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Wednesday, 24 January 2007 04:46

Mysterious super battery to power electric cars this year

A revolutionary "ultracapacitor", charging in minutes yet offering 10 times power of traditional batteries, is on track to ship in electric cars this year.

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Tuesday, 23 January 2007 23:12

U.S. study suggests most people are uninformed about nanotechnology

A recent U.S. study has found that the general public’s and the mass media’s lack of awareness of nanotechnology has led to misconceptions about the emerging technology.

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Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:37

125 million years before Kitty Hawk there was Microraptor gui

By Stan Beer

A small winged dinosaur called Microraptor gui may well have been nature's predecessor of the famous flight of Wilbur and Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk in 1903. Microraptor gui, which weighed just 1kg may have had a pair of wings arranged in a way that resembled the Wright brothers' biplane that achieved the first recorded heavier than air powered flight.

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Tuesday, 23 January 2007 03:53

India's successful deorbit/recovery of SRE-1 spacecraft advances its Chandrayaan lunar mission

The government of India announced that its national space agency Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) successfully brought back from space on January 22, 2007, its experimental recovery spacecraft SRE-1 that had been sent to space by the PSLV-C7 rocket.

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Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:16

Nanodots may drastically increase digital data storage capacity

Scientists are developing tiny magnetic particles called nanodots that are only a few billionth of a meter in diameter. The nanodots are showing promise in decreasing the amount of data storage space by at least one-hundred times what is currently held with hard disk drives. With storage requirements doubling about every year, nanodots may hold the answer to handling increasingly large amounts of digital data.

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Sunday, 21 January 2007 23:42

NASA educator-astronaut Barbara Morgan to fly STS-118 in June 2007

Barbara Radding Morgan is scheduled to fly on STS-118 aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station. A member of NASA’s Teacher-in-Space program in 1985, Morgan has remained active in the U.S. space program. In January 1998, she was selected as the first NASA Educator Astronaut.

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Sunday, 21 January 2007 05:08

Russian spacecraft docks to replenish space station supplies

By Stan Beer

New supplies arrived at the International Space Station Friday night as an unpiloted Russian cargo spacecraft docked to the Pirs Docking Compartment. The cargo spacecraft will refill the larders and gas tanks for the international crew with more than 2.5 tons of food, fuel and supplies.

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Saturday, 20 January 2007 23:34

The saying 'no two snowflakes are alike' may be false

Snowflakes and ice crystals are being scientifically studied because they may play an important role in the overall climate of the Earth, especially with regard to global changes. Researchers say that the smallest snow crystals—simple ones that fall to the ground before fully developed—could be identical, possibly refuting the adage that ‘no two snowflakes are alike’.

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Saturday, 20 January 2007 17:37

NASA spacecraft to slingshot around Jupiter on way to Pluto

By Alex Zaharov-Reutt

Due to arrive at Pluto in 2015, NASA’s New Horizons probe is getting close to its gravity slingshot around Jupiter – while making detailed observations of Jupiter atmosphere, its ring and moons to send back to Earth.

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Saturday, 20 January 2007 01:01

China destroys Feng Yun weather satellite with anti-satellite missile

On January 11, 2007, at about 5:28 p.m. EST, China destroyed one of its aging weather satellites—Feng Yun (FY-1C)—with a ground-based, modified medium-range ballistic missile equipped with a kinetic kill projectile aboard—generally called an ASAT (anti-satellite) missile system.

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