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April 29, 2002
TERRADAILY
Scientists Find Fewer Species Than Expected In Rainforests
 St Paul - Apr 26, 2002
 An eight-year National Science Foundation-funded study of New Guinean rainforest plants and the insects that feed on them has yielded a new and dramatically lower estimate of the number of species on the planet. The estimate, which lowers the number of species from approximately 31 million to between four and six million, is based on the finding that insects specialize their feeding not on individual species of plants, but on genera and even families of plants.
  • Climate Change Appears To Be Having A Global Impact On Life
  • Tropical Waterways Exhaling Much More Co2 Than Modeled
  • Imagine No Restrictions On Fossil-Fuel Usage
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    TECH SPACE
    Satellite Project On Track To Launch In 2003
     Las Cruces - Apr 29, 2002
     A pioneering satellite project developed by New Mexico State University and two other western universities is scheduled to be launched from a NASA space shuttle in the summer of 2003, said Stephen Horan, a professor of electrical engineering at New Mexico State.
  • Stardust Sets New Distance Record
  • NASA Develops New Portable Fuel Cell Technology
  • Cadets Complete Testing On FalconSat-2 Model

    • EXO WORLDS
    New Evidence For Organic Compounds In Deep Spaces
     Den Haag - Apr 22, 2002
     The mysterious spectral bands in the infrared of interstellar gas clouds in deep space originate from organic compounds. Research by the Nijmegen physicist Hans Piest confirms this. He has provided new experimental evidence for this almost 30-year-old problem in astronomy.
  • Evidence For Young Planets Found In Dusty Orbit About Close Star
  • Flares Illuminate The Secret Life Of A Quiescent Black Hole
  • Where Are The Other Earths Beyond The Solar System?
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    SPACE SCIENCE
    Ames Astrobiology Explorer Scope Chosen For Feasibility Study
     Moffett Field - Apr 24, 2002
     A mission proposal from NASA Ames Research Center to measure the pre-biological chemical building blocks of life in deep space has been selected as a next-mission candidate under NASA'S Explorer Program -- a roster of low-cost, focused next-generation spacecraft.
    X-Ray Flashes To Gamma-Ray Bursts
     Albuquerque - Apr 23, 2002
     Astronomers announced today the discovery of what may be the lower-energy "poor relations" of cosmic gamma-ray bursts, the fantastically powerful explosions occurring daily in distant galaxies throughout the universe.
  • Los Alamos Researcher Says 'Black Holes' Aren't Holes At All
  • Energy Disappears High In Atmosphere, Scientists Say

    • NUKEWARS
    US To Follow Up On North Korea Overtures
     Washington (AFP) Apr 24, 2002
     The United States will follow up on signals from Pyongyang that Cold War foe North Korea is ready to resume a long-stalled dialogue with Washington, Secretary of State Colin Powell said Wednesday.
  • No Let-Up In India And Pakistan Standoff Between Until Fall
  • Proton Movies Used To Test Nuclear Stockpile and More
  • US Military Commander Warns Of Cross-Strait Arms Race

    • CIVIL NUCLEAR
    Can A New Generation Of Nuclear Reactors Allay Public Fears
     Los Angeles - Apr 29, 2002
     Despite the bad press that nuclear reactors earned in past years, researchers writing for the latest issue of Physics Today magazine report that more and more people are reconsidering nuclear power as an alternative to fossil fuel.
  • Russia Risks Chernobyl-Type Accident At Any Time: Greenpeace
  • EU Insists On Shutdown Of Unsafe Nuclear Reactors
  • Russia May Build Nuke Plant "Near" N.Korea

    • MISSILE DEFENSE
    Seoul May Scrap Plan To Buy Patriot After Talks Collapse
     Seoul (AFP) Apr 26, 2002
     South Korea may scrap its 1.5 billion dollar project to buy Patriot missiles after talks with the provider, Raytheon Corp., collapsed in February, the defense ministry here said Friday.
  • LockMart To Study Big Target Rocket Concepts
  • US Army Tests Research Missile BAT
  • Pac-3 Missile Defense Scores Successful Intercepts

    • TERRORWARS
    Blair Claims He Has "Treasure" Of Evidence Detailing Iraqi WMD Plans
     Kuwait City (AFP) Apr 27, 2002
     Britain has a "treasure of evidence" that Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction and the regime should be "exposed" to the world, Prime Minister Tony Blair said in an interview published Saturday.
  • Top Captured Al-Qaeda Figure Says Group Seeking A Radiological Bomb
  • Homeland Defense Could See Tighter Controls On University Education

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    UAV NEWS
  • Dassault, Sagem Announce Plan To Develop Tactical Drones
  • US Air Force Moves Ahead With Production Of Global Hawks
  • Spy Drone Crashes While On Patrol In Southern Philippines

    • SPACEWAR
  • Detecting Hidden Targets With 'Smart' Robotic Sensors
  • SkyNet Will Guide Unmanned Vehicles into Battle
  • Sally Ride Speaks On The Tactical Role Of Space and War

    • SPACEMART
  • Iridium Targets Merchant Seamen With Easy Calling Packages
  • XCOR Buys Rotary Rocket Assets
  • TRW Digs In Its Defenses Over Northrop Grumman Bid

    • MARSDAILY
  • New Biosatellite To Study Life In Martian Gravity
  • Greenhouse For A Red Planet
  • The Beagle Will Land

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  • Shenzhou-5 May Carry Out First Chinese Manned Mission
  • China To Put Man In Space Within Two Years
  • Shenzhou: Half Way There - Analysis by Morris Jones

    • OPINION SPACE
  • The Outer Space and Moon Treaties and the Coming Moon Rush
  • Can Aurora Become Europe's New Age Of Planetary Discovery
  • Microspace Vs. Terror

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