Queen Elizabeth II paid tribute to American soldiers today with a trip to the National World War II Memorial, winding up her six-day American visit.

Odd distant planet leaves astronomers hot and cold
A hot snowball sounds contradictory, but European astronomers think they’ve found one orbiting a dwarf star about 33 light-years from Earth. The strange planet, GJ 436 b, is about the size of Neptune.

Russia launches cargo ship headed for space station
The Progress M-60 mounted atop a Soyuz-U booster rocket lifted off as scheduled at 7:25 a.m. from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

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NASA inventions may help highway, air travel
When NASA aims for the stars, the earthbound continue to reap dividends. The latest bounty from engineers and scientists at the Johnson Space Center in Houston promises to improve health care, air travel, highway safety and more for those who will never float in space or spend years on a trip to Mars.

China launches satellite for Nigeria
A Chinese rocket blasted a Nigerian communications satellite into orbit today, marking an expansion of China’s commercial launching services for foreign space hardware, state media said. The official Xinhua News Agency said it was the first time a foreign buyer has purchased a Chinese satellite and its launching service.

Cut in spacewalker’s glove concerns NASA
NASA said it plans more rigorous inspections of the bulky gloves worn by spacewalking shuttle astronauts after it discovered a three-quarter-inch slice in the garment worn by an astronaut.

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OmniFind Yahoo! Edition is a free search engine based on the open-source Lucene core, is a reasonably full-featured search that can index up to 500,000 pages, making it an interesting competitor to the Google Search Appliance, Autonomy Ultraseek and Solr, as well as lower-end search engines. Features include an automated install package for Windows […]

Massive star explosion is a blast for scientists
A massive, faraway stellar explosion has scientists reassessing the deaths of the earliest stars and wondering if they’ve caught a preview of a spectacular detonation close enough to Earth to light up the daytime sky.

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