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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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by Stan Beer
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A new paper from a team of medical researchers claims that research shows playing video games will help surgeons become more skilled and make fewer mistakes, No this is not April 1 and this is not a hoax.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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A breakthrough by Japanese researchers in growing teeth in a lab dish and successfully transplanting them into mice points way to an organ regeneration future and better ways to restore health and grant longer lives to humans.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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High resolution robot video cameras are on the hunt to track one of America’s most majestic birds, the ivory-billed woodpecker, which was believed to be extinct, but several sightings have been recently reported, prompting a massive search. Can technology save the day?
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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One of the most enduring puzzles of modern-day physics is a century old paradox suggested by Einstein. Now Subhash Kak, a professor at the Louisiana State University LSU has claimed to have solved it!
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by Stan Beer
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One of the largest annual meetings of the world's leading scientists, currently underway in San Francisco, this year has very heavy environmental slant, indicating growing unease in the scientific community about climate change and environmental sustainability. A conference to be called on February 18 will call for the abolition of deep sea fishing saying entire species are under threat.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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Five THEMIS satellites crucial to understanding solar winds and space storms which can affect spacecraft and astronauts have successfully launched into space from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
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by Stan Beer
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On a cosmological scale, an asteroid called Apophis is small. However, if the 250 meter wide space rock hits Earth in 2036, as scientists say it may, the consequences would be catastrophic. According to the Association of Space Explorers (ASE), a professional association for astronauts and cosmonauts, the world needs to wake up to the danger or suffer a disaster that would dwarf the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004.
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by William Atkins
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The Space Transportation System (STS) mission designated STS-117 has been scheduled by NASA to lift off on March 15, 2007. The six-member crew of STS-117 is commander Frederick Sturckow, pilot Lee Archambault, and mission specialists James F. Reilly, John Olivas, Patrick G. Forrester, and Steven Swanson.
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by William Atkins
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What is the ratio of an igloo's circumference to its diameter? The answer: Eskimo Pi.
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by William Atkins
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Without a total eclipse in almost two-and-one-half years, sky gazers will be able to observe a total lunar eclipse on Saturday, March 3, 2007 from the eastern Americas, the United Kingdom, Europe, Africa, Iceland, Greenaldn, Arctic, the Middle East in western Asia.
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by Alex Zaharov-Reutt
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An ‘Amphibian Ark’ is being proposed to save the world’s frogs who are under attack by the chytrid fungus with huge numbers already wiped out around the globe.
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