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Mars Gully: No Mineral Trace Of Liquid Water
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 25, 2007This image of the Centauri-Hellas Montes region was taken by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) at 2107 UTC (4:07 p.m. EST) on Jan. 9, 2007, near 38.41 degrees south latitude, 96.81 degrees east longitude. CRISM's image was taken in 544 colors covering 0.36-3.92 micrometers, and shows features as small as 20 meters (66 feet) across. The region covered is slightly wi ... more Fluid Theory Confirmed By Foton 
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 25, 2007In scientific research, there is great satisfaction when theoretical work is eventually supported by experimentation. Such was the case this week for a team of Italian and US scientists when they received preliminary confirmation of a 10-year-old theory from a fluid science experiment that is currently orbiting the Earth on the Foton-M3 spacecraft. Although the Foton was only launched a we ... more Scientists Model A Cornucopia Of Earth-Sized Planets 
Boston MA (SPX) Sep 25, 2007In the Star Wars movies fictional planets are covered with forests, oceans, deserts, and volcanoes. But new models from a team of MIT, NASA, and Carnegie scientists begin to describe an even wider range of Earth-size planets that astronomers might actually be able to find in the near future. Sara Seager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.; Marc Kuchner, NASA Goddard Space Fl ... more The Spectrum Of Life 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 25, 2007In May 2007, Victoria Meadows, Principal Investigator for the Virtual Planetary Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology's Spitzer Science Center, presented a lecture at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In part three of this six-part edited series, she pieces together the lines of evidence that will indicate whether a planet is able to support life. "When we find planets around a st ... more Part-time model is Malaysia's first astronaut 
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Sept 24, 2007A 35-year-old doctor who is also a part-time model will blast into space aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket next month as Malaysia's first astronaut, the country confirmed Monday. "On behalf of the government and all Malaysians, I pray that this mission will be successful as planned," said Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, officially confirming Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor had edged out fellow can ... more |
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Hyderabad, India (AFP) Sept 24, 2007A series of deadly bombings have left this southern showcase of India's hi-tech success haunted by fears of new attacks that could ruin Hindu-Muslim harmony and the city's growing prosperity. "Terrorists do not want development, they do not want the IT and software industry. They want to divide the country," says Bandaru Dattatreya, head of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in ... more Boeing Announces Completion Of Sea-Based Radar's Mooring System 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Sep 25, 2007Boeing announced that the Sea-Based X-Band Radar (SBX) mooring system has been installed at SBX's homeport in Alaska, completing a key piece of infrastructure for the missile defense sensor. Manson Construction, a Boeing subcontractor, used tugs, barges and cranes to place the mooring system's eight anchors on the bottom of Kuluk Bay. Heavy machinery aboard a barge then dragged the 75-metric-ton ... more Global Corporate Climate Change Report Released 
New York NY (SPX) Sep 25, 2007The Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a collaboration of over 315 institutional investors with assets under management of more than $41 trillion, releases its 5th annual global report, providing the largest and most comprehensive database of strategies from the world's largest corporations regarding the impact of climate change on shareholder value. CDP also launches the Climate Disclosure ... more Music Training Linked To Enhanced Verbal Skills 
Evanston IL (SPX) Sep 25, 2007Music training, with its pervasive effects on the nervous system's ability to process sight and sound, may be more important for enhancing verbal communication skills than learning phonics, according to a new Northwestern University study. Musicians use all of their senses to practice and perform a musical piece. They watch other musicians, read lips, and feel, hear and perform music, thus, enga ... more China's own high-speed train due by year-end 
Beijing (AFP) Sept 24, 2007China's first domestically developed high-speed train, capable of reaching 300 kilometres (190 miles) per hour, will roll off production lines by the end of the year, state media reported Monday. The train can seat around 600 passengers and will run on the 115-kilometre-long Beijing-Tianjin route prior to the Beijing Olympics in August next year, the Xinhua news agency said. It will cut ... more |
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New York NY (SPX) Sep 25, 2007Ecuador's President Rafael Correa presented the Yasuni-ITT Initiative at a United Nations meeting of world leader's on global climate change. This pioneering initiative is an unprecedented proposal by an oil exporting country to leave its largest oil reserve unexploited to contribute to the reduction of global greenhouse gases and to initiate Ecuador's transition toward the world's first truly s ... more France ready to help any country get civil nuclear power 
New York (AFP) Sept 24, 2007French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Monday that France was prepared to assist any country that wants to have civilian nuclear power. "France is ready to help any country which wants to possess civilian nuclear energy," Sarkozy told a landmark UN summit on climate change. "It is the best response to those who, in violation of all the treaties, want to arm themselves with nuclear weap ... more World companies show big interest in climate, US firms lag 
New York (AFP) Sept 24, 2007The world's corporate giants are increasingly focused on climate change and many see it as an opportunity for profit but US firms tend to view it as a risk to their bottom line, a new study has said. The paper, released just ahead of Monday's UN summit on climate change, is the fifth annual report by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), a not-for-profit organization that vets corporate respo ... more Analysis: New sanctions may bust Iran LNG 
Washington (UPI) Sep 24, 2007 Potential European and U.N. sanctions, and an Iranian energy policy unfavorable to foreign investment, may spell disaster as Tehran struggles to develop its liquefied natural gas potential in the massive South Pars fields. With the major powers considering a third set of U.N. sanctions against Iran over worries it is using a civilian nuclear program to cover up attempts to develop nucle ... more Bangladesh plans nuclear power plant 
Dhaka (AFP) Sept 24, 2007Bangladesh plans to set up its first nuclear power plant at a cost of over one billion dollars to ease economically damaging electricity shortages which have sparked riots, an official said Monday. "The government has in principle agreed to set up a 600-1,000 megawatt power plant in the northern district of Pabna," the head of the Bangladesh Atomic Energy Commission, Shafiqul Islam Bhuiyan, ... more
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