NASA: July 26 Targeted as Earliest Launch Date
Jul 19, 2005 |
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Space Shuttle Program managers have continued working through the weekend to determine the failure of an Engine Cut-Off sensor problem that delayed Discovery's first launch attempt.
Drilling set at Chesapeake Bay meteor site
Jul 19, 2005 |
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Scientists will drill more than a mile under Chesapeake Bay this fall to study a 35-million-year-old meteorite impact, the Baltimore Sun reported Monday.
Quantum decoys foil code-breaking attempts
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Laser-lit encryption key has immediate commercial applications Computer code-makers may soon get the upper hand on code-breakers thanks to a new quantum cryptography method designed at the University of Toronto. Quantum c ...
Kids are cynics, too? Yeah, right
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Yale University researchers have determined first or second grade children display definite signs of developing cynicism.
Astronomers Debate Whether Oldest Known Dust Disk Will Ever Form Planets
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Every rule has an exception. One rule in astronomy, supported by considerable evidence, states that dust disks around newborn stars disappear in a few million years. Most likely, they vanish because the material ...
Japan to develop bioethanol-mix fuel
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Japan plans to introduce a "greener" fuel for vehicles, possibly as early as 2008, by mixing gasoline and bioethanol.
Japan to learn cloning skills from S.Korea
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Japan will study South Korea's legal guidelines on embryonic stem cell research for "therapeutic cloning" to shape its policy on the morally challenging issue.
BAE Systems Selected to Develop Humvee on-Board Vehicle Power System
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The U.S. Office of Naval Research has selected BAE Systems to begin development of an on-board vehicle power system for the Marine Corps' High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, known commonly as the Humvee.
SSETI Express Sets Off
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SSETI Express, the first spacecraft to be designed and built by European students, has set off on the first stage of its journey into space. It recently left ESTEC, in the Netherlands, and is now on its way to Plesetsk, ...
MindComet Launches BloginSpace.com: Free Service Transmits Blogs Into Space
Jul 19, 2005 |
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MindComet launches a website sending bloggers where no blog has gone before: deep space. BloginSpace.com is a free service for bloggers allowing them to submit their blog feeds for transmission into deep space. The site will ...
States create voluntary online tax system
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Beginning Oct. 1, at least 18 states will collect taxes from online sales voluntarily, offering a year of amnesty to companies that have not reported on online transactions in the past.
Expedition 11 redocks Soyuz Spacecraft
Jul 19, 2005 |
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Expedition 11 Commander Sergei Krikalev and Flight Engineer John Phillips left the Space Station today and moved their Soyuz spacecraft from one docking port to another.
Leading position reinforced for 3rd generation mobile networks
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In their latest study, the market researchers at the MultiMedia Research Institute affirm Siemens/NEC's No. 1 market position in the field of 3G/WCDMA: over 30 percent of 3G base stations (Node Bs) used commercially worldwide ...
California Researchers Offer Open-Source Platform To Speed Wireless Development
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In a bid to speed development of new wireless protocols and networking standards, the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) at UCSD has begun distributing for alpha ...
Computer sales not leading to profits
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For computer manufacturers, the latest report confirming a surge in global demand for personal computers should have been heartening, but one of the biggest beneficiaries of the seemingly insatiable appetite worldwide for ...
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