British 'chocolate greenhouse' saving the world's cocoa
Chocolate lovers take heart: a steamy greenhouse near London is helping to ensure that cocoa crops globally remain disease-free and bountiful to cope with the growing appetite.
NASA delays spacewalk to Saturday to analyze spacesuit
The start of a series of spacewalks to carry out major work at the International Space Station will be delayed by a day to Saturday so NASA can investigate a spacesuits problem.
Gene study shows evolutionary tale of Darwin's finchesGene sequencing of Galapagos Island finches first studied by Charles Darwin have found the birds have a traceable evolutionary history going back two million years.
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SpaceX launches deep-space weather observatoryA $340 million satellite that aims to alert people to potentially dangerous solar activity and geomagnetic storms blasted off toward deep space atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
Google free mapping service adds local guidesAn update to Google's free online map service let users become local guides who post reviews of businesses and venues in a challenge to Yelp.