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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Memphis Sun.com http://www.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/10/id/89d96798a39564bd/ en-us Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:46:16 -0500 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:46:16 -0500 30 Over 6,000 individuals have applied for joining NASA's Astronaut Corps, twice as many as the US space agency usually receives, NASA said Sunday. http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203251219/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:00:03 -0500 IANS http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203251219/cs/1/ A large fraction of the Earth's surface remains inaccessible to conventional wheeled or tracked vehicles, while animals and humans traverse such terrain with ease and elegance, researchers say. http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203244622/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:40:09 -0500 ANI http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203244622/cs/1/ Russian scientists are looking forward to have a man on the moon by 2020, as it launches a new campaign to select a new team of cosmonauts to train for the special task, according to reports. http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203244607/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:50:22 -0500 ANI http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203244607/cs/1/ Just a handful of the many screenshots of Google Earth that supposedly revealed the undersea civilization of Atlantis. The grid shown in most of these images is now erased from the ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203255125/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:46:02 -0500 MSNBC http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203255125/ slide_info = [{"id":{"vote_img_src":"http://i.space.com/images/i/12599/i02/mars500-mock-mars-marswalk.JPG","sequence":1,"title":"Mars in ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203252811/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:36:58 -0500 Space.com http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203252811/ A rare earth mine in Bayan Obo, Inner Mongolia autonomous region. China is the world's largest exporter of rare earth minerals, supplying more than 90 percent of the international market, ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203252812/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:23:00 -0500 People's Daily http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203252812/ Using the deepest X-ray image ever taken, astronomers found the first direct evidence that massive black holes were common in the early universe, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203252813/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:22:29 -0500 People's Daily http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203252813/ BEIJING, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- President Hu Jintao and other senior leaders have paid visits to former leaders of the state and the Communist Party of China (CPC) to extend New Year greetings to them ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203252126/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:22:17 -0500 People's Daily http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203252126/ BEIJING, Jan. 20 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese mainland's Taiwan affairs chief extended his festive greetings for the upcoming Spring Festival to Taiwan compatriots on Friday.Wang Yi, director of the ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203251829/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 09:21:58 -0500 People's Daily http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203251829/ An astronomer from Britain has, apparently, created wine from a 4.5 billion year old meteorite! An expatriate, Ian Hutechon has labelled his astronomical-alcoholic creation - Meteorito. The wine was ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203250116/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 07:03:55 -0500 IBTimes http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203250116/ LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A glimpse beyond our solar system reveals the neighborhood just outside the sun's influence is different and stranger than expected, scientists reported ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203250115/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:00:50 -0500 Tampa Bay Online http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203250115/ NASA is currently recruiting to train astronauts for its 2013 batch. Incidentally, this number (6,372 to be exact) is the largest since 1978, when they received more than 8,000 eager ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203248329/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:21:22 -0500 IBTimes http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203248329/ GORNO-ALTAISK, February 5 (Itar-Tass) - The capital of the Altai Republic marks this Sunday the New Year according to the oriental lunar ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203245763/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:41:04 -0500 Itar Tass http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203245763/ IT is the ultimate parachute jump: from the edge of space, Felix Baumgartner will leap from a balloon and plummet 120,000ft.After 35 seconds he will break the sound barrier, and finally, at 5,000ft, ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203245761/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:25:51 -0500 Independent.ie http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203245761/ At some point, I think most little kids think to themselves, ';When I grow up, I want to be an astronaut!'; And it looks like quite a few people never lost that dream. NASA has announced ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203243586/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:53:48 -0500 Forbes http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203243586/ The sky map of the Faraday effect caused by the magnetic fields of the Milky Way. Red and blue colors indicate regions of the sky where the magnetic field points toward and away from the observer, ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203244433/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:26:25 -0500 Universe Today http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203244433/ Today's article is about neutrino astronomy on ice. According to Wikipedia, a journal club is a group of individuals who meet regularly to critically evaluate recent articles in the ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203242925/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:32:38 -0500 Universe Today http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203242925/ But something from nothing, physicists are finding, may be the ultimate secret of the universe. "The surprising fact is that we live in a universe that has all the characteristics of being created ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203242926/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:00:00 -0500 USA Today http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203242926/ NASA's space shuttle program is over. NASA does not have its own means of taking astronauts into space. Commercial spacecraft under development won't be ready for another four to five ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203241154/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:55:13 -0500 Yahoo http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203241154/ Dear Dr ManderI am one of the leading professionals in my field. Unfortunately however I have recently benn subject to allegations about my behaviour from an embittered third party and have been ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203240397/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:40:46 -0500 The Guardian http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203240397/ This picture of Eros, the first of an asteroid taken from an orbiting spacecraft, is a mosaic of four images obtained by NEAR on February 14, 2000, immediately after the spacecraft's insertion ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203238241/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:34:32 -0500 Space.com http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203238241/ Lawmakers, administration officials and other policy makers with a role in deciding NASA spending will be watching as well. The launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft from Cape ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203239729/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:28:43 -0500 USA Today http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203239729/ Several reports have come out indicating that AT&T has quietly begun allowing users of the Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy S NFC-enabled smartphones to download Google Wallet. ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203238182/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:55:08 -0500 Web Pro News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203238182/ An artist's impression of an accreting X-ray millisecond pulsar. The flowing material from the companion star forms a disk around the neutron star which is truncated at the edge of the pulsar ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203238240/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:54:34 -0500 Universe Today http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203238240/ February 4, 2012 Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth planet orbiting a nearby star, making it one of the best candidates to support life. The newly found planet, called ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203236652/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:12:12 -0500 Infowars.com http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203236652/ Nasa has released the first ever moving images of the dark side of the Moon, the side never visible from Earth, filmed by the spacecraft GRAIL. . Report ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203236649/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:46:16 -0500 Mideast Posts http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203236649/ Russia 's space agency and training center for cosmonauts is launching a campaign to choose a new team of cosmonauts to train for a special mission, most likely for the moon this ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203235598/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:39:36 -0500 Fox News http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203235598/ Comparison of the habitable zone around the Sun in our solar system and around the star Gliese 581. Credit: ESO Habitable zones are the regions around stars, including our own Sun, where ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203236650/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:38:54 -0500 Universe Today http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203236650/ This lovely image of Comet Garradd (C/2009 PI) as it passes by the globular cluster M92 in the constellation Hercules, was taken remotely from the Tzek Maun Observatory in New Mexico by our ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203236651/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:38:53 -0500 Universe Today http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203236651/ Think our winter's been a bit grim? Try visiting Yakutsk - the Russian city where 'a bit nippy' means minus 50C, and a quick dash to the corner shop could end in frostbite. Shaun ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203234870/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:54:35 -0500 The Independent http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203234870/ /enpproperty--> MOSCOW - Russia's failed Mars probe Phobos-Grunt has fallen into the Pacific Ocean, local media reported on Sunday. The crash site of the spacecraft debris was 1,250 ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203233699/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:50:34 -0500 China Daily http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203233699/ Internet information giant Google updated ocean data in its Google Earth application this week, reflecting new bathymetry data assembled by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, NOAA ... http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203232841/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:28:03 -0500 RedOrbit http://story.memphissun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203232841/