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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Boston Star.com http://www.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/10/id/89d96798a39564bd/ en-us Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:45:36 -0500 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:45:36 -0500 30 A new study has shown that Meteorites that bombarded Earth four billion years ago could have kick-started life rather than wiping it out. http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/610928/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:20:10 -0500 ANI http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/610928/cs/1/ A new study has tracked the mysterious cosmic 'dark flow' to twice the distance originally reported in the Universe. http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/610927/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:20:09 -0500 ANI http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/610927/cs/1/ A new study has determined that high school and college students who understand the geological age of the Earth (4.5 billion years) are much more likely to understand and accept human evolution. http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/610922/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:20:05 -0500 ANI http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/610922/cs/1/ Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity has passed its biggest test yet, with an analysis of more than 70,000 galaxies by scientists, supporting the hypothesis. http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/610851/cs/1/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:20:21 -0500 ANI http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/610851/cs/1/ A "great performers" season, showcasing the Barbican’s classical music programme, will kick off this autumn as the Houston Symphony play Gustav Holst’s symphonic classic The Pl... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33049204/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:24:20 -0500 The Independent http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33049204/ WASHINGTON (AFP) – A group of US lawmakers Thursday urged the US administration to save NASA's Constellation project aimed at returning Americans to the moon in the next generation of space... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33046650/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:29:51 -0500 Yahoo http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33046650/ Two years after Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency, the new institution sent out 100 photographers to document the nation’s environment writ large. Now, those photos have... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33046653/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:20:51 -0500 Wired News http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33046653/ Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy will finally start collecting data this spring, making it the world’s biggest airborne telescope. The plane’s 45,000-foot cruising altitude... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33046654/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:20:48 -0500 Wired News http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33046654/ Two years after Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency, the new institution sent out 100 photographers to document the nation’s environment writ large. Now, those photos have... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33046651/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:20:44 -0500 Wired News http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33046651/ Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy will finally start collecting data this spring, making it the world’s biggest airborne telescope. The plane’s 45,000-foot cruising altitude... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33046652/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:20:40 -0500 Wired News http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33046652/ The 70-meter antenna at the Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex in the Mohave Desert in California. This complex is one of three comprising NASA's Deep Space Network. Credit: NASA/JPL http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33043269/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:51:16 -0500 Space.com http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33043269/ Washington » A group of House members says it makes more sense for NASA to slow the development of a new space shuttle rather than kill the program. In a letter sent Thursday, 15 House members... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33043204/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:27:04 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33043204/ MUNICH, Germany - The International Space Station (ISS) partners have begun reviewing their on-board hardware with the goal of certifying it for use until 2028 even as they seek ways to reduce the a... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33043267/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:26:39 -0500 Yahoo http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33043267/ END: Module - Module - M24 Article Headline with pair of portrait images (c) --> BEGIN: Module - Main Article --> With their heavy woollen tunics and shiny brass buttons, Mumbai’s... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33041500/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:17:27 -0500 Times Online http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33041500/ Astrophysics and Cosmology (KIPAC) Research Fellow Masaaki Hayashida, corresponding author on the recent paper presenting the new results with KIPAC Astrophysicist Greg Madejski. "But how they ar... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33043268/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:13:08 -0500 Universe Today http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33043268/ — By precisely tracking NASA's Cassini spacecraft on its low swoops over Saturn's moon Titan, scientists have determined the distribution of materials in the moon's interior. The subtle gravitati... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33039901/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:09:52 -0500 Science Daily http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33039901/ A moon rock brought to Earth by Apollo 11, humans' first landing on the moon in July 1969, is shown as it floats aboard the International Space Station. Part of Earth can be seen through the window. T... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33036802/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:34:38 -0500 Space.com http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33036802/ A moon rock brought to Earth by Apollo 11, humans' first landing on the moon in July 1969, is shown as it floats aboard the International Space Station. Part of Earth can be seen through the window. T... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33036801/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:00:12 -0500 Space.com http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33036801/ THE regenerating liquid-metal robots in the Terminator movies have a cosmic relation: incoming asteroids that quickly reassemble if blasted by a nuclear bomb. http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33036803/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:59:27 -0500 New Scientist http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33036803/ THE regenerating liquid-metal robots in the Terminator movies have a cosmic relation: incoming asteroids that quickly reassemble if blasted by a nuclear bomb. http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33036804/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:59:20 -0500 New Scientist http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33036804/ /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has announced opportunities to test emerging technologies during flights on an airplane that simulates the weightless conditions of space. The technologies should have ... