Member 1202Robotic suit could usher in super soldier era (AP)16-05-2008 02h44AP - Rex Jameson bikes and swims regularly, and plays tennis and skis when time allows. But the 5-foot-11, 180-pound software engineer is lucky if he presses 200 pounds that is, until he steps into an "exoskeleton" of aluminum and electronics that multiplies his strength and endurance as many as 20 times. US lists polar bear as threatened species (AP)15-05-2008 20h09AP - Put at risk by global warming, the polar bear is getting a life line as the government officially has declared it a threatened species in need of increased protection. But another round of legal battles surrounding the majestic animal may be just beginning. Scientists are building database of bite marks (AP)15-05-2008 12h33AP - It has sent innocent men to death row, given defense attorneys fits and splintered the scientific community. Galaxy's youngest known supernova is 140 years old (AP)15-05-2008 08h59AP - Astronomers have discovered the youngest known supernova in the Milky Way galaxy, still just a baby at 140 years old. The scientists, who announced their findings Wednesday, used a radio observatory in New Mexico and NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in space to identify when the supernova, or stellar, explosion occurred. They put the star-dying event at sometime around 1868. Why the China Quake Was So Devastating (LiveScience.com)16-05-2008 04h45LiveScience.com - The 7.9-magnitude earthquake that hit China's Sichuan province, leveling buildings and taking tens of thousands of lives, might not have wrought such destruction in the United States, experts say. The Nation's Weather (AP)16-05-2008 03h44AP - A storm was expected to move across the Mississippi Valley and along the Appalachian Mountains on Thursday, bringing rain and thunderstorms through the Southeast and lower half of the Mississippi Valley. Astronomers baffled by weird, fast-spinning pulsar (Reuters)16-05-2008 05h59Reuters - Astronomers are baffled after finding an exotic type of star called a pulsar apparently locked in an elongated orbit around a star much like the sun -- an arrangement defying what had been known about such objects. US lists polar bears as threatened species (AFP)15-05-2008 17h45AFP - The US government has listed polar bears as a threatened species owing to a drastic reduction in Arctic sea ice, but insisted the step did not mark a policy shift to attack global warming. Earth Extinctions Blamed on Cosmic Speed Bump (SPACE.com)13-05-2008 20h02SPACE.com - The sun bounces up and down as it roams the Milky Way, and such wavering might have hurled showers of comets Earth's way that caused mass extinctions, including the one that killed the dinosaurs, a new study claims. <<< Prev member Next member >>> Randon Members Member 4955 Member 570 Member 2858 Member 1695 Member 2513 Member 1801 Member 4928 Member 5045 Member 4045 Member 3480 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 | |
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