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UK Outlines Science PrioritiesLondon, UK (SPX) Dec 22, 2009 The Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), the body responsible for funding UK astronomy, has reported the results of its Prioritization Exercise, announcing projects chosen for continued funding and those where support will be withdrawn. The Royal Astronomical Society welcomes the long-term commitment to projects like the European Southern Observatory (ESO). UK involvement in ... read more |
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Paris, France (SPX) Dec 22, 2009Gaia is a successor to the Hipparcos satellite launched by Arianespace in 1989. Gaia will be placed into deep space beyond lunar orbit by a Soyuz rocket launched from the Guiana Space Center (French Guiana) in 2012. The orbit will be of a Lissajous-type around the second Lagrange point (L2). Built by Astrium, Gaia will weigh about 2,100 kg at launch. Like Hipparcos, a pioneer in space-base ... more  
Sukhumi, Georgia (AFP) Dec 20, 2009The monkeys at this run-down research centre which was once the pride of Soviet science have seen it all -- a brutal civil war, freezing winters and starvation. Now, if the scientists at the Institute of Experimental Pathology and Therapy have their way, one of these furry apes could someday be plucked from its cage and sent on a pioneering mission to Mars. "We have plans to return to ... more  
Paris (AFP) Dec 18, 2009A French court on Friday told Google that it cannot digitise French books without publishers' approval and ordered the online giant to pay 300,000 euros (430,000 dollars) in damages. The ruling capped a three-year-old case brought by one of France's biggest publishing houses, Les Editions du Seuil, which claimed that thousands of its works had been digitised by Google without consent. ... more |
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Tokyo (AFP) Dec 16, 2009China's Vice President Xi Jinping wrapped up a three-day Japan visit Wednesday with a trip to a former heavy industry centre that has cut down on pollution and developed a cleaner robotics sector. Xi, who is expected to succeed Hu Jintao as president in 2012, visited the southwestern city of Kitakyushu before he travels to South Korea on a regional tour that will also take him to Cambodia ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 16, 2009At the Paris headquarters of the French space agency (CNES), Simonetta Di Pippo, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight, and Thierry Duquesne, CNES Director for Strategy, Programmes and International Relations, signed an agreement that paves the way for the launch of a high-accuracy atomic clock to be attached to the outside of the European Columbus laboratory onboard the International Space Station ... more  
St. Louis (UPI) Dec 16, 2009 Most of the methods currently used in psychological warfare have been brought together in an unmanned system developed by Boeing and demonstrated for the U.S. Army at Fort Bragg, N.C. Psychological operations are crucial to wartime missions for combatant commands, but until recently such measures involved different approaches and comprised varying elements, from dropping conventional ... more |
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