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  • Mice and lizard return after a month in space

    A Russian capsule, which had mice and lizards as its occupants, returned to Earth on Sunday after spending a month in space. According to scientists, the experiment was conducted to test effects of weightlessness and other factors of space flight on the cell structure, Fox News reported. Russian state television showed the capsule and some of its inhabitants following its safe landing in a ...

  • Soaking up sun may help treat asthma

    Scientists have suggested that the amount of time that asthma patients spend in the sun may have an impact on their illness. A research team at King's College London said low levels of vitamin D - made by the body in sunlight - has been linked to a worsening of symptoms. Its latest research shows that the vitamin calms an over-active part of the immune system in asthma, the BBC ...

  • Researchers Discover Evidence For How Life May Have Begun

    One of the key elements to understanding the proliferation of life on Earth is modeling how electron transfer - the passage of an electron from one element to another - can be catalyzed. But the environmental conditions on Earth some 3 billion years ago were much different than they are today. For one, there was a distinct lack of molecular oxygen in the atmosphere, because it is readily ...

  • Ice Age Evidence Sheds Light On Modern-Day Tropical Climate Change Simulations

    redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online Researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution are looking to events of the past to better understand how rainfall patterns across the Indo-Pacific warm pool - the massive pool of warm water stretching along the equator from Africa to the western Pacific Ocean - will change due ...

  • Ground control to Major Tim former helicopter pilot Tim Peake to be Britains first official astronaut for 20 years with International Space Station mission

    A British former helicopter pilot will be the country's first "home-grown" astronaut after he was confirmed as one of the crew to fly to the International Space Station ...


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Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter [DVD]

Jesse James Meets Frankenstein's Daughter [DVD]

Director William Beaudine had the nickname One Shot because he rarely if ever shot more than one take, even if the first one was bad. Having started as a prop boy for D.W. Griffith in 1909, his career was long and storied, encompassing everything from mainstream Hollywood fare (1926s Sparrows, starring Mary Pickford, and 1934s The Old Fashioned Way, starring W.C. Fields), to one of ... ...

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  • Briton undaunted by space mission

    20 May 2013 A former Army test pilot is to become the first British astronaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS) - and says it will be less dangerous than his old ...

  • Ihsanoglu analyses the current trends in Science Technology and Innovation in the Muslim World.

    WAM ABU DHABI, 20th May, 2013 (WAM) -- The Secretary General of the OIC, Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, has cautioned that the future of science in the OIC Member States would depend on their ability to address the practical challenges of scientific development and take the right policy decisions to fully exploit technology's development potential. In a public lecture organized by the New York ...

  • Scientific Research and the European Union | Jon Butterworth | Life Physics

    CERN Council European Strategy Group (our draft strategy will hopefully be adopted in Brussels next week). So we both had things to say about each others topic.I know from experience that applying for, and spending, EU research funds used to be very bureaucratic and arguably not worth the effort. Most initiatives were not primarily targetted at research excellence, but at training, or at ...

  • Taiwans space programme offers tsunami satellite images to aid relief

    Taiwan's national space programme offered Wednesday its satellite images of the damage caused by powerful tsunamis that ravaged Asia at the weekend to affected countries and aid groups for free.The National Space Programme Office (NSPO) normally charges 3,000 euros (4,080 dollars) for each photograph covering an area of 600 square kilometres (240 square miles), the office said.The images ...

  • Russia wants US to pay for astronaut flights to Space Station

    Russia will ask the United States to contribute more toward the costs of flying US astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), a spokesman for the Russian space agency said Thursday.Roskomos spokesman Vyacheslav Davydenko told AFP that since the US space shuttles stopped supplying the jointly manned station in the wake of the February 2003 Columbia disaster Russia had been shouldering ...

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