Rosetta mission, the world's first-ever orbit and landing on a comet zipping through space, what can we look forward to next in the exploration of faraway frontiers?
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NASA: Activity spied on Europa
NASA had announced that the Hubble Space Telescope had captured ‘surprising evidence of activity’ on Europa – which made many think that aliens might have been found.
The agency has looked to calm speculation on social media and elsewhere that a press conference on Monday will put a light on the discovery of life on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons.
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Bosnia Struggles to Tighten Gambling Regulations
Bosnia has no an effective gambling law, despite having the highest registered number of betting shops per resident in Europe.
"We aren't satisfied by the current regulation," Nermana Mehic-Basara, a neuropsychiatrist and director the Public Institute for Addiction Diseases in Sarajevo, told BIRN on Thursday.
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Two Turks going global
Turkish people who live within Turkey are focused on potential problems between the president and the prime minister, which dominates the news.
However, the focus of Turks outside of Turkey is on what they do best - and two of them are doing particularly well.
I am proud to say that both come from my alumni, Robert College, and one is my former classmate, Güvenç Özel.
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Stars at Met Gala go bold with glam-tech looks
Hollywood stars, music moguls and fashion models strutted tech-inspired glam at the Met Gala on May 2, working their friend-of-fashion poses on the giant staircase of the "Oscars of the East."
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Mice in space showed liver damage after two weeks
Lab mice that spent just two weeks in orbit showed early signs of liver damage upon returning to Earth, raising concern about what long-duration spaceflight might do to humans, researchers said April 20.
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Columbia Space Shuttle lands 30 years ago on April 14
Thirty years ago to the day, the first Space Shuttle mission landed in California. On April 14, 1981, the rear wheels of the space shuttle orbiter Columbia touched down on Rogers dry lake at Edwards Air Force Base, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center (then Dryden Flight Research Center), in southern California, to successfully complete a stay in space of more than two days.
NASA responds to Turkish claims of superiority, says it is not involved in weather forecasts
NASA has responded to remarks by Turkish Forestry and Waterworks Minister Veysel Ero?lu, who raised eyebrows by claiming that Turkey's technology on meteorological weather forecasts is more advanced than that of the space agency.
Stunning NASA images reveal Earth’s changing landscape
From volcanoes in Iceland to wildfires in California, NASA has made nearly three million images of Earth’s thermal emissions available to the public for free.
‘Who is NASA’, exclaims Turkey Minister over drought data
Turkish Minister for Forest and Water Affairs Veysel Eroglu vehemently disputed the scientific capacity of NASA officials during a parliamentary discussion in Turkey’s national assembly on the effects of drought in the eastern Mediterranean. Eroglu said the studies and scientific surveys done by Turkey were of much higher quality and reliability than those of NASA.