Today on SPACE.com --- Tuesday July 25, 2006 -- http://www.space.com/
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LiveScience.com * Trivia: The Artifact Wars * New Gallery: The World's Biggest Beasts * Discovery Offers Hope to Chronic Pain Sufferers * Rare Discovery: Fossilized Bone Marrow is 10 Million Years Old * Scientists Predict Bigger Gulf 'Dead Zone' This Year * Human Ancestors May Have Hit the Ground Running NEW! Cool Stuff: * New Gallery: STS 121: Space in Infrared * Video: Parachuting onto Titan * Amazing Images: Upload Yours Now and Even Buy a Poster! * Space Tourism: A Multimedia Special Report * Gallery: SOHO Cool! * Gallery: Moon Shots * Vote: The Best Space Movies * New! Search for Your Next Hi-Tech Job Opportunity Now! Plus... * Uplink, SPACE.com TV and NightSky * Starry Night, TeamSETI ----------------------------------- Science/Astronomy: * Evidence of Hydrocarbon Lakes on Titan http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/ap_060725_titan_lakes.html Scientists said Monday they have found the first widespread evidence of giant hydrocarbon lakes on the surface of Saturn's planet-size moon Titan. * Why Fast-Spinning Young Stars Don't Fly Apart http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060724_star_spin.html Young stars spin rapidly and would go even faster if something didn't hold them back. Now scientists think they've figured out one mechanism. * New Life in Dead Star: Supernova 'Changing Right Before Our Eyes' http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060724_1987a_dust.html Newly detected dust found around the burst remains of a dead star could help reveal how planets and stars formed and how life began. * Image of the Day: CALIPSO's First Look At Earth Air http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/image_of_day_060725.html A NASA satellite has taken its first look at our planet's atmosphere to understand how tiny particles can affect Earth's global climate. ----------------------------------- Spaceflight: * Heat Vision: Infrared Eyes Aid Shuttle Health Predictions http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060725_scitues_shuttle_ir.html The space shuttle Discovery's mission may be over, but NASA is still hard at work evaluating a set of infrared tools used during the flight to help predict whether an orbiter's heat shield is clear to return astronauts back home safely. * Shuttle Atlantis Suits Up for Flight http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/ft_060725_sts115_rollover.html Workers are preparing shuttle Atlantis today for a trip to the launch pad next Monday, after it took a different kind of flight overnight: dangling from a crane in Kennedy Space Center's vast Vehicle Assembly Building. * NASA Vision Plans Doomed, Space Advocacy Group Reports http://www.space.com/news/060724_cev_needsrevision.html Radical surgery is needed on NASA's vision for space exploration of the Moon, Mars and beyond, according to a study released today by the Space Frontier Foundationa space advocacy group based in Nyack, New York. * SPACE NEWS: Eumetsat to Go Beyond Weather and Explore Earth Science http://www.space.com/spacenews/businessmonday_060724.html The 20-nation Eumetsat organization has approved a new long-term strategy that foresees its gradual mutation from a meteorological agency into Europe's environmental satellite services operator. * BLOG: Sex in Space -- Getting a Grip on Gravity http://www.livescience.com/blogs/author/leonarddavid While sex in space is now a front and center topic of talk in public space travel circles, it may be far more complex and foreboding than once thought. * Back at Full Strength, ISS Crew Takes a Break http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/060723_exp13_postshuttle.html Three astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are taking a well-earned break one week after NASA's shuttle Discovery left their orbital laboratory. * NEW! Daily Space Trivia http://www.space.com/php/trivia/ One of Today's 5 New Questions: What is the name given to the process of transmitting technical data to or from spacecraft? ---------------------------------- NEW! LiveScience.com http://www.livescience.com/ * Trivia: The Artifact Wars http://www.livescience.com/php/trivia/index.php?quiz=artifacts Two hundred years later Greece is still asking for the Elgin Marbles; Egypt wants its obelisks. What's all the sniveling about? We test your knowledge of archaeology's most contested items and the people who fight over them. * New Gallery: The World's Biggest Beasts http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?imgid=814&gid=52&index=0 Huge creatures that went extinct, and other big animals that still roam this planet ... for now anyway. * Discovery Offers Hope to Chronic Pain Sufferers http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/060725_pain_switch.html Scientists find pain's pathway to the brain in rats, suggesting possible new drugs that could switch it off in people. * Rare Discovery: Fossilized Bone Marrow is 10 Million Years Old http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/060724_fossil_bonemarrow.html Scientists have extracted intact bone marrow from the fossilized remains of 10-million-year-old frogs and salamanders. * Scientists Predict Bigger Gulf 'Dead Zone' This Year http://www.livescience.com/environment/060724_dead_zone.html A dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico created by lack of oxygen will be larger than normal this year, scientists predicted today. * Human Ancestors May Have Hit the Ground Running http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/060724_gibbons_walking.html New findings raise the interesting possibility that the step from a tree-dwelling ape to a terrestrial biped might not have been as drastic as previously thought. ---------------------------------- NEW! Cool Stuff: * New Gallery: STS 121: Space in Infrared http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?imgid=4121&gid=295 Cool infrared space images taken during the STS-121 mission. * Video: Parachuting onto Titan http://www.space.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=huygens_stch ESA's Huygens probe captured this movie as it descended onto the surface of Saturns' moon Titan. * Amazing Images: Upload Yours Now and Even Buy a Poster! http://www.space.com/amazingimages/ Upload your cool science and space-themed images now. Get your own homepage, vote for your favorites and more! * Space Tourism: A Multimedia Special Report http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/earlyspacetourism/ Part One: Where Only A Few Folks Have Gone * Gallery: SOHO Cool! http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?imgid=1448&gid=119 Best images of the Sun from the SOHO spacecraft. * Gallery: Moon Shots http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?imgid=4026&gid=289&index=0 The Moon photographed in various shapes, sizes and colors, as seen through the telescopes of Space.com readers. * Vote: The Best Space Movies http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/spacemovies/ Is your favorite space movie on the list? Find out now! * New! 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