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  • Havent seen any UFOs says Chinese astronaut

    A female Chinese astronaut Thursday said from space that she and her crewmates haven't seen any UFOs during the trip. Female astronaut Wang Yaping, one of the three crew members of Shenzhou-10 spacecraft, greeted about 330 primary and middle school students at a Beijing high school through a live video feed system, about 340 km above the Earth, reported Xinhua. "Through the front windows, we ...

  • Independent Publishing Houses in Mexico Promote Democratization of Books at Annual Fair

    MEXICO CITY, MEXICO Gustavo Barr?n, 22, glances at the books on display at the Feria del Libro Independiente, a book fair featuring independent publishing houses in Mexico City, Mexicos capital. While perusing the selection, Barr?n, a university student studying history, holds a book about guerrilla groups in Mexico in the 1970s and the transition to democracy. The publisher is Ce-Acatl, a ...

  • With Russian Help Europe Prepares to Search for Life on Mars

    PARIS The European Space Agency signed final contracts with Thales Alenia Space Italy for work on a pair of missions to assess if the planet Mars has or ever had life, officials said at the Paris Airshow this week. Until last year, the ExoMars program was a joint project between ESA and the U.S. space agency NASA. But NASA dropped out, citing budget problems. The Russian space ...

  • Senior Scientific Officer - Science Europe

    www.scienceeurope.org ) is an association of 51 European research funding organisations (RFO) and research performing organisations (RPO) in 26 countries, founded in October 2011 and based in Brussels. It promotes the collective interests of the RFOs and RPOs of Europe and supports its member organisations in their efforts to foster European research. It aims to strengthen the European Research ...

  • Live from space Chinas zero-gravity science lesson

    29/06/2012 11:13 CET It’s not your average lecture when your professor is speaking to you from space. On Thursday China’s second ever female astronaut gave a special lesson on physics to 60 million Chinese schoolchildren and teachers back on earth, according to Chinese media. Aboard the Tiangong 1 module she explained the effects of zero gravity on weight and mass, and how ...

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Into the Wild [Blu-Ray]

Into the Wild [Blu-Ray]

Early in his career Sean Penn developed a reputation as an intense actor, one who relished and excelled at playing anguished, internally divided characters, a tendency that has also informed his work as a director. His first three films behind the camera, 1991s The Indian Runner ... ...

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  • From Outer Space to the Ocean Blue Frankfurt Airport Makes Traveling with Children Fun

    At Frankfurt Airport, the teddy bear even gets a boarding pass: complete with name, destination, flight code, and seat number. And why not--after all, teddy and three-year-old Sara are inseparable companions! This is just one small example of how Frankfurt Airport looks after its little passengers. When kids are happy, their parents can relax and the whole family can look forward to an enjoyable ...

  • Mind-reading monkey brains look similar to ours

    Rogier Mars of the University of Oxford and colleagues scanned 36 people's brains. Using an algorithm, they created a map of how an area associated with theory of mind is connected to brain regions linked to abilities such as face recognition and interpretation. Next, the researchers scanned 12 macaque brains for a similar pattern of connections. An area involved in facial recognition had ...

  • World Chinese astronaut gives lecture from space

    China 's fifth manned space mission, Shenzhou-10, is scheduled to end around 25 or 26 June. The crew is also expected to attempt a manual docking later on Thursday. This will involve getting back inside their Shenzhou capsule, unhooking from Tiangong and then flying around the lab to re-attach the capsule to the laboratory. 'Sixteen sunrises' Ms Yang used difference experiments to ...

  • Chinese Astronaut Gives Live Video Lesson From Space

    Wang Yaping, China's second female astronaut, is one of three crew members sent to space last week on the Shenzhou-10 spacecraft. She delivered her lecture from the Tiangong-1 experimental space lab, which China views as a prototype for a full-fledged space station. Wang participated in a question-and-answer session with students in a Beijing school. She also conducted a series of ...

  • Chinese astronauts twirl gyroscopes strike kung fu poses in students lecture from space

    BEIJING -- Astronauts struck floating martial arts poses, twirled gyroscopes and manipulated wobbling globes of water during a lecture Thursday from China's orbiting space station that's part of efforts to popularize the space program among young people. Wang Yaping demonstrated principles of weightlessness and took questions live from among the 330 grade school kids gathered at a ...

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