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Volcanoes may be original womb of life
Fifty years ago, a chemist named Stanley Miller conducted a famous experiment to investigate how life could have started on Earth.
Listening to dark matter
A team of researchers in Canada have made a bold stride in the struggle to detect dark matter. The PICASSO collaboration has documented the discovery of a significant difference between...
Fermi Telescope Discovers First Gamma-Ray-Only Pulsar
About three times a second, a 10,000-year-old stellar corpse sweeps a beam of gamma-rays toward Earth. Discovered by NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, the object, called a pulsar, is the...
Violently Variable Black Holes Probed
Unique observations of the flickering light from the surroundings of two black holes provide new insights into the colossal energy that flows at their hearts. By mapping out how well...
Magnetic field 'aids coma victim'
A US patient left in a coma-like state after a road accident recovered the ability to speak after repeated exposure to a magnetic field.
Miller’s legacy: new clues to origins of life
Stashed vials from Stanley Miller’s iconic ‘primordial soup’ experiments re-examined
Impact Crater Exhumed from Mars Ice
An ice mound imaged in the north polar region of Mars indicates a crater underneath.
Mysterious Mars Moon a Pile of Rubble
New observations of Mars' moon Phobos show the object is more like a pile of rubble than a single solid body.
South Asia News in brief: 2–15 October
India prepares for renewable energy cash injection, Sri Lanka looks to nuclear for energy production, Pakistan eyes crops from satellites, and more.
J.J. Abrams Gives Glimpse of New 'Star Trek' Film
J.J. Abrams is no Trekkie, but he's got big plans for the new 'Star Trek' film.
GOCE launch postponed
The foreseen 27 October launch date of GOCE has had to be postponed to allow the enquiry board time to conclude its work. A new launch date will be announced...
CSIRO to help provide 'live' video of Mars mission
When the Americans eventually send a manned mission to Mars, the whole world will be able to watch 'live' television coverage of the event courtesy of CSIRO know-how.
NASA's Party Over
NASA"s long-standing practice of honoring retirees and contractors with lavish award ceremonies costing millions of dollars a year may be over.
'Waterless' Concrete Seen as Building Block on Moon
Houssam Toutanji, a professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville, wants to demonstrate a concept of creating concrete structures on the lunar surface without water. Astronauts can turn to...
Expedition 18 Crew Launches from Baikonur
Commander Edward Michael "Mike" Fincke and Flight Engineer Yury Valentinovich Lonchakov of the 18th International Space Station crew launched in their Soyuz TMA-13 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at...
Clouds have a metal, not silver, lining
It's not a silver lining that causes night-shining clouds to bounce radar , but that's close, claims plasma physicist Paul Bellan.
Phoenix Mars Mission Honored by Popular Mechanics
NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission is being honored with a Breakthrough Award by Popular Mechanics magazine today in New York City.
VIDEO: Huge Church Rotated 90 Degrees
With hundreds of wheels attached to it, a cathedral in China is being rotated, as if on a turntable, to make way for a new road.
Space shuttle Atlantis ready for rollback
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Oct. 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says space shuttle Atlantis is ready to be moved from Launch Pad 39A to the Kennedy Space...
Star Count Goes Global
Schoolchildren, families and citizen scientists around the world will gaze skyward after dark from Oct. 20 to Nov. 3, 2008, looking for specific constellations and then sharing their observations through...
Ghostly Glow Reveals Galaxy Clusters In Collision
Astronomers have detected long wavelength radio emission from a colliding, massive galaxy cluster which, surprisingly, is not detected at the shorter wavelengths typically seen in these objects.
21st century detective work reveals how ancient rock got off to a hot start
A new technique using X-rays has enabled scientists to play 'detective' and solve the debate about the origins of a three billion year old rock fragment.
Particle physics: Sam Ting's last fling
The International Space Station's one chance of scientific greatness rests on a high-profile refugee from the world of the particle accelerator #20; but is it too long a shot to...
UAE to launch international centre to harness ICT research
The United Arab Emirates hopes to launch the region's first telecommunications research centre by early 2009.
NASA to Webcast IBEX spacecraft launch
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says it plans to Webcast the launch of its IBEX spacecraft from the U.S. Army's test site at Kwajalein...
Sensitive Laser Instrument Could Aid Search For Life On Mars
Minuscule traces of cells can be detected in a mineral likely present on Mars, researchers report in the current online issue of the peer-reviewed Geomicrobiology Journal. The results, obtained using...
NASA releases its 50-year documentary
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency is celebrating its 50th anniversary with the premier of the documentary "50 Years of Exploration: The Golden Anniversary of...
Europe Aims For Re-entry Spacecraft
Europe develops re-entry spacecraft that could return astronauts and cargo to Earth.