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| January 09, 2014 |
 NASA extends space station life to 2024 Washington (AFP) Jan 08, 2014 - The $100-billion International Space Station will be extended by four years, or until at least 2024, allowing for more global research and scientific collaboration, NASA said Wednesday. The orbiting outpost, the largest space lab ever built, was launched to fanfare in 1998 and had been expected to remain in operation until 2020. "What a tremendous gift the administration has given us to ... more |  |
 Boeing building telecom satellites to expand Mexico's networks Mexico City (UPI) Jan 8, 2013 - Boeing is building two high-power satellites for Mexico as part of the Latin American country's program of boosting information security and expanding networks to remote underdeveloped areas. The Boeing Co. said it completed the first of two 702HP geomobile satellites, named Centenario, for deployment by Mexico's new Mexsat end-to-end satellite communications system. Mexsat aims ... more |  |
 Orbital to attempt launch to space station Thursday Washington (AFP) Jan 09, 2014 - Orbital Sciences Corporation is aiming to launch its unmanned Cygnus cargo ship Thursday on the company's first regular supply mission to the International Space Station. The decision to go ahead with a launch - its third attempt - was confirmed late Wednesday, hours after turbulent space weather caused by potent solar flares forced the delay of a planned liftoff. The postponement was ... more |  |
 Research: Smaller exoplanets found to be covered in gas Evanston, Ill. (UPI) Jan 8, 2013 - U.S. researchers say they were surprised to find a number of exoplanets in the Milky Way that are only a few times bigger than Earth but covered in gas. "This indicates these planets formed very quickly after the birth of their star, while there was still a gaseous disk around the star," Yoram Lithwick, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern's Weinberg College o ... more |  |
 France-UAE satellite deal shaky after US spy tech discovered onboard Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jan 07, 2014 - The sale of two intelligence satellites to the UAE by France for nearly a billion dollars could go south after they were found to contain American technology designed to intercept data transmitted to the ground station. The equipment, costing 3.4 billion dirhams ($930 million), constitutes two high-resolution Pleiades-type Falcon Eye military intelligence satellites, which a top UAE defen ... more |  |
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 N-test legacy in stratosphere bigger than thought, study Paris (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - Levels of radioactive plutonium in Earth's stratosphere from nuclear tests and accidents is higher than previously thought, but probably not dangerous to humans, scientists in Switzerland said Tuesday. It was previously thought that plutonium radionuclides - radioactive atoms which can take decades or thousands of years to degrade - were present in the stratosphere only at negligible level ... more |  |
 Israel moves closer to anti-missile shield with Arrow 3 test Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Jan 6, 2013 - Israel's latest test-firing of its high-altitude Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile system marks a major step toward the Jewish state's plan to build a multilayer missile defense shield against everything from Iranian intermediate-range ballistic weapons to home-made rockets built by Palestinian militants. The Arrow, under development by state-run Israel Aerospace Industries and the Boeing ... more |  |
 Technology one step ahead of war laws London, UK (SPX) Jan 07, 2014 - Today's emerging military technologies-including unmanned aerial vehicles, directed-energy weapons, lethal autonomous robots, and cyber weapons like Stuxnet-raise the prospect of upheavals in military practices so fundamental that they challenge long-established laws of war. Weapons that make their own decisions about targeting and killing humans, for example, have ethical and legal implic ... more |  |
 3D printing poised to shake up shopping Las Vegas (AFP) Jan 09, 2014 - A 3D printing trend playing out at the Consumer Electronics Show bodes a future in which shoes, eyeglass frames, toys and more are printed at home as easily as documents. Music star will.i.am even made a debut here as creative officer for 3D Systems, predicting that the technology will do for many basic items what iTunes did to the way people get songs. He predicted that within a decade, ... more |  |
 Toymakers target 'kidults' at high-tech Hong Kong fair Hong Kong (AFP) Jan 09, 2014 - Never mind girls and boys - adults who refuse to grow up are being increasingly targeted by a toy industry promoting adolescence as a lifestyle choice, say industry watchers. Among the "Smart-Tech" toys at this week's Hong Kong Toys & Games Fair - one of the largest of its kind in the world - were smartphone-operated flying machines equipped with cameras and rotor blades that clearly had ... more |  |
