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<title>American, Japanese scientists share 2008 Nobel Prize in physics</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yoichiro Nambu of America and Janpan's Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics for reaching on symmetry at the microscopic level, the Nobel committee announced Tuesday.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>U.S. to develop future aircraft</title>
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<description><![CDATA[NASA announced Monday that it has awarded research contracts to six industry teams to study advanced concepts for subsonic and supersonic commercial transport aircraft that could enter service in 25 to 30 years.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:18:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>NASA: Small asteroid to light up sky over Africa</title>
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<description><![CDATA[An asteroid measuring several feet in diameter is expected to enter the atmosphere over northern Sudan before dawn Tuesday, the U.S. space agency NASA reported on Monday. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:16:45 GMT</pubDate>
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<title> NASA spacecraft flies by Mercury for second time</title>
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<description><![CDATA[NASA spacecraft MESSENGER has successfully made the second of the three planned flybys of Mercury Monday, taking pictures of most of its remaining unseen surface.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:15:31 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Chinese scientists start studying samples from Shenzhou-7</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Chinese scientists Monday unsealed a box of solid lubricant samples that were aboard the Shenzhou-7 spacecraft. They will study the material for the next six months.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:13:10 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>U.S., Japanese physicists share Nobel Prize</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Yoichiro Nambu of America and Janpan's Makoto Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics for reaching on symmetry at the microscopic level, the Nobel committee announced Tuesday.&#149; German, French scientists win Nobel Prize for medicine]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 10:28:12 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>German, French win Nobel Prize for medicine</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Harald zur Hausen of Germany and Francoise Barre-Sinoussi and Luc Montagnier of France on Monday won the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of two viruses causing severe human diseases. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:47:53 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Accompanying satellite begins orbiting Shenzhou-7 spaceship on Sunday</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Chinese scientists on Sunday successfully directed the accompanying satellite BX-1 to begin circling the Shenzhou-7 spaceship, on an elliptical track of 4 kilometers multiplying 8 kilometers. It is the first time that China has succeeded in maneuvering this kind of space orbiting.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:18:15 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google, Yahoo delay ad partnership due to federal investigations</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<img border=1 src=http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/xin_472100505095301529384.jpg></a><br>Internet giants Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. have agreed to delay implementing an advertising partnership to give the United States' Department of Justice time to finish investigating the proposed deal, said the San Francisco Chronicle on Saturday.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:53:30 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>World's biggest computing grid launched</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The world's largest computing grid is launched on Friday, ready to tackle mankind's biggest data challenge from the earth's most powerful accelerator, according to local media reports. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:22:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Czech scientists help create map of largest wheat chromosome</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scientists have created a map of the largest wheat chromosome which is the fundamental step towards understanding the genome of the second most produced food among the cereal crops.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:06:38 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>U.S. scientists find sun not perfect round sphere</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Scientists using NASA's RHESSI spacecraft have measured the roundness of the sun with unprecedented precision.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:46:56 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Rare herbal plants aboard Shenzhou-7 spacecraft studied </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Special Report: Third Manned Space MissionBEIJING, Oct. 3 ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:37:20 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Scientists call for policy to guide biofuels industry</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A group of scientists are calling for sustainable practices in an industry that will "reshape the Earth's landscape in a significant way." ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:37:44 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>U.S. to strengthen astrobiology research</title>
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<description><![CDATA[U.S. NASA announced Thursday that it has awarded five-year grants to 10 research teams to study the origins, evolution, distribution, and future of life in the universe. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:10:40 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Nintendo reveals new DS handheld console </title>
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<description><![CDATA[Japanese video game maker Nintendo said on Thursday it would launch its new DS handheld game console on Nov. 1 in Japan for 18,900 yen (179 U.S. dollars). The new DS model will have camera and audio functions, the company said.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:45:12 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Ceremony for opening of Shenzhou-7 re-entry module</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<img border=1 src=http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/xin_11210050209245782750122.jpg></a><br>A ceremony for the opening of the re-entry module and transferring of articles on board of the Shenzhou-7 spacecraft was held here Wednesday. &#149; Scientists to collect data from China space re-entry module&#149; Shenzhou-7 capsule shipped to Beijing for further studies]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:54:40 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Russian rocket sends Thai satellite into orbit</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Dnepr rocket was launched from the Dombarovsky district in the Ural Orenburg region Wednesday morning. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:44:13 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hubble suffers failure, NASA delays shuttle launch</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<img border=1 src=http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/xin_1721005010836484215423.jpg></a><br>NASA announced on Monday that a serious equipment failure aboard Hubble is preventing it from sending data to Earth and NASA has to replan its last servicing mission to the space telescope, which was originally scheduled in early October. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 00:32:35 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Shenzhou-7 capsule shipped to Beijing for further studies</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The re-entry module of China's Shenzhou-7 spacecraft arrived in Beijing Tuesday afternoon, two days after its safe landing in northern China's Inner Mongolia. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:18:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Hubble suffers serious failure</title>
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<description><![CDATA[NASA announced on Monday that a serious equipment failure aboard Hubble is preventing it from sending data to Earth and NASA has to replan its last servicing mission to the space telescope.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:57:46 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>U.S. Mars lander Phoenix sees falling snow</title>
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<description><![CDATA[U.S. Phoenix Mars Lander has detected snow falling from Martian clouds, NASA announced Monday. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:48:07 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Scientists identify gene that may help improve rice yield</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A team of scientists from institutions in the U.S. and China have identified a gene in rice that controls the size and weight of rice grains.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:13:37 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Chinese astronauts back to Beijing</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Three Chinese astronauts who successfully completed a space journey Sunday came back to Beijing Monday morning. They are expected to undergo two-week preventive quarantine in the medical facilities in the space town. Although they have passed brief physical checkup soon after their perfect landing, the astronauts are still vulnerable to viruses on the Earth, says medical experts.]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 05:18:29 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>China publishes altitude of lowest inland point</title>
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<description><![CDATA[China's lowest inland point is 154.31 meters below the sea level, the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping and the government of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region jointly announced Sunday. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 11:21:12 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Premier: China committed to peaceful exploration, use of outer space</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said it is the Chinese people's persistent aspiration to develop the manned space-flight technologies for the peaceful exploration and use of the outer space. ]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:35:54 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>China's landmark spacewalk mission ends</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Shenzhou-7 space module carrying three taikonauts landed safely by parachute Sunday afternoon in China's northern grassland, after a landmark spacewalk mission that leads the country further in its space exploration. &#149; Chinese taikonaut greets nation, world in first spacewalk&#149; Shenzhou-7 launches small monitoring satellite]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:59:50 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>FLASH: SHENZHOU-7 ON RETURN TRIP, AS BRAKING ENGINE STARTS</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:58:36 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>FLASH: SHENZHOU-7 ORBITAL MODULE UNDOCKED FROM RE-ENTRY MODULE</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:58:17 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>FLASH: SHENZHOU-7 ORBITAL MODULE STARTS SEPARATION FROM RE-ENTRY MODULE</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 28 Sep 2008 08:57:47 GMT</pubDate>
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