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...appointment of Gration was something of a surprise to Washington's Sudan watchers; Gration's own first choice was to head NASA. And as a plainspoken first-time diplomat, Gration hasn't exactly been careful with his choice of language. Before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee in late July, Gration testified that sanctions on Sudan should be loosened, a statement he had to retract within days. Earlier, he asserted that only "remnants of genocide" remain in Darfur, provoking fury from Darfur advocacy groups and directly contradicting his boss's position: Obama has said three times since January there is currently...
...performed research at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in Arlington, Va., and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt...
...350” movement. The 350 movement aims to influence policy-makers to adopt a global standard of 350 parts per million carbon at the United Nations Climate Change Conference to be held this December in Copenhagen. This is the level necessary to avoid catastrophic warming according to NASA climate experts, McKibben said...
...Twitter is a kind of global watercooler, the place to go if you want an instant take on anything from who should win American Idol to why on earth NASA aims to crash a probe into the moon, then the verdict is in. Within minutes of President Barack Obama's surprise Nobel Peace Prize win, the Twitterverse had greeted the news with a resounding raspberry. "What are the reasons for Obama to get Nobel Peace Prize?????" asked @ludmila_kh incredulously, if not grammatically. (See pictures of Obama overseas...
...poor country should worry about feeding hungry millions before firing rockets into space. Last month, there were allegations of incompetence after India's first-ever lunar probe, Chandrayaan-I, was lost when its communications system shut down. So this week's announcement that the same probe, fitted with a NASA research instrument, had found water on the surface of the moon (and managed to send the data back to earth before losing contact) was a welcome reason to cheer at the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). "Water ice on the moon has been something of a holy grail for lunar...