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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Kansas City Post.com http://www.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/10/id/89d96798a39564bd/ en-us Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:44:41 -0400 Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:44:41 -0400 30 A rare shrimp, believed to be the most ancient animal species on Earth, is alive and well in Scotland, discovered scientists. http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/666164/cs/1/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:40:19 -0400 ANI http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/666164/cs/1/ A rare shrimp that may be the most ancient animal species on earth is alive and well in Britain, scientists have discovered. http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/666142/cs/1/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:30:02 -0400 IANS http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/666142/cs/1/ Scientists are warning that we need to start blasting asteroids before they collide with Earth - the latest threat being asteroid 1999 RQ36 - set to hit the Earth in 50 years. http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/666117/cs/1/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:20:42 -0400 ANI http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/666117/cs/1/ Posted on: Friday, 30 July 2010, 07:20 CDT Macho, macho man. I’ve got to be, a macho man. Macho, macho man. I’ve got to be a macho! — The Village PeopleIt’s more than 30 years since that Di... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37364525/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:33:18 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37364525/ GLER ) announced today that its wholly owned subsidiary RCI Solar, Inc., a North American provider of renewable energy products and services, has opened a new, 15,000 square foot, state-of-the-art fac... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37362124/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:27:17 -0400 Market Wire http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37362124/ WASHINGTON — A flurry of behind-the-scenes maneuvering took place late Wednesday as opponents of a NASA authorization bill fought back efforts by leaders of the U.S. House Science and Techn... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37364523/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:59:39 -0400 Yahoo http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37364523/ The sun-like star, PZ Tel A and its brown dwarf companion, PZ Tel B. For size comparison, the size of Neptune's orbit is shown; PZ Tel B is one of few brown dwarfs imaged at a distance closer than 30 ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37364524/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:38:31 -0400 Space.com http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37364524/ THE Trojan horse of legend held in its belly the men and means to help sack ancient Troy. Now it appears another type of Trojan could endanger every life on Earth. So says a study of the Trojan astero... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37364526/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:37:03 -0400 New Scientist http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37364526/ Communications protected by quantum encryption systems offer unconditional security – if you know which way is up. A new quantum protocol is the first that promises to work independently of orientat... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37364527/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:36:59 -0400 New Scientist http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37364527/ THE Trojan horse of legend held in its belly the men and means to help sack ancient Troy. Now it appears another type of Trojan could endanger every life on Earth. So says a study of the Trojan astero... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37364528/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:36:55 -0400 New Scientist http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37364528/ THE Trojan horse of legend held in its belly the men and means to help sack ancient Troy. Now it appears another type of Trojan could endanger every life on Earth. So says a study of the Trojan astero... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37364517/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 08:09:02 -0400 New Scientist http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37364517/ Sea The Stars is nowhere to be seen as Harbinger comes home 11 lengths clear in the King George at Ascot last Saturday. Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/REUTERS http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37361685/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 07:08:39 -0400 The Guardian http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37361685/ China has topped the list of the world's major polluters of the near-Earth space environment, followed by the United States and Russia, the Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Friday. All ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37360180/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:08:26 -0400 RIA Novosti http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37360180/ At that point our friendly cosmologist might give voice to a little embarrassment. Because if measurements of the distance to faraway supernovae are to be believed, around 5 billion years ago the univ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37361682/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:59:27 -0400 New Scientist http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37361682/ Submit your comment State-backed Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp has agreed with Namibia to explore and develop mineral resources, especially rare earth and rare metals, it said on Friday, the... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37359832/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:49:45 -0400 Business Report http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37359832/ Cassini radar sees sand dunes on Saturn's giant moon Titan (upper photo) that are sculpted like Namibian sand dunes on Earth (lower photo). The bright features in the upper radar photo are not clouds ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37353975/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:01:28 -0400 Space Daily http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37353975/ Future manned missions to the Moon or Mars could use plants as bio-harvesters to extract valuable elements from the alien soils, researchers say. Now they hope to launch new experiments to follow up ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37353972/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:01:26 -0400 Space Daily http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37353972/ Robotic wheelchairs, mechanical arms and humanoid waiters are among the cutting-edge inventions on show at a robotics fair in Japan, a country whose population is ageing rapidly. To ease the burden i... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37352655/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:01:23 -0400 Space Daily http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37352655/ A remote Canadian island is being used to simulate isolated space flight conditions for a NASA-funded medical research study that could produce important information to assist astronauts in potential ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37353977/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:01:21 -0400 Space Daily http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37353977/ An expert panel advising the Japanese government called in a report approved on Thursday for the nation to send a wheeled robot to the moon in five years and to build the first lunar base by 2020. "I... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37352656/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:01:20 -0400 Space Daily http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37352656/ A new article in press of the journal Earth and Planetary Science Letters unveils groundbreaking research on the hydrothermal formation of Clay-Carbonate rocks in the Nili Fossae region of Mars. The f... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37353934/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:01:17 -0400 Space Daily http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37353934/ This is the first dust devil that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has observed in the rover's six-and-a-half years on Mars. The whirlwind appeared in a routine drive-direction image taken by... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37353978/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:01:15 -0400 Space Daily http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37353978/ GPS ViewRanger is the perfect companion for outdoor enthusiasts including campers and hikers, as well as field-based applications such as search-and-rescue. National Geographic recently selected ViewR... