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  • Wireless signals can stunt plant growth

    A Danish science experiment by a group of 9th-graders has gained worldwide interest, after they showed that wireless signals can stunt plant growth. Five girls from Hjallerup Skole, a primary education school in Denmark, began the experiment after noticing that when they slept with their cellphones near their heads overnight, they had trouble focusing the next day, according to Danish News site ...

  • Spanish art gets privileged space in New York museum

    New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art has reopened its European paintings galleries after a two-year renovation, giving a privileged space to Spanish masters Velazquez, El Greco and Goya. Prior to the overhaul, the Met's large collection of works by Velazquez, Goya, Ribera, Murillo and El Greco had been distributed in different galleries organized either by artistic movement or ...

  • Russia plans four spacecraft launches in 2014

    Russia's Energia Rocket and Space Corporation will make four launches next year from the Pacific Ocean-based Odyssey platform under the Sea Launch programme, an official said. Corporation president Vitaly Lopota said that after 2014, Energia will be able to make five or more launches a year. Next year's launches will be the first since one of Sea Launch's Zenit vehicles carrying an Intelsat-27 ...

  • Private firms may travel to lunar surface NASA report

    A study of future human missions has indicated corporate researchers could be living on the moon by the time NASA astronauts head off to visit an asteroid in the 2020s. The study by Bigelow Aerospace, commissioned by NASA, shows "a lot of excitement and interest from various companies" for such ventures, Daily Mail quoted Robert Bigelow, founder and president of the Las Vegas-based firm, as ...

  • 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 ...


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Three Outlaw Samurai (Sanbiki no samurai) [Blu-Ray]

Three Outlaw Samurai (Sanbiki no samurai) [Blu-Ray]

Hideo Goshas directorial debut Three Outlaw Samurai (Sanbiki no samurai) is actually a prequel to the chanbara television series of the same name, which had completed its first season when the film was released. This strategy of releasing a feature fi ... ...

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  • India to launch 58 space missions in next 5 years

    India is planning to launch 58 space missions, including sending spacecraft to Moon and Mars, an exclusive satellite to keep a round-the-clock watch on the country and deploy hundreds of transponders in the next five years, reported Press Trust of India on Sunday. The India Space Research Organization also aims to deploy its own version of the Global Positioning System by putting into orbit a ...

  • Einstein letter on God to be auctioned on Internet

    A letter in which Albert Einstein dismissed the idea of God as a product of human weakness is being sold on eBay for a starting price of $3 million. The letter, handwritten in 1954, a year before Einstein's death, was addressed to philosopher Eric Gutkind. In it, Einstein discussed his views on religion, including calling "the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive ...

  • Space debris delays Japans satellite experiment

    The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said Thursday it has decided to postpone an experiment to release satellites from the International Space Station (ISS) due to approaching space debris. The experiment planned for the early hours of Friday is scheduled to launch five small satellites provided by the Fukuoka Institute of Technology and Tohoku University. The looming space debris may ...

  • Einsteins brain is now interactive iPad app

    In this Monday, Sept. 24, 2012 photo, Dr. Phillip Epstein, left, and Steve Landers of the National Museum of Health and Medicine Chicago talk about the new iPad app being released Tuesday, Sept. 25 that allows users to see Albert Einstein's brain as if they were looking through a microscope. ...

  • Japans Fukuoka to rent out roof space for solar panels

    Japan's southwestern Fukuoka Prefecture is planning to lease roof space at schools for solar panels with an aim to widely develop solar power generation, local press reported Tuesday. The new plan came after a new feed-in-tariff scheme for renewable energy started in the country this summer and was the first of its kind pushed by a local government in southwestern Japan. According to the ...

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