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Chuck Yeager in the cockpit of an NF-104, 4 December 1963
Airlines   Photos   Space   Technology  
Chuck Yeager pulls no punches on space travel
| Editor's note: It's been nearly 65 years since Chuck Yeager became the first human to fly faster than sound. Now 89, the legendary test pilot portrayed in the 1983 movie of Tom Wolfe'... (photo: Creative Commons / Balcer)
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Simulated view of a black hole in front of the Large Magellanic Cloud. The ratio between the black hole Schwarzschild radius and the observer distance to it is 1:9.
Nasa   Photos   Space   Washington   Wikipedia: Supermassive black hole  
Supermassive black hole kicked out of home galaxy at enormous speed
Washington: New observations from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have revealed strong evidence that a massive black hole is being ejected from its host galaxy at a speed of several million miles per... (photo: Creative Commons / Alain r)
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Arabian sea coast-sea level-India. Rising sea levels threaten coasts
| Is India’s thirst for fresh water causing ocean levels to rise? Experts warn that the backwaters of Kerala and the deltas of the Ganga, Krishna, Godavari, Cauvery and Mahanadi on the east coast ar... (photo: WN / Sayali Santosh Kadam) Deccan Chronicle
Climate Change   Coast   India   Photos   Wikipedia: Sea level  
Venus and Jupiter and moon in the sky in the month of February Transit of Venus: your last chance to see it before 2117
The last transit of Venus in front of the sun in 2004. Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images | A small black dot will grace the face of the sun as it rises (over Europe) on Wednesday, when Ve... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar) The Observer
Astronomy   Europe   Photos   Venus   Wikipedia: Transit of Venus, 2004  
Top Stories
President Barack Obama speaks at a campaign event at Chicago Cultural Center, Friday, June 1, 2012, in Chicago. Barack Obama: Drone Warrior
Share | A very strange story, that 6,000-word front-page New York Times piece on how, every Tuesday, Barack Obama shuffles “baseball cards” with the pictures and bios... (photo: AP / Carolyn Kaster) Pakalert Press
Government   Obama   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Barack Obama  
View of the Matter valley (Mattertal) from Embd on a cloudy day. The Ried glacier is visible on the left. Another warming myth busted: Climate change ISN'T to blame for melting glacier in Bolivia - ...
| Bolivia's glaciers are melting - much faster than first predicted, and the blame is falling on airborne aerosol particles. | The Chacaltaya glacier made its slow trek d... (photo: Creative Commons) The Daily Mail
Bolivia   Climate   Glacier   Nature   Photos   Wikipedia: Bolivia  
The COTS 2 Falcon 9 successfully launches with the Dragon spacecraft on 22 May 2012. Launch occurred at 03:44 EDT (07:44 UTC) on 22 May.[20] After the launch, main engine cut-off occurred at approximately the 180 second mark, the first stage fell away, and the second stage ignited once the first stage fully separated. Astronauts enter world's 1st private supply ship
| Supply ship: In this image provided by NASA-TV, space station astronaut Donald Pettit, left, and another astronaut work inside the Dragon spacecraft after entering for ... (photo: NASA / Rick Wetherington, Tim Powers and Tim Terry) Jakarta Post
Astronauts   NASA   Photos   Space Programme   Wikipedia: Dragon (spacecraft)  
Luo Yong, deputy director-general of the National Climate Center of China Meteorological Administration, delivers his statement on "Challenges of climate change to China's sustainable development at the UN Climate summit in Copenhagen, Saturday, Dec. 2, 2009. China To Increase Weather Manipulation Program
Share | A leading Chinese meteorologist says the country will employ more rainmaking technology and make better use of it in the next five years. | Some 560,000 manipulat... (photo: AP / Heribert Proepper) Pakalert Press
China   Climate   Photos   Weather   Wikipedia: China Meteorological Administration  
President Barack Obama watches as First Lady Michelle Obama draws a pint at Ollie Hayes Pub in Moneygall, Ireland, May 23, 2011. Schultz: Pitch-perfect Obama of 2008 has gone off-key
| Last week in Florida, the broad-brush-strokes candidate of 2008 rolled out his paint-by-numbers campaign for reelection. | One of President Obama's first commercials is... (photo: Public Domain / Pete Souza) Palm Beach Post
Campaign   Obama   Photos   Washington   Wikipedia: Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2012  
The Muslim Brotherhood's presidential candidate Mohammed Morsi speaks at his last rally in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, May 20, 2012. Mohammed Morsi: Brotherhood's backroom operator in the limelight
| The former Nasa engineer is a famously boring speaker, but he is backed by the Muslim Brotherhood's formidable political machine Like many of his Muslim Brotherhood col... (photo: AP / Fredrik Persson) The Guardian
Egypt   Government   Photo   Politics   Wikipedia: Election  
NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity catches its own late-afternoon shadow in this dramatically lit view eastward across Endeavour Crater on Mars. 'Non biological' organic carbon originated on Mars
| Washington, May 25 (ANI): A new study has provided strong evidence that organic carbon did, indeed, originate on Mars, although it is not of biological origin. | Molecu... (photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State Univ.) Newstrack India
Environment   Photos   Science   Space   Wikipedia: Life on Mars  
KLdy1 - July08 - YouTube. (dy1) YouTube’s Spaces Channel: A Hipper HGTV?
