Designing the missions of the future
Dec 05, 2005 |
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Action station, an asteroid is threatening our planet! The menace is real and a rapid response must be found. At ESA's Technical Centre in the Netherlands, engineers believe that they have found the solution: ...
Climate models need deeper roots, scientists say
Dec 05, 2005 |
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By soaking up moisture with their roots and later releasing it from their leaves, plants play an active role in regulating the climate. In fact, in vegetated ecosystems, plants are the primary channels that connect the soil ...
Rivers on Titan, one of Saturn's moons, resemble those on earth
Dec 05, 2005 |
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Recent evidence from the Huygens Probe of the Cassini Mission suggests that Titan, the largest moon orbiting Saturn, is a world where rivers of liquid methane sculpt channels in continents of ice. Surface images ...
Hubble movies show traffic jam in stellar jets
Dec 05, 2005 |
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Astronomers track massive shockwaves in plasma escaping newborn star Like traffic on a freeway, plasma spewing from the poles of newborn stars moves in clumps that travel at different speeds. When fast-moving ...
Butterfly evolution is studied
Dec 05, 2005 |
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University College London scientists say they've found why so many species of butterflies live in Central and South America, as compared with other places.
View of the Upper Atmosphere
Dec 05, 2005 |
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Scientists from NASA and the National Science Foundation discovered a way to combine ground and space observations to create an unprecedented view of upper atmosphere disturbances during space storms.
Yahoo! provides FIFA Web site
Dec 05, 2005 |
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Yahoo! said Monday it will partner with the Fédération Internationale de Football Association to set up a Web site to cover the upcoming soccer games.
New Comet Discovered from Mauna Kea
Dec 05, 2005 |
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While searching for "killer asteroids" on Halloween night, University of Hawaii astronomer Fabrizio Bernardi found a new comet, the first discovered from Mauna Kea Observatories.
First Brazilian Rocket Launched From Esrange
Dec 05, 2005 |
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The Texus-EML sounding rocket, jointly funded by ESA and DLR, was successfully launched Thursday, at 09.04 UT, from Esrange, on the Brazilian rocket motor, VSB-30, that was used for the very first time. The flight provided ...
High-speed UMTS for 3G in the Americas with Nokia 6282
Dec 05, 2005 |
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As part of its annual Capital Market Days event, Nokia today unveiled one of the industry's first mobile handsets designed to support 1900MHz UMTS networks expected to go online in the Americas during 2006.
Briefs: NTL's $1.4B bid for Virgin Mobile
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NTL said Monday it would pay up to $1.4 billion to acquire British wireless carrier Virgin Mobile.
Swisscom still set on foreign buys
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Swisscom confirmed Monday it will not be buying out Eircom but said it remains interested in acquiring foreign companies.
Huawei teams with Econet on Kiwi wireless
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China's Huawei Technologies will join with Econet Wireless on a third-generation network project in Auckland, New Zealand, it was announced Monday.
A salty tale: New bacterial genome sequenced from ancient salterns
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Tourists in Spain often stop to ogle the country's many saltwater lagoons, used to produce salt since Roman times. Scientists, too, admire these saltern crystallizers--and even more so, the microbes that manage to survive ...
Red tide dissipates off Tampa Bay
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A massive red tide that has spewed toxins into the Gulf of Mexico for nearly a year reportedly is starting to disappear.
