date: 2008-11-15 08:02:00
Space shuttle Endeavour has blasted off from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida - on an extreme makeover mission.
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date: 2008-11-15 01:44:00
The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off carrying seven American astronauts on a mission to improve and expand living quarters on the orbiting International Space Station.
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date: 2008-11-15 01:24:01
The Nasa space shuttle Endeavour launches on a mission to refit the International Space Station.
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date: 2008-11-14 17:46:00
European fishermen could face tough controls on their catches and heavier penalties for any infractions under new rules proposed Friday by the European Commission.
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date: 2008-11-14 17:19:00
Greenland is to ask for health checks on people living where a US nuclear bomb was lost under the ice in the Danish protectorate more than 40 years ago, a senior official said Friday.
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date: 2008-11-14 15:43:46
To raise awareness for the endangered species, a design company has come up with a life-vest for displaced polar bears. From Inhabitat.com, part of the Guardian Environment Network
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date: 2008-11-14 15:13:52
An environmental campaigner today won a landmark victory against the government in a long-running legal battle over the use of pesticides. The high court ruled that Georgina Downs, who runs the UK Pesticides Campaign, had produced "solid evidence" that people exposed to chemicals used to spray ...
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date: 2008-11-14 11:30:36
Which is best-analogue or digital?A MUSIC lover but no audio zealot, your correspondent has often wondered whether analogue recordings really are “warmer” than digital ones. In other words, do audio amplifiers and microphones with old-fashioned thermionic valves (“vacuum ...
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date: 2008-11-14 05:03:00
Air New Zealand said it will conduct its first trial of biofuel on one of its Boeing 747 aircraft on a flight next month.
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date: 2008-11-14 03:41:00
Marine biologist Suzanne Licuanan leans over the side of her battered blue and white motor boat to collect another bag of her precious cargo -- giant clam sperm.
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date: 2008-11-14 01:23:13
Seabird colonies on the Farne Islands have enjoyed successful breeding seasons, bucking the UK trend, the National Trust says.
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date: 2008-11-13 23:14:00
A prehistoric pelvis discovered in Ethiopia has given researchers new clues about how early humans developed, a study released Thursday said.
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date: 2008-11-13 19:00:27
Two studies show the first direct images of planets outside our solar system, including a three-planet system.
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date: 2008-11-21 22:31:57
A massive ball of fire that lit up the skies over two Western Canadian provinces on Thursday evening was likely among the biggest meteor events to be witnessed in Canada this year, one expert said.
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date: 2008-11-21 18:19:00
The International Space Station (ISS) next year will be commanded for the first time by a European, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced here on Friday.
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date: 2008-11-21 14:52:33
A collaboration in the US is aiming to create artificial brain circuits that mimic the structure and workings of neurons.
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date: 2008-11-21 10:56:02
Nasa has successfully tested a communications system designed to work in deep space modelled on the internet
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date: 2008-11-21 02:07:07
An otter has survived a "perilous" three-mile sea crossing to the Farne Islands for the first time, the National Trust says.
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date: 2008-11-13 17:13:00
Vietnam plans to test genetically modified (GM) agricultural crops from now until 2010 and then grow them on a large scale, media reports in the communist country said on Thursday.
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date: 2008-11-13 16:06:41
Soaring energy prices this year eroded long-standing political opposition to offshore drilling
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date: 2008-11-13 13:59:37
It is not just living organisms that evolve. Minerals do too, and much of their diversity has arisen in tandem with the evolution of lifeEVOLUTION has come a long way since Charles Darwin’s time. Today ...
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date: 2008-11-13 01:59:00
Malaysian authorities have seized more than 7,000 monitor lizards and the carcasses of 13 protected species destined to be sold to restaurants and medicine shops, reports said Thursday.
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date: 2008-11-12 17:08:00
The US Supreme Court Wednesday ruled the US Navy can continue to use long-range sonar in exercises off the California coast, dismissing arguments that the practice was harmful to whales.
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date: 2008-11-12 04:14:00
The space shuttle Endeavour is set to lift off on Friday with seven astronauts who plan to make repairs to the International Space Station and expand its living quarters for bigger crews.
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date: 2008-11-12 03:05:28
Energy experts warn the UK could face an unacceptable risk of major blackouts in less than 10 years unless policy is improved.
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