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Greenpeace tracks whalers
The BBC’s Jonah Fisher is on a Greenpeace ship, tracking a
Japanese whaling feet in the Southern Ocean.

The latest act of senseless violence caught on tape is galactic in
scope: A black hole in a “death star galaxy” blasting a nieghboring
galaxy with a devastating jet of radiation and energy.

NASA says the Geminid meteor show will be visible starting
Thursday around 10PM Eastern Time and will be most visible
after midnight and by dawn Friday. There could be dozens of
bright meteors streaking across the sky.

Whilte the “Guitar Hero” series might be all rage for amateur
rockers, it doesn’t do much to teach you how to actually play
the guitar. That’s where the Fretlight Electric Guitar comes in.

The UK could see extreme weather becoming more
commonplace, a climate change report has said.

The US Air Force and Lockheed Martin recently showed off
America’s latest fighter aircraft, the F-22 Raptor. In this video,
Capt. David kalickyoffers an up close and personal look at the
F-22 cockpit simulator.

World leaders are meeting in Bali to end a deadlock on climate
change negotiations. Countries are expected to thrash out a
new roadmap for cutting the world’s carbon emissions, but
many environmentalists fear the agreement may not go far
enough. In the Himalayan region, where glaciers are rapidly
melting, environmental groups are calling for urgent action.

The AP’s Derrik J.Lang examines “Turning Point,” “Kwari” and
“Army of Two,” three shoot-’em-up video games scheduled for
release in 2008 that pull the trigger on new plot twists that could
rouse some “Manhunt 2″-type controversy.

Check out a robot that can kick a soccer ball, dance and even
walk down stairs. The worldls most advanced humanoid robot
demonstrate its skills at the Honda Initiation Grant Technical
Horizon Symposium in California.

An Oklahoma man has made a machine that produces
lightning even Mother Nature would be proud of. Kevin
Eldredge likes lightning so much he’s found a way to bring the
fire in the sky down to his own back yard.

If you reach too far,m you can lose your balance and fall on your
face. That’s what happened with the design process for the
“Touch by HTC”, one of the smart phones fighting for our
attention this holiday season.

Photobucket, the media-sharing site is introducting a search
mechanism that lets users append labels to specific faces and
objects in photos.

Confirming its long-rumored foray into the mobile market,
Google said Monday it is developing a free cell phone software
package so the internet search leader can more easily peddle
ads and services to people who aren’t in front of a PC.

A US astronaut has carried out a dangerous spacewalk to fix
a damaged solar panel on the ISS.

A man in California is trying to realize his dream of preserving
and restoring some of the oldrest trees in the world. As
Correspondent Haven Daley reports, the effort involves some
brave souls climbing hundreds of feet up the ancient Redwoods.