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New Moon Shot Not So Costly - SpaceDaily NASA's plan to fulfill President George W. Bush's space exploration effort suggests the agency will have to spend about $64 billion over the next 15 years to send U.S. astronauts back to the moon. Although the price tag -- projected in fiscal year 2003 dollars -- excludes several elements of the Bush space plan, it is far less than the hundreds of billions critics of the proposal have suggested it would cost. NASA's figures indicate the cost of designing, building and flying the new Crew Exploration Vehicle -- the spacecraft NASA is developing to supersede its aging shuttle fleet -- to the moon would total $24 billion. A companion spacecraft that could set down on the moon's surface would cost $40 billion more. Both figures assume the cost of a manned landing on the moon no later than 2020, and include the cost of developing rocket boosters to launch both ships and of managing the project. |
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Columbia To Start Major Tree-Ring Climate Research Study - SpaceDaily The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded the Tree-Ring Laboratory of Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, a $5.5 million grant to study one of the largest climate systems affecting the globe--the Asian monsoon climate system. This five-year study will apply the science of tree-ring analysis (dendrochronology) and its application to the study of past climate to key questions regarding the processes that drive the development of the monsoon and its various characteristics through different regions. The Asian monsoon is one of the most important modes of natural climate variability on Earth, with differing regional impacts over areas extending from Africa to Australasia, northward into central Asia, and to the Pacific Ocean. Dozens of countries and nearly half the global population are affected by the climate variability it brings. |
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Scientists Prepare To Place Einstein On The Rim Of A Black Hole - SpaceDaily It may soon be sink-or-swim time for Albert Einstein. Scientists are preparing for the ultimate test of Einstein's law of gravity, known as the theory of general relativity, through a systematic, in-depth study of hundreds of black holes. The goal is to study the effect of gravity on time, matter and energy where gravity is most pronounced: at the theoretical border of a black hole called the event horizon. Scientists know where to look, and now they are building the tools needed to do it. One proposed mission that could do this, Miller said, is the Constellation X-ray Observatory. |
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Alzheimer's Disease: :
6/12/2004: The Long Goodbye -
ABC
6/12/2004: Video: Coping with Forgetfulness in Alzheimer's Disease -
ABC
6/12/2004: Alzheimer's Basics -
ABC
6/12/2004: Caring For Those With Alzheimer's -
ABC
6/12/2004: 58 Senators Seek Looser Stem-Cell Rules -
ABC
Biosciences:
6/12/2004: Baylor College Tackling Marsupial Mapping -
ABC
6/12/2004: 58 Senators Seek Looser Stem-Cell Rules -
ABC
6/12/2004: Fla. Crocodile Population Growing -
ABC
6/12/2004: Biotech Conference Opens in San Francisco -
ABC
6/12/2004: Chimps Could Be Extinct in 50 Years - Study -
ABC
6/12/2004: Skylarks helped by 'crop circles' -
BBC
6/12/2004: Rules to safeguard IVF samples -
BBC
6/12/2004: 'I lost the chance to be a father' -
BBC
Climate, Environment:
6/12/2004: Columbia To Start Major Tree-Ring Climate Research Study - SpaceDaily
6/12/2004: Summit: Carbon Dioxide Traders - Wired News
6/12/2004: Benguela: Pressure on Marine Ecosystems Threatens Species ... - FirstScience
6/12/2004: Air pollutants threatening Isfahan ancient bridges ... - FirstScience
6/12/2004: Source for prehistoric global warming found ... - Ananova
6/12/2004: Govt understands environmentalists' reaction to forest
exploitation: President ... - FirstScience
6/12/2004: Global warming efforts 'bad investment' ... - FirstScience
6/12/2004: Teen voters value green issues ... - FirstScience
6/12/2004: Israel accused of dumping toxic wastes in sea ... - FirstScience
6/12/2004: Climatologists brave bergs for core data - Nature
6/12/2004: Veneman Touts Bush's Forest Initiatives -
ABC
Computers:
Devices
6/12/2004: Sim Sex Not So Scintillating - Wired News
Communications
6/12/2004: Wireless Content Makes Headway - Wired News
6/12/2004: A New Kind of 'Pay Phone' -
ABC
6/12/2004: Broadband bargains tempt surfers -
BBC
6/12/2004: Verizon Makes the Leap to VoIP - Business
Week
