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Climate talks underline science and policy gap
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Optimistic climate talks between the world's top polluting nations have failed to quash concerns over the pace of change on greenhouse gas emissions.

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Simulated Eclipse: Cluster Spacecraft Wakes Up From Deep Hibernation
 
On September 15, flight controllers at ESA's Space Operations Centre watched tensely as "Rumba," No. 1 in the four-spacecraft Cluster fleet, was switched into a low-power, deep hibernation mode. The aim was to survive a challenging eclipse.
 
Laser Ranging Successfully Tracks Satellite
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Fourteen laser ranging stations participated in a campaign to track ESA's GIOVE-A satellite during the spring and summer of 2006, providing invaluable data for the characterization of the satellite's on-board clock. The campaign was coordinated by the International Laser Ranging Service (ILRS) and the GIOVE Processing Centre at ESA-ESTEC.
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Work begins on largest wind farm|

 

The construction of what will become the largest onshore wind farm in Europe is set to get under way.

 
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NASA considering Frenchman for space station stint (Reuters)

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French astronaut Leopold Eyharts puts on a space suit northeast of Moscow, May 6, 2006. When NASA ferries Europe's Columbus scientific research module to the International Space Station next year it may send along the Frenchman to operate it as well. (Sergei Remezov/Reuters)Reuters - When NASA ferries Europe's Columbus scientific research module to the International Space Station next year it may send along a Frenchman to operate it as well.
 

Time capsule to be beamed from Mexican pyramid
|MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Mexico's Teotihuacan, once the center of a sprawling pre-Hispanic empire, is set to become the launch pad for an attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial life.
 
Rising seas could leave millions homeless in Asia
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Millions of people could become homeless in the Asia-Pacific region by 2070 due to rising sea levels, with Bangladesh, India, Vietnam, China and Pacific islands most at risk, says Australia's top scientific body.

 

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Fly Eyes Inspire Better Video Cameras, Motion Detection
|Monday, September 11
|New software that replicates the way a fly sees could help the next generation of cameras pick out details obscured by movement or washed out by variations in light levels.