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Uniden Enters Portable GPS Navigation Category
Fort Worth TX (SPX) Sep 11, 2006Uniden America Corporation, a leading manufacturer of wireless consumer electronics, today announced its entrance into the Global Positioning System category. Researchers Aim To Enhance Air Vehicle Systems 
Arlington VA (AFPN) Sep 10, 2006Air Force Office of Scientific Research officials here recently awarded the University of Washington and three partner universities a grant worth approximately $6 million over five years to study the design of air vehicles capable of collecting and storing solar and heat energies. Latest Fuel Cell Material Advance Overcomes Low Humidity Conductivity Problem 
Blacksburg VA (SPX) Sep 11, 2006Fuel cells have been a workable technology for decades - but expensive and lacking in infrastructure. In recent years, researchers have addressed durability, manufacturability, and conductivity challenges in alternative proton exchange membrane materials for fuel cells - bringing the hydrogen-based energy source closer to reality. |
China To Launch Upgraded Oceanic Satellite
Beijing (XNA) Sep 10, 2006Chinese scientists plan to put into orbit the Haiyang 1-B (Ocean 1-B), an advanced version of the Haiyang 1-A oceanic satellite, by the end of this year to monitor marine environment and disasters. Arianespace CEO Calls For New Pricing Regime 
Paris, France (SPX) Sep 11, 2006Arianespace is on track to meet its goals for new order bookings and missions performed in 2006 as the company continues to focus on offering top-quality launch services at fair market prices. Animated Elevation Model Of Victoria Crater 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 11, 2006After driving more than nine kilometers from the site where it landed in January 2004, NASA's Opportunity Rover began to approach "Victoria Crater" in September 2006. The crater is about 750 m across. Czech Govt Under Fire Over US Missile Plans 
Prague (AFP) Sep 09, 2006Less than a week after taking office, the Czech Republic's new minority government is embroiled in a major political row with opposition parties over a US project to base missiles on Czech territory. |
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India Building Digital Multimedia Satellite
Bangalore, India (PTI) Sep 11, 2006Indian Space Research Organisation is building a digital multimedia broadcasting satellite that would cater to communication requirements -- internet, messaging and cellular services and rural connectivity, its former Chairman K Kasturirangan said today. Acoustic Data May Reveal Hidden Gas And Oil Supplies 
Boston MA (SPX) Sep 11, 2006Just as doctors use ultrasound to image internal organs and unborn babies, MIT Earth Resources Laboratory researchers listen to the echoing language of rocks to map what's going on tens of thousands of feet below the Earth's surface. |
Exploring Europa By Way Of The Arctic
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 11, 2006This summer, a science team set out on a two-week expedition of Earth's own little version of Jupiter's moon Europa -- the Borup Fiord Pass at Ellesmere Island, a place hidden high above the rest of the world in the Canadian High Arctic. Asteroids And Meteorites Reveal Family Resemblance 
Providence RI (SPX) Sep 11, 2006Asteroids and meteorites are supposed to be made of the same stuff - at least that's what earth science teachers have been telling their students for decades. Among A Myriad Of Planets Copernicus Smiled 
Boulder CO (SPX) Sep 11, 2006A real revolution is afoot in planetary science. The first shot was fired in 1930, with the discovery of Pluto, but almost no one realized its import. The second and third shots came in the late 1970s, with the discovery of distant objects called Chiron and Charon, but again, few recognized what they would portend. |
Russia Claims Success With Strategic Missile Tests
Moscow (AFP) Sep 10, 2006Russia has conducted several successful intercontinental missile tests from nuclear submarines, Defence Minister Sergey Ivanov told President Vladimir Putin on Sunday. Globecomm To Participate In Worldwide US Army Sat Systems Program 
Hauppauge NY (SPX) Sep 11, 2006Globecomm Systems Inc. has announced that the Company is one of six contractors selected to participate in the U.S. Army's $5 Billion Worldwide Satellite Systems Program (WWSS) for the next five years. China To Shy Away From Administrative Controls To Rein In Economy 
Beijing (AFP) Sep 10, 2006China will opt for economic and legal, rather than administrative, means in trying to rein in investment in the second half of this year, vice premier Zeng Peiyan said Sunday. Zeng told the China Business Summit in Beijing the government would continue to improve its macroeconomic controls after its gross domestic product expanded by a robust 10.9 percent in the first six months. US Reactor Security Queried: Part Two 
Washington (UPI) Sep 08, 2006Many U.S. analysts say the nation's 104 civilian power reactors are secure against terror attacks, but others disagree. Edwin Lyman, senior staff scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists, says he disagrees with the optimistic assessment of reactor ability to withstand an attack made by the Nuclear Energy Institute, or NEI, the policy organization of the nuclear energy and technologies industry. CONTENT PARTNERS
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Bermuda Braces For A Pounding From Florence
Miami (AFP) Sep 08, 2006Hurricane Florence barreled toward Bermuda Sunday, with heavy rain and thrashing winds threatening the island nation, according to the US National Hurricane Center. At 1200 GMT the storm was 305 miles (495 kilometers) south-southwest of Bermuda and headed north-northwest at 15 miles (24 kilometers) per hour. Ground Movement Risks Identified By Terrafirma 
Paris, France (ESA) Sep 10, 2006Ground movements are responsible for hundreds of deaths and billions of Euros annually, and the threat they pose is increasing due to urbanisation and land use. ESA's GMES Service Element Programme is backing a project, Terrafirma, to help mitigate these risks. Modern Humans, Not Neandertals, May Be Evolution's 'Odd Man Out' 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Sep 11, 2006New research suggests that rather than the standard straight line from chimps to early humans to us with Neandertals off on a side graph, it's equally valid, perhaps more valid based on what the fossils tell us, that the straight line should be from the common ancestor to the Neandertals, with Modern Humans a branch off from the main line. Smoke Plume Dispersal From The World Trade Center Disaster 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Sep 10, 2006The collapse of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and the fires that followed produced a noxious smoke plume, a complex mixture of tiny airborne particles and gases. Determining where humans may have been exposed to these contaminants and the amount of their exposure is very difficult. |
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