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Yet Another Planet X Found On The Outer Rim Of Sol
Researchers have discovered the most distant object orbiting Earth's Sun. Called Sedna, after the Inuit goddess of the sea, the object is a mysterious planet-like body three times farther from Earth than Pluto. This may be the first detection of the long-hypothesized "Oort cloud," a faraway repository of small icy bodies that supplies the comets that streak by Earth. Spring Begins On March 20th.. Or Is It The 19th? 
Los Angeles - Mar 16, 2004The coming of spring in 2004 will pose a bit of a quandary for weather announcers and others in the news media. Does it happen on March 19th or 20th? |
New Gene-Extracting Lab Fits On A Chip
New York (UPI) March 15, 2004U.S. scientists said they have reduced all the elements of a genetics lab capable of extracting DNA from cells automatically onto a microprocessor the size of a dime. Charge Doping Of Molecules One Atom At A Time Using STM 
Berkeley - Mar 16, 2004 While the semiconductor industry today routinely dopes bulk silicon with billions of atoms of boron or phosphorous to obtain desired electrical properties, a team of physicists at the University of California, Berkeley, has succeeded in changing the properties of a single molecule by doping one atom at a time. Controling Fluids With Specially Fabricated Silicon Nanograss 
Murray Hill - Mar 16, 2004Scientists at Bell Labs have discovered an entirely new method to control the behavior of tiny liquid droplets by applying electrical charges to specially engineered silicon surfaces that resemble blades of grass. |
These Boots Are Made For Walking
Houston - Mar 16, 2004How will future space suits differ from the current ones? Well, for one thing, the boots will be made for walking. Astronauts who wear space suits for extra-vehicular activities (EVAs) don't walk. They hover and float, or their feet are placed into foot restraints so they don't drift away. In the future, however, astronauts may go to Mars as part of NASA's new vision. And they'll need very different boots to walk on the planet's surface or drive a rover. Let Me Check My Schedule 
Near Earth - Mar 16, 2004From soccer practice to dentist appointments, most families use a large calendar to schedule all of their daily activities. Astronauts use the same type of schedule on the International Space Station (ISS) - more or less. |
A Big Bounce For The Martian Sciences
Pasadena - Mar 16, 2004Here I was: 26 years old, I had never worked on a flight project before, and all eyes were on me. Every time I walked by the Pathfinder project office, Tony Spear, the project manager, would throw his arm around me and announce, "Hey everybody, the whole mission is riding on this guy right here." Dragons Of The Air: Pterosaurs Flew With Smart Wings Boulder 
Colorado - Mar 16, 2004These are the images of which nightmares are made: ancient pterosaurs darkening Earth's skies above the heads of dinosaurs during the Mesozoic era 225 million to 65 million years ago. |
Scientists Confirm Phenomenon Of Falling Beer Bubbles
Stanford - Mar 16, 2004A new experiment by chemists from Stanford University and the University of Edinburgh has finally proven what beer lovers have long suspected: When beer is poured into a glass, the bubbles sometimes go down instead of up. Biggest Ever Solar Flare Was Even Bigger Than Thought 
Washington - Mar 16, 2004Physicists in New Zealand have shown that last November's record-breaking solar explosion was much larger than previously estimated, thanks to innovative research using the upper atmosphere as a gigantic x-ray detector. |
ILS Launches Loral-Built MBSAT Satellite For Japan-Korean JV
Palo Alto - Mar 15, 2004The MBSAT broadcast communications satellite, built by Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) for Mobile Broadcasting Corporation (MBCO) of Japan and SK Telecom of Korea, was successfully launched at 12:40 am EST March 13, 2004. The satellite was sent into space on an International Launch Services (ILS) Atlas III rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. Mobile Tracking System Features Start/Stop Motion-Monitoring 
Tyler - Mar 16, 2004For the trucking industry, accurate logging of time is vital. In addition to cost considerations, companies are governed by strict hours-of-service regulations. |
Northrop Grumman's Load-Bearing Antennas Offer
El Segundo - Mar 16, 2004Northrop Grumman Corporation will help the U.S. Air Force enhance the surveillance capabilities of aerial vehicles by embedding antennas in the primary load-bearing structures of composite aircraft wings. China's Defense Is All Smoke and Mirrors 
Washington (UPI) March 15, 2004The People's Republic of China persists in conducting a campaign of smoke and mirrors regarding its defense spending. The Beijing government has just announced that it plans to boost the defense budget by 12 percent in the coming year. That is a fairly hefty increase, and it continues a pattern of double digit hikes over the past decade. China's neighbors in East Asia express growing uneasiness about that trend. |
Robot For The Elderly At Future Of Aging Services Conference
Ann Arbor - Mar 16, 2004Professor Martha Pollack, University of Michigan Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon collaborators, will demonstrate "Pearl," an artificial-intelligence robot designed to assist the elderly at the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday. Systech And Echosat Announce Satellite-Based IP Payment Solution 
San Diego - Mar 16, 2004Systech Corp. has announced an alliance with EchoSat to deploy Systech Internet Payment Gateways to convert dial-up payment transactions to faster, IP-based transactions over EchoSat satellite networks. |
Coral Reefs Under Attack As Water Temperatures Increase
Boulder (UPI) March 15, 2004The world's coral reefs are facing several factors -- overfishing, pollution, coastal development and a warming ocean -- that together pose a grave threat to the health of these important ecosystems. A Fallacious Trade Doctrine 
Washington (UPI) March 15, 2004The argument over globalization has a tired quality to it, with primitive protectionists battling against dogmatic free traders, who cite the doctrine of comparative advantage and correctly term their opponents economically illiterate. Yet true economic understanding, not simply of the theory but of the second order effects that trade can produce, may not lie entirely on the free trade side. The Challenge Of A Larger Europe 
Washington (UPI) March 15, 2004The new enlargement of the European Union will undoubtedly be more historic and challenging than the previous enlargements were. It effectively ends the division of Europe and the legacy of the Cold War. The question now is, will it also effectively put an end to the European Union as we know it? David Kay On Inspections and Absence of Prohibited Weapons 
Washington - Mar 15, 2004One year after the United States and Britain bypassed ongoing United Nations weapons monitoring and disarmament efforts and invaded Iraq, U.S.-led teams scouring the country have failed to uncover any prohibited Iraqi weapons stockpiles. One Year Later In The Sands Of Eden 
New York (UPI) March 15, 2004Not much to show for nearly 600 American soldiers killed, thousands more injured, and over $150 billion spent. Desert Skies, Patriot Missiles And Stealth Bombers 
Washington (UPI) March 12, 2004We now know a great deal more about the Iraq war than we all did a year ago, when the stealth bombers first hit Baghdad, when the streets of Cairo erupted with protests, when Kuwait closed its airport and the Patriot systems started knocking the incoming Iraqi missiles out of the desert skies. |
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