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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 ...

  • Why clap Why not buzz like a bee | Charles Nevin

    social contagion ". What you're clapping, apparently, is not as important as joining in with the people clapping all round you. "The cessation of applause is similarly socially mediated," say the scientists, "but is to a lesser degree controlled by the reluctance of individuals to clap too many times."Well, we can all quibble with this. Some might feel that ...

  • Chinese US space teachers exchange correspondence

    After wrapping up her first lecture in space on Thursday, Chinese astronaut Wang Yaping replied to a letter from former US astronaut Barbara Morgan.In an email sent from China's orbiting space module Tiangong-1, Wang expressed her gratitude for a letter that Morgan had written to her."My colleagues and I were very glad to receive your letter so far away from Earth. Thank you for your ...

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GoodFellas

The first words we hear in the voice-over narration of Henry Hill, the central character of "GoodFellas" are: "For as far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster." The success of Martin Scorsese's stunning Mafia epic is twofold. First, he makes a strong argument why a gangster's life of crime and violence would be so tantalizing to Henry, and secondly, he portrays how that life pa ... ...

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  • Historic space lecture in Tiangong-1 commences

    The space lecture on the Tiangong-1 began for the first time in Chinese history at 10 am Beijing time on June 20, 2013. The special lecture is given by a teacher aboard China's space module Tiangong-1 to students on ...

  • With an IQ similar to Einstein 10-year-old prodigy makes it to Harvard

    He's only 10-years old but thanks to an IQ similar to Albert Einstein's, Luis Roberto Ramirez will begin the next school year studying applied quantum physics at Harvard University."My dream is to create a company and sell my inventions," the boy said on a video aired by the Michoacan Radio and Television System.Ramirez, who lives in Zamora, Michoacan, taught himself English ...

  • Biggest void in space is 1 billion light years across

    Radio astronomers have found the biggest hole ever seen in the universe. The void, which is nearly a billion light years across, is empty of both normal matter and dark matter. The finding challenges theories of large-scale structure formation in the ...

  • Black hole binge could test general relativity

    CRACKS in Einstein's theory of relativity could be evident at the heart of our very own galaxy. If new calculations are correct, the enormous black hole that sits at the core of the Milky Way should have Saturn-like rings that offer a safe haven from its irresistible gravitational ...

  • 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 ...

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