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As part of NASA's Centennial Challenges Competition, the American space agency is offering more than $400,000 to the team that can design the most dexterous, strongest and most durable astronaut glove, in the Astronaut Glove Challenge. This is the second edition of the competition, through which the agency is se... |
20 November 2009
02:13 GMT |
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A month late and after five very frustrating delays because of bad weather and lightning storms, the shuttle Endeavor finally blasted towards the International Space Station late on Wednesday, Space.com informs. The launch took place at 6:03 p.m. EDT (2203 GMT), from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, with E... |
16 July 2009
08:21 GMT |
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Developer Patrick Chamelo has updated Dock Spaces, his Mac OS X utility that de-clutters your view by allowing you to swap through ten different Docks, across different spaces. The new version adds new toolbar icons, and a new toolbar button for easy access to the main functions of the app. With the release of Dock... |
18 June 2009
09:02 GMT |
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Guild Software has released a new patch for its massively multiplayer online space strategy game, Vendetta Online. The update introduces Dynamic Warfare, “a new long-term battle and large-scale warfare mechanic designed to permit inter-faction wars to conquer geographical areas,” as Guild Software puts it... |
26 May 2009
08:27 GMT |
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Welcome back! This week has seen our index get topped with free Mac apps, some better than others. As usual, I've made three freeware picks which, hopefully, readers will find just as useful and fun as I have. Two of the apps are games, just in case you needed a boost to continue scrolling down. One of them doe... |
5 April 2009
13:52 GMT |
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Progresses made in astronomy since the beginning of the Space Age are bound to change our world forever, astronomers say. But scouting the skies and sending missions to deep space is a highly-challenging task, and one that can easily be stopped by various interests. Because 2009 is UNESCO's International Year of... |
2 March 2009
04:59 GMT |
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The MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) market is a pretty big one, which, despite the fact that World of Warcraft dominates it with a massive 11,5 million monthly subscribers, always sees new titles appear almost every month. Space-themed MMOs are quite popular these days, with titles such as EV... |
23 February 2009
15:11 GMT |
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Traveling back and forth in time has been a topic so widely spread, that there's hardly any possibility left uncovered by fiction. Books, comics, feature films and TV shows have all addressed the aspects of time travel, and have proposed various theories on how this can be accomplished. And it's not only th... |
23 January 2009
13:42 GMT |
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Nanostray is a classical vertical scrolling shooter game, developed for the Nintendo DS by Shin'en, and published by Majesco. As is the case with most vertical scrolling video titles, the players take control of a futuristic space ship and fight an endless number of enemies of different varieties and types. This... |
5 January 2009
06:40 GMT |
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The space-themed MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) genre is definitely seeing an ascending trend in terms of titles that are aimed at it. Although there are a couple of games that dominate the market, like EVE Online, that doesn't stop other game developers from making titles and marketing ... |
29 December 2008
13:01 GMT |
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On the big picture scale, the "large step for mankind" made when Neil Armstrong first touched lunar ground is still a "small step for man". There has been little success so far in the attempt to conquer space, for one reason or another. But recent efforts, like the many probes that orbit or land on distant celestial ... |
12 December 2008
04:19 GMT |
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The space elevator has been regarded as a cheaper alternative to carrying crew, equipment or even spacecraft into space, instead of using high-cost rockets to do the job. The lift would consist of a cable (also referred to as a tether or a ribbon) to be anchored to the planet's surface at one end and to a space-... |
10 December 2008
04:05 GMT |
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If you have a genius child who already knows everything and keeps pestering you with annoying questions like "How does Santa cover so much space in so little time?" or "How come he knows where everybody lives?" a North Carolina State University professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, Dr. Larry Silverberg, ... |
9 December 2008
17:51 GMT |
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Star Trek Online is shaping up to be a very interesting title, as it promises to bring quite a lot of innovations to the saturated space-themed MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) market out there. It will focus on the unique story found in the Star Trek universe, and will give players the opportu... |
8 December 2008
09:01 GMT |
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Sapporo Breweries, one of the most ancient beer producing companies in Japan, apparently said "why not?" to the concept of space beer. Since they have so much history, background, experience and success supporting them, the company's officials were likely to extend their views on their main product. But space be... |
8 December 2008
04:25 GMT |
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After their recent Kavoshgar-2 rocket mission proved to be a success, as reported by the state media, the Iranian space experts plan for the following similar missions, Kavoshgar-3 and Kavoshgar-4, to carry animals into space prior to switching to manned missions. What kind of animals they are thinking about has not ... |
5 December 2008
03:02 GMT |
