 Project in Borneo will release orphaned orangutans implanted with radio transmitters into a natural habitat.
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Water on the moon, once a wild conjecture, appears to have become an established fact. Jubilant NASA scientists announced Friday that they had found the tell-tale signs of significant quantities of water, in the form of ice and vapor, lurking in a shadowed crater at the moon's south poll.
Air Force began upgrading its ability to predict possible collisions in space after a defunct Russian military communications satellite and a commercial U.S. satellite collided. The military says it is tracking 800 maneuverable satellites and expects to add 500 more non-maneuvering satellites by year's end.
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