6/12/2004: A Broadband Battle at Last - Business
Week
6/12/2004: VoIP provider dusts off free-call strategy - Business
Week
6/12/2004: Cell phone companies know your fury - CNN
6/12/2004: You want Wi-Fi with
that? - CNN
6/12/2004: AT&T plans Net phone trials in Asia, Europe - C/Net
6/12/2004: BellSouth offers VoIP to Miami businesses - C/Net
Technology
6/12/2004: Chip speed is old news - C/Net
PC's
6/12/2004: Computing's New Screen Gems - Business
Week
6/12/2004: The Storage
Story: More, More - Business
Week
6/12/2004: Bye-Bye Boring Beige Box - Business
Week
6/12/2004: New Life for the PC - Business
Week
6/12/2004: Photo Essay - Business
Week
6/12/2004: Sony revs up speedy DVD burner - Business
Week
Internet
6/12/2004: Call It the Dead E-Mail Office - Wired News
6/12/2004: GarageBand.com Leaves Door Open - Wired News
6/12/2004: Little Brothers Like IP Cameras - Wired News
6/12/2004: Search
machine: How Google copes with millions of searches every day -
BBC
Miscellaneous
6/12/2004: An Atlas of Intellectual Property - Wired News
6/12/2004: Microsoft Goes Hollywood -
ABC
6/12/2004: Review: A Data Vault Keyed to Your Fingerprint -
ABC
6/12/2004: United front against spam urged -
BBC
6/12/2004: Music industry preps more lawsuits - C/Net
6/12/2004: Apple patches 'critical' OS X flaw - C/Net
6/12/2004: Microsoft appeals European antitrust ruling - C/Net
6/12/2004: Seagate to join tiny-drive fray - C/Net
Energy:
6/12/2004: Solar-Powered Gadgets on the Move - Wired News
6/12/2004: Over 150 Countries Agree On New Push To Promote Renewable Energy ... - FirstScience
6/12/2004: The Race for Brawnier Batteries - Business
Week
Health:
Cardiovascular
Cancer
6/12/2004: Cancer Drugs Aim at More Targets - Wired News
6/12/2004: Early Chemo Improves Short-Term Survival -
ABC
6/12/2004: Gene in Breast Cancer May Get More Active -
ABC
6/12/2004: Anti-Cholesterol Pill May Ward Off Cancer -
ABC
6/12/2004: Heart drugs may ward off cancer -
BBC
6/12/2004: Baby Steps in the War on Cancer - Business
Week
Infectious
6/12/2004: Scientists Say Develop New SARS Tracing Method -
ABC
6/12/2004: Fears over new cow brain disease -
BBC
Non-Infectious
6/12/2004: Immune Therapy Stops Diabetes in Mouse Study -
ABC
6/12/2004: Study: Soda May Have Link to Diabetes -
ABC
6/12/2004: Diabetes blocked at early stage -
BBC
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Miscellaneous
6/12/2004: Scientists Still Looking for Fat-Fighting Pill -
ABC
6/12/2004: Better Eye Tests Urged for Kids Under 5 -
ABC
6/12/2004: Ariz. Seniors Save on Prescription Drugs -
ABC
6/12/2004: Officials Seize 3,000 Ephedra Packets -
ABC
6/12/2004: 'Community matrons' planned -
BBC
6/12/2004: Living
longer: Why winning an Oscar or doing a PhD may improve your health -
BBC
6/12/2004: 'Community matrons' planned -
BBC
6/12/2004: Doctors call for junk food ad ban -
BBC
6/12/2004: Brittle bone risk under-estimated -
BBC
6/12/2004: Britons choose car over exercise -
BBC
6/12/2004: Glaucoma: Why detecting the condition early on can prevent blindness -
BBC
History, Anthropology:
6/12/2004: Rat DNA clues to sea migration -
BBC
Miscellaneous:
6/12/2004: Down to Earth -
ABC
6/12/2004: Video -
ABC
6/12/2004: EU Confirms Renewed Probe of Intel -
ABC
6/12/2004: Get
it? The women trying to prove the hidden comedy of science -
BBC
6/12/2004: UK publishers accused of ignoring e-book market -
BBC
6/12/2004: Free kicks under the microscope -
BBC
6/12/2004: Sofa
danger: Euro 2004's armchair fans warned on injury risk -
BBC
6/12/2004: The Future of Computing - Business
Week
6/12/2004: Can Drug-Busters Beat New
Steroids? - Business
Week
6/12/2004: "We're as Good as the Bad Guys" - Business
Week
6/12/2004: 'Republican Survivor' spoofs party online
6/12/2004: Remembering Reagan Remotely -
ABC
Neurosciences:
6/12/2004: Patch of brain put to sleep - Nature
Physics and Astronomy:
6/12/2004: Scientists Prepare To Place Einstein On The Rim Of A Black Hole - SpaceDaily
6/12/2004: Black hole illuminates dust cloud -
BBC
Prolongevity
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Space:
6/12/2004: New Moon Shot Not So Costly - SpaceDaily
6/12/2004: Kazakhstan Hopes to Fulfill Space Dreams -
ABC
6/12/2004: Cassini Spacecraft Bears Down on Saturn -
ABC
6/12/2004: Cassini flies past Saturn moon -
BBC
6/12/2004: Rover takes first dip into crater -
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Technology:
6/12/2004: Eco glass cleans itself with Sun -
BBC
6/12/2004: Small
Worlds: Recalling the mighty mini-motor smaller than a pinhead -
BBC
6/12/2004: The New "Molecular Economy" - Business
Week
6/12/2004: Lessons from a Dizzying Tech Decade - Business
Week