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In a fierce reply to the preliminary conclusions released by the US Human Space Flight Plans Committee, NASA's Chief of Lunar and Martian Explorations, Jeff Hanley, said that the results the panel came to were biased, and that the experts on the board were making false claims about Project Constellation and its ... |
9 October 2009
05:52 GMT |
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Soon, the US Human Space Flight Plans Committee, informally known as the Augustine Commission, will present its conclusions about the future development avenues NASA could be set on to the Obama Administration. Despite the fact that the panel is charged with rethinking the agency's policies, it seems to be at an... |
9 October 2009
02:50 GMT |
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For the first time ever, it may be that establishing an international ban on the testing of nuclear weapons is within reach, experts say. Plans for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) state that all explosions involving nuclear weapons, be they for civilian or military purposes, are to be banned. The negotiation... |
22 September 2009
03:45 GMT |
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In the light of the whole Obama – Joker fiasco, Flickr has come out as the bad guy and is now trying to at least limit the damages by changing its policy when handling copyright takedown claims. A photoshopped image of the US President Barack Obama, which depicted him as the Dark Knight's version of the po... |
3 September 2009
12:10 GMT |
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Since US President Barack Obama asked the Review for US Human Space Flight Plans panel to investigate the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), its members have taken their jobs seriously. They looked into Project Constellation, analyzed progress, costs, budget overruns, and benefits, and noted their ... |
6 August 2009
02:05 GMT |
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Former astronaut and retired United States Marine Corps Major General Charles Boden Jr. was confirmed by the Senate of the US as the new NASA Administrator in mid-July. The new leader was sworn into office on July 17th, and has recently made an hour-long statement from the agency's headquarters, in Washington DC... |
22 July 2009
03:39 GMT |
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With more than $1.7 trillion in deficits in 2009, the United States are now hardly in a position to retain their hard-earned place as leader in space flight. Some 40 years ago, when the Apollo 11 mission took off for the Moon, there was no doubt in anyone's mind that NASA, with its income then estimated at four ... |
18 June 2009
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As we reported at the end of last month, the Food and Drug Administration is about to get increased powers over the tobacco industry soon, if the bill setting forth a new legislative frame on the matter is adopted by the Senate. The House of Representatives has already passed the proposals along party lines in April,... |
11 June 2009
05:49 GMT |
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One of the overlooked moments at this year's E3 conference has been the keynote given by Michael Gallagher, the president of the Entertainment Software Association, an organization that is supposed to look out for the interests of the videogaming industry. Amongst the topics that he touched on were piracy, the w... |
5 June 2009
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Sixty-seven-year-old George Tiller, a famous pro-choice activist and abortion doctor, was killed on Sunday, in a Reformation Lutheran Church in his Wichita, Kansas hometown. The police apprehended the shooter, a 51-year-old man, and are currently investigation whether he has any connections to pro-life groups that op... |
1 June 2009
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Bioengineers and geneticists in the United States are currently worried that, under the new National Institutes of Health (NIH) guidelines currently under development, none of the existing lines of stem cells could benefit from federal funding. The strict informed-consent provisions in the new documents would make it... |
27 May 2009
20:01 GMT |
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The White House, in a highly anticipated move, announced yesterday that former NASA astronaut Charles Frank Bolden Jr. was nominated by US President Barack Obama as the next administrator of the American space agency. Speculations about this decision have persisted for many months, but, until yesterday, nothing was c... |
24 May 2009
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As announced yesterday, the Obama administration has made public its new federal requirements for the automotive industry, as well as the new goals of the fight against pollution and global warming. Surrounded by representatives of the automotive industry, environmentalists, and top members of the Congress, the presi... |
20 May 2009
20:51 GMT |
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According to sources close to the US President, Barack Obama will announce today a new set of limits concerning vehicle greenhouse gas emissions, as well as new carbon limits for America, in a move that is without precedent in the history of the country. The new limitations will be applied nationwide, at a federal le... |
19 May 2009
08:40 GMT |
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Today, US President Barack Obama is intent on making the final and decisive push towards a sweeping and far-reaching health care system overhaul, aiming to secure support for new sets of legislations, which have the potential of saving trillions of dollars over the next decade. The plan is also meant to improve the e... |
11 May 2009
08:40 GMT |
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In an unexpected turn of events, the Obama administration seems intent to launch a full review of NASA plans for the future, this week. The report will assess whether the Constellation Project, which involves the ARES array of delivery systems, the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle, and the Altair Lunar Lander, is the b... |
7 May 2009
06:57 GMT |
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The seven astronauts who returned home on Saturday aboard the Discovery space shuttle are some of the happiest men and women on the planet right now. After a mission laden with dangers and risks, they managed to last for 13 days in space, while at the same time delivering a new set of solar wings to the International... |
