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The love for space in general, and space travel in
particular, is something one might expect to see transcending though
generations, and the Garriott family is a proof of that. Video game designer
Richard Allen Garriott, the son of STS-9 U.S. astronaut Owen Garriott, embarked on the journey of a lifetime aboard the Russian Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft, which
will take him to the International Space Station.
The $30 million trip makes Richard Garriott the sixth
tourist to travel into space, and the first American tourist to follow the
footsteps of his father in a “non-conventional” way....
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Recently, astronauts and space tourists returning from the International Space Station have undergone rough landings and gravitational force upon returning from their trips. The Russian Soyuz capsule, for instance, flew off-course and entered the Earth’s atmosphere a bit further away from the planned entry-point. This event occurred two consecutive times during last year’s flights. Space trip new-comer and U.S. video game mogul Richard Garriott is one of the new space tourist who will board the Russian spaceship scheduled to launch this Sunday. The millionaire paid a whopping $30 million for...
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Two miles beneath the earth’s surface, in a
South African gold mine; there’s no light, no oxygen, and no food; only
darkness and the heat from the Earth itself. A couple of decades ago scientists
would have considered that environ inhospitable to all life. However not only
have recent discoveries shown that some bacterial life does just fine and dandy
in that sort unwelcoming place, but now scientists have found a fellow they
dubbed Candidatus Desulforudis
audaxviator (the last word is Latin for “Bold Traveler” by the way) who not
only lives in that barren place, but does so without...
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This year, the Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to three
scientists that used a protein taken from a specific species of jellyfish in
order to show different cells and proteins in living organisms.
Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien used a
specific protein in the Aequorea Victoria jellyfish that makes them glow green
under ultraviolet light. The chemists observed that this certain protein could
be used as a tag for different cells and even proteins in living organisms. Early
experiments showed that the Aequorea Victoria protein inserted in the cells of
a...
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There are no boundaries to technology these days, and as
strange as it may sound, even elephants heard of text messaging. It’s true,
elephants in Kenya are the first among their kind to send text messages to
rangers, oddly enough, to announce them they are heading for villagers’ crops.
The method of implementing a SIM Card into the elephants’
collars was meant as an alternative to shooting the animals in order to stop
them from destroying the crops that farmers highly depend on in Kenya.
The SIM-equipped collars work like a GPS system, warning the
rangers every time an animal...
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A major environment-related
decision was taken for the northern Rocky Mountains region, as the...
Seriously concerning information was made
public this week, as researchers in the United States,...
The Endeavour and its extraordinary crew, made up of Commander Dominic Gorie, Pilot Gregory H....
The perfect landing of the space shuttle Endeavour has
concluded the STS-123 mission, during which...
The Cassini spacecraft detected warmth, water and organic
chemicals, the basic ingredients for...
Fossils found in northern Spain show that the earliest humans to live in Europe date back to as...
Are you the adventurous type? Are you also rich? Then we have very good news for you:A Californian...
NASA announced that the crew of space shuttle Endeavour
spent Tuesday getting ready for its...
What is the latest discovery in
terms of “suspended animation” sustainers? Researchers concluded...
One day after the media reported
that one of NASA’s Mars rovers will end its mission due to budget...
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