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RAMBO a small but powerful magnet Houston TX (SPX) Jan 07, 2014 - Rice University scientists have pioneered a tabletop magnetic pulse generator that does the work of a room-sized machine - and more. The device dubbed "RAMBO" - short for Rice Advanced Magnet with Broadband Optics - will allow researchers who visit the university to run spectroscopy-based experiments on materials in pulsed magnetic fields of up to 30 tesla. (A high-resolution magnetic resonance ... more |  |
 'Global sunscreen' plan could wreck tropics: study Paris (AFP) Jan 08, 2014 - An idea by the father of the H-bomb to slow global warming by sowing the stratosphere with light-reflecting particles could wreck the weather system in the tropics, a study said Wednesday. The scheme may benefit northern Europe and parts of Asia, but around the equator rainfall patterns would be disrupted, potentially drying up tropical forests in South America and intensifying droughts in A ... more |  |
 Chinese icebreaker shines spotlight on polar ambitions Beijing (AFP) Jan 08, 2014 - A Chinese research vessel's escape from pack ice after evacuating 52 people from a Russian ship trapped in Antarctica has shone a spotlight on the Asian power's growing polar ambitions at both ends of the Earth. In the Arctic, China's strategic goals include the opening up of a "Northeast Passage" shipping route Beijing hopes will shave days off the journey from China to Europe, its biggest ... more |  |
 Intel takes leap into wearable computing Las Vegas (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - Computer chip giant Intel unveiled a major new push Monday into wearables and connecting everyday devices as it seeks to leapfrog the competition in mobile computing. Chief executive Brian Krzanich said Intel would produce on its own or with partners a range of products from a health monitor integrated into baby clothes to heart monitor in earbuds. Speaking at the opening keynote of the ... more |  |
 Ultra-flexible chip can be wrapped around a hair Paris (AFP) Jan 07, 2014 - Scientists in Switzerland said Tuesday they can create electronic chips so flexible they can be wrapped around a human hair. The technique entails building an electronic circuit on top of a sandwich of polyvinyl layers perched on a hard base. The wafer is then placed in water, which dissolves two of the polyvinyl layers and causes the base to be released, sinking to the bottom of the la ... more |  |
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Tech worn in your socks... and the rest of the body Las Vegas (AFP) Jan 09, 2014 - There's a sensor in a bra, in your socks, on your wrist, attached to your chest, in the ears: wearable tech is spreading all over the body. The growing use of embedded wearable devices connected to a smartphone is spawning a massive industry geared to fitness, health and other goals, offering potential benefits to everyone from the newborn infant to the infirm elderly. It was also one of ... more |  |
 Discovery at nanoscale has major implications for manufacturers Huddersfield, UK (SPX) Jan 07, 2014 - Manufacturers of increasingly minute computer chips, transistors and other products will have to take special note of research findings at the University of Huddersfield. The implications are that a key process used to transform the properties of nanoscale materials can cause much greater damage than previously realised. The University is home to the Electron Microscopy and Materials Analy ... more |  |
 Scientists off to Pacific to study 'weather chimney' effect on climate Boulder, Colo. (UPI) Jan 7, 2013 - Atmospheric scientists say they're on their way to the western tropical Pacific Ocean to study the region's "global chimney" effect on the world's climate. With the warmest ocean waters on Earth, the western tropical Pacific fuels a sort of chimney whose output has global reach, lofting vast quantities of air from the lower atmosphere to the stratosphere and influencing atmospheric chem ... more |  |
 Europe's star-hunter enters orbit: agency Paris (AFP) Jan 08, 2014 - A billion-dollar star-hunting telescope slotted into its operational orbit Wednesday prior to harvesting data for the most detailed map yet of the Milky Way, the European Space Agency (ESA) said. The telescope, Gaia, was launched from ESA's base in French Guiana three weeks ago, then journeyed towards L2, a gravitationally stable point in space some 1.5 million kilometres (900,000 miles) fro ... more |  |
 NASA: Planet-size storms may be roiling surface of brown dwarf stars Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Jan 7, 2013 - Space telescope observations suggest swirling, turbulent clouds in planet-size storms may be ever-present on cool celestial orbs called brown dwarfs, NASA says. New data from the Spitzer Space Telescope suggest most brown dwarfs are roiling with one or more planet-size storms akin to Jupiter's "Great Red Spot," NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., reported Tuesday. ... more |  |
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