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NASA postpones shuttle launch due to bad weather E-mail
Friday, 08 December 2006
The launch of Space Shuttle Discovery has been scrubbed due to poor weather conditions at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

 
CERN particle accelerator attracts world's largest superconducting magnet E-mail
Friday, 08 December 2006
The world’s largest superconducting magnet has gone into action as Europe's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator begins to take shape.
 
Solar cell converts 40.7% of sun into electricity E-mail
Friday, 08 December 2006
A subsidiary of Boeing, has set a new world record in converting sunlight into electricity with a new type of land-based solar cell. The new photovoltaic cells, which are currently being tested in the Australian desert, can convert 40.7% of the sun's energy into electricity, smashing the previous highest performance mark of 33%.

 
Not plenty of fish in the ocean due to global warming E-mail
Thursday, 07 December 2006
A new NASA study has found that the food supply of fish and other life in the ocean is diminishing as a result of global warming. The results of the study is based on correlating satellite data with records of the change in Earth's climate over the past nine years.

 
NASA clears space shuttle for launch E-mail
Thursday, 07 December 2006
NASA has cleared space shuttle Discovery for launch on Thursday in the US, despite technical hitches and forecasts of bad weather.

 
Martian water signs give hope of life E-mail
Thursday, 07 December 2006
Gullies thought to be only a few years old suggest that water may be flowing on Mars today, according to new scientific photographic evidence.

 
NASA wants self-sustaining moon base by 2024 E-mail
Wednesday, 06 December 2006
Could mankind establish a colony on the moon and then later on other planets? If US space agency NASA has anything to say about it, 18 years from now that's exactly what will happen.

 
NASA to build permanent moon base E-mail
Tuesday, 05 December 2006
Almost 40 years after Armstrong's one small step, NASA has announced plans to build a permanent lunar base.
 
Ancient Greek artefact considered early stargate E-mail
Tuesday, 05 December 2006
Metal scraps recovered from a Roman shipwreck a century ago are believed the remains of a 2000 year-old astronomical computer.
 
Hawking's future is Serenity not Star Trek E-mail
Monday, 04 December 2006
Stephen Hawking, the genius who wrote a best seller that most readers couldn't understand, believes the human race is destined to colonize planets in other star systems. However, Hawking's vision sounds more like the cult space western series Firefly than Star Trek.

 
Stephen Hawking stars in “Escape from Planet Earth” E-mail
Monday, 04 December 2006
Stephen Hawking says that humans should colonize space and other planets. Well, of course we should!

 
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