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Light Echoes Reveal Exploded Stars - Space.com The explosions occurred centuries ago, the astronomers said, with the oldest having erupted about 600 years ago in Earth-time. All three occurred in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy to our Milky Way. The LMC is about 160,000 light-years away. In images taken years apart, researchers found concentric, circular-shaped arcs best explained as light moving outward over time and being scattered as it encounters dense pockets of interstellar dust |
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ZeroG Launches Space Tourism For The Masses - Seattle Times Starting at $49, anyone can enter the space frontier by sending a small item into orbit. Items suggested include business cards, small boxes filled with keepsakes, or even ashes. Following each trip, items are returned with detailed flight information and an official ZeroG Certified Space Seal to authenticate their space travel. In addition, people who send items into space will become a part of history as names are entered in the International Space Registry. ZGS-1 will blast into space at 4,000 MPH on a high performance sub-orbital rocket developed by UP Aerospace, Inc. |
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Galaxy's Neighboring Spiral Arm Is Closer Than Thought - SpaceDaily The Perseus spiral arm - the nearest spiral arm in the Milky Way outside the Sun's orbit - lies only half as far from Earth as some previous studies had suggested. An international team of astronomers measured a highly accurate distance to the Perseus arm for the first time using a globe-spanning system of radio dishes known as the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), which offers the sharpest vision of any telescope in existence. Additional VLBA measurements will help astronomers to determine the true structure of the Milky Way. The Perseus spiral arm is located about 6,400 light-years from the Earth. |
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Alzheimer's Disease: :
1/4/2005: Brain Activity, Drugs Could Affect Alzheimer's Progression - Science
Daily
1/4/2005: Scientists Discover Mechanism Tying Obesity To Alzheimer's Disease - Science
Daily
Biosciences:
1/4/2005: Biotech crops mark first decade with wins, losses - C/Net
1/4/2005: ‘King Kong’ tale holds bits of scientific truth - MSNBC
1/4/2005: Guppies have menopause, too - MSNBC
1/4/2005: A decade of debate over biotech foods - MSNBC
1/4/2005: A New Wariness as the Risks Shift in Biotech Investing
- NY
Times
1/4/2005: Study Finds Genes That 'Fine-tune' Muscle Development Process - Science
Daily
1/4/2005: Unified Physics Theory Explains Animals' Running, Flying And Swimming - Science
Daily
1/4/2005: Researchers Find Every Body is Doing the Locomotion - Space.com
1/4/2005: Probe Shows Stem-Cell Lines Faked - Wired News
Climate, Environment:
1/4/2005: Mount St. Helens still baffles scientists - MSNBC
1/4/2005: A Drier and Tainted Nevada May Be Legacy of a Gold Rush
1/4/2005: Behind
Gold's Glitter: Torn Lands and Pointed Questions - NY
Times
1/4/2005: Tangled
Strands in Fight Over Peru Gold Mine - NY
Times
1/4/2005: Below
a Mountain of Wealth, a River of Waste - NY
Times
1/4/2005: Questions
on the Cost of Gold - NY
Times
1/4/2005: Authorities face multimillion-euro bills over landfills ... - FirstScience
1/4/2005: EROCIPS
projects: Eleven regions gather to fight against shipping pollutions ... - FirstScience
1/4/2005: Technical Research Centre of Finland Develops High-Technology Ecological Paper ... - FirstScience
1/4/2005: Energy standards 'will reduce carbon emissions' ... - FirstScience
1/4/2005: Uganda- Use DDT to Fight Malaria, Say Experts ... - FirstScience
Computers:
Devices
1/4/2005: Games accelerating for faster-paced lives - C/Net
1/4/2005: Researcher: iPod earbuds could damage hearing - CNN
1/4/2005: Best (and Worst) Gadgets of 2005 - Wired News
Communications
1/4/2005: Cell phone concierge, now at your service - C/Net
Technology
1/4/2005: UMass to open nano-imprint litho lab - El.
Engr. Times
PC's
Internet
1/4/2005: Web services thrive, but failures outrage users - C/Net
1/4/2005: Internet porn- China says it's winning war - C/Net
1/4/2005: This year, Santa went cybershopping - C/Net
1/4/2005: Google founders fund movie - C/Net
1/4/2005: White House says Web site counts visitors - Seattle
Times
1/4/2005: Net Fuels Grassroots Music Boom - Wired News
1/4/2005: Click Fraud May Swallow the Net - Wired News
Miscellaneous
1/4/2005: Business as
usual? Not quite - C/Net
1/4/2005: Sun offers peek at Java SE 6 details - C/Net
1/4/2005: Report: Microsoft offers cash incentives for HD-DVD - C/Net
1/4/2005: The Future of Personal Media - Technology
Review
1/4/2005: Revenge of the Dot-Com Poster Boy - Wired News
Energy:
1/4/2005: Dim outlook seen for solar energy sector in 2006 - El.
