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Boston Terrier Tips Over While Eating (VIDEO)

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As seen on Huffington Post Posted:   |  Updated: 12/17/2012 8:42 am EST

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It's ok, buddy, you'll get the hang of it. You just do you and ignore all those people laughing.

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Miracle Twins In Palo Alto: Rare Monoamniotic Twins Born Against All Odds

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Huffington Post by Robin Wilkey Posted:   |  Updated: 12/14/2012 8:59 pm EST

Miracle Twins Palo Alto

A Bay Area family got a holiday miracle last month thanks to help from Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford.

On November 7, Allison and Kevin Carlson celebrated the birth of their twin baby girls, Kate and Annie. But the girls weren't just any twins: they were monoamniotic twins, which stand a slim chance of survival, made even slimmer by a complication.

Under normal circumstances, twins share a womb but live in their own individual amniotic sacs. But in a monoamniotic pregnancy, which occurs in less than one percent of twin pregnancies in the United States, the twins share the same sac.

Ecuador declares orange alert near Tungurahua volcano

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News.com.au - 12/17/12, AFP

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A view of the Tungurahua volcano, from Patate, Ecuador, taken in August this year. Source: AFP

ECUADOR has issued an orange alert - the second-highest warning level - for towns near the Tungurahua volcano, as its level of activity rose, civil defence officials say.

The area of the warning covers the adjacent provinces of Tungurahua and Chimborazo, according to the national civil defence agency.

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Flash mob helps family in need at holidays (Video)

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TODAY   |  Aired on December 14, 2012

A Kentucky family was at the receiving end of a random “flash mob”of kindness when people put more than $500 in an empty box at a  K-Mart parking lot and donated the money to them. NBC’s Kevin Tibbles reports.

 

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Meteor Shower PHOTOS: 2012 Geminids Captured In Stunning Images

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Huffington Post Science Posted:   |  Updated: 12/14/2012 12:16 pm EST By: Mike Wall
Published: 12/14/2012 07:22 AM EST on SPACE.com

Two Geminids and an airplane

The annual Geminid meteor shower peaked overnight last night (Dec. 13), dazzling skywatchers around the world with a bounty of brilliant shooting stars.

The Geminids' peak was supposed to be good this year, as it occurred in a sky left dark by the new moon. Experts had predicted that viewers in rural areas might see 100 meteors per hour early Friday morning (Dec. 14) — and perhaps even more.

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National Geographic Best Space Pictures of 2012 Editors Pick

Picture of an aurora

Photograph by Alex Cherney, TWAN

A long-exposure picture—posted to the night-sky photography community The World at Night (TWAN) in November—captures the stars' nightly swirl while auroras set the horizon aglow over Australia's Mornington Peninsula.

Auroras are born when the sun sends charged particles, known as solar wind, speeding toward Earth's atmosphere, where they slam into oxygen and nitrogen atoms in the ionosphere above the planet's magnetic North and South Poles. The energy released by these collisions creates glowing colors some 60 to 620 miles (97 to 1,000 kilometers) aloft.

Have Scientists Found Two Different Higgs Bosons?

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Scientific American By Michael Moyer | December 14, 2012

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The latest results from the Atlas experiment indicate that there may be two different Higgs bosons—one that weighs 123.5 GeV (in blue) and another that's 126.6 GeV (in red).

A month ago scientists at the Large Hadron Collider released the latest Higgs boson results. And although the data held few obvious surprises, most intriguing were the results that scientists didn’t share.

The original Higgs data from back in July had shown that the Higgs seemed to be decaying into two photons more often than it should—an enticing though faint hint of something new, some sort of physics beyond our understanding. In November, scientists at the Atlas and LHC experiments updated everything except the two-photon data. This week we learned why.

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