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A Lakefront Landing On TitanDarmstadt, Germany (SPX) Jan 17, 2005
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Expedition 10 Prepare For Spacewalk, Upgrade Software
Houston TX (SPX) Jan 17, 2005Midway through a six-month stay on the International Space Station, the Expedition 10 crew last week focused on routine maintenance, biomedical investigations and a software upgrade. Astronomy's Case Of The Missing Disks 
San Diego CA (SPX) Jan 18, 2005Astronomers announced Jan. 10 that they have a lead in the case of the missing disks. This lead may account for the missing evidence of red dwarfs forming planetary systems. |
Astronomers Take Peek At Star Factory
Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 17, 2005Using NASA's orbiting Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer, a team of astronomers from The Johns Hopkins University and elsewhere has taken an unprecedented peek beneath the "skirts" of the tunic-clad Orion the Hunter. Organic Molecules Transport Strongest Spectral Signature Of Interplanetary Dust 
Livermore CA (SPX) Jan 17, 2005Carbon and silicate grains in interplanetary dust particles are helping scientists solve a 40-year-old astronomical mystery. |
Race For Pale Blue Dot Image Quickens
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 17, 2005Astronomers last week announced the first results of a search for extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs in an unlikely place - the stellar graveyard. A research team found two candidate planets in its survey of 20 dead stars - white dwarfs at distances between 24 and 220 light-years. Columbia Crew Catches A Mysterious TIGER In The Indian Ocean 
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 18, 2005An unprecedented flash observed by the space shuttle Columbia crew in 2003 over the Indian Ocean may be a new type of transient luminous event, like lightning sprites, but one that is not necessarily caused by a thunderstorm. |
LISA Spies On Black Hole's Eating Habits
University Park PA (SPX) Jan 17, 2005As big fish eat little fish in the Earth's vast oceans, so too do supermassive black holes gorge on smaller black holes and neutron stars, making themselves more massive in the process. Climate: The Arctic Goes Bush 
Boulder CO (UPI) Jan 17, 2005The Arctic may be undergoing a transition in its vegetation thanks to global warming. That is the conclusion of a paper in the January issue of the journal Bioscience. The abundance of Arctic shrubs is again increasing, apparently driven by a warming climate, the authors said. It is possible we are witnessing the forerunner of another major transition in arctic vegetation. |
Pentagon Denies Report US Forces Plan Air Strikes In Iran: Report
Washington DC (AFP) Jan 17, 2005The Pentagon on Monday slammed as fatally distorted a New Yorker magazine report that teams of US commandos have been operating inside Iran since the middle of last year, selecting suspected weapons sites for possible air strikes. Taiwan Deploys Missiles On Mobile Launchers: Report 
Taipei, China (AFP) Jan 16, 2005The military has begun to deploy mobile launcher trucks installed with fixed-base missiles around Taiwan to counter Chinese weapons trained on the island, it was reported Sunday. |
Walker's World: The New World Order
Washington DC (UPI) Jan 17, 2004On an issue of major strategic concern to the United States, the European Union has decided to flout American concerns and side with China, and Britain has put its vaunted special relationship with the United States to one side, and has gone along with its fellow Europeans. A new world order is coming. Commentary: China's 21st Century Management 
Beijing, China (UPI) Jan 14, 2005Beijing is increasingly becoming a modern manifestation of its old role as the Middle Kingdom capital. Rather than kowtow to a throne - sometimes empty if an indolent emperor reigned - foreigners today are still expected to pay a modicum of decorum, some say obeisance, to rules of propriety in the host-guest dynamic. |
Global Relief Technologies And Telenor Support International Medical Corps
Oslo, Norway (SPX) Jan 17, 2005Telenor Satellite Services and Global Relief Technologies are working with International Medical Corps (IMC) to provide an integrated support system for immediate collection and dissemination of in-the-field data and information. Plastics Made From Orange Peel And A Greenhouse Gas 
Ithaca NY (SPX) Jan 18, 2005A Cornell University research group has made a sweet and environmentally beneficial discovery - how to make plastics from citrus fruits, such as oranges, and carbon dioxide. |
Consortium Formed to Study Acoustic Fusion
Grass Valley CA (SPX) Jan 17, 2005The Acoustic Fusion Technology Energy Consortium (AFTEC) has been formed by leading academic and commercial institutions to research and develop acoustic inertial confinement fusion (AICF) and its related science, technologies, and equipment. Aluminum Clusters Reveal New Form of Chemistry 
Richmond VA (SPX) Jan 17, 2005A research team has discovered clusters of aluminum atoms that have chemical properties similar to single atoms of metallic and nonmetallic elements when they react with iodine. |
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