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A troubled American satellite belonging to the U.S. Air Force's Defense Support Program (DSP) program is slowly but firmly drifting away from its designated place, high up in the orbit. The unwanted movement of the DSP-23 satellite is prone to endanger the integrity of other expensive and important satellites in... |
3 December 2008
09:22 GMT |
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The space-themed MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) market is definitely a crowded one. We've got EVE Online, which currently dominates its rivals, but we also have quite a few new contenders that are starting to appear and promise to take the space exploration experience to a whole new leve... |
2 December 2008
02:47 GMT |
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Since the specialists have not perfected the ways of packing, transporting, cooking and using foods and drinks in space, the dinner for the combined crews of the International Space Station and the spacecraft Endeavour was the next best thing. Although the farthest thing from the traditional meals common back on Eart... |
28 November 2008
03:01 GMT |
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The human-generated thrash that's been increasingly filling the orbit of the Earth for decades now turns more and more into a serious problem. Since it is already past the phase of saying a lot about us as a race, something must be done before spacecraft and satellites are actually affected by it. Thus, proper i... |
25 November 2008
10:23 GMT |
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How many of you have ever wondered about how a song played on, say, the Martian surface would actually sound? Assuming you pressed the "play" button on a Hi-Fi audio system, would Bach's famous “Toccata and Fugue in D Minor” sound the same as on Earth, as you would expect? Scientists say that no, it... |
21 November 2008
16:01 GMT |
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Contrary to previous years and administrations, it appears that this time the NASA problem is receiving increased attention from the new American president, Barack Obama. Among the most important issues related to the agency is whether its current administrator, Michael Griffin, should be kept or released from his po... |
20 November 2008
18:01 GMT |
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When thinking of the International Space Station, it may appear to be more of an American endeavor, given that the largest part of the missions that involve it are conducted by the US, but this is actually not entirely true. Still, the European Space Agency (ESA), a major contributor to the ISS project throughout it... |
14 November 2008
08:36 GMT |
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When thinking of the vastness of space, on how little we know and have seen of it and on how much there is still left to discover and prove, choosing the next missions that will be set in motion in a decade or so seems to be the most difficult thing to do. So, what will it be - dark matter, Earth-like planets, u... |
12 November 2008
03:50 GMT |
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Yesterday, November 4th, 2008, US citizens from all over the world (including in space) have chosen Barack Obama as their 44th president. His approach to science support and development had attracted praises and votes from a large number of Nobel prize winners. Two months ago, he declared that the US had reduced too... |
5 November 2008
11:09 GMT |
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More than one year ago, on July 23rd, 2007, NASA astronaut Clayton Anderson, a flight engineer on Expedition 15, tossed away into space a large piece of junk. During a spacewalk mission, with the help of the station's robotic arm built in Canada, he disposed of a useless tank, previously filled with ammonia cool... |
3 November 2008
10:02 GMT |
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Richard Garriott, son of former astronaut Owen Garriott, has recently returned from a trip to outer space, where he went along with 2 Russian professional astronauts, Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko, aboard a Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft. Richard Garriott spent 12 days in space, the largest part of which was inside the I... |
28 October 2008
12:31 GMT |
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As more and more activities are carried out outside the spacecrafts that provide transportation and shelter for the astronauts, their safety proves more of a concern for scientists. Perhaps, in the not-so-distant future, EVAs (extra-vehicular activities) will require longer spacewalks and actions that must ... |
24 October 2008
06:52 GMT |
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The most complex satellite ever built was almost compromised by an extremely tiny flaw in its design, which made the results very hard to read and less precise than needed. The Gravity Probe B, as the device was called, was launched in 2004 with the goal of proving some aspects of Einstein's general theory of re... |
21 October 2008
09:40 GMT |
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There is a series of physical phenomena issues which prevents astronauts from having a hot drink in the cold solitude of outer space. Recently, this problem has been addressed by two Costa Rican students who have successfully built a coffee maker that would overcome the cruel restrictions of outer space.Perhaps the t... |
17 October 2008
08:31 GMT |
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Although it might sound like another study worthy of an IgNobel award, the current research which tries to replicate the fried meat and molten metal smell of space could help astronauts get ready for outer space conditions.The sense of smell relies on the brain's area specialized in chemical interpretation of th... |
17 October 2008
05:09 GMT |
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The IBEX probe will be launched on Sunday with the declared aim of reaching past the Earth's magnetic field in order to examine the interactions that take place at the boundaries of the heliosphere.Despite having protruded far more distant corners of the universe, we still have little knowledge of the phenomena ... |
14 October 2008
09:02 GMT |
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A renowned publication, “Epoch Times,” seems to be giving some serious credit to Chinese bloggers who watched closely and thoroughly the footage that showed the Shenzhou VII crew's mission and Zhai Zhigang's walk in space. Perhaps too thoroughly, since they came up with all sorts of mismatches ... |
