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by William Atkins
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The NASA Spitzer Space Telescope has observed a glowing dust ring around a hot white dwarf star in the center of the Helix nebula. Astronomers think that this picture could be the fate of our solar system in about five billion years when the Sun depletes its storehouse of hydrogen fuel and engulfs the Earth.
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by William Atkins
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According to three recent medical studies, stents—small mesh tubes used to keep bodily vessels open—inserted into clogged brain arteries may work better than currently used medical drugs and have fewer negative side effects.
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by Stephen Withers
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Observations using the ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory have allowed scientists to propose an answer to a twenty year old puzzle.
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by William Atkins
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From Wednesday to Friday (February 21-23, 2007), the six NASA astronauts participating in the next Shuttle mission are at the Kennedy Space Center preparing for their flight into space. Their destination is the International Space Station.
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by William Atkins
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Live NASA TV coverage of the spacewalk on February 22, 2007 began at 4 a.m. (U.S.) eastern standard time (EST). The spacewalk that was scheduled to begin at 5 a.m. EST was about one-half hour late in beginning.
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by William Atkins
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NASA officials and Virgin Galactic representatives agreed to a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on Tuesday, February 20, 2007 that would allow for the joint development of space-related technology.
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by Paul Hosking
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As recently reported on iTWire data
centers are huge consumers of electricity. One data center is making a
stand and going green.
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by Stephen Withers
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NASA scientists have for the first time identified constituents of the atmosphere of an exoplanet (a planet outside our solar system) by using the Spitzer space telescope.
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by William Atkins
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NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has collected enough light from distant planets—what are called exoplanets—to detect molecules in their atmospheres. Astronomers were not expecting to accomplish such a feat so soon in their search. Consequently, they are ecstatic about the possibility of eventually finding life on exoplanets.
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by Stephen Withers
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NASA scientists have for the first time identified constituents of the atmosphere of an exoplanet (a planet outside our solar system) by using the Spitzer space telescope.
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by William Atkins
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U.S. computer scientist Frances “Fran” E. Allen will receive the 2006 Turing Award in June 2007 for her work in program optimization that set the stage for today’s high-speed computing systems.
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by William Atkins
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Former U.S. astronaut John Glenn told a group of schoolchildren on Tuesday, February 20, 2007—the 45th anniversary of his historic Mercury 6 mission as the first American to orbit the Earth—that the International Space Station is not currently, and will not in the future, be fully utilized with its present funding and schedule.
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by Adam Turner
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The father of the Internet, Vint Cerf, is overseeing efforts by NASA to build a permanent Internet link to Mars by 2008.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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The possibility that an asteroid will strike the Earth on Sunday, April 13 2036 has reverberated across the globe, with the world’s citizens wondering what anyone is doing about it with the UN at least two years away from version 1 of an anti asteroid plan.
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