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Tokyo (AFP) Mar 13, 2003North Korea may be preparing to launch a Rodong ballistic missile that could reach nearly all parts of Japan, leading newspapers said Thursday. The US military headquarters in Japan gave the information, based on analysis of data from spy satellites and other sources, to the government last Friday, the Yomiuri Shimbun and the Mainichi Shimbun said. The Japan Defence Agency has dispatched the Myoko, an Aegis-equipped destroyer, to the Sea of Japan as part of increased efforts to monitor North Korean moves, said the newspapers. |
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New Clues About The Earth's Movements
Grenoble - Mar 12, 2003Synchrotron light has just revealed new clues about how the Earth moves. A team of scientists (Dubrovinsky et al.) from four different countries and different fields of expertise have come to the ESRF to study materials submitted to extreme conditions of pressure and temperature, similar to those found at the boundary between the core and the mantle of the Earth. Norway And Canada Continue Joint EO Program With Radarsat-2 
Saint-Hubert - Mar 12, 2003The Norwegian Space Centre (NSC), the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) and Natural Resources Canada, announced a long-term agreement to continue their collaboration in radar-based Earth observation. |
Planetary Society Selects 150 Radio Sources For Arecibo Follow Up
San Francisco - Mar 12, 2003After nearly four years of searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, the SETI@home project will now take a closer look at its most promising candidate radio sources. The "Stellar Countdown" will use Puerto Rico's Arecibo radio telescope on March 18-20, 2003 to re-observe up to 150 of the most interesting radio sources found out of the billions detected since the distributed computing project began in May 1999. Cassini Closing In On Saturn 
Pasadena - Mar 12, 2003The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired from the Goldstone tracking station on Wednesday, March 5. The Cassini spacecraft is in an excellent state of health and is operating normally. |
Researchers Solve Ballistic Mystery in Ceramic Armor
Baltimore - Mar 12, 2003Ballistics experts in recent years have puzzled over a troubling loss of impact resistance in an extremely hard and lightweight ceramic material called boron carbide, sometimes used in protective armor. Australian Overturns 15 Years Of Nano-Science Doctrine 
Melbourne - Mar 12, 2003An Australian mathematician has thrown 15 years of accepted scientific practice out the window by discovering a design flaw in a key component of the Atomic Force Microscope. |
Diamond Film May Enable Critical New Sensors For Bioterror
Madison - Mar 11, 2003In this time of the chronic threat of terrorism and the possibility of war with an adversary who may be armed with biological weapons, high on the wish list of security agencies and battlefield commanders is a quick and easy way to detect the presence of dangerous biological agents. |
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