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Air pollution may pose health concern for people near smaller regional airports

by ANINovember 20, 2009 Science

Scientists are reporting evidence that air pollution — a well-recognized problem at major airports — may pose an important but largely overlooked health concern for people living near smaller regional airports.
Those airports are becoming an increasingly important component of global air transport systems.
The study, one of only a handful to examine airborne pollutants near regional [...]

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Wireless smart home comes closer to reality

by ANINovember 20, 2009 Science

A team of scientists has proposed a smart home network system that works by integrating well-known Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology into the Open Service Gateway Initiative (OSGi) to allow people to access a video monitoring and media system throughout their household or even remotely.
Their proposal will help solve several common problems for people when [...]

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Kirsten Dunst says she and ex Jake Gyllenhaal “are not good friends”

by ANINovember 19, 2009 Science

Kirsten Dunst has confessed that she is not really in touch with her ex-flame Jake Gyllenhaal.
“It would be nice to see him…But we”re not good friends,” Us mag quoted her as telling Allure mag.
The pair, who shared a home in LA, had spilt in 2004 after romancing for about two years.

Dunst, 27, is now having [...]

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NASA signs agreement with ISRO to use data from Oceasat II

by ANINovember 19, 2009 Science

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) of the US has entered an agreement with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) to use data from the Indian satellite Oceansat-II.
The agreement will pave the way for NASA to use data from Oceansat-II for its research, education, weather forecasting, and other activities aimed at the public good.
The [...]

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Space shuttle Atlantis lifts off from Cape Canaveral

by ANINovember 17, 2009 Science

The space shuttle “Atlantis” rocketed into orbit on Monday with six astronauts and a full load of spare parts for the International Space Station.
The Atlantis shot into a partly cloudy afternoon sky in front of about 100 space enthusiasts who won front-row seats.
It was NASA’’s first launch “tweetup,” and the invitees splashed news mostly [...]

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NASA’s Terra satellite spots tropical cyclone Anja in southern Indian Ocean

by ANINovember 17, 2009 Science

NASA’s MODIS instrument on the Terra satellite has detected Cyclone Anja, the first tropical cyclone of the southern Hemisphere cyclone season, in the southern Indian Ocean.
When Anja formed on November 14, in the Southern Indian Ocean, about 330 miles south-southwest of Diego Garcia, it was designated Tropical Cyclone 01S.
By November 15, 01S had strengthened [...]

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World’s first flying car may soar the skies by 2011

by ANINovember 14, 2009 Science

If US company Terrafugia has its way, the world’s first road-registered, air-worthy, flying car could be on the highways and in the skies by the year 2011.
The firm’s new vehicle is called the Transition Roadable Aircraft.
Personal aircraft have been on Terrafugia’s drawing boards for years now, but this latest project combines road and air transport [...]

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Extrasolar planet confirmed to have highly tilted orbit

by ANINovember 14, 2009 Science

Two teams of astronomers have found that extrasolar planet HAT-P-7b, discovered in 2008, has a retrograde or highly tilted orbit.
On May 30, 2009, a Japanese collaboration team led by Norio Narita (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) used the Subaru Telescope’s High Dispersion Spectrograph (HDS) to observe the HAT-P-7 planetary system, which is about 1000 light-years [...]

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NASA’s LCROSS confirms presence of water in lunar crater

by ANINovember 13, 2009 Science

Preliminary data from NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, has indicated that the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater.
The LCROSS spacecraft and a companion rocket stage made twin impacts in the Cabeus crater on October 9 that created a plume of material from the bottom of a crater [...]

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