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Britains first astronaut to go on space mission in 2015
Britain's first "official" astronaut, 41-year-old Major Tim Peake, has been selected to go on a five-month mission to the International Space Station in 2015, a media report said Sunday. Peake, a former army helicopter pilot, graduated as a European Space Agency astronaut more than two years ago and has been waiting for a space mission since then, the Guardian daily said. However, Peake has ...
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Rodents return to Earth after space flight
The returnable capsule of a biological research satellite landed in Russia Sunday, bringing mice, Mongolian gerbils, geckos and various micro-organisms and plants back to Earth after their month-long flight, the Mission Control said. The capsule landed in Orenburg region near the border with Kazakhstan. The descent vehicle separated from the equipment module of the Bion-M spacecraft at 6.32 ...
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Moon meteor blast visible to naked eye on Earth says NASA
NASA has revealed that a boulder-sized meteor slammed into the moon in March, causing an explosion so bright that it was visible to the naked eye on Earth. Though about 300 lunar impacts have been logged over the years, NASA scientists consider this latest impact, from March 17, much brighter than anything else observed, News.com.au reported. "We have seen a couple of others in the 'wow' ...
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Darker skin also prone to skin cancer
Fair skinned people are known to be at higher risk for skin cancer and other problems associated with too much exposure to the sun, but experts say people of color also are vulnerable to the harmful effects of ultraviolet (UV) rays emitted by the sun and indoor tanning beds. Darker skin has more pigment-making cells, which provide some inherent protection against UV rays, but not enough, said ...
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Bae over the moon with first PGA title
(28 mins ago) South Korea's Bae Sang Moon won his first US PGA title yesterday, firing a one-under par 69 to win the US$6.7 million Byron Nelson Championship by two strokes over American Keegan Bradley in Irving, Texas, in the US. In windy conditions at the TPC Four Seasons Resort course, the 26-year-old South Korean finished on 13-under 267 to hold off 2011 PGA Championship winner ...
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God created humans with the desire to learn, and as a result, we hate not understanding something or feeling that something is out of our control -- especially when it comes to our own bodies. Medical science has advanced in huge leaps in the last 100 years, and every day new discoveries are being made that could make obsolete diseases and ailments that ravage millions of lives. And so the questi ... ...
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No shortage of hopefuls to replace MP Denis Coderre
MONTREAL - Candidates vying to replace departing Liberal MP Denis Coderre have been jostling for position ever since it was only a rumour he was going to run for the Montreal mayor's job. Coderre made his mayoral bid official Thursday and won't leave his MP office until June 1, however, the Liberal party has already received at least 25 resumes from interested candidates, according to ...
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Russia Mice return from space most of them dead
Most of the mice, gerbils and other animals Russia sent to space a month ago died in the flight meant to test the effects of extended periods of time in ...
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Time-lapse map chronicles decades of global change as seen from space
Satellite imagery can serve as a time machine, revealing dramatic change in just a few seconds - but can you imagine documenting almost three decades' worth of all that change, across most of our planet's land mass? A team of imaging experts, computer scientists and journalists did. Now they've unveiled the result: a global database of zoomable, animated satellite views known ...
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Shooting death of gay man rocks New York community
A view of fog over the New York skyline. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson) NEW YORK - Greenwich Village, the birthplace of the U.S. gay rights movement, remained in shock on Sunday over the shooting death of a gay man by a gunman who police said uttered anti-gay slurs before targeting the victim. Mark Carson, 32, was shot dead in Greenwich Village around midnight on Friday in what police are calling a ...
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Cory Doctorow gives the 2013 Sense About Science Lecture
and was delivered to an invited audience at The Institution of Engineering and Technology on 13 May.To find out more about Cory Doctorow's writings go to his ...
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