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Space probe enthralls Japan as it heads homeSagamihara (AFP) June 8, 2010 Japan is counting down to the homecoming of a space hero next week: not an astronaut but a battered machine limping back from a seven-year odyssey to a distant space rock. It is hoped the small probe Hayabusa ("Falcon") may have beaten bigger US and European projects to become the first spacecraft to bring home raw material from an asteroid, part of the primeval rubble left over from the making of the solar system. Hayabusa, which cost 12.7 billion yen (138 million dollars) to develop, is approa ... read more |
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San Francisco CA (SPX) Jun 03, 2010Jeffrey Long's lab will soon host a round-the-clock, robotically choreographed hunt for carbon-hungry materials. The Berkeley Lab chemist leads a diverse team of scientists whose goal is to quickly discover materials that can efficiently strip carbon dioxide from a power plant's exhaust, before it leaves the smokestack and contributes to climate change. They're betting on a recently ... more  
Moss Landing CA (SPX) Jun 02, 2010MBARI's Division of Marine Operations, under an agreement with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), sent a high-tech robotic submersible to the oily waters of the Gulf of Mexico. The goal is to collect information about the oil plume from the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig accident for NOAA. Although satellites and aircraft can help show the extent of the spill at th ... more  
New York (AFP) June 1, 2010Hewlett-Packard, the world's leading personal computer maker, said Tuesday it would cut 3,000 jobs as it makes a one-billion-dollar switch to fully automated data centers. The investment in its Enterprise Services business entails the elimination of 9,000 jobs over the next three years, HP said. "As a result of productivity gains and automation, HP expects to eliminate roughly 9,000 posi ... more |
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Dozens of fish species in danger in US oil leak: expertGalliano, Louisiana (AFP) May 31, 2010 Dozens of species of fish including one just discovered six months ago, could be wiped out by the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico that has been spewing crude into the sea for six weeks, a scientist said Monday. "We may very well lose dozens of vulnerable fish species," Prosanta Chakrabarty, a fish scientist at Louisiana State University, told AFP by email. "Currently there are no reports about massive fish kills being sighted, but I'm afraid that a lot of damage is being done below the su ... read more |
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