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  • Scientists set to study Pacific rim earthquake risks

    2011-05-05 13:40

    Portable seismographs will be installed at 900 locations in New Zealand's lower North Island as part of a study to help scientists better understand earthquake hazards in the Pacific region.

  • Do video games make kids eat more?

    2011-05-05 10:59

    An hour spent playing video games may make teenage boys eat more over the rest of the day, a small study suggests.

  • Blown circuit found in shuttle fuse box

    2011-05-05 10:37

    NASA says a switch box removed from space shuttle Endeavour has a blown circuit.

  • Three-man team to leave for Space Station

    2011-05-05 09:11

    Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (R), US astronaut Michael E. Fossum (L) and Russian cosmonaut Sergey Volkov smile for the camera during a training exercise in the Soyuz capsule simulator in the Russian cosmonaut training centre at Star City outside Moscow May 4, 2011. The three man team is scheduled to leave for the International Space Station on June 7.

  • Seas will rise faster than thought by 2100

    2011-05-04 14:06

    Global sea levels will rise faster than expected this century, partly because of quickening climate change in the Arctic and a thaw of Greenland's ice, an international report said on Tuesday.

  • Superfast super bus in the Netherlands

    2011-05-04 11:26

    Wubbo Ockels, the first Dutch astronaut, and a team from Delft University of Technology co-designed this 23-seat superbus powered by lithium-polymer battery. The superbus is smaller than regular buses, but it can pick up passengers and stop at destinations ordered by passengers through the Web or cell phones.

  • Fewer American families own TV set

    2011-05-04 10:07

    Fewer American households own a television set in 2010, representing the first reduction in 20 years, Nielsen Co. said on Tuesday.

  • 'Aouda.X' Mars spacesuit tested in Spain

    2011-05-03 21:29

    The 1.5 million euros Mars rover Eurobot prototype was transported from the Netherlands to Spain for its first test under field conditions.

  • Sony says 25 million more accounts hacked

    2011-05-03 15:07

    Sony Corp. said Monday that hackers may have taken personal information from an additional 24.6 million user accounts after a review of the recent PlayStation Network breach found an intrusion at a division that makes multiplayer online games.

  • India builds its fastest supercomputer

    2011-05-03 14:13

    Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has announced that it has built one of the country's fastest supercomputers with a theoretical peak performance of 220 trillion operations per second.

  • NASA delays Endeavour's final launch

    2011-05-03 11:02

    NASA is pushing back from May 8 to May 10 its target for the already delayed launch of space shuttle Endeavour on its last flight to the International Space Station.

  • US study: Rice originates in China

    2011-05-03 08:52

    Rice originated in China, a team of US genome researchers has concluded in a study tracing back thousands of years of evolutionary history through large-scale gene re-sequencing.

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