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Component of mothballs is present in deep-space clouds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Interstellar clouds, drifting through the unimaginable vastness of space, may be the stuff dreams are made of. But it turns out there's an unexpectedly strange component in those clouds, and it's not dreams ...

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created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1




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Gingrich vows to establish a colony on the moon (Update)

Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has stirred strong passions by claiming he will establish a permanent moon base by 2020 if elected, but experts say he is living on another planet.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 5

Researchers discover novel chemical route to form organic molecules

An international team of scientists led by University of Hawai‘i at M?noa Professor Ralf I. Kaiser, Alexander M. Mebel of Florida International University, and Alexander Tielens of Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, ...

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created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Obama under fire over space plans

High-profile critics fear President Barack Obama's commercial overhaul of human spaceflight is going nowhere and could mark the end of half a century of US supremacy among the stars and planets.

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created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 2.6 / 5 (5) | comments 19

Senate saves the James Webb Space Telescope

The 2012 fiscal year appropriation bill, marked up today by the Senate, allows for continued funding of the James Webb Space Telescope and support up to a launch in 2018! Yes, it looks like this bird is going ...

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created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (18) | comments 27

Russia relishes chances created by end of shuttle

(AP) -- The mothballing of the space shuttle will be mourned by many astronauts, but Russia is relishing the prospect of serving as the only carrier to the International Space Station.

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created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 4

Japan sweats out summer in shadow of nuclear crisis

Air conditioning has been switched off, office hallways are darkened and escalators have ground to a halt as a government decree to reduce power usage forces Tokyo to sweat out a hot summer.

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created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Germany to scrap nuclear power by 2022

Germany on Monday announced plans to become the first major industrialised power to shut down all its nuclear plants in the wake of the disaster in Japan, with a phase-out due to be wrapped up by 2022.

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created May 30, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (4) | comments 14

Swiss protest nuclear power

About 20,000 people took part in an anti-nuclear demonstration in north Switzerland on Sunday ahead of a government decision on the future of atomic energy in the country.

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created May 23, 2011 | popularity 2 / 5 (4) | comments 19

EU nuclear safety sweep accused of soft-pedalling

Europe on Wednesday will draw up stress-test parameters for a safety sweep of its nuclear power reactors, promised after Japan's Fukushima No.1 disaster, but already the focus of bitter disputes.

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created May 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

SETI telescope array suspends operations due to financial constraints

(PhysOrg.com) -- SETI, the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence group that has been using radio telescopes since the 1960’s to "listen" for signals from deep space that could prove the existence of ...

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created Apr 26, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 20 | with audio podcast report


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