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American Airlines Boeing 737-800 landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ) in January 2010.

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Former CEO Sabre and CIO of American Airlines to talk about the future of the ...
The agenda of the international ‘Trends & Innovation Travel Distribution & Investment Summit’ – includes various panels that Kathy Misunas will be participating on. The event... (photo: Creative Commons / BriYYZ)

Dawn broke over the Atlantic Ocean near Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to reveal space shuttle Discovery newly arrived for its upcoming launch in this image taken on Feb. 1, 2011. Discovery began its 3.4-mile trip from the Vehicle Assembly Building at 7:58 p.m. EST Jan. 31, and was secured on the pad a little before 3 a.m. Feb. 1. Discovery is set to launch to the International Space Station on the STS-133 mission on Thursday, Feb

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The Australian
NASA gives green light for Discovery launch
NASA has given the green light for the space shuttle Discovery to blast off tomorrow morning (AEDT), saying the countdown to the ageing shuttle's final mission... (photo: AP / Kim Shiflett)

Hotdogs - Meat

PhysOrg
Climate change makes food more dangerous
--> Packaged meat in a supermarket. Global warming has the potential to make what we eat more dangerous and expensive, and the world already is feeling the effects, according to experts.... (photo: WN / Yolanda)
Climate Food Meat Photos Wikipedia: Climate

Tourists view Space Shuttle Discovery after the Rotating Service Structure had moved away from the shuttle during final preparations, Sunday, April 4, 2010, in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

The Los Angeles Times
NASA: All looking good for Thursday shuttle launch
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Toyota - Automaker - Car

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Toyota rebuilding brand after recall nightmare
Hamburg - The Japanese car maker Toyota is making a surprise comeback only months after reeling from numerous recall woes and seeing its once untarnished image taking a... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Automaker Business Market Photos Toyota

Fish Delft

PhysOrg
Fish provide missing piece in the marine sediment jigsaw
--> Research published today reveals the previously unidentified role that fish play in the production of sediments in the world's oceans, and specifically of the... (photo: GFDL / Tukka)
Fish Health Photos Pollution Wikipedia:Fish

Lufthansa Boeing 747-400 Business Class

Deccan Herald
Boeing offers India significant space cooperation
New Delhi, Feb 22 (IANS) Tuesday, February 22, 2011 --> Boeing has offered to partner with India on manned space missions, including on the very significant ''composite... (photo: Creative Commons)
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This image made from an April 12-13, 2010 video provided Wednesday, April 21, 2010 by NASA shows an eruptive prominence blasting away from the sun. The prominence appears to stretch almost halfway across the sun, about 500,000 miles. NASA on Wednesday unveiled the first images from a new satellite designed to predict disruptive solar storms, and scientists say they're already learning new things.

The Australian
UK scientist warns over solar storm danger
BRITAIN must improve emergency planning for a solar storm, or face space weather bringing the country to a standstill, the UK government's chief... (photo: AP / NASA)
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three children walking aimlessly on the road

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Child brain scans to pick out future criminals
The seeds of criminal and anti-social behaviour can be found in children as young as three, scientists have claimed. The researchers argue that, by predicting which... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
Children Crime Photos Scientists Wikipedia: Neuroimaging

Future Space Exploration

	Scientists find safe chamber for astronauts Deccan Herald
	A Budget Map Reveals a Troubled Future The New York Times
	New assessment of black carbon and tropospheric ozone's role in climate change PhysOrg
	US house defies Obama, passes spending-cut bill The Times of India

NASA

	Has NYC gone too far by banning smoking in parks? The News & Observer
	Dental plaque could contain solution to cutting salt in food The Daily Telegraph
	Cosmic census finds crowd of planets in our galaxy NZ Herald
	Astronomers estimate how many planets in Milky Way and finds at least 50 billion of them Star Tribune

Mars Expedition

	No word from stuck NASA Mars rover Spirit Houston Chronicle
	Life on Mars could be similar to that on Earth Zeenews
	Mars supported life 3.5 billion yrs ago, say researchers Indian Express
	Mars' volcanic deposit tells of life The Hindu

NASA Space Shuttle

Space shuttle Discovery awaits final launch

'R2' humanoid robot to blast off with space shuttle launch

US space shuttle Discovery fuel tank is loaded

Discovery shuttle poised for last launch

Silver Lake Launches New Cleantech Fund With George Soros's

Message from Dot Earth: Dear Aliens...

