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Einstein's General Theory of Relativity passes biggest cosmic test
Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity has passed its biggest test yet, with an analysis of more than 70,000 galaxies by scientists, supporting the...


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Mother Earth News Names Best Green Cars For 2010
In the midst of the auto industry's problems, consumers can find a silver lining: greener options. Mother Earth News names six models capable of 40 mpg or...
Celebrity Contest Pits A Real Astronaut Against A Monkee In A Battle Of Wits
AUSTIN, TX, March 11, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Ricochet Labs announced today a celebrity showdown using its new iPhone social quiz game QRANK. Each day QRANK pulls fresh questions from the...
Lights Out At Le Meridien Phuket Beach Resort For Earth Hour 2010
PHUKET, THAILAND, March 11, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Le Meridien Phuket Beach Resort, a recipient of the ASEAN Green Hotel Recognition Award 2007-2009 for its "commitment to environmental...
Nasa Manager Says Shuttle Extension Possible; Key Issue Is Money Not Safety
Endeavour rolls to pad 39 A at Dawn. Will the sun set on the shuttle era forever as scheduled by late 2010, or will Congress force an extension to the shuttle program until a replacement US rocket...
Noaa, Us Wildlife Service Propose Endangered Status For Loggerhead Sea Turtles
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed yesterday that loggerhead sea turtles be considered an endangered species throughout much of the world,...
Einstein's General Theory Of Relativity Passes Biggest Cosmic Test
Washington, March 11 : Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity has passed its biggest test yet, with an analysis of more than 70,000 galaxies by scientists, supporting the...
Einstein's Gravity Confirmed On A Cosmic Scale
The theory of gravity proposed by Albert Einstein nearly a century ago can explain the dance of galaxies around one another just as well as it can model the motion of planets around the sun,...
China Chooses First Women Astronauts
China has selected its first two women astronauts to serve on a team that will undertake future missions launched by the nation's burgeoning space programme, state media reported Wednesday. The...
Japanese Baby-bot With Runny Nose Teaches Parenting Skills
It giggles and wiggles its feet when you shake its rattle, but will get cranky and cry from too much tickling: Meet Yotaro, a Japanese robot programmed to be as fickle as a real baby. The cuddly...
Coms Flies To Kourou
With a take-off weight of 2.5 metric tons and an end-of-life on-board power level of 2.5 kW, the satellite will remain in service in a geostationary orbit for at least eight years. COMS re-uses some...
Spacex Static Fire Update
SpaceX has performed our first Static Fire for the Falcon 9 launch vehicle. We counted down to an T-2 seconds and aborted on Spin Start. Given that this was our first abort event on this pad, we...
Atom Smasher Set For High Speed Bash By Early April: Cern
The world's most powerful atom smasher will be brought up to unprecedented power by early April, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said on Wednesday. "We hope to have collisions at 7.0...
Arabsat 5a Satellite Shipped To Launch Site
The first Arabsat 5th generation satellite today left the Astrium facilties in Toulouse and was loaded in Blagnac airport on an Antonov cargo airplane that will transport it to French Guyana in view...
Catastrophic Event Halted Star Birth In Early Galaxy
Scientists have found evidence of a catastrophic event they believe was responsible for halting the birth of stars in a galaxy in the early Universe. They report their results in the journal Monthly...
Mysterious Cosmic Dark Flow Tracked Deeper Into Universe
Distant galaxy clusters mysteriously stream at a million miles per hour along a path roughly centered on the southern constellations Centaurus and Hydra. A new study led by Alexander Kashlinsky at...
China Plans To Launch Third Unmanned Moon Probe Around 2013
China plans to launch its third unmanned probe to the moon, Chang'e-3, around 2013 and expects to complete the three-phase moon mission in 2017, an official said here Wednesday. The remarks by Ye...
Us Military To Step Up Video-game Training
The US military plans to step up the use of video-games, hoping to curb casualties on the battlefield by training troops through simulations, a commander said Wednesday. The Pentagon this week...
Galaxy Study Validates General Relativity On Cosmic Scale
The result conflicts with a report late last year that the very early universe, between 8 and 11 billion years ago, did deviate from the general relativistic description of...
Ge - Satcom: New Name, New Look For Satlynx
Satlynx is soon to become GE - Satcom. Along with the name change, the company will have a dynamic new corporate identity and website to match. "The evolution of our brand is a natural progression"...
Mysterious Cosmic 'dark Flow' Tracked
— Distant galaxy clusters mysteriously stream at a million miles per hour along a path roughly centered on the southern constellations Centaurus and Hydra. A new study led by Alexander...
