NASA has successfully landed five robots on Mars over the past three decades. Its latest spacecraft, Phoenix Mars, will touch down in the Martian arctic region on Sunday. Here’s why NASA is going again.

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Mozilla is one step closer to the launch of Firefox 3, rolling out Release Candidate 1 of the revamped browser for testing by developers and the open-source community at large. The new version, based on the Gecko 1.9 Web rendering platform, adds several new features that will make Firefox 3 more secure, easier to use, and more personal, Mozilla said on its Web site. Firefox 3 also adds improvements for developers and will offer better performance, Mozilla said.

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You can get it from food, pills, even the sun: a new study has found that vitamin D can be a lifesaver for cancer patients. But many Americans are not getting the amount necessary to be beneficial. In the latest study, Canadian researchers had good reason to look at its effect on breast cancer.

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Today in a press conference launching the Japanese language Facebook, CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed his company’s dispute with Google’s Friend Connect and the ensuing blog duel, saying he wants to “make it work.” It began last week when Facebook, MySpace, and Google all announced similar plans to share user information seamlessly with other sites. The so-called “walled garden” nature of socially-oriented sites — where members’ information and activities are kept within one property — was what these three groups were looking to change. In order to do so, they have no choice but to work together.

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