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SCIENCE / NEWS Thu Jun 5, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- To everybody's relief, astronauts fixed the toilet at the international space station on Wednesday and opened up a grand new science lab. The toilet problem had fast become the most pressing issue of the mission, so much so that a spare pump was rushed.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Tue Oct 31, 2006 @ 8:23am neoform

Daily Mail -- British scientists have grown the world's first artificial liver from stem cells in a breakthrough that will one day provide entire organs for transplant... Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Tue Jun 3, 2008 @ 8:19am neoform

BBC News -- The space shuttle Discovery has docked at the International Space Station (ISS) after a two-day voyage, carrying a $1bn (�500m) Japanese laboratory. The 16-tonne Kibo lab will be the station's biggest room, for the study of biomedicine and material s.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Tue Jun 3, 2008 @ 8:17am neoform

MSNBC -- The space shuttle Discovery performed a slow backflip and then docked at the international space station on Monday, delivering a mammoth lab and two new occupants: a NASA astronaut and Buzz Lightyear. Back at the launch site, meanwhile, NASA hurriedly.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Tue May 27, 2008 @ 8:18am neoform

MSNBC -- Japan is about to roll out the Lexus of space station labs, a whopper in size and sophistication. The $1 billion Kibo lab — which means “hope” in Japanese — is poised for a Saturday launch aboard the space shuttle Discovery. It will be the bigg.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Fri Jan 4, 2008 @ 8:52am neoform

BBC News -- Nasa says work on the Atlantis space shuttle's problematic fuel sensor system will push back the launch of the Columbus lab to perhaps February. The European module was supposed to fly to the space station on the orbiter in December before erratic sens.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Fri Mar 16, 2007 @ 7:14pm neoform

Discover -- He’s not out to create a big new world. His lab, a windowless cubicle at Union College in Schenectady, New York, couldn’t accommodate anything much larger than a sandbox. It’s actually just the principle he’s after: the fundamental process by whic.. Read More

SCIENCE / NEWS Sun Feb 4, 2007 @ 11:27am neoform

Space Flight Now -- Astronauts Mike Lopez-Alegria and Sunita Williams switched their spacesuits to internal battery power today at 8:38 a.m., officially kicking off their second spacewalk in less than a week to finish switching the lab complex to its permanent cooling system.. Read More