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  • Bidder pays $1.5M for space trip with Leonardo DiCaprio

    One fan of Leonardo DiCaprio has paid 1.5 million dollars for a trip into space with the actor, during a charity auction at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the winning bidder will get the chance to travel into space orbit on a Virgin Galactic spaceship in a seat next to DiCaprio, Us magazine reported. A portion of the proceeds from the auction will go ...

  • Hubble reveals Ring Nebulas true shape

    New observations by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed the real shape of the Ring Nebula. The glowing gas shroud around an old, dying, Sun-like star is like a doughnut, scientists suggested. "The nebula is not like a bagel, but rather, it's like a jelly doughnut, because it's filled with material in the middle," said C. Robert O'Dell of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. ...

  • Ecuadorian satellite escapes collision with Russian rocket

    Ecuador's first satellite avoided a direct collision with the remains of a Russian rocket, but whether the device is still operating remains unclear, the head of the country's EXA space agency told EFE. The US-based Joint Space Operations Center, which had alerted EXA to the possible threat to Pegaso, informed the Ecuadorian agency Thursday that the Russian wreckage did not hit the satellite ...

  • Rare birth of mega-galaxy captured by space telescope

    Researchers in the US have captured rare images of the creation of a massive galaxy about 10 times the size of the Milky Way that was formed when two young galaxies collided 11 billion years ago, a study said. "Capturing the creation of this type of large, short-lived star body is extremely rare - the equivalent of discovering a missing link between winged dinosaurs and early birds," scientists ...

  • New Russian spacecraft reusable for up to five flights

    Russia's new reusable spacecraft being developed by the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation will be able to make up to five space flights, the rocket maker said. The spacecraft's technical design has been finalised but is yet to be officially approved, Energia deputy general designer Alexander Chernyavsky said. The new reusable craft is to replace the Soyuz carrier rocket and is expected to ...


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Sweet Home Alabama

Sweet Home Alabama

Director Andy Tennant's last film was 1999's Anna and the King, the florid tale of a refined 19th-century British woman who finds herself in the ancient Oriental kingdom of Siam, which is moving slowly into modernity. His latest, the romantic comedy Sweet Home Alabama, has essentially the same narrative crux, but in this case it's a refined 21st-century New Yorker who finds herself ... ...

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  • UAE issues stamp to commemorate satellite

    Emirates Post has issued a stamp to showcase the UAE's achievement in the field of science and technology, and to commemorate the "Y1A", the first multipurpose satellite by Yahsat. The satellite, a milestone for the nation, is designed to provide advanced satellite services to Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Central and South West Asia. The stamp is available in a denomination of four ...

  • Neuroscience V Rocket Science Which is best | Dean Burnett

    When people want to emphasise how complicated something is, they compare it to either brain surgery or rocket science. But it's unlikely that two such different disciplines are equally challenging. One must be ...

  • VIDEO Mount Pavlof in Alaska erupts ash can be seen from space

    Mount Pavlof, Alaska -- Alaska's Pavlof Volcano started erupting on May 13th and the ash cloud can be seen from the International Space Station. CNN -I-reporter Chris Owens, who's a pilot, flew within about a half-mile of the volcano and captured the plume on video. The outdoor TV program producer says he was scouting a location at the time. NASA says Pavlof's ash cloud went ...

  • This Anti-Gravity 3-D Printer Can Make Objects Anywhere—Even Space

    Inventors Petr Novikov and Sasa Jokic designed it after trying to think of ways to implement 3-D printing with fibers, rather than the usual ...

  • Roaches have evolved to evade toxic traps

    In the mid-1980s pest-control companies introduced roach-killing cocktails of food mixed with slow-acting toxins. Lured in by the food, the roaches ate the heady mix, then returned to their nests, only to die several hours later and spread the toxin when their nest-mates devoured their faeces and bodies. By 1993, however, the toxic bait was becoming ...

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