An energetic storm on the Sun has forced ESA mission controllers to react to anomalies or take action to avoid damage to spacecraft. Several missions, including Integral, Cluster and Envisat, felt the storm's effects, highlighting the need for ESA's ongoing development of space weather forecasting tools. Read more…
Reuters - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station readied for a fourth spacewalk on Monday to unstick a jammed solar array in an extra excursion that extended the space shuttle Discovery's mission at the orbiting outpost by a day. Read more…
SPACE.com - HOUSTON -- Two shuttle astronauts are poised to step outside the International Space Station (ISS) later today in an extra spacewalk aimed at furling a finicky solar array. Read more…
In reading these symptoms of paranoia it strikes me as apparent that we all experience portions of the condition to one extent or another. Perhaps we have evolved into a people with extreme paranoid tendencies. Read more…
PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Sunday, December 17, 2006 Source: X Prize Foundation Wirefly X Prize Cup Explores Expansion Plan The X PRIZE Foundation announced today that following the tremendous success of the 2006 Wirefly X PRIZE Cup, event officials and the City of Las Cruces have begun the task... Read more…
A team of South Korean scientists once led by disgraced stem-cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk said on Monday they had produced three cloned copies of a female Afghan houndChannel: Science Tags: South Korea produces cloned dogs Read more…
In the midst of growing interest in reports of a gruesome stem-cell and human-organ black market that traffics in newborn babies taken from their mothers, an investigator looking into the matter has been sacked "for political reasons," she says, because she was getting too close to the truth.Channel: Science Tags: Babies Stemcells stolen Read more…
Animal studies are of limited usefulness to human health because they are of poor quality and their results often conflict with human trials, argue researchers in a study online in the British Medical Journal. Read more…
Ohio State University researchers have demonstrated that a satellite radar system can be used to gauge water levels in vegetated wetlands. C.K. Shum, professor of earth sciences at Ohio State, and his colleagues hope to develop the technique to aid studies of wetland hydrology -- including the role that wetlands play in quelling storm surges caused by large hurricanes. Read more…
Scientists have revealed the critical role a key enzyme plays in helping cells divide in what could prove an important breakthrough for new cancer therapies. Read more…
Researchers have discovered a subtle new difference between men and women -- this one occurring in the realm of eating. In the new study of observed eating behavior in a social setting, young men and women who perceived their bodies as being less than "ideal" ate differing amounts of food after they were shown images of "ideal-bodied" people of their own gender. Read more…
Reuters - A team of South Korean scientists once led by disgraced stem-cell researcher Hwang Woo-suk said on Monday they had produced three cloned copies of a female Afghan hound. Read more…
AFP - British oil firm Cairn Energy has said that the initial public offering of its Indian unit would be priced at 160 rupees per share (2.73 euros, 3.56 dollars) -- at the low end of its price range. Read more…
Reuters - A Hindu wedding ceremony of 18 dogs has been called off in India after hardline religious groups and animal rights activists said it was a mockery of the religion and cruel to the canines, a newspaper reported on Sunday. Read more…
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AP - Facing federal pressure over worsening air pollution, a state air quality commission on Sunday approved its first-ever statewide emissions controls on the booming oil and gas industry. Read more…
AP - An injured whale died Sunday after beaching itself in the same spot off Malaysia's coast for the second time in as many days, news reports said Monday. Read more…
Reuters - Web surfers may soon be able to explore the canyons of Mars and experience a virtual flight over the surface of the moon thanks to a deal announced on Monday between Web search company Google Inc. and the NASA Ames Research Center. Read more…
Reuters - Spacewalking astronauts coaxed a balky solar wing panel on the International Space Station into its storage box on Monday, capping a tedious but ultimately successful mission by the shuttle Discovery crew. Read more…
Reuters - NASA planned to undock the space shuttle Discovery from the International Space Station on Tuesday after an eventful mission that included a crucial rewiring and the retraction of a stubborn solar array. Read more…
SPACE.com - HOUSTON -- A reluctant solar wing is finally furled atop the International Space Station (ISS) after two spacewalking astronauts poked and prodded it with tape-covered tools. Read more…
AFP - Two astronauts finally unstuck a balky solar array on the International Space station, folding the panel into its box during a special space walk. Read more…
AFP - Google and US space agency NASA announced an alliance to solve cosmic computing problems and channel information from space around the world via the Internet. Read more…
AP - Space shuttle Discovery's astronauts have rewired the space station, managed three spacewalks, and now completed the most difficult task of their mission: getting a stubborn, solar array folded up during an impromptu fourth spacewalk. Read more…
NASA Ames Research Center and Google have signed a Space Act Agreement that formally establishes a relationship to work together. Read more…
