Top news for December 21, 2008

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China's Chang'e 7 moon probe will launch this weekend on the most ambitious lunar mission in history

Quiz question: It’s a Greek letter and a guy’s name. What does it mean?

Black holes keep tearing these stars apart, but they survive

This shark can live 400 years. Its eyes barely seem to age

KAIST uses surface ‘defects’ to enhance droplet formation and removal, achieving up to 5.5 times the heat transfer performance of conventional surfaces

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4982–4987: Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming

One Type of Diabetes Responds Better to a Weekly GLP-1 Drug Than to Insulin

It’s Exactly 18 Years Until The Next Total Solar Eclipse In The Contiguous U.S.

Missed The Total Solar Eclipse? Now See A ‘Blood Moon’ Across The U.S.

Wildfires Are Turning Forests in the American West Into Shrubland