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Neuroarm: Navigating The Future Of Surgery
Calgary, Canada (SPX) Apr 19, 2007Surgery is about to change with the introduction of a new surgical robotic system at the University of Calgary/Calgary Health Region. NeuroArm aims to revolutionize neurosurgery and other branches of operative medicine by liberating them from the constraints of the human hand. The world's first MRI-compatible surgical robot, unveiled today, is the creation of neurosurgeon Dr. Garnette Suth ... more Boeing-Led Team Developing Surface Navigation Concept For DARPA 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Apr 19, 2007How would U.S. ground troops navigate precisely and effectively if signals from the Global Positioning System (GPS) were not available? Boeing and an industry team are getting the chance to tackle that problem under a concept development contract awarded recently by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The objective of the Robust Surface Navigation (RSN) program is t ... more Couch Potatoes On Track For Virtual World 
Cannes, France (AFP) April 16, 2007TV addicts looked set to make the leap from couch to computer or cellphone, as TV, Internet, mobile phone, video game and advertising execs gathered Monday to mull how to propel their converging worlds into one future. Giving a first pointer on the times to come, reality TV pioneer Endemol, maker of the hit "Big Brother" series, said it was teaming up with interactive gaming leader Electro ... more ATK, LockMart and PW Rocketdyne Present Proposal For Ares I Upper Stage 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 19, 2007Alliant Techsystems, Lockheed Martin, and Pratt and Whitney Rocketdyne have presented to NASA an oral summary of their proposal for the Ares I Upper Stage. The proposal has been delivered in stages over the last month and culminated with the submittal of the cost volume last week. The three companies have developed a complementary relationship, leveraging their strong experience and capab ... more Tilting At Enceladus 
Cameron Park CA (SPX) Apr 20, 2007In my previous chapter, I discussed the possibility that some of those concepts for (relatively) cheap Titan and Enceladus mission currently being considered by NASA advisory groups might be combined into a single Flagship-class "Titan-Enceladus Explorer" -- a possibility that the planetary science community is starting to consider more important in the wake of Cassini's amazing revelations abou ... more |
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US Takes Firm Line In Nuclear Negotiations With India
Washington (AFP) Apr 19, 2007The United States on Thursday ruled out bending its laws to allow India to retain the right to resume nuclear weapons testing under a civilian nuclear energy deal being negotiated by the two governments. "It's an issue that's covered by our law and ... in as much as it is affected by, it bumps up against US law, we're not going to change our laws," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said ... more Military Industry Makes Up 70 Percent Of Russian Science Production 
Yekaterinburg (RIA Novosti) Apr 20, 2007Russia's military industrial complex makes up 70% of the country's total science intensive production, a Russian first deputy prime minister said Thursday. Sergei Ivanov, who in mid-February was promoted from defense minister and charged with the task of supervising the country's nuclear power and defense industries, said half of Russian scientists work in the military industrial sector. " ... more Russia Rejects US Offer On Missile Shield 
Moscow (AFP) April 19, 2007Russia's First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov rejected on Thursday an overture from the United States to cooperate on building a missile shield in Europe, Russian news agencies reported. "I honestly see no basis for speaking of possible cooperation on a strategic missile shield," Ivanov was quoted by Interfax as saying. Washington has tried to ease Russia's fears about the planned mis ... more Pacific Nuclear Victims Awarded One Billion Dollars 
Majuro (AFP) Apr 19, 2007Residents from a Marshall Islands atoll exposed to fallout from US nuclear tests have been awarded more than one billion dollars of compensation, but may never receive a cent of it. The Marshall Islands-based Nuclear Claims Tribunal, which issued the ruling Tuesday, has virtually no money to pay the award and has labeled United States-provided compensation "manifestly inadequate." Th ... more Iran Has Started Enrichment At Natanz Site Says IAEA 
Vienna (AFP) Apr 18, 2007Iran has started feeding uranium gas for enrichment at a nuclear plant where it has installed over 1,300 centrifuges, the UN atomic watchdog said Wednesday, showing increasing defiance of UN resolutions. Iran has assembled eight cascades of 164 centrifuges each -- a total of 1,312 of the machines which turn uranium gas into enriched uranium for use as either nuclear reactor fuel or to be t ... more US And Israel Probe Alliance 
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Apr 19, 2007Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretz Wednesday advocated preparations for "real steps" against Iran's nuclear program, but U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said, "The preferable course was to keep our focus on the diplomatic initiative." The issue was one of several topics the two officials discussed shortly after Gates arrived in Israel on the third leg of his Middle Eastern tour. H ... more |
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Scientists And Polar Explorers Brave The Elements In Support Of Cryosat-2
