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File photo shows visitors taking photos during an exhibition on "China's First Spacewalk Mission" at the Hong Kong Science Museum. China aims to land its first astronauts on the moon within a decade at the dawn of a new era of manned space exploration — a race it now leads thanks to the US decision [...]

Despite the success of the Ares 1-X test launch in October, the Ares 1 could be in jeopardy as the White House develops a new space exploration policy. (credit: NASA/KSC)

If NASA administrator Charles Bolden was a European 13th century aristocrat instead of a 21st century political appointee, he would be known as “Duke Charles The [...]

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Sweden described the Copenhagen climate change summit as a "disaster" and a "great failure" on Tuesday, ahead of a meeting of European Union environment ministers to discuss how to rescue the process.

The European Union went to Copenhagen with the hope of achieving a broad commitment to at least a 20-percent cut in [...]

An 1808 letter written by Thomas Jefferson recently discovered at the University of Delaware. (Credit: Kathy Atkinson, University of Delaware)

ScienceDaily (Dec. 5, 2009) — Two University of Delaware graduate students recently stumbled upon a letter written by President Thomas Jefferson while sifting through thousands of documents and other items donated to the university's library.

Jefferson sent [...]

"THIS is the kind of snooping you'd expect in China, not a modern western democracy. It raises huge questions over privacy invasion and freedom of expression." So says Andrew Heaney – who is not, as you might imagine, a civil liberties campaigner, but a senior executive at TalkTalk, one of the UK's largest internet service [...]

Psychological research reveals how and why liberals and conservatives differ

Humans are, by nature, tribal and never more so than in politics. In the culture wars we all know the tribal stereotypes of what liberals think of con­servatives:

Conservatives are a bunch of Hum­mer-driving, meat-eating, gun-toting, hard-drinking, Bible-thumping, black-and-white-thinking, fist-pounding, shoe-stomping, morally hypocritical blowhards. And what conservatives [...]

It’s being billed as the meeting that will determine the future of humanity. Come early December, we will be inundated with news from the Copenhagen summit. Can it really save us from climate catastrophe? Catherine Brahic and Fred Pearce sift through the mass of science and policy to pick out the key points to watch

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IF THERE is one thing that politicians can and should do to limit the damage caused by illegal drugs, it is to take careful note of the evidence and develop a rational drug policy. Some politicians find it easier to ignore the evidence, and pander to public prejudice instead.

David Nutt was chairman of the UK [...]

The UK government has been accused of failing to protect citizens’ privacy by the European Commission.

The Commission wants the UK to do more to protect privacy.
It said the government should have done more to guarantee online privacy when trials of a controversial ad-serving system were carried out in 2006.
The Commission said it had now started [...]

Ever wondered how big storage space could really become? Well, if you take an interest in the NSA, there are reports online that indicate that NSA is constructing a datacenter in the Utah desert that that will store yottabytes of surveillance data. No, we don’t mean gigabytes, terabytes, or petabytes. A yottabyte is 1,000,000,000,000,000GB. Plenty [...]