Science
Hot Start model supports possible life on Saturn’s Enceladus E-mail
Wednesday, 14 March 2007
Cassini scientists suggest that the moon Enceladus has a stable heat source, organic materials, and liquid water—the ingredients to support life.
 
Make love AND war: Human ancestor Australopithecus used shorter legs for both E-mail
Tuesday, 13 March 2007
University of Utah researcher contends that males of the genus Australopithecus, our immediate ancestors, had short legs to maintain better balance when fighting over women.

 
Lice is nice, at least when studying human evolution E-mail
Tuesday, 13 March 2007
Florida researchers discover that lice first jumped from gorillas to humans about 3.3 million years ago.
 
China announces HXMT to be first astronomy satellite E-mail
Tuesday, 13 March 2007
The Xinhua News Agency, the official Chinese news agency, has announced that the Chinese space agency is planning a 2010 launch of a space telescope to study x-ray sources such as black holes and neutron stars.
 
Success: high-tech satellite rocket launches at last E-mail
Monday, 12 March 2007
The new launch date for the delayed Ariane-5 rocket carrying a military satellite for the British and a civilian one for the Indians has launched on Sunday after all, after reports that it might be delayed until Monday.

 
Ariane launch succeeds after glitch E-mail
Monday, 12 March 2007
Arianespace has successfully put a pair of satellites into orbit following Saturday's aborted takeoff from Kourou, French Guyana.

 
Tereshkova: First woman in space turns 70 years old E-mail
Monday, 12 March 2007
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, born March 6, 1937, became seventy years old on Tuesday (March 6, 2007), but still yearns to travel to Mars.
 
OneGeology: We are the world, geologically speaking E-mail
Monday, 12 March 2007
Geologists begin this week, March 12-16, 2007,  an ambitious project to develop the first geological map of the world.
 
Asteroids: the little ones are the killers E-mail
Sunday, 11 March 2007
In 2005, the US Congress passed a bill authorizing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to go and look for potentially hazardous small asteroids 140 meters or larger in diameter. The problem is that the bill didn't provide the US$1 billion that NASA reckons it will need to fund such a project.

 
Abort: high-tech satellite rocket launch delayed E-mail
Sunday, 11 March 2007

With but minutes to go before the liftoff of an Ariane-5 rocket carrying two satellites, mission control noticed a glitch with the water cooling system that so alarmed engineers, the launch was immediately aborted.

 
“Omigod! I can’t believe it” comment of New Horizons Tvashtar photo E-mail
Sunday, 11 March 2007
On February 28, 2007, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft took a stunning photograph of the volcano Tvashtar erupting on Jupiter’s moon Io.
 
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