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  • Israel stunned by Hawking snub Israel stunned by Hawking snub

    It is an event "of cosmic proportions", said one Palestinian academic, a befitting description of Stephen Hawking's decision to boycott an Israeli academic conference slated for next June. It was also a decisive moral call which was communicated by the Cambridge University, where Hawking is a professor, on May 8. Hawking is a world-renowned cosmologist and physicist. His scientific work had ...

  • New space stethoscope helps assess astronauts in noisy spacecrafts

    Students from The Johns Hopkins University's Whiting School of Engineering has designed a new stethoscope for NASA to deliver accurate heart- and body-sounds to medics, who are try to assess astronauts' health on long missions in noisy spacecraft. With its whirring fans, humming computers and buzzing instruments, it is about as raucous as a party filled with laughing, talking people inside an ...

  • New urine test technique helps detect breast cancer

    A Missouri University of Science and Technology researcher has developed a new screening method that uses urinalysis to diagnose breast cancer - and determine its severity - before it could be detected with a mammogram. A study to confirm this technique's effectiveness is under way at Mercy Breast Center in Springfield, Mo. Dr. Yinfa Ma, Curators' Teaching Professor of chemistry at Missouri S ...

  • Missiles not meteorites on US-Russia agenda

    The US plans to collaborate with Russia on missile issues and Afghanistan, but not planetary defence from space threats, a US diplomat said. Building a joint asteroid defence system was not a "real proposal" until the project has funding, which is not on the cards with either country, said US Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, Rose Gottemoeller. The meteorite ...

  • Theres space sex in Gravity jokes Sandra Bullock

    Actress Sandra Bullock has joked how her upcoming thriller film "Gravity" has a lot of "space sex", which is slower than real life. "Oh my gosh, there's so much space sex in this film," accesshollywood.com quoted her as saying. "It's a lot slower than in real life because of the whole zero gravity thing. But it takes us a good 45 minutes to actually get from beginning to end, so (the audience) ...


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The General's Daughter

In "The General's Daughter," a new anti-military, one-man-versus-the-establishment mystery thriller from director Simon West ("Con Air"), John Travolta plays Warrant Officer Paul Brenner, a cocky military investigator looking into the brutal strangling and apparent rape of the daughter of General "Fighting Joe" Campbell (James Cromwell), a famous Army officer with political aspirat ... ...

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  • Chinese VP stresses scientific technological innovation

    Li said the country's innovation drive will require the wisdom of all its S&T workers, encouraging them to ensure that their own professional pursuits are in line with the requirements of the country's strategic ...

  • You dont have to be Einstein to figure out this formula

    Indianapolis Motor Speedway? It's a crash course in competitive racing. "For somebody that spent all of his life driving on road courses where if you make a mistake you go through 30 feet of sand, then you hit a tire barrier and then a guardrail, it's a lot different," said ex-driver Eddie Cheever, now an ABC analyst. "You absorb the energy over a space of time. ...

  • Doug Ford denies drug-dealing allegations demands apology

    Public opinion of Mayor Rob Ford all that counts TORONTO - Councillor Doug Ford wants an apology. The embattled Etobicoke councillor says media reports that he sold drugs as young man are an "absolute lie" motivated by a desire to politically attack both him and his brother Mayor Rob Ford. ...

  • Snow falls on Quebecs Eastern Townships

    Residents of Quebec's Eastern Townships got a surprise when they saw snow in May. (MATHIEU DUGAS/QMI Agency) It certainly doesn't feel like mid-spring in Quebec's Eastern Townships. Snow fell in the region east of Montreal on Saturday and Environment Canada warned that the area could receive up to 15 cm of snow by Sunday morning. The average temperature for this time of year in ...

  • Opinion KbiOC Science and technology not panacea to all our problems

    NAIROBI, KENYA: We, the members of the Kenya Biodiversity Coalition (KBiOC), representing over 60 member CSOs who work with over a million small scale farmers, wish to express our deep appreciation for your incisive and critically important article, Blind Faith in Science and Technology has eventually become our bane that was published in The Sunday Standard of May 11, ...

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