Which Nations Are Most Vulnerable to Climate Change? The Dau

Yoga, meditation program helps city youths cope with stress

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg becomes a comic book hero

Putting People Back to Work

Crikey! Cloud Storage Provider Box.net Raises $48M The New York Times
A Cheat Sheet for the Foreign-Language Oscar Race The New York Times
Rumor: Fearing 'Mainstream' Piracy, Sony Mulling Over 'Hack- Crunch
More Floor-Mat Woes Lead to Recall of 2.2 Million Toyotas The New York Times
Apple Announces New MacBook Pros The New York Times
Suvarna Manasa relived Dasara rush Deccan Herald
A comic book on Facebook founder Deccan Herald
Q&A: Seeing Your Most Popular Flickr Photos The New York Times
'Blood, Bones & Butter' The New York Times
How could they? As family of TV presenter missing in New Zea The Daily Mail
Scientists uncover how to swim through sand like a lizard The Daily Mail
James Earl Jones Elected for Broadway Revival of 'Gore Vidal The New York Times
Readers recommend: songs about showing off – the results The Guardian
Serial Entrepreneur Jane Hollingsworth to Share Exit Business Wire
Chris Riemenschneider Star Tribune
Stirling University builds new labs for top athletes BBC News
Agilent Technologies’ NMR Spectrometer Chosen by Harvard Med Business Wire
European freighter docks with space station Breitbart
Too many conventions hurting environment: experts Breitbart
Tanzania: In the pink NZ Herald

Astronomy meets The Man from Planet-X!

Astronomy course

On Feb. 13th at 1738 UT, sunspot 1158 unleashed the strongest solar flare of the year so far, an M6.6-category blast.

Solar flare eruptions set to reach Earth

'Weird science' uncovered inside neutron star PhysOrg
Starless planets may be habitable after all New Scientist
Can WISE find the hypothetical 'Tyche'? PhysOrg
A wealth of molecules in an extreme galaxy PhysOrg
Giant galaxies akin to snowflakes in space PhysOrg
Clearing up space junk, one piece at a time New Scientist
Super-sharp radio 'eye' remeasuring the universe PhysOrg
Back to the roots of the solar system PhysOrg
About that giant planet possibly hiding in the outer solar s PhysOrg
Flocculent spiral NGC 2841 PhysOrg
Violent storms on alien planets PhysOrg
Herschel finds less dark matter but more stars PhysOrg
Astronomy 101: How do strong solar flares and geomagnetic st The Examiner
Reflected glory PhysOrg
Astronomers identify thick disc of older stars in nearby And PhysOrg
HARPS-N instrument will help confirm Kepler's planet finds PhysOrg
Spacecraft beams new images of comet pierced by Deep Impact The Los Angeles Times
Gushing flood formed giant Martian sinkhole New Scientist
University of Sao Paulo Selects SGI® Altix® ICE 8400 to Acce Business Wire
A visual feast of galaxies PhysOrg

The space module of the "Shenzhou No. 4" unmanned spacecraft, which was launched on Dec. 30, 2002, in the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, lands on the middle part of Inner Mongolia on Jan. 5, 2003. After a decade of preparation and months of speculation, China made a concrete commitment Friday, Oct. 10, 2003, to human space travel, announcing plans to launch a manned capsule into orbit next week and enter one of mankind's most rarefield clubs, that of the spacefaring nations. The tentative date: between Wednesday and Friday of next week, "at proper time." The number of orbits for the still-unidentified first Chinese "taikonaut" and the Shenzhou 5 crafts: 14.

