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Plunge Into an Alien World - Space.com On Jan. 14, our view of Titan should change forever, as the Cassini spacecraft's piggybacked Huygens probe parachutes through the smog and lands -- or splashes -- on the surface. Cassini will release the probe Dec. 25. The interview with Coustenis below was conducted by Astrobiology Magazine, a web-based publication sponsored by the NASA astrobiology program. It is presented here in cooperation with the magazine. |
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Australia Draws Line With United States On Global Warming- Report - SpaceDaily Left: "The difference between the US and Australia is that we are prepared to engage in a new agreement as long as it is comprehensive," Campbell said from London. Australia has distanced itself from the United States' hardline attempts to stall international action on greenhouse gas emissions, a report said Monday. It followed intense lobbying by the United States at a climate change conference in Buenos Aires earlier this month to set the stage for the Kyoto agreement, which Washington opposes. The two countries are the only major developed nations that have not signed the Kyoto protocol, set for February. |
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Climate Consensus In Any Language - SpaceDaily Left: At least we all agree it's round. Naomi Oreskes, of the University of California, San Diego, examined nearly 1,000 published papers on climate change. She found no disagreement within the scientific community on two questions: whether Earth's climate is warming and whether human activities are influencing that warming. Not one, not a single paper, refuted the basic consensus statement that CO2 (carbon dioxide) is increasing, that it is changing the chemistry of the atmosphere, and it's having discernible effects, Oreskes told UPI's Climate. Scientists also agree the CO2 increases are the result of human activity, she wrote in her paper. |
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Biosciences:
12/29/2004: Cloned cat sold - MSNBC
12/29/2004: Bereaved Cat Owner Gets $50,000 Clone
- NY
Times
12/29/2004: Poison Digs Its Own Grave - Science
Daily
12/29/2004: Award-winning Film Details Humane Trapping Methods - Science
Daily
12/29/2004: US scientists decode human chromosome 16 ... - FirstScience
12/29/2004: Inexpensive, mass-produced genes at core of synthetic biology advances at UH ... - FirstScience
12/29/2004: Whales 'suffer from the bends' -
BBC
12/29/2004: Fertility tourism UK women travel to Romania for egg donation -
BBC
12/29/2004: Penguins escape huge earthquake -
BBC
Climate, Environment:
12/29/2004: Climate Consensus In Any Language - SpaceDaily
12/29/2004: Australia Draws Line With United States On Global Warming- Report - SpaceDaily
12/29/2004: Administration Overhauls Rules for U.S. Forests
- NY
Times
12/29/2004: Evidence for sun-climate reported by UMaine scientists ... - FirstScience
12/29/2004: Children's Efforts for Green Group 'Not A Field Trip' ... - FirstScience
12/29/2004: Guizhou reports progress in environmental protection ... - FirstScience
12/29/2004: Chavez Land Crusade Eyes UK-Owned Venezuelan Ranch ... - FirstScience
12/29/2004: What is Britain going to do with a billion used Christmas
cards? -
BBC
12/29/2004: Asia's Deadliest Waves
- NY
Times
12/29/2004: Mercilessly Unpredictable, Quakes Defy Seismologists
- NY
Times
12/29/2004: Tsunami Experts Scramble to Dispatch Team
- NY
Times
12/29/2004: 'Megathrust' Quake Severe, but No Surprise
- NY
Times
Computers:
Devices
12/29/2004: Photos: Gadget gifts galore - C/Net
12/29/2004: Some iPod shortages for Apple, say analysts - C/Net
12/29/2004: Photos: New forms for iPod rivals - C/Net
12/29/2004: Topless teen sues over 'The Guy Game' - C/Net
12/29/2004: Maniacs Make a Modern Mansion - Wired News
12/29/2004: Video game 'record score' claim -
BBC
12/29/2004: Apple aims to patent fall-detecting iPod - C/Net
12/29/2004: Christmas present, eBay
future? - C/Net
Communications
12/29/2004: Report: U.S. Broadband use up 38 percent - C/Net
12/29/2004: Dollar Signs on the Airwaves - Wired News
12/29/2004: Phone makers ask for more research into DNA damage ... - USA Today
Technology
12/29/2004: Six 3D designs precede 90% power-saving claims from Tezzaron - Silicon
Strategies
12/29/2004: Despite Wassenaar and Taiwan, China dives down to 90-nm - Silicon
Strategies
PC's
12/29/2004: On hold forthe holidays - C/Net
12/29/2004: Scientists to gather for supercomputing feat - C/Net
12/29/2004: Photos:
IBM's Blue Gene/L - C/Net
12/29/2004: Guerrilla software development - C/Net
Internet
12/29/2004: Netflix on
Blockbuster: We're not impressed - C/Net
