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Clean solar energy from Sahara could one day provide electricity to Europe PDF E-mail
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Thursday, 24 July 2008
The European Union is considering a giant energy project in which enormous numbers of solar panels and arrays would be placed in the sunny desert of North Africa’s Sahara to provide enough electricity for all the power needs of Europe. All it would take would be vast sums of money, labor, and time.
 
Watch discarded NASA tank zip across your night sky PDF E-mail
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Thursday, 24 July 2008
NASA announced that the Early Ammonia Servicer (EAS), a backup pressurization tank, which was thrown out of the International Space Station back in July 2007, has descended to an orbit so it is now easily visible to sky watchers here on Earth.

 
Texas plans to blow itself green PDF E-mail
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008
State officials in Texas gave the initial go-ahead to construct the largest wind-power project in the United States. The $4.93 billion project will add to Texas being the number one state in wind power.
 
U.S. study finds women more likely to remove tattoos PDF E-mail
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008
According to a Texas-led study, over twice as many unhappily tattooed women will get their tattoos removed than men. Their primary reason: “just decided to remove it."
 
North Star dims for a century, suddenly gets brighter PDF E-mail
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Wednesday, 23 July 2008
After about one hundred years of growing increasingly dimmer, the North Star (Polaris), according to international astronomers, is now growing brighter. Why it’s happening is a mystery to astronomers.
 
UPDATE: NASA has no plans to buy JAXA transfer vehicles PDF E-mail
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008
As reported by many news sources (but incorrect in their information), NASA announced on July 21, 2008, that the U.S. space agency has no plans to purchase the H-2 Transfer Vehicle (HTV) from Japan. In fact, NASA has stated it will "depend on [U.S.] commercial resupply of cargo delivery to the station."
 
Welcome to the solar system! Dwarf planet and plutoid Makemake! PDF E-mail
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008
The International Astronomical Union recently recognized Makemake as a dwarf planet and classified it as a plutoid. Makemake, the celestial body, was named after Makemake, the bird-man god of Easter Island.
 
NASA discussing Japanese purchase of robotic cargo vehicles PDF E-mail
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Tuesday, 22 July 2008
According to a Japanese newspaper, U.S. officials with NASA are negotiating with officials of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) about the purchase of several unmanned cargo vehicles, called H-2 Transfer Vehicles, which would be used to re-supply the International Space Station.
 
Obsessive-compulsive disorder now seen with brain scan PDF E-mail
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Monday, 21 July 2008
British researchers at Cambridge University have used brain scans, for the first time, to see differences in the brains of OCD patients when compared to the brains of people without the psychological brain disorder. Such brain scans could one day help to earlier and more accurately diagnosis obsessive-compulsive disorder in humans.
 
Postmenopause and stroke: Don’t sleep less than 6 hours or more than 9 PDF E-mail
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Monday, 21 July 2008
A new U.S. study shows that postmenopausal women had increased risk of strokes if they sleep less than six hours a night or more than nine hours.
 
Study of nearly 400,000 women: breast self-exam may not help PDF E-mail
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Sunday, 20 July 2008
The Cochrane Collaboration reviewed the use of the breast self-exam (BSE). It based its conclusions on two studies that together gathered data from 388,535 Chinese and Russian women. The CC study found that the BSE does not help, and actually harms women.
 
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