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37353979/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:01:14 -0400 Space Daily http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37353979/ INRIX has announced it has expanded its European real-time traffic coverage to 18 countries making it the largest traffic network in Europe. With the launch of real-time traffic information in Irelan... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37352591/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:01:12 -0400 Space Daily http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37352591/ Garmin-Asus and Optus have announced a smartphone designed for those looking for a true 'all-in-one' navigation experience to help make sense of life's twists and turns. The Garmin-Asus A50, available... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37353981/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:01:08 -0400 Space Daily http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37353981/ While audiences at Broadway's "West Side Story" thrill to the on-stage drama, musicians in the orchestra pit are fighting a battle every bit as vicious as the Sharks-Jets rivalry. This is gang warfar... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37352523/ Fri, 30 Jul 2010 01:01:06 -0400 Space Daily http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37352523/ In 2008, researchers detected a sharp, symmetrical drop in electrons around Rhea, Saturn's second-largest moon. This could be caused by a ring of debris, but the Cassini spacecraft, which has flown by... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37346326/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:09:52 -0400 Christian Science Monitor http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37346326/ Buzz This Google Earth is meant to give its users a realistic view of the world, and the program by and large accomplishes that. A new upgrade will make it even more accurate, though, by showing users... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37348501/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:24:54 -0400 Web Pro News http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37348501/ This "skymap," generated in 2009 from data collected by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, shows the relative intensity of cosmic rays directed toward the Earth’s Southern Hemisphere. Resea... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37348666/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:24:26 -0400 Universe Today http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37348666/ The 'face' on Mars, a popular landform in Cydonia Region on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona Here's a picture you probably won't see in the tabloid racks while waiting in line at... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37348667/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:24:19 -0400 Universe Today http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37348667/ what it is. Post your guesses in the comments section, and check back on later at this same post to find the answer. To make this challenge fun for everyone, please don’t include links or extensive ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37348670/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:24:16 -0400 Universe Today http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37348670/ Space " with Miles O'Brien, but it is a special edition that takes a look at the 35th anniversary of Apollo-Soyuz project with exclusive interviews, and more. There's also a look at Vir... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37348671/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:24:12 -0400 Universe Today http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37348671/ Wolf–Rayet stars are named after the two French astronomers who first identified them in the mid-nineteenth century, and WR 22 is one of the most massive ones we know of. It is a member of a double ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37348669/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:24:09 -0400 Universe Today http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37348669/ Space Station earlier today, outfitting the newest module for future dockings of Russian vehicles. Flight Engineers Fyodor Yurchikhin and Mikhail Kornienko set up the Kurs automated rendezvous on the ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37348673/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:24:06 -0400 Universe Today http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37348673/ An image created by Australia's Electro Optic Systems (EOS) aerospace company shows a view of the Earth from geostationary height depicting swarms of space debris -- approximately 50,000 of the half-m... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37339625/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:37:38 -0400 MSNBC http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37339625/ July 29 (Bloomberg) -- Molycorp Inc., owner of the world’s largest non-Chinese deposit of rare-earth metals, declined in its first day of trading after chopping the size of its initial public of... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37338073/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:17:36 -0400 Business Week http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37338073/ NASA is tracking a piece of Chinese space junk that is headed uncomfortably close to the International Space Station and may force the outpost's crew to take shelter in their Russian lifeboats a... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37341477/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:06:32 -0400 Yahoo http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37341477/ In an international first, physicists of the University of Innsbruck, Austria have experimentally observed a quantum phenomenon, where an arbitrarily weak perturbation causes atoms to build an organiz... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37337630/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:20:53 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37337630/ Mario Tama / Getty Images fileWorkers use absorbent boom to clean oil from a marsh on July 15 near Cocodrie, La. Oil cleanup technologies have lagged behind oil exploration technologies, but the $1.4 ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37337631/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:15:15 -0400 MSNBC http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37337631/ The team is working under a five-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract with a ceiling value of $70 million. CRAVE contracts cover a wide range of tasks for human spaceflight programs ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37337344/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:53:59 -0400 Business Journal http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37337344/ PARIS — The U.S. government should permit China to launch U.S.-built commercial satellites and force an overhaul of the U.S. Air Force's relationship with its principal launch-services prov... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37337613/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:23:35 -0400 Space.com http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37337613/ distance record for quantum encrypted communications between two sites on Earth is 144 kilometres. If quantum encryption is to go global the data must be sent via satellite links, and here the convent... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37337632/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:22:08 -0400 New Scientist http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37337632/ /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- About 50 years ago TV animators created a vision of life almost 50 years from now. They predicted in 2062 people would be flying to work and using robots for housework. How ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37337633/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:10:45 -0400 Earth Times http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37337633/ The team is working under a five-year indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract with a ceiling value of $70 million. CRAVE contracts cover a wide range of tasks for human spaceflight programs ... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37337627/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:04:56 -0400 Orlando Business Journal http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37337627/ Hot news! Troy Aikman is doing Dancing With The Stars. "I am, yeah," he told TMZ last night when the site's videographers caught up with him on the street leaving an L.A. restaurant and asked him abo... http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37337629/ Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:50:31 -0400 KSDK http://story.kansascitypost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/37337629/