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Britain Freezes Sales of Breast Milk Ice Cream

Taylor Herring

British officials have stopped a London ice cream parlor from selling a frozen dairy treat made from human breast milk amid concerns that the unusual dessert may not be safe. The Icecreamists parlor...

Kepler Spacecraft Finds 2 Planets Sharing Same Orbit

NASA

To date, the telescope on the Kepler spacecraft has detected 1,235 planet candidates, and while Earth-bound telescopes are trying to determine if 54 of those planets may have conditions that could...

Robotics Shutdown Briefly Strands Astronaut

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A robotic system shutdown interrupted Monday's spacewalk outside the International Space Station, leaving an astronaut stuck with an 800-pound pump in his hands for nearly a...

Arkansas Earthquake Strongest Since 1969

Sunday night, while many Americans were glued to the Academy Awards, residents of Arkansas were feeling the effects of a 4.7-magnitude earthquake that struck northeast of Greenbrier. According to...

Discovery Docks at Space Station for Last Time [VIDEO]

Discovery Arrives at Space Station for Final Time

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Space shuttle Discovery arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday, making its final visit before being parked at a museum. "What took you guys so long?" asked...

Parry-Romberg Syndrome: 5 Facts on the Rare Facial Disorder

For 11-year-old Christine Honeycutt, the mirror presented an unwanted reflection. Afflicted with Parry-Romberg syndrome, one half of Honeycutt's face seemed to age faster than the other, leaving a...

Space Shuttle Discovery Launches on Final Voyage

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Discovery, the world's most traveled spaceship, thundered into orbit for the final time Thursday, heading toward the International Space Station on a journey that marks the...

Would You Pay $10,000 to Sail to a Floating Garbage Dump?

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If you're going to spend $10,000 for a cruise, you'd probably want to go someplace scenic and not a giant patch of garbage, right? Well, some people are actually shelling out that much cash for a...

Hey ET, Are You Out There? Kepler Helps SETI Tune In

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The needle-in-a-haystack search for extraterrestrial signals has narrowed a bit, thanks to NASA's Kepler spacecraft. Scientists announced that, of the 1,235 candidate planets discovered by Kepler,...

Scientists Find Remains of Child Buried 11,500 Years Ago

Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks

Scientists digging in the Alaskan wilderness have made an extraordinary find: the cremated remains of a child buried 11,500 years ago, just as the first humans were spreading out through the...

Space Shuttle Discovery Lifts Off for the Last Time [LIVE STREAM]

All systems are go for the last launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery this afternoon. The shuttle will take off from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., for its final voyage. Later this...