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  • Boulder - Feb 28, 2004
    Cassini's final approach to Saturn has begun, and the Cassini Imaging Team has released the first of a weekly postcard series that will reveal ever greater detail of Sol's greatest ringed world. For the first time in 23 years a spacecraft will visit Saturn, but this time to stay.

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    The Greening Of Mars Will Be An Inside Job
    Huntsville - Feb 27, 2004
    When humans go to the moon or Mars, they'll probably take plants with them. NASA-supported researchers are learning how greenhouses work on other planets. Confused? Then you're just like plants in a greenhouse on Mars.

    ISS To Receive Experimental Figurehead During Spacewalk
    Paris (ESA) Feb 27, 2004
    What resembles the head and torso of a human and will be attached outside the International Space Station? The answer is the European Matroshka experiment facility. During the night of 26/27 February the ISS Expedition 8 crew of Alexander Kaleri and Michael Foale will carry out a 5-hour 45-minute spacewalk and, amongst other tasks, attach Matroshka to the Russian Zvezda module.
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    The Year Of Living Occassionally
    Sydney - Feb 29, 2004
    Who? Well, Hilarius died on February 29th, 465. He was the 46th Pope, and did much to crush the insidious Eutychianism heresy which held that the human aspect of Christ's nature was subsumed by his divinity. Not many people are overly concerned about the heresy these days, but Saint Hilarius has a claim to fame which will stand for all time, writes Pat Sheil.

    Rosetta Launcher To Rolled Back For Insulation Patch Up
    Kourou (AFP) Feb 25, 2004
    The launch Thursday of Rosetta, a 1 billion euro spacecraft designed to chase and land on a comet, was postponed by 24 hours because of bad weather, officials said. "We will make a second attempt tomorrow provided the weather is good," said Jean-Yves Le Gall, director-general of Arianespace, the ESA-affiliated company that is in charge of the launch.
    A New View To The Home Range
    Tuscon - Feb 25, 2004
    University of Arizona researchers have created a Web site that allow users to compare greenness from one year to the next, between years, against a 14-year average and at two-week intervals. The information is invaluable for making long-term land management decisions.

    Ancient Desert Markings Imaged From Orbit
    Paris (ESA) Feb 25, 2004
    Visible from ESA's Proba spacecraft 600 kilometres away in space are the largest of the many Nasca Lines; ancient desert markings now at risk from human encroachment as well as flood events feared to be increasing in frequency.

    Internet Broadband Connections Booming As Consumers Convert
    Arlington - Feb 27, 2004
    Spending on high-speed Internet access services in the United States will reach an estimated $17.0 billion in 2004, up 30.5 percent over 2003, according to TIA's 2004 Telecommunications Market Review and Forecast. By the end of 2007, spending is expected to reach $24.8 billion, representing a 17.5 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR), 2004-2007.
    Metal Storm To Weaponize UAVs For DoD Demonstration
    Arlington - Feb 27, 2004
    Metal Storm Limited announced today that it is planning to live-fire its 40mm electronic-weapon system on an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) helicopter in the U.S. shortly.


    Seamless Nanorings Could Be Nanoscale Sensors, Resonators Or Transducers
    Atlanta - Feb 27, 2004
    An article to be published in the February 27 issue of the journal Science introduces "nanorings" as the newest member of a growing family of nanometer-scale structures based on single crystals of zinc oxide, a semiconducting and piezoelectric material that has important technological applications.

    Interplanetary Dust Anomalies Help Explain History of Organic Matter
    Livermore - Feb 27, 2004
    Scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Washington University have seen carbon and nitrogen anomalies on a particle of interplanetary dust that provides a clue as to how interstellar organic matter was incorporated into the solar system.
    Commission Adopts New Galileo Communication
    Brussels - Feb 27, 2004
    The European Commission adopted a Communication on the Galileo research programme on February 18 2004. Aimed at creating a satellite radionavigation system, the programme, says the report, is making steady progress.
    Trimble Selected For UNAVCO's EarthScope PBO Network
    Sunnyvale - Feb 27, 2004
    Trimble has been selected by UNAVCO to provide 875 Trimble NetRS GPS reference station receivers over five years. The reference station receivers will be used as part of the Plate Boundary Observatory network, a major component of the EarthScope Program sponsored by the National Science Foundation.
    Large Diamonds Made From Gas Are The Hardest Yet
    Washington - Feb 27, 2004
    Producing a material that is harder than natural diamond has been a goal of materials science for decades. Now a group* headed by scientists at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory in Washington, D.C., has produced gem-sized diamonds that are harder than any other crystals.

    A New Step In Spintronics
    Salt Lake City - Feb 27, 2004
    University of Utah physicists have taken an important step toward a new generation of faster, cheaper computers and electronics by building the first "organic spin valves" � electrical switches that integrate two emerging fields of technology: organic semiconductor electronics and spin electronics, or spintronics.

    Microbial Fuel Cell Cleans and Generates Power From Wastewater
    University Park - Feb 25, 2004
    Penn State environmental engineers have shown, for the first time, that a microbial fuel cell (MFC) can generate electricity while simultaneously cleaning the wastewater that you flush down the drain or toilet.

    Microscopic Astronauts
    Huntsville - Feb 25, 2004
    There are trillions of microbes orbiting Earth onboard the International Space Station (ISS). And that's just in the gut of one astronaut. Astronauts, like everyone else, carry microbes with them wherever they go. There are 1014 in the colon, trillions more on your hands, and in your mouth. The math is simple: Microbes outnumber people, in space and on Earth, by a staggering factor.

    Evolving Artificial DNA
    for Astrobiology Magazine
    Moffett Field - Feb 27, 2004
    A team of University of Florida scientists has for the first time developed an artificial chemical system that can mimic the natural evolutionary process living organisms undergo.
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