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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla., Nov. 29 (UPI) -- Scientists will finally get a closeup view of Pluto -- the only planet in the solar system unvisited by a spacecraft. NASA on Thursday selected a mission called New Horizons lead by researchers at the Southwest Research Institute; Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory is a partner in the project, funded at $30 million for its first year.
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CARACAS, Venezuela, May 31 (UPI) --
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has an aggressive cancer and only has a few months left to live, HDNet reported.
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LOS ANGELES, May 31 (UPI) --
Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" featuring Kimbra is No. 1 on the U.S. record chart for a seventh week, Billboard.com reported Thursday.
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CAMBRIDGE, England, May 30 (UPI) --
A Chinese-made microprocessor used extensively by the U.S. military has a "backdoor" that allows the chip to be reprogrammed, British researchers allege.
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