Aug. 15, 1877: 'Hello. Can You Hear Me
Now'

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From Wired Top Stories: Thomas Edison suggests using the word hello as a telephone greeting. The idea catches on. Read the whole article

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India to launch Mars mission: PM

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New Delhi (AFP) Aug 15, 2012
India plans to launch a space probe that will orbit Mars, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh confirmed on Wednesday after press reports that the mission was scheduled to begin late next year. The project would mark another step in the country's ambitious space programme, which placed a probe on the moon three years ago and envisages its first manned mission in 2016. "Our spaceship will go nea

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religious freedom done very, very wrong

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The citizens of Missouri recently approved a “right to pray” amendment by a landslide, which would be huge news if the Constitution of the United States didn’t have an Establishment Clause and there was a law against being a practicing member of a religious group. But it does, which raises the question of why would [...]

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Water shortages hit US power supply

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The extended drought is straining nuclear and other forms of power generation

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My Sister Rosalind Franklin

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My Sister Rosalind Franklin: A Family Memoir 9780199699629: Jenifer Glynn – Jenifer Glynn is sister to Rosalind Franklin, whose pioneering X-ray crystallography work provide the key insights needed by Watson and Crick to unravel the double helix of DNA. Much has been written about her role in the rapid advent of molecular biology in the [...]

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US military to test hypersonic vehicle over
Pacific

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Washington (AFP) Aug 14, 2012
The US military plans to launch a hypersonic unmanned vehicle in a test flight Tuesday over the Pacific, with the X-51A due to reach mind-boggling speeds of Mach 6, a spokesman said. The Waverider, which resembles a missile with a flat nose, will be dropped off the wing of a B-52 bomber off the California coast at an altitude of about 15,000 meters (50,000 feet), according to the US Air Forc

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Pre launch verifications are underway for next
Soyuz mission

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Kourou, French Guiana (ESA) Aug 15, 2012
Europe's Galileo Flight Model #3 (FM3) satellite is undergoing checkout at the Spaceport in preparation for launch along with its "sister" FM4 co-passenger on Arianespace's next Soyuz mission from French Guiana, which is targeted for the second half of 2012. Initial activity with FM3 in the Spaceport's S1B clean room facility includes propulsion sub-system testing and a fit check with hard

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Orbiter Views New Mars Rover In Color

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Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 15, 2012
The first color image taken from orbit showing NASA's rover Curiosity on Mars includes details of the layered bedrock on the floor of Gale Crater that the rover is beginning to investigate. Operators of the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter added the color view to earlier observations of Curiosity descending on its parachute, and one

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NASA's 'Mighty Eagle' Robotic Prototype Lander
Flies Again at Marshall

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Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 15, 2012
The "Mighty Eagle," a NASA robotic prototype lander, is soaring high again for a series of tests being conducted at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Since its last round of tests in 2011, the Mighty Eagle team has made significant updates to the guidance controls on the lander's camera, furthering its autonomous capabilities. The three-legged "green" lander is

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ISS crew to embark on two spacewalks in August

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Los Angeles (AFP) Aug 14, 2012
Four International Space Station crew members will embark on two spacewalks to install new equipment and replace defective installations, the US space agency NASA said Tuesday. Russia's Gennady Padalka and Yury Malenchenko will carry out a six-hour spacewalk on August 20, the lead flight director for the current ISS mission, Dina Contella, told reporters from the Johnson Space Center in Hous

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