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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Rare Clouded Leopards Born in Zoo

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Photograph by Meghan Murphy/National Zoo

Earlier this month, two clouded leopard cubs were born at the National Zoo's Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia. This is the first successful clouded leopard birth at the center in 16 years!

Friday, January 23, 2009

New Robot Has Delicate Touch

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Japanese researchers have made a new humanoid (human-like) robot that has fingers so sensitive that it can pick up objects nearly as well as people can!

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

White Sturgeon Rebound

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The largest freshwater fish in North America, the white sturgeon, seemed to be headed for extinction in the mid-1990s. Dozens of dead fish washed up on the riverbanks in British Columbia, Canada. Many people banded together to save the white sturgeon and it seems to have worked. Today their population is estimated to be about 50,000.

Read more about the white sturgeon rebound on National Geographic News.

Want more info on Zeb Hogan's Megafishes Project? Visit the gallery.

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Tool Bag Drifts Through Space

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One of the Endeavour astronauts accidentally lost a tool bag during a spacewalk on Tuesday after a grease gun inside the bag exploded. Objects have been lost in space before, but this was one of the largest items ever lost by an astronaut on a spacewalk.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

New Moon Rover

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The next astronauts to land on the moon will be driving an all-new lunar rover. The new rover, called the Chariot, will contain several improvements over the old "moon buggies," including an optional pressurized cabin with beds, a pantry, a waste-management system, and a pair of space suits, allowing astronauts to live and work "on the road" for up to two weeks.

The rover will need to pass several rounds of tests between now and 2019, when the final model will be complete.

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