31 March 2009
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According to a new nation-wide study conducted in the US, very few of the country's hospitals have electronic record systems installed. Most health care institutions still keep all their sensitive medical data on paper files, stored in archives in the basement of the buildings. A measly 2 percent of them have el... |
26 March 2009
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Wednesday could very well go down in history as one of the days when nature conservation efforts won an important victory in the United States. The Congress has passed a set of some 160 bills, setting the basis for more accurate and protective environmental regulations, which will affect millions of acres of land thr... |
26 March 2009
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President Barack Obama has made a very long distance-call on Tuesday, when he made contact with the joint 10-member crew of astronauts currently aboard the International Space Station and the Discovery space shuttle. The President, who has called the crew from his Oval Office, has said, first of all, that everyone at... |
25 March 2009
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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took a very important step in fighting global warming recently, when it forwarded a proposed finding to the White House, which stated that climate change and the greenhouse effect were threats to America's financial and health security. If the proposal is approved by ... |
24 March 2009
06:48 GMT |
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President Obama's choice for a green jobs, enterprise and innovation advisor has been widely applauded, as Van Jones, the founder of Oakland, California-based national Green for All organization, is a famous activist for civil rights and an acclaimed author. He has published The New York Times best-seller book, ... |
11 March 2009
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced on Thursday that the proposed nuclear waste repository to be built at the underground Yucca mountain complex would not be completed, and that the project for the location would be dropped. He added that the new White House Administration was seeking at the moment a drastically-ne... |
6 March 2009
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According to a Thomson Reuters financial analysis of US hospitals, most of these institutions currently register no profits from their activities. Their median profit margins are at zero, and chances are that they will remain very low for the next period. In addition, of the 400 hospitals that have been surveyed, mor... |
3 March 2009
10:28 GMT |
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Recently, snopes received an e-mail from a person complaining about the fact that a Barnes and Nobles book retail shop featured a highly unusual and potentially racist book display. The layout comprised numerous books written by or about president Obama, and all of these volumes were carefully arranged so as to surro... |
28 February 2009
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On Friday, president Obama and his team made the first step towards setting things in the American health care system right, when they announced that they were looking to review and replace the decisions that Bush made before he left the White House. These resolutions basically gave health care employees the poss... |
28 February 2009
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On Thursday, Obama released the proposed budget for 2010, and the good news for space fans is that it features sufficient funds for NASA to push ahead with its scheduled return to the Moon by 2020. The new president apparently continues Bush's line of policy as far as space exploration goes, and he even adds som... |
27 February 2009
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When Obama took office about a month ago, he was faced with the prospect of having to fix the entire US space program, a duty that was first attempted by president Bush, but which had NASA sit on the bench for five years, between 2010 and 2015. Now, the new president has to solve this problem, and a group of Army off... |
24 February 2009
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The Congressional Budget Office, a non-partisan institution, has recently announced that the number of uninsured Americans in the US is expected to grow to 54 million in roughly 10 years, from the current number of 45 million. The report says that the current economic crisis will only make things worse, seeing how mo... |
23 February 2009
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Researchers are amazed by the fact that the level of racist prejudice sharply decreased in the United States in the Fall of 2008, especially after Barack Obama was designated as the Democratic Party's nominee for President. Psychology professor E. Ashby Plant, from Florida State University, together with profess... |
13 February 2009
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Even before he ran for President, Barack Obama expressed his concern about the morality and use of populating the orbit with space weapons, fearing that if the US engaged in such activities, than every other country with launch capabilities would follow suit. His view thoroughly opposed that of then-President Bush, w... |
5 February 2009
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Former President Bush apparently left office before he could do “right” by all his supporters, as proven by the fact that only yesterday Republican senators urged President Barack Obama to resume the proceedings on an offshore drilling plan, meant to last for the next few years. The politicians also asked... |
5 February 2009
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The famed aeronautics company Boeing has announced recently that it has developed a variety of laser cannon that can successfully bring down unmanned aerial reconnaissance drones. The laser, mounted on the back of a Humvee, is capable of destroying the very probes that president Obama claims are the future of the US ... |
27 January 2009
