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by William Atkins
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We can ride into space and symbolically visit James Doohan—Montgomery Scott in the original Star Trek™—whose ashes were "beamed up" on Thursday, April 28. 2007. We can also visit Scotty’s future birthplace in Scotland and Kirk’s future hometown in Iowa.
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by Stephen Withers
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A rocket carrying a portion of the remains of actor James Doohan (Star Trek's Montgomery "Scotty" Scott), real life astronaut Gordon "Gordo" Cooper and over 200 others made a successful sub-orbital flight yesterday.
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by William Atkins
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO) thousands of workers are dying each year from cancer related to WHAT? The answer is asbestos, tobacco smoke, benzene, and other carcinogens.
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by Stephen Withers
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The remains of actor James Doohan - engineer Montgomery "Scotty" Scott in the original Star Trek crew - are set to be launched into space later today.
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by William Atkins
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U.S. researchers have found a mathematical formula that predicts how beer bubbles change over time. OK, maybe it won’t change the taste of beer that much—but, it has other valuable applications.
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by William Atkins
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With the discovery of the potentially habitable planet Gliese 581 c, astrobiologists are setting their sights on the search for extraterrestrial life. Where are the best places to look? What are the best instruments to perform those searches? How will they do it?
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by Stephen Withers
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A revised crew schedule means US astronaut Sunita Williams will return to Earth in June rather than August - but she will still set a record as the woman with the most time in space, to go along with her existing spacewalk record.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Just take a peek at the glee on Hawking’s
face as he enjoys what few humans have ever managed to experience: the
surprisingly sublime and gravity-free sensation of weightlessness.
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by William Atkins
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SpaceX has been approved for a five-year contract to launch its rockets from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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by William Atkins
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British astrophysicist Stephen Hawking will be going up on a zero gravity flight Thursday, April 26, 2007. Flying with Zero-Gravity Corporation, the flight is a spin-off of the KC-135 “Vomit Comet” flights that NASA uses to study space sickness.
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by William Atkins
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The Aeronomy of Ice in the Mesosphere (AIM) was launched by a Pegasus XL launch vehicle from Vandenberg Air Force Base at 1:26 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) on April 25, 2007. Its 26-month mission is to study very high clouds called noctilucent clouds (NLCs).
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by William Atkins
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Obesity is widely spreading across the United States and it’s a big problem. Congresspersons wanted to do something positive about helping kids eat better in school. So, they asked food and nutrition scientists at the Institute of Medicine for their expert opinions.
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by William Atkins
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The Hubble Space Telescope was launched on April 24, 1990. On Tuesday, April 24, 2007, the observatory begins its eighteenth year of operations.
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by Stephen Withers
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Astronomers have discovered a exoplanet possibly capable of maintaining liquid water, and therefore life as we know it.
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