Taikonaut simulates landing on Red Planet

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Sitting on top of the mobile launcher platform, space shuttle Discovery straddles the flame trench, which channels the flames and smoke exhaust of the shuttle's solid rocket boosters away from the space shuttle during liftoff, on Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Traveling from the Vehicle Assembly Building, the shuttle took nearly 12 hours on the journey as technicians stopped several times to clear mud from the crawler's treads and bearings caused by the waterlogged crawlerway. First motion out of the VAB was at 2:07 a.m. EDT Aug. 4. Rollout was delayed approximately 2 hours due to lightning in the area. Discovery was secured, or "hard down" to Launch Pad 39A at 1:50 p.m. EDT. "Hard down" means that the mobile launcher platform, or MLP, is sitting on the pedestals on the pad, and the crawler has been jacked down, thus transferring the weight of the MLP from the crawler to the pad pedestals. Discovery's 13-day flight will deliver a new crew member and 33,000 pounds of equipment to the International Space Station. The equipment includes science and storage racks, a freezer to store research samples, a new sleeping compartment and the COLBERT treadmill. Launch of Discovery on its STS-128 mission is targeted for late August.

Discovery's final launch date set

Official crew portrait image of STS-124 space shuttle crew; From the left are astronauts Gregory E. Chamitoff, Michael E. Fossum, both STS-124 mission specialists; Kenneth T. Ham, pilot; Mark E. Kelly, commander; Karen L. Nyberg, Ronald J. Garan and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Akihiko Hoshide, all mission specialists. Chamitoff is scheduled to join Expedition 17 as fligh

Astronauts could hibernate like bears

Space truck docks with ISS The Register
Space Shuttle Discovery Fueled For Final Flight Huffington Post
Space shuttle Discovery set for final launch - Technology & Newsvine
Technology, economics may counter climate impact PhysOrg
Most traveled space shuttle Discovery fueled for last launch Star Tribune
iFive: Apple's New Macs, Disney Buys Togetherville, Xoom Tra Fast Company
Kepler craft prepares to dock at space station... to deliver The Daily Mail
NASA delays Glory launch for 24 hours Newstrack India
Voyeurs invited to watch space truck dock The Register
Discovery shuttle poised for final launch Indian Express
Scout & Molly's gets bigger space The News & Observer
1961 Soviet Space Capsule to Be Auctioned in NYC ABC News
$434million launch of Nasa's Glory Satellite abandoned five The Daily Mail
Twin of 1st manned space capsule lands on NYC auction block, Star Tribune
NASA delays Glory launch Zeenews
NASA delays launch of Earth-orbiting satellite Breitbart
Space-hungry Amazon.com plans to lease Denny Triangle buildi Seattle Times
Top10 Jumps Into Crowded List-Sharing Space The New York Times
Man admits hacking into NASA, e-commerce servers The Register
Johannes Kepler freighter approaches space station BBC News

CNN Exclusive: NASA chief looks to commercial crafts for space station

Discovery destined for Int'l Space Station

Huge European Cargo Ship Launches Toward Space Station

New West Dublin/Pleasanton Bart station up and running The Examiner
WUSF-FM’s classical station at full power The Business Review
'Please help us!' Woman office worker still trapped after Ne The Daily Mail
KC Union Station has best finances in years The Wichita Eagle
A little bit of Ireland on the International Space Station Irish Times
Safety takes a backseat at MRTS stations The Hindu
Neglected and rusting deep below Grand Central station, the The Daily Mail
New Bay Area Rapid Transit station set to open Fresno Bee
Office, retail space could be part of BWI MARC station redev The Business Review
BART opening West Dublin/Pleasanton Station San Fransisco Chronicle
Spacewalkers Equip Space Station to Track Earthquakes and Li Yahoo Daily News
At the Bus Station, Who Else but Paris Hilton? The New York Times
At the Bus Station, Who Else but Paris Hilton The New York Times
Human-like Robots Heading To Space Station redOrbit
NASA Teleconference About Nonprofit Management Of Space Stat redOrbit
Talking robot may join space-station crew Denver Post
Mary Shepard: Skywalk thrills, but train station at airport The Providence Journal
Ariane rocket to supply International Space Station Zeenews
European cargo ship launched to International Space Station The Examiner
European supply ship en route to space station Yahoo Daily News

