The U.S. space shuttle Discovery, with seven crew on board, is now docked to the International Space Station, said a spokesman for the U.S. NASA.The coupling of the shuttle was done on time, at 07.44 GMT. Discovery is commanded by Alan Poindexter, pilot Jim also travel Dutton, mission specialists Rick Mastracchio, Clayton Anderson, and colleagues [...]
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The shuttle Discovery blasted off with seven astronauts
The shuttle Discovery blasted off Monday from the International Space Station (ISS) with seven astronauts. Discovery is scheduled to deliver a module called Leonardo Italian and carrying 17 tons of equipment and supplies, including cabinets, scientific experiments, four bunks, a cooling system and a freezer to store samples. The American shuttle, which took off one [...]
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NASA scientists will investigate problems of Toyota
NASA technicians were summoned to check the possibility of interference from cosmic rays in cars.The secretary of transportation in the United States, Ray LaHood, said on Tuesday (to convene scientists from NASA to research the problems of speeding cars in the Toyota. They will determine whether the complaint that “cosmic rays” are responsible for problems [...]
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On the surface “Death Star” found Pac-Man
Orbiter Cassini sent to the earth surface temperature map of one of Saturn’s moons, Mimas. High-field, marked by warmer colors, form on the surface of a celestial body image Pac-Man’s, cult character of computer game 80 years, reports PhysOrg. Space probe Cassini launched in 1997. In 2004 the spacecraft was the first artificial satellite of [...]
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Half of maximum power attained at Large Hadron Collider
The LHC’s record-breaking smashups could uncover evidence of dark matter, discover new forces in physics, unveil new dimensions, and even find the Higgs boson, aka the God particle, a theoretical particle that physicists think is responsible for mass in the universe. Today, at 1:06 p.m. local time in Geneva, Switzerland, LHC operators smashed those beams [...]
Mar
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Outspoken Pachauri apologizes
IPCC (intergovernmental panel on climate change) chairman Dr. R.K.Pachauri has been in news for all the wrong reasons in the recent times. However things seem to be improving now. The outspoken chairman of the UN’s climate change body is all set to adopt a neutral advisory role and has agreed to stop making statements demanding [...]
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Earth Hour 2010 :60 minutes for the planet tonight at 20H30, Initiatives in Paris
Today at 20:30 Saturday, the event will be the fourth edition of Earth Hour, 60 minutes for the Planet “initiative launched by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature). Everyone is invited to turn off its lights for one time. In Paris, the event gives rise to multiple initiatives Exterior lighting of more than 240 monuments [...]
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First evidence of dinosaur’s presence in Australia
Disproving a previous theory that tyrannosaurs never lived in the Southern continents, the latest discovery of a dinosaur’s bone has researchers re-evaluating other such theories.The results are published in Friday’s issue of the journal Science. The researchers found the hip bone in Dinosaur Cove in Victoria state . That is about 220 kilometers (136 miles) [...]
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Earth Hour 2010 on March 27: Its History
To make a stand against the climate change, 2.2 million homes and businesses turned their lights off in Sydney, Australia in 2007. This is where the Earth Hour originated from. Earth Hour 2010 is organized by World Wide Fund for Nature, (WWFN) and this is one of the world’s largest mass participation event. The second [...]
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Highest energy achieved at Cern
In an official announcement by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Switzerland, set a new energy record. This is a new record, three times the energy of any other machine on earth. Along with this the time seems near to observe the toward full-power operation of the collider. The [...]