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NASA Delays Mars Scout Mission To 2013
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 24, 2007NASA has decided that the next mission in the Mars Scout program, originally planned for launch in 2011, is now targeted for launch in 2013. The schedule slip is because of an organizational conflict of interest that was discovered in one of the mission proposal team's Phase A Concept Study. This was the shortest delay for the mission possible because opportunities to send spacecraft to Mars occ ... more Sulfur Dioxide May Have Helped Maintain A Warm Early Mars 
Cambridge, MA (SPX) Dec 24, 2007Harvard University Sulfur dioxide (SO2) may have played a key role in the climate and geochemistry of early Mars, geoscientists at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggest in the Dec. 21 issue of the journal Science. Their hypothesis may resolve longstanding questions about evidence that the climate of the Red Planet was once much warmer than it is today. ... more In Search For Water On Mars Via Clues From Antarctica 
Columbus OH (SPX) Dec 24, 2007Scientists have gathered more evidence that suggests flowing water on Mars -- by comparing images of the red planet to an otherworldly landscape on Earth. In recent years, scientists have examined images of several sites on Mars where water appears to have flowed to the surface and left behind a trail of sediment. Those sites closely resemble places where water flows today in the McMurdo Dry Val ... more Indonesia's tsunami reconstruction chief lauds progress 
Jakarta (AFP) Dec 23, 2007When Kuntoro Mangkusubroto dashed in to lead reconstruction of Indonesia's Aceh in the wake of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, it was with little immediate help from his own government. Despite leading an organisation set up by presidential decree in May 2005, Mangkusubroto was forced to go cap in hand to Australia's aid agency for the money to fly his team out to the flattened provincial cap ... more Sri Lanka's cinnamon farmers seek divine help to spice up trade 
Seenigama, Sri Lanka (AFP) Dec 23, 2007Sri Lanka at the weekend revived an ancient ritual of offering the first cinnamon harvest to the gods, three years after a devastating tsunami wiped out centuries-old plantations here. In a pageant involving traditional dancers and elephants, farmers resplendent in white walked three kilometres (two miles) in bright sunshine, carrying 90 kilos (41 pounds) of their precious virgin harvest to ... more |
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Gainesville FL (SPX) Dec 21, 2007With powerful instruments scouring the heavens, astronomers have found more than 240 planets in the past two decades, none likely to support Earth-like life. But what if aliens were hunting life outside their own planet? Armed with telescopes only a bit bigger and more powerful than our own, could they peer through the vastness of space and lock in onto Earth as a likely home to life? That ... more Modernized GPS Satellite Built By Lockheed Martin Launched From Cape Canaveral 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Dec 21, 2007A U.S. Air Force modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin, was launched successfully from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II launch vehicle. Designated GPS IIR-18M, the satellite is the fifth in a series of eight Block IIR-M spacecraft that Lockheed Martin Navigation Systems has ... more German scientists finetune tsunami warning system 
Berlin (AFP) Dec 23, 2007As the third anniversary of the Asian tsunami nears, German scientists say they are working hard to honour a promise made to Indonesia to create an Indian Ocean alert system to prevent a repeat of the 2004 tragedy. "The aim is to be able to send out an alert within 10 minutes of the earthquake that sets off the giant waves and to save lives," said Joern Lauterjung of Germany's national resea ... more China, India building trust in first joint military exercises: official 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 20, 2007China said Thursday its first-ever joint military exercises with India that began this week were aimed at building trust between the neighbours, which still have rival claims to Himalayan territory. The nine-day military exercises in southwest China, which involve around 100 troops from each side, began on Wednesday, foreign ministry spokesman Qin Gang told a regular press briefing. "The ... more Outside View: Arms control sense -- Part 1 
Moscow (UPI) Dec 20, 2007 As the rhetoric about basic treaties signed at the end of the Cold War -- the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty-1 -- START 1, the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty -- INF, the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty -- CFE -- intensifies, it is becoming clear that collective security in Europe and the world needs new approaches and perhaps a complete overhaul. The present conflict is based ... more |
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Taipei (AFP) Dec 22, 2007Taiwan's President Chen Shui-bian on Saturday rebuffed criticism from US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that a planned referendum on UN membership was provocative and raised tensions with China. "There is absolutely no provocative policy but only a policy that respects public opinions ... It is not Taiwan that is acting provocative today, it is China," Chen said. "Taiwan is not a pa ... more Evolutionary Study Shows Beetles Are Life's 6-Legged Survivors 
London, UK (SPX) Dec 21, 2007Most modern-day groups of beetles have been around since the time of the dinosaurs and have been diversifying ever since, says new research out in Science. There are approximately 350,000 species of beetles on Earth, and probably millions more yet to be discovered, accounting for about 25% of all known life forms on the planet. The reason for this large number of beetle species has been debated ... more Walker's World: Is Europe doing better? 
Washington (UPI) Dec 19, 2007 The euro is riding high and the dollar is weak. European car sales boom while Detroit suffers. European growth rates are recovering and the United States is slipping toward recession. The Fed seems unable to do much about the U.S. financial crisis, while the European Central Bank has just swamped the market by pumping $500 billion in low-interest funding into liquidity and forced lendi ... more El Nino Affected By Global Warming 
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 21, 2007The climatic event El Nino, literally "the Baby Jesus", was given its name because it generally occurs at Christmas time along the Peruvian coasts. This expression of climatic variability, also called El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO), results from a series of interactions between the atmosphere and the tropical ocean. It induces drought in areas that normally receive abundant rain and, conver ... more Jordan on alert for bird flu 
Amman, Jordan (UPI) Dec 22, 2007 Jordan is trying to prevent an outbreak of bird flu from crossing over from Saudi Arabia. Jordan has raised its state of alert to its highest level and resumed field inspections of bird farms and poultry stores, KUNA reported Saturday. Under the alert, non-processed livestock from Saudi Arabia is banned from entering Jordan, the Kuwait news agency reported. Saudi Arabia r ... more
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