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New Japanese lightweight robot on wheels can talk
Hitachinaka, Japan (AFP) Nov 21, 2007Japanese engineering giant Hitachi Ltd. on Wednesday unveiled a new lightweight robot that can converse while easily scooting around people. In a first for a humanoid, the robot has convertible legs, allowing it to walk on two legs or roll about on either two or four wheels, Hitachi said. In a demonstration near Tokyo, Hitachi showed how the robot, clad in a red jacket and cap, could be ... more Government Offers 100 Acres Of Land For ISROs' Space Institute 
Thiruvananthapuram, India (SPX) Nov 22, 2007Seeking to end the long-drawn row over the land for ISRO's Space Institute here, Kerala Government on Wednesday offered 100 acres of land free-of-cost close to the Ponmudi, a hill station in the district, to the space agency. Disclosing this during his weekly cabinet briefing, Chief Minister V S Achuthanandan denied reports in a section of media that the proposed land at Thennur village was fore ... more Northrop Grumman-Built Hyperion Imager Celebrates Seventh Anniversary On-Orbit 
Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Nov 22, 2007The first hyperspectral imager in space, built by Northrop Grumman in just over 12 months, is marking its seventh anniversary on-orbit. Launched aboard NASA's Earth Observing-1 (EO-1) satellite on Nov. 21, 2000, Hyperion has outlived its design life by 700 percent and continues to send scientists clear, detailed images of the Earth's surface. Hyperion has produced more than 35,000 images i ... more Thuraya-3 Satellite Launch Delayed Again 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 22, 2007The launch of a Zenit-3SL rocket with a Thuraya-3 communications satellite from the Pacific Ocean has been delayed for a sixth time due to poor weather conditions, a Russian Mission Control spokesman said Wednesday. "The launch has been delayed for an indefinite time. The satellite may be launched tomorrow or later. It depends on the weather and the Sea Launch company's decision," the spokesman ... more Site Thefts Place Russian Rocket Launches Under Threat In French Guiana 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Nov 22, 2007Plans to launch Russian rockets from a space center near Kourou in French Guiana are under threat from raids on its equipment and territory, a contractor said on Wednesday. Vladimir Grezdilov, general director of the Mir company, which has a contract to build a mobile tower for Soyuz-ST carrier rockets, said the company was the victim of ongoing raids from a private security firm. He said ... more |
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Berlin (UPI) Nov 21, 2007 Europe is increasingly willing to agree to harsher economic sanctions against Iran, which seems to be the price to pay to prevent a U.S. military strike against the Islamic republic. During one of her early meetings with the U.S. president, German Chancellor Angela Merkel tried to convince George W. Bush that too harsh sanctions against Iran may be counterproductive. Merkel grew up in C ... more India, China to break ice with first-ever wargames 
New Delhi (AFP) Nov 21, 2007India and China will hold their first wargames in December as part of a series of joint exercises between the two Asian neighbours who fought a war in 1962, an official announced Wednesday. The announcement came immediately after Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh met his Chinese counterpart on the sidelines of an ASEAN summit in Singapore to discuss a possible bilateral leadership meeting ... more India tests SAM missile near Pakistan border: officials 
Jodhpur, India (AFP) Nov 21, 2007India has tested an air defence missile at a site close to its tense border with Pakistan where it conducted a string of nuclear detonations in 1998, officials said Wednesday. Military scientists tested the medium-range surface-to-air missile Akash, or Sky, from Pokhran, some 200 kilometres (120 miles) from Pakistan's borders last week but gave details of the flight only on Wednesday. Th ... more Outside View: Iran nuclear divisions 
Moscow (UPI) Nov 21, 2007 For the first time, divisions within the Iranian political elite over its nuclear program are starting to emerge into the open. Former presidents Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami have warned the nation, albeit in low-key tones, that the escalation of tension around the nuclear program is dangerous and is threatening a confrontation between Iran and the world community. ... more BMD Watch: Poles may put BMD base on hold 
Washington (UPI) Nov 21, 2007 block> hl2>The Bush administration's plans to build and deploy an anti-ballistic missile interceptor base in Poland took another body blow Monday when Poland's new defense minister said in a newspaper interview he opposed the idea./hl2> Defense Minister Bogdan Klich told the newspaper Dziennik in an interview published Monday his government was going reassess the issue. That could throw a s ... more |
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Baton Rouge LO (SPX) Nov 22, 2007Early on the morning of Nov. 16, Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh and showed no mercy. The death toll continues to rise even today. Hundreds of thousands of people were left homeless. But, nearly 24 hours in advance of the storm, Hassan Mashriqui, assistant extension professor of coastal engineering with LSU, the LSU AgCenter and the Louisiana Sea Grant College Program, gave Bangladesh emergency offi ... more China wins right to explore Afghan copper mine: ministry 
Kabul (AFP) Nov 21, 2007Afghanistan has chosen a Chinese bidder to lease a copper mine which is possibly the world's largest, in a contract that is set to bring in hundreds of millions of dollars, the mines ministry said Tuesday. The 30-year lease has been offered to China Metallurgical Group Corporation (MCC) to develop the Aynak mine 30 kilometres (20 miles) east of Kabul, a Afghan mines ministry spokesman said. ... more DOE JGI Plumbs Termite Guts To Yield Novel Enzymes For Better Biofuel Production 
Walnut Creek CA (SPX) Nov 22, 2007Termites -- notorious for their voracious appetite for wood, rendering houses to dust and causing billions of dollars in damage per year -- may provide the biochemical means to a greener biofuel future. The bellies of these tiny beasts actually harbor a gold mine of microbes that have now been tapped as a rich source of enzymes for improving the conversion of wood or waste biomass to valuable bi ... more Britain to build world's biggest biomass plant 
London (AFP) Nov 21, 2007Britain is to build the biggest biomass plant in the world, Business Secretary John Hutton said after giving the green light to the renewable energy project. The 350-megawatt wood chip-fuelled electricity generating plant will be sited in the industrial town of Port Talbot on the south Wales coast. It will cost 400 million pounds (830 million dollars, 560 million euros) to construct. "Th ... more Dude, Big Screen TVs, Flexible Electronics And Surfboards Made From Same New Material 
Cambridge, UK (SPX) Nov 22, 2007There is nothing new about combining two materials to make a composite material with more desirable properties than the originals. Fibreglass has been a mainstay of the marine industry for decades and the construction industry is built on reinforced concrete. Now carbon nanotubes (CNT) are getting in on the act with nanotechnologists working out how to grow nanotube reinforcements for polymers i ... more
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