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Sunday, 09 August 2009 |
CERN announces that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will start up in November 2009 at about 3.5 teraelectron-volt (TeV), well off its top energy level but at least it will allow scientists to use the world’s largest particle accelerator/collider.
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Saturday, 08 August 2009 |
The Kepler Mission to find exosolar planets is just out of the starting gate, and it has already verified that it is up to the challenge of finding exoplanets (those that orbit stars other than the Sun) about the size of Earth. Kepler is the Exoplanet-Hunter!
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Friday, 07 August 2009 |
An Oregon State University study has shown that automobile tires could someday be made partially out of trees—and they would perform better than silica-based rubber tires, save people money on fuel costs, and cost less to purchase. It sounds like they are "barking up the right tree"!
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Friday, 07 August 2009 |
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Today, a Dick Smith funded advertisement appeared in The Australian warning parents that the Australian Vaccination Network is wrong in its claims of various toxins in vaccines. A formal complaint regarding the behaviour of the AVN has also been lodged with the NSW Health Care Complaints Commission.
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Thursday, 06 August 2009 |
According to NASA, the number of meteors seen shooting across the sky as part of the 2009 Perseid meteor shower is expected to be double the normal amount for one hour on August 11-12, 2009.
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Wednesday, 05 August 2009 |
A new U.S. study finds that high cholesterol levels in the middle of your life can greatly increase your chances of getting dementia, such as Alzheimer's disease or vascular dementia, later in your life.
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Tuesday, 04 August 2009 |
NASA and the Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency Foundation announce a competition for aircraft makers in which their “green aircraft” must achieve both speed and fuel efficiency in order to win the $1.5 million prize.
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Monday, 03 August 2009 |
The U.S.-based company Aerojet and the Japan-based company NEC Corporation are joining forces to provide low power ion propulsion systems for the U.S. and Japanese aerospace markets.
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Sunday, 02 August 2009 |
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), part of the World Health Organization (WHO), has raised the safety and health concern over the use of tanning beds to its highest risk category of "carcinogenic to humans." Carcinogenic is defined as "cancer causing."
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Saturday, 01 August 2009 |
The space shuttle Endeavour made touchdown at the Kennedy Space Center on Friday, July 31, 2009, at approximately 10:50 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time.
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Saturday, 01 August 2009 |
It’s time again for the annual Perseid meteor shower. However, you have plenty of time because the peak of the Perseids isn’t until August 11th and 12th, but a few per hour are observable before then in the first ten days of August 2009.
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