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Laser-powered space elevators
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A laser-powered lift has won the Space Elevator Games in the Californian Mojave Desert, paving the way for similar machines to carry people and cargo into orbit. Three teams are taking part in the Games
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Wizzard Media Launches 24 New iPhone Apps
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BusinessWire - Wizzard Media (NYSE Amex: WZE), the world's largest podcasting network, today announced the launch of 24 new iPhone(R) Apps available for sale in the App store including Investors Business
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Can scientists make a space elevator?
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"The question Artsutanov asked himself had the childlike brilliance of true genius. A merely clever man could never have thought of it -- or would have dismissed it instantly as absurd. If the laws of
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China Says Space Plans Peaceful
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BEIJING - China's foreign ministry insisted on Thursday that the country's intentions in space were peaceful, after comments from top air force brass preparing to celebrate a 60th anniversary worried
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India's space ambitions taking off
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PANNITHITTU, India -- In this seaside village, the children of farmers and fishermen aspire to become something that their impoverished parents never thought possible: astronauts. Through community-based
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Success in 'space elevator' competition
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A robot powered by a ground-based laser beam climbed a long cable dangling from a helicopter on Wednesday to qualify for prize money in a $2 million competition to test the potential reality of the science
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Mutant Diseases May Cripple Missions to Mars, Beyond
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Mutant hitchhikers may become a major hurdle in the quest to send humans deeper into the galaxy, scientists say. That's because no matter how fit astronauts feel at liftoff, they're likely to be carrying
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Messenger Spies Iron on Mercury
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Mercury is even more of an 'iron planet' than scientists had previously supposed. Richer concentrations of iron and titanium have been seen on Mercury's surface by Nasa's Messenger probe. Previous Earth
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NRL Sensor Provides Critical Space Weather Observations
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WASHINGTON, D.C. (NNS) -- The Navy Research Laboratory's Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSULI)was launched Oct. 18, 2009, offering a first of its kind technique for remote sensing of the ionosphere
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Carbon Atmosphere Discovered On Neutron Star
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Search All Our Sites - Powered By Bing STELLAR CHEMISTRY The neutron star at the center of Cas A is found to have an ultra-thin carbon atmosphere. Credit X-ray: NASA/CXC/Southampton/W. Ho et al.; Illustration:
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Space hotel to open in 2012 at $4.4 mln 3-night rate
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The first commercial space hotel is expected to open in 2012, according to a plan of the Galactic Suite Space Resort company as quoted by media reports Thursday. An artist's rendition of the the 'Galactic
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Astronomers see 'skeleton' of the universe
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SANTIAGO -- Astronomers in Chile and Japan have for the first time seen part of the â??cosmic webâ? of galaxies that permeates the known universe in a gigantic assembly some seven billion light years
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Astronaut chats with Winnipeg students
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Bell offers Video Calling feature for mobile phones and Facebook Wireless Competition On Hold, For Now OpenOffice.org 3 milestone: 100,000,000 downloads Rogersâ?? 50 Mbps service = Wow TechTalk: How to
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Professor To Predict Weather On Mars
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Search All Our Sites - Powered By Bing MARSDAILY 'All weather forecasts, including those on TV, are based on model forecasts of the different physical parameters of the Earth's atmosphere such as temperature,
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China's military making strides in space: US general
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Search All Our Sites - Powered By Bing DRAGON SPACE by Staff Writers Washington (AFP) Nov 3, 2009 China's military has made dramatic progress in space over the past decade and the goals of its program
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Tackling new Arctic challenges from space
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International scientists, researchers and decision makers met at the 'Space and the Arctic workshop' to identify the needs and challenges of working and living in the rapidly changing Arctic and to explore
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Early universe supports dark matter theory
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Search All Our Sites - Powered By Bing STELLAR CHEMISTRY disclaimer: image is for illustration purposes only by Staff Writers Stanford, Calif. (UPI) Nov 4, 2009 U.S. and Welsh researchers say they've
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'Cosmic Web' of Galaxies Holds Universe Together
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Galaxies gather around them, and immense form at their intersections, lurking like giant spiders waiting for more matter to digest,' it adds. The filaments are located about 6.7 billion light-years away
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