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US, India Technology Transfer Expands With Space & NukesNew Delhi, India (UPI) Oct 11, 2004 
India and the United States continue to engage each other in closer defense cooperation, with the two sides now embarking on their second leg of bilateral talks on what is called the Next Steps in Strategic Partnership. |
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Northrop Grumman Wins $39M Contract For NASA Airframe Structures Work
El Segundo CA (SPX) Oct 12, 2004Northrop Grumman will help NASA's Langley Research Center mature key airframe structures technologies under a recently awarded indefinite delivery/ indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract. Boeing CEO Still Hopes For Air Force Tanker Deal 
Washington DC (AFP) Oct 11, 2004Boeing's top executive said Monday the aerospace giant still hopes to win a contract for new Air Force tanker refueling planes, despite action by Congress killing a controversial lease plan. |
UN Watchdog Says Nuclear Equipment Vanished In Iraq
United Nations (AFP) Oct 12, 2004The UN's nuclear watchdog raised concerns on Monday about material and equipment from Saddam Hussein's regime which could be used to make a nuclear weapon, which have since vanished in Iraq. Unprotected Nuclear Weapons Multiply 
Washington (UPI) Oct 11, 2004Four countries that secretly built their nuclear programs against the wishes of the international community now possess more than 400 nuclear weapons, says a report released in Washington Monday. |
Wireless World: WiFi Transforms Transport
Chicago (UPI) Oct 8, 2004An ambulance leaves a hospital driveway in central London, and before it passes Paddington Station, a dispatcher sends instructions to the paramedic and driver, directing them to a traffic accident just a few blocks a way. But unlike the millions of ambulance-routing assignments in the past - made over the radio - this one is completed over the Internet, via Wireless Fidelity technology. Wireless World: 'Fiction' Of Telecom Rules 
Chicago (UPI) Oct 11, 2004Futurist Marshall McLuhan once famously wrote that the medium is the message. The phrase has become a credo for the telecommunications industry during the last 30 or so years. Trouble is, there are so many media today, the message is getting garbled. |
Extrasolar Planets: A Matter of Metallicity
Moffett Field (SPX) Oct 12, 2004Astronomers have discovered more than 130 planets orbiting nearby stars in our galaxy. Although the solar systems they have found are very different from ours, by studying the planets that have been found - their masses, their orbits and their stars - they are uncovering intriguing hints that our galaxy may be brimming with solar systems like our own. Pakistan, Saudi Arabia Explore Joint Ventures In Defence Production 
Islamabad (AFP) Oct 11, 2004Pakistan on Monday explored the possibilities of joint ventures with Saudi Arabia in arms production including missiles and tanks, its defence ministry said. |
Helsinki Transport Speeds Toward Future With Echelon's Technology
San Jose CA (SPX) Oct 12, 2004Helsinki City Transport's trains are to be installed with passenger emergency units and driver control panels, which enable the control of automated passenger announcements, display messages based on geographical positions and time using GPS. |
Primary Instrument Is Delivered For ESA's Cryosat Mission
Paris, France (ESA) Oct 07, 2004Due for launch next spring, ESA's ice mission CryoSat marked an important milestone last week when the SAR/Interferometric Radar Altimeter instrument was delivered to the prime contractor EADS Astrium. |
China Displays New Nuclear Reactor
Beijing (XNA) (SPX) Oct 12, 2004China showed off its first new generation of reactor on Beijing's northern outskirts Thursday, in an effort to demonstrate not only its safety and reliability, but its progress in overcoming its chronic energy shortage. The Bear's Lair: What Comes After Oil? 
Washington (UPI) Oct 11, 2004In June's 'The effects of $80 oil' I discussed the effects on the U.S. and world economy of a large and sustained rise in the oil price. My extreme scenario of that time has become less extreme, with $42 oil becoming $53 oil in the intervening period. |
Global air pollution map produced by Envisat's SCIAMACHY
Paris (ESA) Oct 12, 2004Based on 18 months of Envisat observations, this high-resolution global atmospheric map of nitrogen dioxide pollution makes clear just how human activities impact air quality. Climate: Worrisome Trends In Antarctica 
Boulder CO (UPI) Oct 11, 2004Conventional wisdom has been that while most of the world has gotten warmer, Antarctica actually has cooled a little, except on its peninsulas and coasts; but new data indicates Antarctica is facing dramatic changes. |
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