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Martian bacteria arrived on Earth on a meteorite which smashed into the Antarctic 13,000 years ago, Nasa scientists believe. Their fossilised remains have been found in the rock, which was blasted out of Mars 16 million years ago as the...

Titantic director James Cameron worked in tandem with video game developer Ubisoft Montreal on the game based on his upcoming sci-fi epic Avatar. Our brains can be fooled into perceiving one speech sound as a completely different one if the...

Space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts returned to Earth with a smooth touchdown yesterday to end an "amazing" flight that resupplied the International Space Station. Within a few hours of landing, the astronauts feasted on turkey and trimmings with...