12/29/2004: IM lets soldiers connect to home for holidays - C/Net
12/29/2004: Mozilla's Lightning to strike
Outlook? - C/Net
12/29/2004: Page and
Brin: Warp-Speed Information - Business
Week
12/29/2004: Opera releases talking Web browser - C/Net
12/29/2004: E-mail doesn't take a holiday - C/Net
12/29/2004: 2004 year-end Google Zeitgeist - C/Net
12/29/2004: The year search became personal -
BBC
12/29/2004: Blitz on Indian cyber-cafe porn -
BBC
12/29/2004: U.S. leads the dirty dozen spammers - C/Net
Miscellaneous
12/29/2004: Face-lift
for Linux license - C/Net
12/29/2004: Microsoft readies scaled-back Windows - C/Net
12/29/2004: How Microsoft played the patent card, and failed - C/Net
12/29/2004: More Court Dates for Microsoft - Business
Week
12/29/2004: New year's resolutions for Microsoft - C/Net
12/29/2004: EU: Microsoft must comply - C/Net
12/29/2004: Winnowing Windows - C/Net
12/29/2004: Week in
review: Lump of coal for Microsoft - C/Net
12/29/2004: Exploits released for new Windows flaws - C/Net
Energy:
12/29/2004: Seeking truth in the secret life of batteries - C/Net
Health:
Cardiovascular
12/29/2004: Engineers Aim To Mend Broken Hearts
Cancer
12/29/2004: Can The Standard Course Of Radiation Therapy Following Lumpectomy Be
Shortened? - Science
Daily
12/29/2004: Researchers Find Circulating Tumor Cells In Long-term Cancer Survivors - Science
Daily
12/29/2004: Gene Therapy Reduces Skin Cancer To Sunburn In Mouse Model - Science
Daily
12/29/2004: Grey hair 'clue' to skin cancer -
BBC
Infectious
12/29/2004: Immune system contributes to evolution of a new fluorescent protein ... - FirstScience
12/29/2004: Alcohol 'aids HIV cell infection' -
BBC
Non-Infectious
12/29/2004: Acupuncture Relieves Pain And Improves Function In Knee Osteoarthritis - Science
Daily
12/29/2004: Kick the
habit: How to ditch cigarettes and embrace a healthier lifestyle -
BBC
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Miscellaneous
12/29/2004: Global Pattern Of Blindness Changes With Success In Tackling Infectious Disease And As Population Ages - Science
Daily
12/29/2004: Safety Of Childbirth After C-section Examined - Science
Daily
12/29/2004: Melatonin Supplements Offer Little Or No Benefit For The Sleep Deprived, Study Says - Science
Daily
12/29/2004: Exercise 'can't end obesity risk' -
BBC
12/29/2004: NHS painkiller shortage warning -
BBC
12/29/2004: Christmas 'is a tough time' -
BBC
History, Anthropology:
Miscellaneous:
12/29/2004: Wal-Mart tagging fuels RFID market - C/Net
12/29/2004: EEs' median income declines for first time since '72 - El.
Engr. Times
12/29/2004: EU court tells Microsoft to change Windows now - Seattle
Times
12/29/2004: E-Tailers to Post Strong Season - Wired News
12/29/2004: Time to Kill the Embargo - Wired News
12/29/2004: Maintaining cryptographic security in the quantum age ... - FirstScience
12/29/2004: Cabinet nod for new satellite spacecraft ... - FirstScience
12/29/2004: Tech Outlook 2005 -- Part 1 - Business
Week
12/29/2004: Screening Your TV Options - Business
Week
12/29/2004: Ellison gets his way - C/Net
12/29/2004: Survey: Tech salaries down last year - C/Net
12/29/2004: Can you trust a seller's bargain on
eBay? - NY
Times
12/29/2004: Satellite mapping aids Darfur relief -
BBC
12/29/2004: Complex roots of misery -
BBC
12/29/2004: Q&A: Darfur conflict -
BBC
Neurosciences:
12/29/2004: Fleeting Images Of Fearful Faces Reveal Neurocircuitry Of Unconscious Anxiety - Science
Daily
12/29/2004: Scientists 'map' key brain genes -
BBC
12/29/2004: Most 'get as much sleep as ever' -
BBC
12/29/2004: Finding Nemo 'one of few films to show realities of amnesia' -
BBC
Physics and Astronomy:
12/29/2004: Highlights of the year - PhysicsWeb
12/29/2004: Camera scoops Orion snaps -
BBC
Prolongevity
12/29/2004: Older mums likely to live longer -
BBC
Robotics:
12/29/2004: Robocopters dodge obstacles, each other - C/Net
Space:
12/29/2004: Plunge Into an Alien World - Space.com
12/29/2004: Mystery of Mars rover's 'carwash' rolls on - New
Scientist
12/29/2004: Mars Photos Find Volcanoes May Be Active
- NY
Times
12/29/2004: China offers a peek of its next manned space mission ... - USA Today
12/29/2004: Spacecraft with garbage from ISS sunk in Pacific ... - USA Today
12/29/2004: China plans space mission for 2005 ... - FirstScience
12/29/2004: China's Next Manned Spaceship to Launch in Sept ... - FirstScience
12/29/2004: Cargo Ship Brings Space Station Crew Belated Christmas Dinner
- NY
Times
12/29/2004: Observations Rule Out Asteroid Impact
- NY
Times
12/29/2004: NASA Takes Major Step in Return to Space
- NY
Times
12/29/2004: Christmas comes to space station as supplies arrive at ISS - Space.com
Technology:
12/29/2004: Parachute designed to save planes - C/Net