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1. Zombie Apocalypse: CDC tells us how to prepare
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As if May 21st Judgment Day, rogue planets and Roswell weren’t enough BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Not to ruin anyone's day, but various sources are telling us that many residents of Earth will ...

2. Mega Millions jackpot hits $242 million
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BY ANGELA DAIDONE NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM So, are you feeling lucky? Today just might be the day where all the stars and planets align, your personal genie pops out of a bottle and the world as you ...

3. Pluto IS still a planet
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... a state known as hydrostatic equilibrium, meaning they are large enough for their own gravity to pull them into a round shape. This is a characteristic of planets and not of shapeless asteroids and Kuiper ...

4. Constellation
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... that obama is wasting money on right now. Constellation aims to establish a permanent base on the moon and is essentially the first step toward the colonization of mars and ultimately other planets.  ...

5. The New Jersey public library — A lifetime experience that keeps growing
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... to him point out a classic novel, a well known author and certain subjects that might interest me, e.g.: the planets, mysteries, cowboys, trains and U.S. Presidents. I was clearly spent by the entire ...

6. NASA discovers five new planets with Kepler Space Telescope
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BY ART CHIMES VOA NEWS WASHINGTON, DC — Scientists on Monday reported the first new worlds discovered by the Kepler Space Telescope, which was launched in March last year specifically to find planets ...

7. Planets like Earth found in other solar systems
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BY JESSICA BERMAN VOA NEWS WASHINGTON — An international team of astronomers has detected at least four new planets orbiting two distant stars very similar to our Sun. The discovery raises the possibility ...

8. Blockbuster ‘2012’ is the latest end of the world thriller
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... had an expiration date. According to their calendar, in the year 2012 a cataclysmic event will unfold caused by an alignment of the planets in our solar system that only happens every 640,000 years." Those ...

9. Now the real work begins after historic U.S. House health reform passage
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... to obtain or keep their health care coverage. The bottom line: Democrats "are on different planets when it comes to payfors," said Camp. The Public Plan: While House progressives pushed for a robust ...

10. Widespread water detected on the surface of moon
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... the Moon. There's not much of it in any one place. One ton of rock might yield just a liter or so of water. But it may be an additional clue as scientists try to work out how the moon and the planets were ...

11. Trenton's N.J. State Museum Planetarium reopens to public Sept. 12 following major upgrade
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...  Extreme Planets -- 2:00 PM & 4:00 PM (40 minutes) For centuries, humans have wondered whether we are alone in the Universe. Now, we are one step closer to knowing the answer. With the discovery ...

12. 'Journey to the Stars' opens at Hayden Planetarium
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... and potassium. "These are the elements the planets and living things are made of," Tyson says. "So the life cycle of stars is inextricably bound to life itself." Indeed, scientists estimate that every ...

13. Half the world projected to face ‘severe water stress’
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... capital of future generations. By 2030 it is estimated that we will be using resources at a rate that could only be sustainably regenerated if we had two planets, and by 2050 this may be as high as almost ...

14. NASA scientists find more evidence of water on Mars
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... forming the dunes seen widely on the Red Planet. Steven Benner is an exobiologist and member of the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution, a group supporting the search for life on other planets. ...