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Friday, 04 January 2008 |
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U.S. psychologist David Strayer concludes that motorists using cell phones slow down the flow of commuters: they drive slower and have slower reactions.
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Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
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The Quadrantid meteor shower is expected to produce a brief-but-intense number of meteors between the hours of 9:00 p.m. Thursday night to 2:00 a.m. Friday morning (0200 UTC and 0700 UTC) over the Northern Hemisphere.
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Thursday, 03 January 2008 |
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On January 1, 2008, Illinois became a smoke-free state in all public areas. According to the organization Americans for Nonsmoker’s Rights, over 50% of U.S. citizens are covered by some degree of smoke-free laws in public places.
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Wednesday, 02 January 2008 |
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The National Aviation Operational Monitoring Service (NAOMS) research document on air traffic safety was released by NASA on Monday, December 31, 2007.
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Tuesday, 01 January 2008 |
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Comet 8P/Tuttle traveled past the spiral galaxy M33 and gave astrophotographers a chance to click some good pictures of the event.
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Monday, 31 December 2007 |
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According to data taken from NASA’s WMAP and research performed by University of Illinois researchers, the universe may not have started out with a theory involving traditional inflation.
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Monday, 31 December 2007 |
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According to a study performed by U.S. and Spanish astronomers, alien astronomers could “hypothetically” identify Earth as a planet orbiting the Sun and observe our planet with clouds and oceans—just like we are trying to do with planets circling other stars.
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Sunday, 30 December 2007 |
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On January 1 and 2, 2008, Comet 8P/Tuttle will be making its closest approach to Earth. See it in your local northern sky as it travels less than 24 million miles away. And, southern sky watchers get to see it later in January.
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Sunday, 30 December 2007 |
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One week ago the chance of Mars getting smacked by 2007 WD5 asteroid was 1 out of 75. Based on historical data of the asteroid’s path, that possibility of a collision has been raised to 1 out of 25, or four percent.
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Saturday, 29 December 2007 |
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A Russian cargo ship, Progress M-62, docked at the Space Station on Wednesday, December 26, 2007, bringing supplies including Christmas and New Year gifts to the three crew members. They must have been good little boys and girls to get two tons of gifts.
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Saturday, 29 December 2007 |
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George Airy predicted in the 1800s that wave-like objects such as electromagnetic radiation (light) could be directed to follow curved trajectories. University of Central Florida researchers have accomplished this simulation of the curving of light.
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