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Two Neptune-Mass Planets Found, Earth-Size Worlds Next - Space.com Planet hunters have found two worlds roughly the mass of Neptune, each orbiting a star within 30 light-years of our solar system. The planets are likely gaseous or mixtures of ice and rock, but they might be barren rock worlds like Mercury. The announcement today by a U.S. team comes just a week after a competing European group revealed a similar discovery of a slightly less massive planet that most likely has a rocky surface and was billed as a "super Earth." |
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Answer to gridlock may be up in air: Boeing, NASA work on flying car - Seattle Times Left: Lynne Wenberg, senior manager of Boeing's project to develop a flying car, holds a remote-control helicopter/car hybrid that engineers created. Wenberg is standing in front of the 1968 Taylor Aerocar III on display at the Museum of Flight in Seattle. Within five years, NASA researchers hope to develop technology for a small airplane that can fly out of regional airports, costs less than $100,000, is as quiet as a motorcycle and as simple to operate as a car. |
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Flying Leap for Cars -
Business
Week That's right, efforts to
take personal transportation airborne are progressing rapidly. "Air
taxis" will come first. Then...
Giants including carmakers Honda (HMC ) and Toyota (TM ) are developing prototypes of small flying devices. Helped by advances in nanotechnology, microelectronics, and robotics, researchers from the likes of NASA, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Florida are developing new flight-related technologies, designed to make piloting an aircraft easier than driving a car. Air taxis, which would carry anywhere from four to eight passengers on shorter rides between smaller, now-underused airports, could become available in the next three to four years. |
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Alzheimer's Disease: :
9/9/2004: Decreasing Toxins In Brains Of Alzheimer’s Patients - Science
Daily
Biosciences:
9/9/2004: In the Weeds
- NY
Times
9/9/2004: The Havoc of an Undetected Extra Chromosome
- NY
Times
9/9/2004: Graphic
- NY
Times
9/9/2004: What Researchers Might Learn From the Flea Circus
- NY
Times
9/9/2004: Putting Nature on the Pill
- NY
Times
9/9/2004: Graphic: Birth Control for the Masses
- NY
Times
9/9/2004: Forum: Discuss Animal Population Control
- NY
Times
9/9/2004: Single gene removes sex differences in mice brains - New
Scientist
9/9/2004: Cloning from the dead claim attacked - New
Scientist
9/9/2004: Trojan Horses, Xenon Imaging And Remote Controlled
Genes: Chemical Cages Deliver Drugs And Peer Into Cells - Science
Daily
9/9/2004: Scientists Fear New Ebola Outbreak May Explain Sudden Gorilla Disappearance - Science
Daily
9/9/2004: Critically Endangered Monkey Species Plummets More Than 50 Percent Since 1994 - Science
Daily
9/9/2004: How An Insidious Mutation Fools DNA Replication - Science
Daily
Climate, Environment:
9/9/2004: Crop health checker stems water pollution - New
Scientist
9/9/2004: Do Treatment Plants Effectively Remove Drugs, Hormones From
Wastewater? - Science
Daily
9/9/2004: NASA Satellites Allow USDA To See World's Lakes Rise And Fall - Science
Daily
9/9/2004: NASA Satellites Detect "Glow" Of Plankton In Black Waters - Science
Daily
9/9/2004: Storm Chasers-
ABC
9/9/2004: Hurricane Spills Gallons of Acidic Waste-
ABC
9/9/2004: Unusual Number of Storms Hit Land in Fla.-
ABC
9/9/2004: Hurricanes Bring Environmental Renewal-
ABC
9/9/2004: Battered Florida Counts the Cost After Frances-
ABC
9/9/2004: Hurricane Ivan Pounds Eastern Caribbean Islands-
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Computers:
Devices
Communications
Technology
9/9/2004: Tiny timepiece is ultra-accurate - Nature
9/9/2004: NIST Unveils Chip-Scale Atomic Clock - Science
Daily
9/9/2004: AMD demonstrates dual-core Opteron processor - Silicon
Strategies
9/9/2004: Phase-change material, MEMS link for memory - Silicon
Strategies
PC's
9/9/2004: Apple unveils new faster, compact iMac at expo in Paris - Seattle
Times
Internet
9/9/2004: The internet turns 35 -
ABC
Miscellaneous
