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Every way devised to deflect an asteroid

With asteroid 2005 YU55 passing close by Earth yesterday, this rather unsettlingly near flyby has many people wondering if we would be able to divert an asteroid that was heading for an intersection with Earth ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 15

10,000 technology staff strike over pay in Finland

Some 10,000 professional and managerial staff in Finland's technology industry went on strike on Tuesday after rejecting a wage offer made by a national conciliator, their union said.

Technology / Business

created Nov 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Video game makers ready barrage of blockbusters

Video game makers are breaking out the big guns and hitting players with a barrage of dynamite titles that will compete for their devotion and entertainment dollars this holiday season.

Technology / Software

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nurses at dozens of Calif. hospitals strike

(AP) -- Nurses began picketing Thursday morning outside dozens of Northern and Central California hospitals as part of a one-day strike over benefit cuts and other concessions sought by hospital management.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nurses at dozens of Calif. hospitals set to strike

(AP) -- Tens of thousands of nurses at nearly three dozen hospitals in Northern and Central California are set to go on strike in a labor dispute that has hospital managers moving to call in replacement workers ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ariane-5 launch set for Wednesday after strike ended

An Ariane-5 rocket launch that was postponed because of a strike at the Kourou space centre in French Guiana is to go ahead on Wednesday after the dispute was resolved, officials said.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Strike delays Ariane-5 launch: official

A strike at the Kourou space centre in French Guiana on Tuesday forced authorities to postpone an Ariane-5 rocket launch, the National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) said.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mauna Kea telescope back up after lightning strike

(AP) -- A Mauna Kea telescope that was knocked out by lightning more than two months ago is fully operational again after undergoing repairs, the telescope's director said Friday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Are humans to blame for shark attacks?

An apparent increase in shark attacks may well have a human cause, with low-cost air travel but also over-fishing and possibly global warming among the hidden suspects, say experts.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Aug 18, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Smoke from Va.'s Lateral West Fire

Today, the GOES-13 satellite captured a visible image of the thick brown smoke streaming from the Lateral West Fire burning in the Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (GDSBWR) in southeastern Virginia.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA checks for damage after possible lightning

Thunderstorms threatened to delay NASA's last space shuttle launch set for Friday with lightning striking near the pad as astronauts descended on Cape Canaveral by the dozens on the eve of the historic flight.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New knowledge could combat fly strike in sheep

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research at Victoria University could contribute to new treatments for the costly and sometimes fatal condition of fly strike in sheep.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

British electricity pylons to get a makeover

Electricity pylons across the British countryside may soon cease to be eyesores thanks to a government backed competition for a new design.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 23, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 4

Asteroid strike into ocean could deplete ozone layer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists in Texas say if a medium-sized asteroid were to crash into the ocean the ozone layer could be depleted, allowing high levels of ultraviolet radiation to reach the surface.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 27, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (17) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

Plastics and nanoparticles are the perfect combination

These days, plastic components are vital to many fields of industry - lightweight construction, automobile manufacturing and electrical engineering, to name but a few. Now researchers have found ingenious ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 01, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0