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While most political and military experts agree that the inclusion of Iran in the club of nuclear powers is premature and poses great international risks, everyone else seems to forget that the “democratic” countries have been those responsible for the proliferation of atomic bombs and the idea to use the... |
26 January 2009
07:08 GMT |
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In an anticipated and highly-expected move, president Barack Obama has gone after some of the latest climate proposals that former president George W. Bush tried to push through Congress in the time frame between Election Day and Inauguration Day. These decisions are usually very hard to reverse and take years to do ... |
26 January 2009
03:35 GMT |
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The White House announced on Tuesday that all the legislative proposals that former president George W. Bush tried to pass through Congress in the twelfth hour had been stopped, pending a full review from the new administration. Among them are a few bills that will have disastrous consequences on the environment, if ... |
22 January 2009
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President Barack Obama's Inauguration ceremony was thus far the largest news event broadcast via video feeds by all the top sites on the web, and was watched by tens of millions worldwide. A partial reason for this was the fact that the midday ceremony couldn't be watched by many people, because they were a... |
21 January 2009
08:46 GMT |
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Most of the Chinese translations of Obama's inaugural acceptance speech were censored by the Communist Party of China, and information deemed sensitive, such as attacks on communisms and the freedom of speech, was completely removed from all broadcasts. China's move came as a surprise to no one, especially ... |
21 January 2009
08:16 GMT |
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International Space Station (ISS) commander Michael Fincke, joined by crew member Sandra Magnus, the mission's current flight engineer, watched president Barack Obama's Inauguration Ceremony from the relative comfort of the orbital station, which currently hovers at 354 kilometers (220 miles) above Earth�... |
21 January 2009
05:17 GMT |
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In the eve of President-elect Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony, the Federal Bureau of Investigations pulled out its biggest and best equipment out of the garage, and set it loose on the streets of Washington. Needless to say, there will be FBI agents everywhere, on rooftops, balconies, but, most of all, on t... |
19 January 2009
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Kenyan manufacturer Mi-Phone has unveiled a new phone, which is branded with Barack Obama propaganda. The president-elect is known to be a crowd pleaser, and the fact that he now appears on a phone from Kenya does not come as too big a surprise to many. According to the news on the Web, the Kenyan phone comes with th... |
16 January 2009
11:35 GMT |
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Swearing-in ceremonies in the United States, be they presidential or in a court of law, are highly religious, and usually accompanied by phrases including some reference to God. This also applies to everyday life, as noted on the dollar bills adorned with the inscription “In God We Trust,” which was made ... |
14 January 2009
03:57 GMT |
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An informed source near Barack Obama has announced that the president-elect has asked retired Air Force Major General Scott Gration to lead the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Despite the fact that Gration is short on direct space experience, he is a decorated pilot, having flown more than 1,000... |
14 January 2009
02:59 GMT |
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In a study conducted by researchers from Yale University, the York University, and the University of British Columbia, behavior psychologists learned that people tended to accept more racist remarks than they themselves were willing to admit. For the test, 120 non-black participants were divided into groups, and m... |
9 January 2009
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A new report, released by an appointed panel of the non-partisan National Research Council, shows that the way in which America's scientific secrets are kept is no longer secure, now that the Soviet Union is gone and the term “enemies” can designate virtually anyone. Additionally, the report underlin... |
9 January 2009
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NASA's new moon buggy prototype is scheduled to be the first ever lunar vehicle to have an inaugural parade before launch, and will attend president-elect Barack Obama's inaugural ceremony on January 20th, in Washington DC. The small pressurized rover, scheduled to be completed in approximately 12 years, wi... |
9 January 2009
02:32 GMT |
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The acting administrator of NASA, Michael Griffin, has set forth his letter of resignation, to enter effect on January 20th, as the 19th is a federal holiday. The date coincides with the Presidential Inauguration Date, when president-elect Barack Obama will take office at the White House. Though Griffin has yet to re... |
7 January 2009
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It is rumored that America isn't losing Steve Jobs, but rather witnessing his move to an even higher position, as Barack Obama's CTO. The US President has appointed pretty much everyone for every position close to him, except a Chief Technology Officer. Apple's CEO, as many will agree, is quite possibl... |
5 January 2009
04:17 GMT |
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American president-elect Barack Obama's views on the course and actions to be undertaken in relation to the international mass-effect weapon possession and usage seem to be somewhat worrying. This is mainly because he appears largely interested in preventing the use of nuclear weapons, but much less so in dealin... |
5 December 2008
06:27 GMT |
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Obama's new security advisor, James Jones, who was appointed on Monday, already announced that he plans to introduce drastic changes in the way the United States perceive their energy dependency, saying that renewable energy offers enormous opportunities the federal government must take advantage as soon as poss... |
4 December 2008
11:02 GMT |
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