Dalai Lama “If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them. ”
Barack Obama “Those who stand up for justice are always on the right side of history.”
Hoping to end a string of delays, NASA will try to launch the space shuttle Endeavour on Sunday on a mission to deliver the last piece of Japan’s Kibo laboratory to the International Space Station.
Liftoff is scheduled for 7:13 p.m. EDT from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Forecasters predicted a 70 percent chance [...]
NASA prepared to launch space shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station on Saturday to deliver a Japanese porch and spare parts needed to keep the outpost going after the shuttle fleet’s retirement next year.
The space agency planned to begin fueling the ship just after 10 a.m. (3 p.m. British time) for liftoff from [...]
Computer security experts in South Korea have warned that the country faces a second wave of cyber attacks, a day after an attack paralysed several government and commercial sites in South Korea and the US.
The warning on Thursday follows reports that the government is investigating the possibility that the attack may have originated from North [...]
British scientists claim they have created human sperm from stem cells. But other experts have questioned their data.
Researchers at Newcastle University and the NorthEast England Stem Cell Institute say they used a new technique to derive what they described as sperm cells from embryonic stem cells.
Newcastle research leader Karim Nayernia says in a statement Wednesday [...]
South Korean officials are investigating an apparent cyber attack that has paralysed the websites of major government agencies, banks and internet service providers.
The websites of the presidential Blue House, the South Korean defence ministry and Shinhan Bank are among several sites that have been hit in the suspected attack that began at around 6pm local [...]
Google Inc is planning a direct attack on Microsoft Corp’s core business by taking on the software giant’s globally dominant Windows operating system for personal computers.
Google, which already offers a suite of e-mail, Web and other software products that compete with Microsoft, said on Tuesday it would launch a new operating system that will [...]
The super-secretive National Security Agency is about to build a huge, $1.9 billion data center at Camp Williams, Utah, to help spy on communications worldwide.
The planned work there is so sensitive and classified that Utah’s congressional delegation is declining to talk about it, saying it doesn’t want to accidentally step over any lines about [...]
Garmin just today announced that together with BMW Motorrad they have developed the new BMW Motorrad Navigator IV. This is a new GPS navigation system for motorcycles that is based on Garmin’s zūmo 660. The new BMW Motorrad Navigator IV takes Garmin’s navigation technology and adds BMW specific features such as customized mount, preloaded BMW [...]
Australian palaeontologists say they have discovered three new dinosaur species after examining fossils dug up in Queensland.
Writing in the journal PLOS One, they describe one of the creatures as a fearsome predator with three large slashing claws on each hand.
The other two were herbivores: one a tall giraffe-like creature, the other of stocky build like [...]
Two University of Hawai’i at Mānoa astronomers have found a binary star-disk system in which each star is surrounded by the kind of dust disk that is frequently the precursor of a planetary system. Doctoral student Rita Mann and Dr. Jonathan Williams used the Submillimeter Array on Mauna Kea, Hawaii to make the observations.
A binary [...]
Troops willing to die to stop Iran unrest, general says
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