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  • Sun unleashes earth-directed solar particles into space

    At 5:24 am EDT on May 17, the sun erupted with an Earth-directed coronal mass ejection or CME, a solar phenomenon that can send billions of tons of solar particles into space that can reach Earth one to three days later and affect electronic systems in satellites and on the ground. Experimental NASA research models, based on observations from NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory, ...

  • Near-Earth asteroids and Mars 2 moons considered for future space missions

    Researchers from the SETI Institute, the Mars Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, and the space robotics company Honeybee Robotics, have successfully completed a first series of field tests aimed at investigating how humans will explore and work on near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) and eventually the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos. From April 13 to 15, field experiments were conducted at the ...

  • Wired Space Photo of the Day Galactic Wheels

    In today's business world, disruption is a constant force that never lets up. At the annual WIRED Business Conference: Disruptive by Design, we celebrate the creative power of bold new ideas and the people that make them happen. See the event ...

  • The science of making babies far from perfect

    A whole generation has been born since Canada's first "test tube baby" saw daylight in Vancouver almost 30 years ago.And it's been 20 years since B.C.'s Patricia Baird issued a royal commission report on the murky ethics of creating life in a petri dish.Now almost 10,000 babies are born in Canada each year through in vitro fertilization, or IVF, as the unheard of has ...

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The Canterbury Tales (I racconti di Canterbury) [Blu-Ray]

The Canterbury Tales (I racconti di Canterbury) [Blu-Ray]

The middle film in Pier Paolo Pasolinis controversial Trilogy of Life, The Canterbury Tales (I racconti di Canterbury) is also the darkest and least appealing of the three films, which is ironic given than Pasolini ends with himself playing Canterbury au ... ...

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  • Northeast Japan Jolted by Earthquake

    two nuclear plants in Fukushima reported no new irregularities after the quake, Kyodo news agency said. Onagawa nuclear plant in Miyagi prefecture further north also detected no irregularities, operator Tohoku Electric Power Co said. In Miyagi prefecture, where the shaking was the strongest, there were no information on injuries, Kyodo added. The United States Geological Survey recorded the ...

  • North Korea fires three short-range missiles

    SEOUL – North Korea fired three short-range missiles from its east coast on Saturday, South Korea’s Defence Ministry said, but the purpose of the launches was unknown. Launches by the North of short-term missiles are not uncommon, but the ministry would not speculate whether these latest launches were part of a test or training exercise. "North Korea fired short-range guided ...

  • Gawker launches crackstarter to buy Rob Ford video

    Mayor Ford to Horwath: Force an election TORONTO - They’re not raising money for impoverished children or a cure for cancer - it’s to own the rights to the infamous video of Toronto’s mayor said to be smoking crack. And all that money would be going to Rexdale drug dealers. Gawker, the New York-based news and gossip website that broke the story that there is a video they ...

  • From fact to fantasie discovering the real Schumann

    People have a craving for knowledge about the lives of the great composers. Instrumental music is unequalled among the arts in its magnificent, even defiant abstractness. It suggests infinite possibilities, without offering any definitive answers. What could be more tantalising?But Schumann's music excites further curiosity, because it is not only lofty, but personal. Excruciatingly ...

  • Things get curiouser and curiouser at the Turner Contemporary

    From Da Vinci to a stuffed walrus to glass models of underwater worlds, a rich selection of objects is about to go display at the Turner Contemporary, as curator Brian Dillon ...

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