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Baikonur Turns 55Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jun 03, 2010 Baikonur, the world famous launch pad from where the first Soviet and world cosmonaut Yury Gagarin was sent to space has turned 55 years. It was here that the voice of the Soviet Union's Chief Designer, Sergei Korolev boomed out loud and clear "I am Zarya. Can you hear me?" The decision to establish a testing range for inter-continental ballistic missile and the launching of earth satellites was taken on February 12th 1955. A month earlier, the first construction brigade had arrived in Tura-Tam, a ... read more |
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Washington (UPI) Jun 2, 2010 U.S. Navy officials say they have completed multiphase testing of new crane technology designed for at-sea, ship-to-ship cargo transfers. The Large Vessel Interface Lift On/Lift Off technology demonstration completed in the Gulf of Mexico last month marked a major milestone in cargo transfer capabilities, officials said. The testing involved the transfer of 128 containers from on ... more  
Geneva (AFP) June 2, 2010A UN human rights expert on Wednesday urged the United States to sideline the CIA from targeted killings using drones, warning that the practice amounted to "a licence to kill without accountability". In a report to the UN Human Rights Council, Philip Alston, the special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, warned that the "prolific" US use of targeted killings, mainly by unmanned aircraf ... more  
Guatemala City (AFP) June 2, 2010Storm-rattled Guatemalans attempted to retrieve belongings Wednesday as officials delivered food aid after a devastating Tropical Storm Agatha left 183 people dead across the region. Scores of countries have offered aid to Guatemala, worst hit by the first eastern Pacific tropical storm of the season that left 156 people dead and another 103 people missing in the Central American country al ... more |
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Zeroing In On Quantum EffectsHouston TX (SPX) Jun 03, 2010 A team of U.S. and Chinese physicists are zeroing in on critical effects at the heart of the latest high-temperature superconductors - but they're using other materials to do it. In new research appearing online in the journal Physical Review Letters, the Rice University-led team offers new evidence about the quantum features of the latest class of high-temperature superconductors, a family of iron-based compounds called "pnictides" (pronounced: NICK-tides). "In correlated electron systems l ... read more |
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