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For the vigilant and largely unsung astronomers who scan the skies for asteroids that could threaten the Earth, there is some good news and some bad news about 2004MN4. This was the initial designation for an asteroid that caused a flurry of alarm among scientists when it was discovered last...
Still, it took a while, one CNOOC board member says, for "reality to impinge." As late as three weeks ago, Fu and his bankers were still gung-ho, preparing to bid between $72 and $73 per share for Unocal?up from their initial $67 offer. Then, on July 19, came...
Gowher Rizvi, the director of the Ash Institute, did not return repeated requests for comment this week. But in a statement last week, Rizvi called the winning initiatives—culled from an initial applicant pool of over 1,000—“ground-breaking efforts�...
It is Day 97. At noon sharp, the light rain that has been falling on the village of Les Combes, high in the Italian Alps, gives way to golden sunshine. Equally punctually, the white-shocked man with an increasingly comfortable smile walks across a small meadow to greet about 8...
Most important, the space shuttle was designed under the highly unrealistic assumption that the fleet would fly to space once a week and that each shuttle would need to be big enough to carry 50,000 lbs. of payload. In actual use, the shuttle fleet has averaged five flights a...