9/9/2004: Software Difficulties Cost Builders Billions - Science
Daily
Energy:
9/9/2004: Molecular Assemblies Created To Convert Water To Hydrogen Gas - Science
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Health:
Cardiovascular
9/9/2004: Global Study Shows Nine Factors Identify Majority Of Heart Attack Risk - Science
Daily
9/9/2004: Blueberry Compound Shows Promise Of Lowering Cholesterol As Effectively As Drug - Science
Daily
Cancer
9/9/2004: Annual CT scans boost cancer risk - New
Scientist
9/9/2004: Advances In Tumor Angiogenesis – Dendritic Cells Co-opted To The Dark Side - Science
Daily
9/9/2004: Full-body CT Screening Increases Risk Of Cancer Death - Science
Daily
Infectious
9/9/2004: Using X-Ray Vision, He Keeps His Eye on the Bacteria
- NY
Times
9/9/2004: Bird flu - Nature
9/9/2004: China bans blood trade to tackle HIV - Nature
9/9/2004: Flu 'becoming resistant to drugs' -
BBC
9/9/2004: Drug-Resistant Bacteria May Find New Foe In Novel Drug Design Approach - Science
Daily
9/9/2004: Images Reveal How Rotavirus - Leading Cause Of Diarrhea - Enters Cells - Science
Daily
9/9/2004: Streptococcus Infects Humans By Thwarting Blood Clotting - Science
Daily
Non-Infectious
9/9/2004: The
Consumer: The Nicotine Patch Didn't Work? You May Not Have Used It Enough
- NY
Times
9/9/2004: Drug eases cravings for food and cigarettes - Nature
Miscellaneous
9/9/2004: Cases: Month by Month, a Tiny Baby's Hard-Won Pounds
- NY
Times
9/9/2004: In the Relentless Pursuit of Fashion, the Feet Pay the Price
- NY
Times
9/9/2004: Small Bumps Could Make A Big Difference For Hip Replacement - Science
Daily
9/9/2004: Study Identifies Rapidly Rising Gastrointestinal Disorder - Science
Daily
9/9/2004: Patented
Process Preserves Transplant Tissues/Organs - Science
Daily
9/9/2004: Enzyme Reins In Runaway Inflammation; May Prove Potent Drug Target - Science
Daily
History, Anthropology:
Miscellaneous:
9/9/2004: Of Olympics, Records and Limits
- NY
Times
9/9/2004: In Iraq, a Quest to Rebuild One More Broken
Edifice: Science - NY
Times
9/9/2004: Vote tabulator security hole exposed -
BBC
9/9/2004: NIST Tests Provide Fire Resistance Data On World Trade Center Floor Systems - Science
Daily
9/9/2004: Needle-free Anthrax Vaccine Shows Promise In Animal Studies - Science
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9/9/2004: Researchers Improve Detection Of Diverse Anthrax Strains - Science
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9/9/2004: WTO ruling on wheat sales goes against U.S. - Seattle
Times
Neurosciences:
9/9/2004: But Sweetie, You
Love Lima Beans - NY
Times
9/9/2004: Brain may produce its own antipsychotic drug - New
Scientist
9/9/2004: New Genetic Research Demonstrates Possible Cause Of Inherited Form Of Parkinson's Disease - Science
Daily
9/9/2004: Children With ADHD Benefit From Time Outdoors Enjoying Nature - Science
Daily
9/9/2004: Next trustbuster for EU known as tough insider - Seattle
Times
9/9/2004: Bubble bursts on Beanie Babies - Seattle
Times
Physics and Astronomy:
9/9/2004: Astronomers Spot Smallest Planets Yet
- NY
Times
9/9/2004: A small step for extrasolar planets - PhysicsWeb
9/9/2004: The Cosmic
Revolution: Task Force Outlines Role Of Particle Physics In A New Universe - Science
Daily
9/9/2004: 'Electronic Crystal' In High-temperature Superconductor - Science
Daily
9/9/2004: Light Oscillations Become Visible - Science
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9/9/2004: Scientists Discover First Of A New Class Of Extrasolar Planets - Science
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Space:
9/9/2004: Guinness World Records Recognizes NASA Speed Record - Science
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9/9/2004: Pilots to Try to Retrieve Genesis Capsule-
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9/9/2004: Spaceport Mum on Frances Shuttle Delays-
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9/9/2004: A
Flying Leap for Cars - Business
Week
9/9/2004: Answer to gridlock may be up in
air: Boeing, NASA work on flying car - Seattle
Times
9/9/2004: Laboratory Advances The Art And Science Of Aerogels - Science
Daily
9/9/2004: Lighting The Way To Better Nanoscale Films - Science
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