9 October 2008
04:27 GMT |
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The smallest of the Kuiper Belt Objects remain elusive for all the searches attempted over the past few years. Finding some would help explain a number of theories related to the solar system's formation and evolution. Since the icy ring of frozen bodies known as the Kuiper Belt was discovered beyond Neptun... |
4 October 2008
07:29 GMT |
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A small number of scientists defines space dust as the observable portion of dark matter. Space dust is comprised of small particles (about 0.1 mm) which reflect light on a very large scale. This is what can be seen of dark matter, not observable directly, but its hypothetical effects have been noticed.Space dust, al... |
3 October 2008
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As researchers finally conducted their first direct measurement of a young, far galaxy's magnetic field, the result shocked them, since it was found to be ten times stronger than the Milky Way's, exactly the opposite of what they had originally predicted.The 6.5 billion light years away young galaxy DLA-3C2... |
2 October 2008
08:53 GMT |
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Astronomers have puzzled the international scientific community once again by announcing that Earth and its surrounding solar systems may exist in some sort of “bubble,” inside which the flow of space and time is altered compared with the outside world. This contradicts the Copernican principle, which sta... |
1 October 2008
08:44 GMT |
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September 29th, the “Magnificent 7” European scientific program was presented to the public. It is the joint effort of seven bold projects to address some of the most difficult topics raised by astroparticle physics, such as dark matter, cosmic rays' origin, gravitational waves or the reasons behind ... |
30 September 2008
07:09 GMT |
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The three astronauts that have just carried out China's most important space mission returned home on Monday. They were welcomed as national heroes, as they offered their country another solid ground in order to be perceived as an ascending world power.Millions of Chinese were able to follow every step of the mi... |
30 September 2008
06:08 GMT |
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Last Wednesday, the first American ever to have reached orbit, John Glenn, and the first man ever to have set foot on the Moon, Neil Armstrong, took the floor at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC., during the festivities that marked 50 years of activity for NASA. 78-year-old Armstrong saluted the... |
29 September 2008
05:21 GMT |
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Although the space ambitions of the EU members are quite high, granting them the necessary funds still comes as a problem, since many of the EU states decided having more important issues to spend their money on.There is growing concern related to the fact that many of the EU member states still prove to be quite rel... |
29 September 2008
03:47 GMT |
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Extremely fine, like flour, but still sandpaper-rough, moon dust infiltrates the astronauts' spacesuits, causing "lunar hay fever," and creates dust storms within the shuttle cabins. All of the Apollo missions that took place between 1969 and 1972 reported the same major problem: lunar dust. As professor La... |
26 September 2008
07:45 GMT |
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Thursday, September 24th, China launched its third crewed mission into Earth's orbit. However, the three-man team is tasked to walk in the outer space for the first time in the nation's history. President Hu Jintao assisted the 9:10 pm (13:10 GMT) launch at Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in the northw... |
26 September 2008
04:53 GMT |
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The great lift currently developed by Japanese researchers is a dream come true for generations of SF authors, as it will plunge its users 62.000 miles (100.000 km) high into outer space. The cage of the lift requires top-notch technology materials and engineering, as it will slide along 22.000 mile (35.000 km) ... |
24 September 2008
04:10 GMT |
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A group of scientists successfully identified naphthalene, one of the most complex molecules ever found in the outer space, which could indicate that other prebiotic chemical components involved in the appearance of life on Earth may have been present in the matter that formed the solar system.The group of researcher... |
22 September 2008
09:44 GMT |
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As Itar-Tass news agency reports, Anatoly Perminov, chief of the Russian Federal Space Agency, visited Caracas in order to talk to Venezuelan and Cuban officials. Within the recent few months, Russia has made efforts to improve its relations with both of these countries, as none of them is on good terms with Ame... |
20 September 2008
07:08 GMT |
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So far, this seems to be the dimmest galaxy in the universe ever discovered. Shining only with the brightness of less than 350 suns, which is very little for an entire galaxy, it is believed to be filled with dark mater in enormous quantities. Segue 1, as it is called, is one of only about 2 dozen dwarf galaxie... |
19 September 2008
06:14 GMT |
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This hypothetical form of energy is supposed to fill all the space and it continuously pushes its elements apart, increasing the universe's expansion rate. It is one of the most important things that LHC scientists are eager to prove. The standard model of cosmology claims that the universe is comprised 74%... |
11 September 2008
04:10 GMT |
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Although lacking a spine and a skeleton, these are real animals and are spread all over the planet. The tardigrades (better known as water bears), famous for their sturdiness, have recently been sent on a trip to space in order to prove precisely that feature. Surprisingly, not only that they survived but they were e... |
9 September 2008
09:21 GMT |
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