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Calif. space tourism firm launches S. Korea deal

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- A California company developing a rocket plane for space tourism announced Thursday that it has an agreement with a nonprofit group in South Korea to conduct launches in that nation.





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China Building 30-Mile Bridge Connecting Hong Kong to Guangdong Province

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 18, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 3 weblog

China Daily reports the commencement of the 30-mile Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, the longest sea bridge under construction world-wide. The six-lane expressway will cut travel time from three-hours to around ...


Diners spend more when menus don't use dollar signs

Other Sciences / Other

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Restaurant patrons tend to spend more money when they select their items from menus that don't use dollar signs, reports a new Cornell study.


Social networking changing the way we travel (AP)

Social networking changing the way we travel

Technology / Internet

created Dec 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Isahrai Azaria is heading to Austin, Texas, in February, and thanks to Facebook, she already has 40 acquaintances, an invitation to go water tubing, and a line on the best vegetarian lunch place in ...


Winds drive icebergs away from New Zealand

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Strong westerly winds in the southern Pacific Ocean have driven scores of icebergs originally headed toward New Zealand to the east, away from the country, an oceanographer said Tuesday.


Antarctic nations plan tough new shipping controls (AP)

Antarctic nations plan tough new shipping controls

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 12, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(AP) -- Countries that manage Antarctica plan tough new controls on ships visiting the southern oceans and the fuels they use to reduce the threat of human and environmental disasters as tourist numbers rise, ...


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In Taiwan, bird catchers turn bird watchers

Biology / Ecology

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

When Yeh You-chin was a boy half a century ago, he ate migratory birds with relish, but now he is at the forefront of efforts to preserve the feathered visitors to his south Taiwan home.


A scale model of the Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo

Virgin Galactic readies maiden suborbital flight

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (23) | comments 10

British billionaire Sir Richard Branson will unveil a craft on Monday that could soon carry tourists on an out-of-this-world trip into space -- for a mere 200,000 dollars. (Update: Virgin Galactic unveils commercial spaceship) ...


Researchers look at water-energy impacts of climate change

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate projections for the next 50 to 100 years forecast increasingly frequent severe droughts and heat waves across the American Southwest, sinking available water levels even as rising mercury drives up ...


Rocket test will carry Purdue experiment

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers are designing and building an experiment that will operate during a test flight of a new type of reusable rocket to be launched by aerospace company Blue Origin LLC.


Unique 'Climate One Stop' Web Site Unveiled in Copenhagen

Unique 'Climate One Stop' Web Site Unveiled in Copenhagen

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (9) | comments 6

There's a storm brewing -- a storm of information, that is, in climate and environmental research. People are wading through the turbulence, trying to make sense of it all.



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