This artist's conception shows simulated data predicting the hundreds of failed stars, or brown dwarfs, that NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is expected to add to the population of known stars in our solar neighborhood. Our sun and other known stars appear white, yellow or red. Predicted brown dwarfs are deep red. The green pyramid represents the volume surveyed by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope -- an infrared telescope designed to focus on targeted areas in depth, rather than to scan the whole sky as WISE is doing. Spitzer found 14 of the coolest known brown dwarfs in this region, which is one-fourtieth the volume that WISE is combing. Astronomers think WISE will find hundreds of these cool orbs within 25 light-years from the sun (a region marked by the blue sphere).

A new planet has scientists agog

This image provided by NASA shows the latest image of the Sun taken July 24, 2007. NASA scientists are keeping a close eye on the sun. It is almost spotless, a sign that the Sun may have reached solar minimum. Scientists are now watching for the first spot of the new solar cycle to appear. The 11 year long solar cycle is marked by two extremes, solar minimum and solar maximum. Solar minimum is the period of least solar activity in the solar cycle of the sun. During this time sunspot and solar flare activity diminishes, and often does not occur for days at a t

NASA releases first ever 360-degree image of the Sun

STS-51-L's Final Resting Place at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger and her seven-member crew were lost when a ruptured O-ring in the right Solid Rocket Booster caused an explosion soon after launch.

In the Shadow of The City on a Hill, Challenger and Sputnik

How to spot a spinning black hole: Twisted space-time should PhysOrg
Image: A nebula by any other name PhysOrg
Europa helps astronomers penetrate Jupiter's lost belt PhysOrg
Giant ring of black holes PhysOrg
US military promotes peace in space New Scientist
Star seen forming new state of matter New Scientist
First stars in universe were not alone PhysOrg
Water vapor in space PhysOrg
XMM-Newton technology on new telescopes PhysOrg
3 Questions: Sara Seager on discovering a trove of new plane PhysOrg
'Marstinis' could help explain why the red planet is so smal PhysOrg
Stellar discovery excites students PhysOrg
Giant radio telescope goes multi-national PhysOrg
Planck Surveyor: 15,000 New Celestial Objects PhysOrg
Will we glimpse the universe's first stars? New Scientist
Six small planets orbiting a sun-like star amaze astronomers PhysOrg
What if the Earth stopped spinning? New Scientist
Working together to take the pulse of the universe PhysOrg
A picture-perfect pure-disc galaxy (w/ Video) PhysOrg
NASA finds planets a plenty outside solar system PhysOrg

'What on earth are you doing?': David Cameron warns Gaddafi over violence

Pele Mountain Announces Total Rare Earth Oxide Resources of 52-Million Pounds Indicated Plus 96-Million Pounds Inferred

Asteroid's Record-Breaking Brush with Earth Changed It Forever

Massey agrees to medical monitoring in slurry case The News & Observer
Pushing fun to the extreme CNN
China helping evacuate EU nationals from Libya m&c;
Hong Kong airline officials jailed for people smuggling m&c;
Scientists hunt giant hidden object at edge of our solar sys Newsvine
DPM Reports Fourth Quarter 2010 and Year-End Results and Upd StreetInsider
The world's most amazing views The Daily Telegraph Australia
Melo-drama finally over as Knicks get their man Irish Times
Business Diary: Treasury still copping RBS flak The Independent
NIH plans center to spur creation of new drugs The News & Observer
Paul McCartney Composes Work for City Ballet The New York Times
UFO Traffic Report: February 23, 2011 The Examiner
Do Fights Over Climate Communication Reflect the End of 'Sci The New York Times
People power Inquirer
STO Revisited after Winning WoW The Examiner
Dr. William E. Thornton; US Astronaut The Examiner
The Newest of God's Ten Commandments: 'Thou shall not covet Newsvine
Atlanta native Eric Boe ready for Thursday's shuttle launch The Examiner
The palm oil PR offensive is gathering pace – but not weight The Guardian
Azimut identifies new Copper and Rare Earth Element explorat Canada Newswire

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