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33036805/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:53:48 -0500 Earth Times http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33036805/ Data, called a spectrum, showing water and organics in the Orion nebula. The data were taken by the heterodyne instrument for the far infrared, or HIFI, onboard the Herschel Space Observatory, a Europ... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33033530/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:43:54 -0500 Space.com http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33033530/ Data, called a spectrum, showing water and organics in the Orion nebula. The data were taken by the heterodyne instrument for the far infrared, or HIFI, onboard the Herschel Space Observatory, a Europ... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33033529/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:10:32 -0500 Space.com http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33033529/ Posted on: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 08:35 CST High school and college students who understand the geological age of the Earth (4.5 billion years) are much more likely to understand and accept human... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33030541/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:18:42 -0500 RedOrbit http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33030541/ While astronomers scour the skies for signs of life in outer space, biologists are exploring an enormous living world buried below the surface of the Earth.Scientists estimate that nearly half the liv... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33030553/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:06:31 -0500 eTaiwan News http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33030553/ On March 13, 2008, the International Space Station (ISS) passed across the field-of-view of Germany's remote sensing satellite, TerraSAR-X, at a distance of 122 miles (195 kilometers). This http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33027183/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:35:10 -0500 Space.com http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33027183/ On March 13, 2008, the International Space Station (ISS) passed across the field-of-view of Germany's remote sensing satellite, TerraSAR-X, at a distance of 122 miles (195 kilometers). This http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33027168/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:00:42 -0500 Space.com http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33027168/ NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, will uncover many "failed" stars, or brown dwarfs, in infrared light. This diagram shows a brown dwarf in relation to Earth, Jupiter, a low-mass st... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33027182/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:00:39 -0500 Space.com http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33027182/ NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, will uncover many "failed" stars, or brown dwarfs, in infrared light. This diagram shows a brown dwarf in relation to Earth, Jupiter, a low-mass st... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33024141/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:43:49 -0500 Space.com http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33024141/ Money key to more space shuttle flights WASHINGTON D.C. -- Could the Space Shuttle Program be getting a new lease on life?Two Florida lawmakers introduced legislation in Washington, Wednesday, that wo... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33023752/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:23:09 -0500 ABC Action News http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33023752/ London, March 11 : A new study has shown that Meteorites that bombarded Earth four billion years ago could have kick-started life rather than wiping it out. http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33021866/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:07:57 -0500 New Kerala http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33021866/ All I want from Obama is a decent internet connection. He has talked about that but so far it's just talk. Look at the Verizon ads, "not available in all areas". I have a WildBlue direc... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33019720/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:08:46 -0500 Universe Today http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33019720/ Participants ignite a Kongming Lantern in the launching ceremony of "Earth Hour" in Chengdu, capital of China's Southwest Sichuan province, on March 10, 2010.[Photo/CFP] 24 Kongming Lanterns were ligh... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33019721/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:44:20 -0500 SINA http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33019721/ In the midst of the auto industry's problems, consumers can find a silver lining: greener options. Mother Earth News names six models capable of 40 mpg or better. http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33015888/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:16:52 -0500 PR Web http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33015888/ AUSTIN, TX, March 11, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Ricochet Labs announced today a celebrity showdown using its new iPhone social quiz game QRANK. Each day QRANK pulls fresh questions from the Internet,... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33016203/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:50:48 -0500 24 / 7 Press Release http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33016203/ PHUKET, THAILAND, March 11, 2010 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Le Meridien Phuket Beach Resort, a recipient of the ASEAN Green Hotel Recognition Award 2007-2009 for its "commitment to environmental protection... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33015962/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:49:05 -0500 24 / 7 Press Release http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33015962/ Endeavour rolls to pad 39 A at Dawn. Will the sun set on the shuttle era forever as scheduled by late 2010, or will Congress force an extension to the shuttle program until a replacement US rocket sys... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33017723/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:40:57 -0500 Universe Today http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33017723/ The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and US Fish and Wildlife Service proposed yesterday that loggerhead sea turtles be considered an endangered species throughout much of the world, in... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33017722/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:21:55 -0500 Boston.com http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33017722/ The theory of gravity proposed by Albert Einstein nearly a century ago can explain the dance of galaxies around one another just as well as it can model the motion of planets around the sun, according... http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33015295/ Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:24:25 -0500 National Geographic News http://story.bostonstar.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/33015295/