China's First Two Women Astronauts Selected
China has selected its second batch of astronauts, including five men and two women, the first time women astronauts have joined the country's space mission.The two women astronauts, both pilots from...
Just One Hitch In Choosing China's First Women Astronauts
Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang waves from outside his Shenzhou 7 spacecraft September 27, 2008. He became his country's first spacewalker. Credit:...
Scots Unearth Clues Of Earliest Life On Earth
SCOTTISH scientists have uncovered startling new evidence that the earliest forms of life on Earth could have survived a massive meteor bombardment four billion years...
Galaxy Resources Limited Increases Ore Reserves At Mt Cattling Spodumene Project By 11.4 Million Tonnes, Up 23%
(MENAFN) A statement released by Egypt's Torah Cement said that the company posted a 23 percent rise in 2009 net profit to $62 million, compared with The firm made a net profit of...
Students' Perceptions Of Earth's Age Influence Acceptance Of Human Evolution
— High school and college students who understand the geological age of the Earth (4.5 billion years) are much more likely to understand and accept human evolution, according to a University of...
Smith 'over The Moon'
Boom all-rounder Steve Smith admits he is 'over the moon' following his inclusion in Australia's 14-man squad for the upcoming two-Test series against New Zealand.Smith, already a member of the...
Smith 'over the moon'
Boom all-rounder Steve Smith admits he is 'over the moon' following his inclusion in Australia's 14-man squad for the upcoming two-Test series against New Zealand.Smith, already a member of the...
Obama facing uprising over new NASA strategy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama is trying to tamp down an uprising in politically vital Florida against a new strategy for NASA that has rankled space veterans and lawmakers and...
Noguchi installs robotic arm on space station
TSUKUBA — Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi on Wednesday installed a robotic arm outside the country’s Kibo laboratory module on the International Space Station, the Japan Aerospace...
Earth Class Mail Introduces Miami and Chicago Street Addresses
Earth Class Mail , the leader in digital mail management solutions, announced today the opening of two new street addresses, in Miami at 382 Northeast 191st Street, and in Chicago at 1608 S Ashland...
Physicists Take Atoms For A Walk
Posted on: Wednesday, 10 March 2010, 12:19 CST A team of physicists headed by Christian Roos and Rainer Blatt from the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy...
Save power save earth
It is a simple step that can go a long way as your contribution to fighting climate change. All you have to do is just switch off your lights and electronic equipment from 8.30 pm to 9.30 pm on...
Switch off lights during Earth Hour Abhishek Bachchan
Actor Abhishek Bachchan has urged Indians to switch off lights for one hour on March 27 as part of WWF's Earth Hour 2010 campaign to support action on climate change. He says he will also request the...
General Relativity Validated on Cosmic Scale
— An analysis of more than 70,000 galaxies by University of California, Berkeley, University of Zurich and Princeton University physicists demonstrates that the universe -- at least up to a...
Einstein Was Right: General Relativity Confirmed
A partial map of the distribution of galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, going out to a distance of 7 billion light years. The amount of galaxy clustering that we observe today is a signature...
Earth Class Mail™ Introduces Miami and Chicago Street Addresses
Earth Class Mail adds Miami and Chicago to its US Street Address network. In addition to NY, LA, San Francisco, Delaware and Seattle, Earth Class Mail Street Address customers have gained a business...
Roger Penrose: Non-stop cosmos, non-stop career
YOU'D have thought that Roger Penrose would be pleased to have his work immortalised in an Oscar-nominated film. Apparently not. After friends told him about his book's cameo in Happy Go Lucky,...
China chooses first women astronauts
China has selected its first two women astronauts to serve on a team that will undertake future missions launched by the nation's burgeoning space programme, state media reported Wednesday. The...
The Minnesotan who helped bring "Avatar" to earth
Growing up in St. Louis Park in the 1960s, Stephen Rivkin wasn't sure where he fit in. At 12, he followed his older brother David's lead and rocked out on electric guitar, with little brother Bobby...
China space program selects first women astronauts
The Chinese space program's first two women astronauts have been selected and may take part in missions to China's planned space station, the official Xinhua News Agency reported...
SpaceX Aborts Test Firing of New Rocket's Engines
) aborted the Falcon 9 medium-class rocket's first static fire test March 9 just as the vehicle's nine main-stage engines were about to ignite for a planned 3.5-second burn. ...
SpaceX Aborts Test Firing of Falcon 9 Engines
The Falcon 9 Rocket and Dragon Spacecraft: See the craft in detail, plus how it stacks up to a Russian Soyuz rocket and NASA's space shuttles. Credit: Karl Tate,...