Stories by: Michael Cooney

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    NASA space shuttle’s cosmic cuisine 17/11/2009 07:45:00

    As NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis astronauts blasted into space this afternoon, the last thing on their minds was wondering what’s for dinner.
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    NASA finds “lots of water” from moon crash tests 14/11/2009 06:59:00

    The NASA spacecraft that plowed into the moon last month have discovered what the space agency calls “significant amounts of water” on the lunar surface.
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    10 NASA space technologies that may never see the cosmos 13/11/2009 15:31:00

    The US House Committee on Science and Technology last week held Congressional hearings to examine the summary report of the Review of US Human Space Flight Plans Committee.
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    NASA to power Mars rover out of sand trap 13/11/2009 07:46:00

    NASA's long running Mars rover is stuck in a sand trap – a situation the space agency would like to fix. So NASA will begin what it called the long process of extricating Spirit by sending commands that could free the rover.
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    Cisco computer game lets you play CEO 05/11/2009 09:54:00

    If you want to be a CEO but not have any of the real responsibilities of one, you could try to play a new online game being offered by Cisco. The company this week posted myPlanNet, a computer game that lets anyone be a broadband executive making network deployment decisions.
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    Can the Internet handle H1N1? 28/10/2009 01:41:00

    While sounding a bit like Chicken Little, US Federal government watchdogs today said that the H1N1 pandemic will cause a significant increase in the use of the Internet by students and teleworkers that would create serious network access congestion.
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    NASA says 200-yard long asteroid will miss Earth 08/10/2009 07:44:00

    NASA scientists have recalculated the path of a large asteroid known as Apophis and now say it has only a very slim chance of banging into Earth.
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    NASA to build pod-like, high-speed everyday transport system 04/09/2009 08:16:00

    It looks a little like the Jetson's flying car but it travels on magnetically levitated highways. That's one vision of a future commuter system that could be developed by a marriage of NASA robot-control software and car-like pods from Unimodal Systems.
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    Gigabit Ethernet fit for a tank 26/08/2009 07:04:00

    Ethernet continues to go places its inventors probably never imagined.
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    Berkeley lab gets $62M to build blazing Ethernet network 12/08/2009 08:17:00

    Looking to build a blazing Ethernet network that will exclusively support science research, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is receiving US$62 million to develop what it calls the world's fastest computer network.
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    US military spends $155M for the nucleus of future wireless networks 18/07/2009 04:03:00

    The central component to the US military's bulletproof IP wireless network strategy is now in place.
 
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