| In addition to silly clips of family pets, cult-film trailers and practically every music video ever made, YouTube users can now watch a home design show called “... (photo: WN / Denise Yong) The New York Times
Business   Photos   Social   Technology   Wikipedia: YouTube  
First private cargo rocket blasts off into space First private cargo rocket blasts off into space
SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweet | CAPE CANAVERAL (FLORIDA): A private cargo rocket headed to the International Space Station blasted off early on Tuesday morning. | Built by S... (photo: NASA / Jim Grossmann) The Times Of India
Cargo   Photos   SpaceX   USA   Wikipedia: SpaceX  
The Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket lifts off from space launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., early Tuesday, May 22, 2012. SpaceX makes history; has date with the Space Station
Todd Stowell | Ask me a question. | Follow @toddstowell | Cape Canaveral, Fla., MAY 22nd, 2012 — The SpaceX company made history early Tuesday as its Falcon 9 rocke... (photo: AP / John Raoux) The Washington Times
Photos   Space   Technology   US   Wikipedia: SpaceX  
File - A woman and her children are pictured on the outskirts of Fertait, a village in Jonglei, South Sudan, burned down during the recent escalation of ethnic clashes in this area, 7 January, 2012. Half of South Sudan facing food shortages, warns UN
More than half the population of South Sudan are facing food shortages due to the continuing conflict with Sudan, the UN is warning. | It says fighting on the border betw... (photo: UN / /Isaac Billy) BBC News
Food   Photos   South Sudan   War   Wikipedia: South Sudan  
Honda car Honda's electric car like a bicycle on a vacuum
| HONDA unveiled its latest electric vehicle, but it is unlike any of the cars and motorcycles the company is best known for. | Rather, the UNI-CUB single-seat, unicycle-... (photo: WN / Yolanda Leyba) The Daily Telegraph Australia
Business   Economy   Market   Photos   Wikipedia: Honda  
A tomato plant in the farm - agriculture - vegetable garden Minimal space, maximum tomato
| There's no better argument for growing your own food than a sun-ripened, juicy tomato. But not everybody has garden space to grow towering tomato plants. There's a solu... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar) Chicago Tribune
Food   Garden   Photos   Vegetable   Wikipedia: Tomato  
Space Science Astronomy
X-37B: is this Operation Bewilder the Chinese?
Angkasa providing live feed of Venus Transit
Venus makes last in a lifetime move across face of sun
Venus' all for Eve(s)!
Chuck Yeager in the cockpit of an NF-104, 4 December 1963
Chuck Yeager pulls no punches on space travel
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Astronomy delight, GC alert, angry teachers
First Photos of the Historic Transit of Venus 2012
Transit of Venus Begins! Venus Crosses the Sun for Last Time
Transit of Venus 2012 in Pictures (Gallery)
Carl Sagan /ntf1
Carl Sagan: Cosmos, Pale Blue Dot & Famous Quotes
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Space Technology International Space Station
Air force plans to land its mysterious unmanned space plane
US military gives NASA two better-than-Hubble telescopes
Chuck Yeager pulls no punches on space travel
Space History Photo: Cray 2 Supercomputer at NASA
Chuck Yeager in the cockpit of an NF-104, 4 December 1963
Chuck Yeager pulls no punches on space travel
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Commentary: Anniversaries of local TV stations
Hattiesburg’s WDAM 7 launching an ABC station
City starts talks on revamp of Amtrak station
Solar-Powered Cell Phone Charging Station Pops Up in New Yor
The Falcon 9 SpaceX rocket lifts off from space launch complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., early Tuesday, May 22, 2012.
SpaceX makes history; has date with the Space Station
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Universe Earth Objects
Ridley Scott’s ‘Prometheus’ lays seeds of
Turkish University Students Second Runner-up In World Intern
Hitchhiker’s guide to the universe
Step into a new universe
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Gallery of planets - Jupiter
They done it to English - Disheartened, Queen's English
School goes paper-free on World Environment Day
Nintendo creates its own fun park
Fishing Boat
Free family fishing clinics slated throughout summer
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Planets Science
Gallery of planets - Jupiter
Why it's called Lost Planet 3 despite being a prequel
Why it's called Lost Planet 3 despite being a prequel
Planet Venus makes its appearance
Venus and Jupiter and moon in the sky in the month of February
Transit of Venus: your last chance to see it before 2117
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First Photos of the Historic Transit of Venus 2012
Transit of Venus Begins! Venus Crosses the Sun for Last Time
Transit of Venus 2012 in Pictures (Gallery)
Historic Transit of Venus Sketched by British Explorer
Carl Sagan /ntf1
Carl Sagan: Cosmos, Pale Blue Dot & Famous Quotes
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