Engr. Times
1/4/2005: IdaTech debuts power backup fuel cell - El.
Engr. Times
1/4/2005: His Car Smelling Like French Fries, Willie Nelson Sells Biodiesel
1/4/2005: Discussing (or Not) Our Nuclear Future ... - FirstScience
Health:
Cardiovascular
1/4/2005: Blocking The Nerve Receptor EP1 In Mouse Models Reduces Brain Damage Caused By Stroke - Science
Daily
1/4/2005: Researchers Show How Air Pollution Can Cause Heart Disease - Science
Daily
1/4/2005: Drug-eluting Stents May Cause Allergic Reactions - Science
Daily
1/4/2005: New Approach For Genetic Screening For Syndrome Linked To Cardiac Irregularities And Sudden Death - Science
Daily
Cancer
1/4/2005: Ultraviolet B Light Exposure Associated With Increased Risk Of Skin Cancer - Science
Daily
Infectious
1/4/2005: Bacterial Protein Mimics Host To Cripple Defenses - Science
Daily
1/4/2005: New Technique Points To Safer, More Efficient Vaccination - Science
Daily
Non-Infectious
1/4/2005: Bullying In Middle School May Lead To Increased Substance Abuse In High School - Science
Daily
Miscellaneous
1/4/2005: Heart Burn Medication A Risk Factor For Community-acquired C. Difficile - Science
Daily
1/4/2005: Vertebroplasty Improves Back Pain, Activity Level, Mayo Clinic Study Reports - Science
Daily
1/4/2005: Improved Speech Without Vocal Cords - Science
Daily
History, Anthropology:
1/4/2005: Revising Earth's Early History - Science
Daily
Miscellaneous:
1/4/2005: New generation-The 'millennials' - C/Net
1/4/2005: For a buck a pixel, Brit kid nets nearly $1 million - C/Net
1/4/2005: Jingle bells, cookies smell, Washington laid an egg - C/Net
1/4/2005: NSA inadvertently uses banned 'cookies' - CNN
1/4/2005: NewScientist.com's top 10 news stories of 2005 - New
Scientist
1/4/2005: Enron judge refuses to dismiss charges - Seattle
Times
1/4/2005: HealthSouth lean after Scrushy - Seattle
Times
1/4/2005: New Year's ad blitz to uncork new AT&T - Seattle
Times
1/4/2005: Most Important Infotech Stories of '05 - Technology
Review
1/4/2005: WhiteHouse.gov Uses Cookies, Bugs - Wired News
1/4/2005: Biggest Discoveries of 2005 - Wired News
1/4/2005: 'Giant asteroid to hit earth in 2006' ... - FirstScience
Neurosciences:
1/4/2005: If You Flaunt It, You've Got
It: How Red-heads Top The Pecking Order - Science
Daily
Physics and Astronomy:
1/4/2005: Light Echoes Reveal Exploded Stars - Space.com
1/4/2005: Galaxy's Neighboring Spiral Arm Is Closer Than Thought - SpaceDaily
1/4/2005: Partial Ingredients For DNA And Protein Found Around Star - Science
Daily
1/4/2005: Flashes From The Past- Echoes From Ancient Supernovae - Science
Daily
1/4/2005: Chandra looks back at the Earth ... - FirstScience
Prolongevity
Robotics:
Space:
1/4/2005: ZeroG Launches Space Tourism For The Masses - Seattle
Times
1/4/2005: 1,000-day ‘space mission’ will sail the sea - MSNBC
1/4/2005: 2005: The year in the solar system - New
Scientist
1/4/2005: Mars Region Probably Less Watery Than Thought, Says New Study - Science
Daily
1/4/2005: First Air-breathing, Liquid Fuel-powered Scramjet Takes Flight - Science
Daily
1/4/2005: NASA Prepares For Return Of Interstellar Cargo - Science
Daily
1/4/2005: FAA Ready to Regulate Space - Wired News
1/4/2005: Student-built instrument set to launch on Pluto mission ... - FirstScience
1/4/2005: Space tourists better know the rules ... - FirstScience
1/4/2005: Indias space science ... - FirstScience
1/4/2005: Soon, scientists can spot a beach ball on Mars from space ... - FirstScience
Technology:
1/4/2005: Year in
review: R&D hits the road - C/Net
1/4/2005: Professor trying to build computer tools to make better wine - CNN