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The space shuttle Endeavour and International Space Station crews have begun the seventh day of STS-123. They will continue outfitting the Japanese Logistics Module - Pressurized Section (JLP), transferring supplies and equipment into it from Endeavour, as well as configuring racks inside the module.
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By Adrian Cho
ScienceNOW Daily News
29 February 2008
It sounds like a headline from the spoof newspaper The Onion, but for physicists, this is actually an achievement: Two teams have stored nothing in a puff of gas and then retrieved it a split second later. Storing a strange form of vacuum builds on previous efforts in which researchers stopped light in its tracks (ScienceNOW, 22 January 2001) and may mark a significant step toward new quantum information and telecommunication technologies.
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Long-term effects of low-level pollution may have been underestimated.
Nitrogen emitted into the atmosphere as a result of human activity could be changing plant communities worldwide. Although hot spots of high nitrogen pollution are known to change plant dynamics, new work predicts substantial effects from the lower,chronic levels of pollution found throughout most of the world.
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A paper in Nature shows that herbicides can attack the parasite that causes the tropical disease toxoplasmosis. Kerri Smith explores the history of wielding weedkiller against human disease.
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Carl Freire in Tokyo
Associated Press
December 21, 2007
Japan is dropping its plan to kill threatened humpback whales in the seas off Antarctica, a Japanese official said Friday.
"The U.S. asked Japan to freeze planned humpback hunts" for one to two years to support its efforts as chair of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Nobutaka Machimura said.
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(CNN) -- Two bombs ripped through the Algerian capital Tuesday, reportedly killing 47 people, in what appeared to be targeted attacks on government and United Nations buildings.
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ALBANY, New York (AP) -- Drivers in much of the Northeast navigated a treacherous mix of rain, sleet and snow Monday as a storm blamed for at least 11 deaths blanketed the region after glazing roads in the Midwest.
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By George Liao
Taiwan News, Staff Reporter
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2007-11-19 05:27 AM
In response to criticism from some pro-Taiwan independence scholars who painted his policies on the cross-strait relations as "a beginning to challenge" the governing party's charter and platform, party presidential candidate Frank Hsieh yesterday said that his cross-strait polices are predicated on national security and not seeking unlimited opening of Taiwan to China as are the policies proposed by his KMT rival Ma Ying-jeou.
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STUTTGART, Germany (AP) -- The International Tennis Federation is investigating allegations that Tommy Haas was poisoned before Germany's Davis Cup match against Russia.
Haas was forced out of his match against Mikhail Youzhny with a suspected stomach virus. Russia won both reverse singles matches on Sept. 23 to win the semifinal series 3-2 and reach the Davis Cup final.
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Dao Duy Dang remembers the night in 1963 when the lights came on in Uong Bi. "People were so excited," the 70-year-old tea-shop owner says, recalling the cheers that rang through the northern Vietnamese town after one of the country's first coal-fired power plants began operating. "Their whole lives they had wished for electricity." Be careful what you wish for. Soon after the plant opened, Dang's wife developed a cough from the thick black smoke from the power plant that hung over the town. His children had near-constant runny noses and neighbors reported other nagging health problems. When Vietnam's government announced plans to add a second coal-fired generator in 2005, villagers didn't celebrate. "The people cried out," Dang says.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission today made available the public version of a combined license (COL) application for two new reactors at the South Texas Project site near Bay City, Texas.
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Two crucial tools for a successful landing of America's latest mission to Mars, the radar and UHF radio on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, have passed in-flight checkouts.
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By Andrew Lawler
ScienceNOW Daily News
14 September 2007
After pioneering software that allows people to explore Earth in unprecedented detail, Google set its sights on mapping the moon. Now the popular Internet search engine wants to help send a robot there. Yesterday, the Mountain View, California-based company announced that it will sponsor a $30 million prize for the first privately funded lunar robotic rover.
"We are here today embarking upon this great adventure of having a nongovernmental, commercial organization return to the moon and explore," Google co-founder Sergey Brin said in a statement. "And I'm very excited that Google can play a part in it."
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By Jennifer Couzin
ScienceNOW Daily News
6 September 2007
Faced with a damning list of a dozen violations in its biosafety labs, the president of Texas A&M University (TAMU) in College Station vowed today to correct the lapses, which range from unreported toxin exposures to improper protective gear. In a news conference, interim president Edward Davis also noted that any school subjected to the same scrutiny as TAMU "would probably have findings" revealing biosafety violations.
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Gas giant's role in preventing asteroid collisions under scrutiny.
For more than a decade many astronomers have thought of Jupiter as a protective big brother for planet Earth. The gas giant's gravitational pull is believed to slingshot incoming Earth-threatening objects out of the Solar System. This has led many to suppose it shielded the young Earth from impacts, helping to support conditions for life.
But now, a preliminary study indicates that Earth would have done just as well, if not better — in at least one regard - without Jupiter's help.
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August 22, 2007
The world's oldest known diamonds have been found encased in a crystal in Western Australia, scientists say (see
Australia map).
The minuscule gemstones are 4.25 billion years old and could provide a rare glimpse into Earth's distant geologic past.
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Market Scan
Chrysler Inks Deal To Sell Chinese-Made Cars
Vivian Wai-yin Kwok, 07.04.07, 4:09 AM ET
HONG KONG -
For Chrysler’s incoming owners, the price apparently looks right. Seeking to recover lost ground quickly in the small car market, the struggling automaker is going ahead with plans to market a Chinese-made vehicle in the U.S. that should sell for significantly less than Chrysler's current cheapest model.
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