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Justice Blair concluded that the failure of the legs was very probable but not inevitable, and that the proximate cause of the loss was not inadequate repairs during the course of the voyage but rather the inherent inability of the legs to withstand the n

Groupama 3 is on course to smash through the 50 day barrier as the giant French trimaran moves within 1,000 miles of the finish of her attempt on the round the world record.

NASA scientists analyzing 30 years of satellite data have found that the amount of ultraviolet radiation reaching Earth's surface has increased markedly over the last three decades. Most of the increase has occurred in the mid-and-high latitudes, and the

The Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) is a NASA mission that arrived at Mars in September, 1997, and for nine years circled the planet every two hours in a polar orbit (that is, traveling from the north pole to the south pole and back) at an altitude of 400 kilo

New ground-breaking thermal images obtained with ESO's Very Large Telescope and other powerful ground-based telescopes show swirls of warmer air and cooler regions never seen before within Jupiter's Great Red Spot, enabling scientists to make the first