Paris, France (ESA) Apr 20, 2007It is perhaps an unlikely combination - an international team of scientists stationed in Svalbard, Norway and two polar explorers crossing the North Pole on foot. Both teams, however, are currently part of a common effort to collect vital data on the ground and from the air in support of ESA's ice mission CryoSat-2. The CryoSat-2 mission, due for launch in 2009, will provide highly accurat ... more Mystery Of Fossilized Trees Is Solved 
Cardiff UK (SPX) Apr 20, 2007An international research team has found evidence of the Earth's earliest forest trees, dating back 385 million years. Upright stumps of fossilised trees were uncovered after a flash flood in Gilboa, upstate New York, more than a century ago. However, until now, no-one has known what the entire trees looked like. Two years ago, two fossils were found near Gilboa of trees which had fallen s ... more 1 In 3 Chance Of Record Low Sea Ice In 2007 
Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 20, 2007University of Colorado at Boulder researchers are forecasting a one in three chance that the 2007 minimum extent of sea ice across the Arctic region will set an all-time record low. The researchers at CU-Boulder's Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research also say there is a 57 percent chance the 2007 sea-ice minimum will be lower than the 2006 minimum of 2.27 million square miles, now th ... more Polish PM Appeals To Brussels To Let His Country Develop 
Brussels (AFP) April 18, 2007Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski appealed to the European Commission Wednesday to stop making decisions that might slow down development in the former communist state. "I come to Brussels with kind of an appeal: let us develop rapidly. Avoid decisions that will increase our development costs," he told reporters travelling with him. "Several decisions of this kind have been ta ... more HIV Treatment Goal Elusive 
Washington (UPI) April 17, 2007The world has made great strides toward its pledge of getting HIV treatment to everyone who needs it, but there is still a long way to go, a new report says. "In many ways we are still at the beginning of this commitment," said Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organization, which released a report on the state of anti-retroviral treatment access with UNAIDS and UNICEF Tu ... more Gates Grant To Help Poor Countries Contribute To Doomsday Seed Vault 
Rome (AFP) Apr 20, 2007A Gates Foundation grant will help developing countries send the seeds of "critical" food crops to a doomsday seed vault in an Arctic deep freeze, the recipients said Thursday. "The fight against hunger cannot be won without securing fast-disappearing crop biodiversity," the Global Crop Diversity Trust and its partner the UN Foundation said in announcing the grant of 30 million dollars (22 milli ... more |
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China Joins Club Of Bullet Train Nations
Shanghai (AFP) Apr 20, 2007At 5:38 am sharp on Wednesday the sparkling white, futuristic No. D460 train departed Shanghai Station, heralding a new era of high-speed rail travel in China. Reaching speeds of up to 250 kilometres (155 miles) an hour, the sleek machine covered the 112 kilometres to the neighbouring city of Suzhou in 39 minutes, cutting the journey time nearly in half. With it, China also joined a small ... more Australia Fears Jet Flight Guilt Could Hit Tourism 
Sydney (AFP) April 18, 2007Australia is concerned that growing guilt over the impact of jet flights on global warming could hit the country's multi-billion-dollar tourism industry, officials said Wednesday. With long-distance airline flights virtually the only way of reaching "Down Under" and climate change threatening major attractions such as the Great Barrier Reef, the government has launched a "Tourism Action Pl ... more Gazprom Finalizes Deal To Buy Half Stake In Sakhalin 2 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Apr 19, 2007Gazprom has finalized a $7.45 billion deal to buy 50% plus one share in formerly Shell-led Sakhalin II with the partners in the vast hydrocarbon project off Russia's Pacific Coast. "Joint work to complete the project is being carried out very proactively already," said Alexander Medvedev, deputy board chairman of the Russian energy giant. Shell Russia President Christopher Finlayson ... more Managing Heat Aboard Modern Ships 
Troy, NY (SPX) dApr 20, 2007With a major grant from the Office of Naval Affairs, researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute are collaborating with four other universities to address a hot topic in today's military: how to keep modern ships cool in extreme environments. Led by the University of Virginia and funded under the Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program, the ... more Electronic Displays That Fit On Clothing Could Power Revolution In Lighting 
Bath UK (SPX) Apr 20, 2007A thin film of plastic which conducts electricity and produces solar power could be the basis for a revolution in the way we light our homes and design clothes. An international research project has begun that could help bring to mass-market organic light emitting devices (OLEDs), which could have far reaching technological implications and cut the cost of lighting by billion of pounds eac ... more Plastic Solar Cell Efficiency Breaks Record At Nanotechnology Center 
Winston-Salem, NC (SPX) Apr 20, 2007The global search for a sustainable energy supply is making significant strides at Wake Forest University as researchers at the university's Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials have announced that they have pushed the efficiency of plastic solar cells to more than 6 percent. In a paper to be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Applied Physics Letters, Wake Forest re ... more |
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