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NKorea Says It Has Bomb; Quits Talks
Seoul (AFP) Feb 10, 2005
North Korea said Thursday it had developed nuclear weapons to protect itself against a US attack and would indefinitely boycott multilateral talks aimed at dismantling its atomic programs.

In a dramatic rejection of the second administration of US President George W. Bush, the Stalinist state said it would no longer engage in the six-party dialogue over its nuclear weapons drive. fullstory

Boston Nanomachine Holds Promise For Quantum Computing
Boston MA (SPX) Feb 10, 2005
Nanotechnology leapt into the realm of quantum mechanics this past winter when an antenna-like sliver of silicon one-tenth the width of a human hair oscillated in a lab in a Boston University basement.

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Huygens Team Salvage Titan Doppler Wind Speed Data
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 10, 2005
A preliminary estimate of the wind variations with altitude from about 110 kms down to Titan's surface has been recovered by a joint team of researchers.

Cassini Craft Witnesses Saturn's Blues
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 11, 2005
Colorful new images from the Cassini spacecraft show that Saturn's northern hemisphere has a case of the blues. Here, the icy moon Mimas is set against a dazzling and dramatic portrait of Saturn's azure northern hemisphere and the shadows of its rings.

Simulations Show How Growing Black Holes Regulate Galaxy Formation
Garching, Germany (SPX) Feb 10, 2005
Using a new computer model of galaxy formation, researchers have shown that growing black holes release a blast of energy that regulates galaxy evolution and black hole growth itself.
US Orientation Engine Fails On ISS
Moscow (UPI) Feb 10, 2005
A US-built orientation engine has failed aboard the ISS, leaving it uncontrollable and drifting, Russian media reported Thursday.

NASA Names Two Future Shuttle Crews
Houston TX (SPX) Feb 10, 2005
NASA has named crews to resume training for the Space Shuttle missions designated STS-116 and 117. The missions are planned for launch to the International Space Station in 2006 to continue assembly of the orbiting laboratory.

In The Stars: Odd Stars, Odder Planets
Washington (UPI) Feb 10, 2005
Sir Arthur Eddington, the late English astronomer, once commented that "not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine." Take SDSS J090745.0+24507, a star so unremarkable that astronomers had not even given it a formal name.
Natural Climate Change May Be Larger Than Commonly Thought
Stockholm, Sweden (SPX) Feb 10, 2005
A new study of climate in the Northern Hemisphere for the past 2000 years shows that natural climate change may be larger than generally thought.

Northrop Grumman/Raytheon Team To Compete For GOES-R System
Redondo Beach (SPX) Feb 10, 2005
Northrop Grumman and Raytheon have teamed to compete to build the next generation geostationary weather and environmental system for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Earth Gets A Warm Feeling All Over
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 10, 2005
Last year was the fourth warmest year on average for our planet since the late 1800s, according to NASA scientists. To determine if the Earth is warming or cooling, scientists look at average temperatures.
Satamatics Flying At Over 50,000 Terminals
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 09, 2005
Satamatics reports that it now has more than 50,000 mobile satellite communication terminals operating via its worldwide network.

Digital Angel To Expand OuterLink Subsidiary's Flight Tracking System
St Paul MN (SPX) Feb 10, 2005
Digital Angel has announced that it plans to expand its OuterLink flight tracking system to more than 100 countries. Outerlink plans to use the Globalstar Satellite Network to expand the international coverage of its flight following and data messaging system.

LockMart Delivers First Modernized GPS Satellite To USAF For May Launch
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Feb 10, 2005
Lockheed Martin has announced that it has delivered the first modernized GPS satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., where it will be readied for a May launch.
Blue Planet: The Fading Songs Of Whales
Boulder CO (UPI) Feb 09, 2005
Most people know the modern world is a noisy place, but they might not be aware the oceans have gotten to be considerably noisy as well - and they are getting noisier, to the detriment of whales and other marine mammals.

How Super Is The Superpower?
Washington (UPI) Feb 10, 2005
In 2000, Bush famously identified North Korean, Iraq, and Iran as "the axis of evil." Iraq got its comeuppance with the invasion and the removal of Saddam Hussein. But the ayatollahs in Tehran and Kim Jong-Il, North Korea's autocratic leader, were not deterred.

Why Rice Should Thank Zarqawi
Washington (UPI) Feb 08, 2005
If the serial decapitator Abu Musab al-Zarqawi did not exist, then the Bush administration, the Atlantic Alliance and the rest of the civilized world might have to invent him.

Carnegie Mellon's Red Team Seeks $2 Million Robot Racing Prize
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Feb 10, 2005
Carnegie Mellon University's Red Team has entered two driverless Hummers in the DARPA Grand Challenge, a 175-mile, winner-take-all desert race for robots, scheduled to take place Oct. 8, 2005.

Kionix Ships The World's Smallest High-Performance Tri-Axis Accelerometer
Ithaca NY (SPX) Feb 10, 2005
Kionix has announced first production shipment and general availability of the world's smallest high-performance tri-axis accelerometer, the KXP74. This product measures 5x5x1.2mm, the thinnest tri-axis silicon accelerometer available in the market.

New Cameras Turn Night Into Day
Paris (AFP) Feb 09, 2005
Dutch researchers have developed "revolutionary" vision equipment that makes video imaging at night time as clear and as colourful as in daylight, the British weekly New Scientist says.

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