Top electronics fair embraces 'grey' gizmos

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Berlin (AFP) Sept 1, 2012
High-tech gadgets to make the lives of senior citizens simpler, safer and more fun are in the spotlight at the world's top showcase for consumer electronics and home appliances. A jump in demand has prompted organisers of IFA, which opened its annual six-day trade show Friday, to offer their first guided tours for the over-60 set, pointing out what's new and hot for the market of a certain a

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Small GEO satellite platform lands at ESA

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Paris, France (ESA) Sep 05, 2012
After a careful four-day road trek from Switzerland, the first model of the Small GEO communications satellite platform has arrived at ESA for testing. During its time at ESA's ESTEC facility in the Netherlands, the Structural-Thermal Model will be exposed to the severe vibration and the tremendous noise the satellite will face during takeoff. When these tests are completed, it will be mov

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NASA's GRAIL Moon Twins Begin Extended Mission
Science

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Washington DC (SPX) Sep 05, 2012
NASA's twin, lunar-orbiting Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft began data collection for the start of the mission's extended operations. At 9:28 a.m. PDT (12:28 p.m. EDT) yesterday, while the two spacecraft were 19 miles (30 kilometers) above the moon's Ocean of Storms, the Lunar Gravity Ranging System - the mission's sole science instrument aboard both GRAIL twins - was

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NASA Announces Asteroid Naming Contest for
Students

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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 05, 2012
Students worldwide have an opportunity to name an asteroid from which an upcoming NASA mission will return the first samples to Earth. Scheduled to launch in 2016, the mission is called the Origins-Spectral Interpretation-Resource Identification-Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx). Samples returned from the primitive surface of the near-Earth asteroid currently called (101955) 1999 RQ3

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Crew Wraps Up Preparations for Wednesday's
Spacewalk

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Houston TX (SPX) Sep 05, 2012
The Expedition 32 crew finalized preparations Tuesday for a second spacewalk in less than a week in the wake of an unsuccessful attempt to install a replacement power-switching unit on the International Space Station's truss Thursday. Flight Engineers Suni Williams and Aki Hoshide, who spent the weekend studying revised procedures and fabricating an array of new tools, finished configuring

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Africa eyes joint space agency

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Khartoum (AFP) Sept 4, 2012
African nations would work together in peaceful research under a proposal for a space agency being considered Wednesday at a meeting in Sudan of the continent's communications and IT ministers. The agency, to be called AfriSpace, would enable "cooperation among African states in space research and technology and their space applications," says a working document issued for the conference.

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Curiosity Has a Photo Day

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Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 05, 2012
Curiosity took a sol off from driving and spent time during the mission's Sol 25, on Aug. 31, 2012, taking images and collecting environmental monitoring data. Imaging tasks for the sol included Navigation Camera sky observations to check for clouds, and Mast Camera imaging of the terrain eastward where the rover will be driving during the next few sols. In addition, the Mast Camera was us

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Life from Mars could have polluted Earth: Krauss

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Unless you?ve been living under a rock ? Earth or Martian ? in the past month, surely you have heard about the Curiosity rover?s landing and

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Experts propose 'cyber war' on cancer

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In the face of mounting evidence that cancer cells communicate, cooperate and even engage in collective decision-making, biophysicists and cancer researchers at Rice University, Tel Aviv University and Johns Hopkins University are suggesting a new strategy for outsmarting cancer through its own s

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