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New Theory on Earthquakes to Help Future Predictions

Monday, February 25, 2008 1:05:00 PM

SYDNEY—Australian scientists who developed a new theory of how earthquakes form in Pakistan hope it will lead to better forecasts of earthquakes and tsunamis around the world.   Full Story

Pioneer to Stop Making 42-Inch Plasma Panels: Report

Sunday, February 24, 2008 1:20:00 PM

TOKYO—Pioneer Corp plans to stop making 42-inch plasma display panels and instead procure panels that size and smaller from Matsushita Electric Industrial Co Ltd or Hitachi Ltd, the Asahi newspaper re ...   Full Story

Energy Storage Nears Its Day in the Sun

Friday, February 22, 2008 1:23:00 PM

MONACO—Energy storage is an unglamorous pillar of an expected revolution to clean up the world's energy supply but will soon vie for investors attention with more alluring sources of energy like s ...   Full Story

Milky Way Larger Than First Thought

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 1:23:00 PM

Australian astronomers have discovered that our galaxy is twice is thick as what we once thought.   Full Story

Space Shuttle Returns to Earth After Spacelab Mission

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 1:23:00 PM

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Space shuttle Atlantis landed at its Florida home port on Wednesday after a mission that delivered Europe's first permanent space lab to orbit, clearing the way for the ...   Full Story

Managed Forestry Offers Hope of Saving Amazon

Tuesday, February 19, 2008 1:23:00 PM

MONTE DOURADO, Brazil—Buzzing chain saws and heavy machinery hauling logs through the Amazon jungle look at first like reckless destruction. But a forestry project on the Jari River in northern ...   Full Story

Blu-ray Wins as Toshiba Moves to Discontinue HD-DVD

Monday, February 18, 2008 9:50:00 PM

TOKYO - An impending end to a format war over next-generation DVDs boosted shares in both victorious Sony, in the Blu-ray corner, and Toshiba , in the losing HD DVD camp, on Monday as consumers chee ...   Full Story

Shuttle Leaves Station Ahead of U.S. Space Shot

Monday, February 18, 2008 1:33:00 PM

HOUSTON—Space shuttle Atlantis departed on Monday from the newly expanded International Space Station and began its return trip to Earth ahead of a U.S. military plan to Full Story

Shuttle Atlantis Crew Prepares to Leave Station

Sunday, February 17, 2008 1:32:00 PM

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The shuttle Atlantis astronauts moved spacesuits onto the International Space Station and packed up old equipment to bring home Sunday, while scientists prepared for the fi ...   Full Story

Astronauts Work on Space Lab During Busy Mission

Saturday, February 16, 2008 1:12:00 PM

Astronauts worked to outfit Europe's new permanent space laboratory on Saturday as a busy visit by NASA's shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station neared its end.   Full Story

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