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Hubble Space Telescope

Hubble telescope to get last tuneup during International Year of Astronomy

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 31, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

From troubled beginnings nearly 18 years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope has revolutionized astronomy and its stunning images have stirred the imaginations of people around the globe.





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College asks students to power down, contemplate (AP)

College asks students to power down, contemplate

Technology / Hi Tech

created Dec 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Dianne Lynch wanted to give the students of Stephens College a break from the constant digital communication that pervades their generation. So she asked them to put their phones and computers away ...


Gaia to lift off from Europe's Spaceport on a Soyuz launcher

Gaia star mapper to lift off from Europe's Spaceport on a Soyuz launcher

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gaia, ESA's next-generation star mapper, will be carried into space by a Soyuz-STB/Fregat launch vehicle from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. David Southwood, ESA's Director of Science ...


New results from a terra-ific decade in orbit

New results from a terra-ific decade in orbit

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

December 18, 2009, marks the tenth year since the launch of Terra, one of NASA's "flagship" Earth observing satellites. But the decade is more than just a mechanical milestone. With each additional day and ...


Military children face more emotional challenges as parental deployments grow longer, study finds

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Children in military families may suffer from more emotional and behavioral difficulties when compared to other American youths, with older children and girls struggling the most when a parent is deployed overseas, according ...


Bella Center in Copenhagen, the venue of upcoming COP15 Climate Summit

Silicon Valley getting greener with Hara

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Fresh from signing on to help green Silicon Valley, startup Hara will be at climate talks in Copenhagen this week to urge that corporations not wait for regulations to fight global warming.


Microsoft Store mirrors popular concept of its rival

Technology / Internet

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Blink an eye, and the Microsoft Store could be mistaken for an Apple Store.


Broadband stimulus moves at dial-up speeds

Technology / Telecom

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Mark Morgenthaler wants nothing more than to hire 15 people to help expand his wireless Internet service, Surfnet Communications in the Santa Cruz Mountains. He can't wait to start accepting applications, interviewing candidates, ...


NASA Aircraft Flies Calif. Wildfire Post-Burn Mission

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's remotely piloted Predator B aircraft, named Ikhana, recently conducted post-burn assessments of two Southern California wildfire sites, the Piute Fire in Kern County and the Station Fire in the Angeles ...


5-day delivery no sure cure for postal woes, economist says

Other Sciences / Economics

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scaling back mail delivery from six days a week to five may be the best bet to stem mounting U.S. Postal Service losses, but could still be a gamble, says a University of Illinois economist who has studied the agency's persistent ...


Analysts say AmEx is most interested in the so-called peer-to-peer services of Revolution

American Express takes aim at PayPal with Revolution

Technology / Internet

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

With its deal to buy Revolution Money, American Express is taking aim at the growing market for online and alternative payments, in a challenge to recognized leader PayPal, analysts say.



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