6. Nov 2009, 12:15
Here’s a piece of news Large Hadron Collider (LHC) critics, conspiracy theorists, and doom mongers are going to love: Ready for action after suffering almost a year of delays and repairs, CERN’s massive underground particle accelerator has been struck by misfortune yet again, and by the unlikeliest of culprits.
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30. Oct 2009, 15:00
Wednesday’s launch of the experimental Ares 1-X rocket may have been deemed a success insofar as it enabled NASA to gather valuable trajectory data, but physical damage sustained during the two-minute flight suggest the test wasn’t without incident.
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29. Oct 2009, 15:00
With the Florida region finally clear of inclement weather conditions, NASA has put Tuesday’s disruptive delay behind it and successfully completed a brief sub-orbital test flight of its experimental Ares 1-X rocket.
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27. Oct 2009, 15:30
Having already played havoc with the recent launch schedules of numerous space shuttle missions, inclement weather in and around the Florida region is expected to again rear its ugly head as NASA’s Ares 1-X experimental rocket sits ready for blast off later today.
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27. Oct 2009, 15:15
Arriving hot on the heels of the ‘trapped kid in a helium balloon’ hoax that took America by storm, sensational footage of a flaming meteorite burning within its impact crater has also been labelled little more than an elaborate publicity stunt.
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23. Oct 2009, 10:30
H1N1, Swine Flu, or just the Flu, essentially they’re the same thing. However, with all the media attention and pundits talking, should you panic? What do you need to do to prevent it, and how can you treat it if infected? The Tech Herald has done some research and here’s what we discovered. ...
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21. Oct 2009, 15:30
Telescopes were turned towards the constellation of Orion during the early hours of Wednesday morning as the annual Orionids meteor shower hit its peak and the autumnal night was intermittently punctuated by burning comet fragments as they fell through the planet’s atmosphere. ...
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20. Oct 2009, 16:00
Originally expected to blast off towards the orbiting ISS on November 12, the Atlantis space shuttle’s departure has now been shunted to November 16 in order to provide a little more calendar-based margin for error for the launch of NASA’s experimental Ares 1-X rocket.
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15. Oct 2009, 15:30
Speaking in London during an event to showcase the findings of the extensive Catlin Arctic Survey, Professor Wadhams said the survey’s data supports the consensus view that “the Arctic will be ice-free in summer within about 20 years, and that much of the decrease will be happening within 10 years.”
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14. Oct 2009, 15:30
Situated in the constellation of Cancer, the massive ‘NGC 2623’ event is the result of two spiral galaxies coming together, and Hubble’s amazing batch of deep space photographs reveal the merger in its latter stages as the two original galactic centres violently blend to form one new nucleus.
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