Russia, China to launch space observatory
Russian and Chinese space agency officials say they will build and launch an ultraviolet space observatory to be placed into orbit in 2010.
Russian and Chinese space agency officials say they will build and launch an ultraviolet space observatory to be placed into orbit in 2010.
Space Exploration
Nov 7, 2006
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The International Energy Agency says China will surpass the United States in carbon dioxide emissions by 2009, about a decade ahead of previous predictions.
Environment
Nov 7, 2006
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A team of Italian scientists says it has determined the first Europeans lived in southern Italy and not Spain, as had been thought.
Archaeology
Nov 7, 2006
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Two California developers have agreed to pay $350,000 to settle alleged violations of a plan for dealing with naturally occurring asbestos.
Environment
Nov 7, 2006
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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a global leader in telecommunication network systems and handsets, unveiled the latest in mobile convergence device, the SPH-P9000 Deluxe MITs at Mobile WiMAX Summit 2006. The SPH-P9000 is the ...
Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 7, 2006
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Internet search engines such as Google could be crippled by changes to copyright law in Australia that look set to be implemented by the Federal Government, a Copyright expert from The Australian National University argues.
Internet
Nov 7, 2006
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Two Michigan State University researchers are the first to unlock the secrets of the invisible ink used by East Germany's secret police force, the Stasi, and in the process have mixed a batch of chemistry, history and mystery ...
Nov 7, 2006
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John Verkade remembers just how it happened some 40 years ago: One of his Iowa State University graduate students, David Hendricker, stopped by to report somebody was stealing a little wooden applicator stick from a beaker.
Nov 7, 2006
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A new study by University of Arkansas economists shows a strong relationship between economic freedom and access to water. David Gay and Charles Britton, economics professors in the Sam M. Walton College of Business, and ...
Other
Nov 7, 2006
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Near the end of the mission of Apollo 16, on April 24, 1972, just before returning back home to Earth, the three astronauts released one last scientific experiment: a small "subsatellite" called PFS-2 to orbit the Moon about ...
Astronomy
Nov 7, 2006
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