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Howling at the Moon: Space Entrepreneurs See Red Over Mars Favoritism - Space.com entrepreneurs believe the U.S. space agency's preoccupation with Mars is eclipsing in importance our closest celestial neighbor: the Moon. It is apparent that there are forces within NASA solely fixated on Mars. And there's a huge fear in the Mars community, Mendell said, that once on the Moon...game over, with humankind never progressing to Mars and beyond. |
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Second team goes for space prize - BBC Left: The rocket will be hot on the heels of Spaceship One. A Canadian team has said it will challenge SpaceShipOne for the Ansari X-Prize by sending its privately-funded craft to space on 2 October. The da Vinci Project is vying with Burt Rutan's craft, and 23 other teams, to win the $10m (£5.7m) prize. It rewards the first team to send a non-government, three-person craft over 100km into space, and repeat the feat in the same craft in two weeks. Burt Rutan has predicted that mass space tourism for thousands could happen within 10 to 15 years, for around the same price of an US-style SUV vehicle - about $30,000 (£17,000). |
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Climate: The Vanishing Solar Factor - SpaceDaily Recent scientific evidence indicates solar forcing of climate change actually may be less than previously thought. The sun has been at its strongest over the past 60 years and may now be affecting global temperatures, Solanki told the newspaper. This offers a possible explanation for global warming that needs to be weighed when proceeding with expensive efforts to cut emissions of greenhouse emissions, the Telegraph story said. Solanki himself only partially subscribes to this conclusion, however. The sun cannot be the dominant source of this latest temperature increase. |
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Alzheimer's Disease: :
8/8/2004: Hope for an Alzheimer's vaccine -
BBC
Biosciences:
8/8/2004: Bird brain reveals flight secrets -
BBC
8/8/2004: Disease bouts knock crater lions -
BBC
8/8/2004: Bat bounty found in Isle of Wight -
BBC
Climate, Environment:
8/8/2004: Climate: The Vanishing Solar Factor - SpaceDaily
8/8/2004: Give Seas a Chance - Business
Week
Computers:
Devices
8/8/2004: Police reject game link to murder -
BBC
8/8/2004: Rally simulation hits the spot -
BBC
8/8/2004: Gaming
fest: A sneak peak at the bumper crop of big video games ahead -
BBC
8/8/2004: Sony's PS3 to use Blu-ray Disc - C/Net
Communications
8/8/2004: Apple and
Motorola: A Smart Duet - Business
Week
8/8/2004: Wi-Fi phones make a splash - C/Net
8/8/2004: First malicious program aims for handhelds - C/Net
Technology
PC's
8/8/2004: A Linux
Laptop: Has Its Time Come? - Business
Week
8/8/2004: The "Big Mac" Supercomputer Biz - Business
Week
8/8/2004: Fast but flawed - C/Net
8/8/2004: Toshiba delays 1.8-inch hard drives - C/Net
Internet
8/8/2004: Cyber cops to patrol Vietnam net -
BBC
8/8/2004: Finnish army 'drops web addicts' -
BBC
8/8/2004: Net users find themselves online -
BBC
8/8/2004: PCs hijacked to spew spam -
BBC
8/8/2004: Staff blamed for virus outbreaks -
BBC
8/8/2004: Don't Quote My Blog on That - Business
Week
8/8/2004: Online Casinos, This Is a Holdup - Business
Week
8/8/2004: Google
IPO: No longer a sure thing? - C/Net
8/8/2004: Lawyer sues Yahoo over message board posts - C/Net
8/8/2004: Blogging
breakthrough? - C/Net
Miscellaneous
8/8/2004: Will IBM's Gift Keep on
Giving? - Business
Week
8/8/2004: Red Hat in Big Blue's Space - Business
Week
8/8/2004: Fiery Talk from Red Hat's Chief - Business
Week
8/8/2004: Apple: Sweetness Regained - Business
Week
8/8/2004: Apple Aces Academia - Business
Week
8/8/2004: No "Halo"
Effect? Look Again - Business
Week
8/8/2004: Image flaw pierces PC security - C/Net
8/8/2004: Battles abroad for Red Hat - C/Net
8/8/2004: French tax office takes up open source - C/Net
8/8/2004: State AGs warn file-sharing companies - C/Net
8/8/2004: Free corporate Linux set for test phase - C/Net
Energy:
Health:
Cardiovascular
Cancer
8/8/2004: Diet
fallacy: 'I risked my bones in a mistaken bid to 'prevent' cancer -
BBC
Infectious
8/8/2004: Experts warn of wider vCJD threat -
BBC
8/8/2004: Q&A: What the findings mean -
BBC
8/8/2004: Asylum policy sparks HIV concern -
BBC
8/8/2004: Polio 'to die out by end of year' -
BBC -
BBC
8/8/2004: Aids drugs 'can curb HIV spread'
Non-Infectious
Miscellaneous
8/8/2004: Baby
talk: How body language could hold the key to peaceful parenting -
BBC
8/8/2004: Colour
blindness: Why faulty cone cells in the eye can cause vision problems -
BBC
8/8/2004: Private health checks 'a danger' -
BBC
8/8/2004: Human hearing highly complex -
BBC
8/8/2004: Technology & Medicine - Business
Week
History, Anthropology:
Miscellaneous:
8/8/2004: Vietnam jails veteran dissident -
BBC
8/8/2004: Country
profile: Vietnam -
BBC
8/8/2004: Call
centre woes: Indian outsourcing firms battle high employee turnover -
BBC
8/8/2004: Audio may solve JFK mystery -
BBC
8/8/2004: Scientists develop a suit that makes you feel old -
BBC
8/8/2004: Exit
strategy: When living is done, what choices do we have about dying? -
BBC
8/8/2004: July's Report Card for the IT 100 - Business
Week
8/8/2004: IT 100 Scoreboard -- July, 2004 - Business
Week
8/8/2004: A Renaissance for Russian Science - Business
Week
8/8/2004: Now Your TV Can Go Wireless, Too - Business
Week
8/8/2004: Patent perils - C/Net
8/8/2004: Decline and fall - C/Net
8/8/2004: Briefly: Life-seeking robot to take a test drive - C/Net
Neurosciences:
Physics and Astronomy:
Prolongevity
Robotics:
8/8/2004: NASA's bioseeking robot to take a test drive - C/Net
Space:
8/8/2004: Howling at the
Moon: Space Entrepreneurs See Red Over Mars Favoritism - Space.com
8/8/2004: Second team goes for space prize
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BBC
8/8/2004: Women wanted for space tests -
BBC
8/8/2004: Hubble
Trouble: One of Four Instruments Stops Working - Space.com
8/8/2004: NASA TV to Cover Next Space Station Cargo Ship Arrival ... - Washington Post
8/8/2004: Spirit rover failed to find lake remnants on Mars ... - Washington Post
8/8/2004: Cassini eyes Saturn lightning, discovers new radiation belt ... - Washington Post
8/8/2004: Instrument Aboard NASA Hubble Space Telescope Fails ... - Washington Post
Technology:
8/8/2004: Lecturer shuts door on draughts -
BBC
8/8/2004: Sony's PS3 to use Blu-ray Disc - Business
Week
8/8/2004: High-Tech Homers - Business
Week
8/8/2004: Loud and Clear - Business
Week