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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Israel Herald.com http://www.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/10/id/89d96798a39564bd/ en-us Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:12:56 -0500 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:12:56 -0500 30 A large fraction of the Earth's surface remains inaccessible to conventional wheeled or tracked vehicles, while animals and humans traverse such terrain with ease and elegance, researchers say. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203244622/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:40:09 -0500 ANI http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203244622/cs/1/ Russian scientists are looking forward to have a man on the moon by 2020, as it launches a new campaign to select a new team of cosmonauts to train for the special task, according to reports. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203244607/cs/1/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 00:50:22 -0500 ANI http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203244607/cs/1/ Most spiral galaxies in the Universe have a bar structure in their centre. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203227832/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:40:33 -0500 ANI http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203227832/cs/1/ Newly released images from ESA's Mars Express orbiter show lava flows on the Syrtis Major region of the planet, which was nce thought to be a sea of water. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203223243/cs/1/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:00:12 -0500 ANI http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203223243/cs/1/ GORNO-ALTAISK, February 5 (Itar-Tass) - The capital of the Altai Republic marks this Sunday the New Year according to the oriental lunar ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203245763/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:41:04 -0500 Itar Tass http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203245763/ IT is the ultimate parachute jump: from the edge of space, Felix Baumgartner will leap from a balloon and plummet 120,000ft.After 35 seconds he will break the sound barrier, and finally, at 5,000ft, ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203245761/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:25:51 -0500 Independent.ie http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203245761/ At some point, I think most little kids think to themselves, ';When I grow up, I want to be an astronaut!'; And it looks like quite a few people never lost that dream. NASA has announced ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203243586/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:53:48 -0500 Forbes http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203243586/ The sky map of the Faraday effect caused by the magnetic fields of the Milky Way. Red and blue colors indicate regions of the sky where the magnetic field points toward and away from the observer, ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203244433/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:26:25 -0500 Universe Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203244433/ Today's article is about neutrino astronomy on ice. According to Wikipedia, a journal club is a group of individuals who meet regularly to critically evaluate recent articles in the ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203242925/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:32:38 -0500 Universe Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203242925/ But something from nothing, physicists are finding, may be the ultimate secret of the universe. "The surprising fact is that we live in a universe that has all the characteristics of being created ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203242926/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:00:00 -0500 USA Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203242926/ NASA's space shuttle program is over. NASA does not have its own means of taking astronauts into space. Commercial spacecraft under development won't be ready for another four to five ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203241154/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:55:13 -0500 Yahoo http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203241154/ Dear Dr ManderI am one of the leading professionals in my field. Unfortunately however I have recently benn subject to allegations about my behaviour from an embittered third party and have been ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203240397/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:40:46 -0500 The Guardian http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203240397/ This picture of Eros, the first of an asteroid taken from an orbiting spacecraft, is a mosaic of four images obtained by NEAR on February 14, 2000, immediately after the spacecraft's insertion ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203238241/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:34:32 -0500 Space.com http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203238241/ Lawmakers, administration officials and other policy makers with a role in deciding NASA spending will be watching as well. The launch of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon spacecraft from Cape ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203239729/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:28:43 -0500 USA Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203239729/ Several reports have come out indicating that AT&T has quietly begun allowing users of the Galaxy Nexus and Galaxy S NFC-enabled smartphones to download Google Wallet. ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203238182/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:55:08 -0500 Web Pro News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203238182/ An artist's impression of an accreting X-ray millisecond pulsar. The flowing material from the companion star forms a disk around the neutron star which is truncated at the edge of the pulsar ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203238240/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:54:34 -0500 Universe Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203238240/ February 4, 2012 Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth planet orbiting a nearby star, making it one of the best candidates to support life. The newly found planet, called ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203236652/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:12:12 -0500 Infowars.com http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203236652/ Nasa has released the first ever moving images of the dark side of the Moon, the side never visible from Earth, filmed by the spacecraft GRAIL. . Report ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203236649/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:46:16 -0500 Mideast Posts http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203236649/ Russia 's space agency and training center for cosmonauts is launching a campaign to choose a new team of cosmonauts to train for a special mission, most likely for the moon this ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203235598/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:39:36 -0500 Fox News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203235598/ Comparison of the habitable zone around the Sun in our solar system and around the star Gliese 581. Credit: ESO Habitable zones are the regions around stars, including our own Sun, where ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203236650/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:38:54 -0500 Universe Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203236650/ This lovely image of Comet Garradd (C/2009 PI) as it passes by the globular cluster M92 in the constellation Hercules, was taken remotely from the Tzek Maun Observatory in New Mexico by our ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203236651/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:38:53 -0500 Universe Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203236651/ Think our winter's been a bit grim? Try visiting Yakutsk - the Russian city where 'a bit nippy' means minus 50C, and a quick dash to the corner shop could end in frostbite. Shaun ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203234870/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:54:35 -0500 The Independent http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203234870/ /enpproperty--> MOSCOW - Russia's failed Mars probe Phobos-Grunt has fallen into the Pacific Ocean, local media reported on Sunday. The crash site of the spacecraft debris was 1,250 ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203233699/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:50:34 -0500 China Daily http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203233699/ Internet information giant Google updated ocean data in its Google Earth application this week, reflecting new bathymetry data assembled by Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, NOAA ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203232841/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:28:03 -0500 RedOrbit http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203232841/ A NASA probe on a five-year mission to Jupiter fired up its rocket thrusters this week to better aim itself at the largest planet in our solar system. ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203232939/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 09:00:56 -0500 Yahoo http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203232939/ album_info = [{"title":"Marbled Earth, Rolling Dunes on Mars and a Nebula With a Mouth ","aidesc":"From a stunning image of our marbled earth to city lights from ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203230794/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:09:35 -0500 Space.com http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203230794/ Sales of large-size electrical household appliances including LCD TVs in the China market were lower than expected during the Lunar New Year holidays, according to data compiled by retail channels ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203228683/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:47:49 -0500 Digitimes http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203228683/ A group of 16 NASA employees in Ohio are the winners of a quarter-million dollars in Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing. The Ohio Lottery said Friday the group from the NASA Glenn Research Center ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203230486/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:06:55 -0500 Washington Examiner http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203230486/ NASA scientists have got the first-ever, up-close details of a Saturn storm that is eight times the surface area of Earth, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory ( JPL) announced on Wednesday.The images were ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203230795/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:28:47 -0500 People's Daily http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203230795/ China had collected all the data needed to draw its first full map of the moon surface and was almost done with the mapping work, Sun Jiadong, the chief designer of the country's Chang'e ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203228250/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 04:28:17 -0500 People's Daily http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203228250/ The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light years from Earth, are shown in this composite image from NASA's Great Observatories - the Chandra X-ray Observatory [blue], the Hubble ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226643/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:51:07 -0500 VOA http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226643/ additional breathing space , thanks to legislation that was approved by the House on Friday and seems certain to become law.The provision takes up just a few words in ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226659/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:36:02 -0500 MSNBC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226659/ This false-color view of Toro Crater on Mars was captured on Dec. 1, 2011, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and released on Wednesday. ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226660/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:35:56 -0500 MSNBC http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226660/ The biggest mass extinction that killed 90 percent of the Earth's marine life occurred in phases and took hundreds of thousands of years to complete, experts have said. According to a study ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203222585/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:27:54 -0500 IBTimes http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203222585/ Scientists have discovered a potentially habitable super-Earth along with three other planets orbiting a nearby star and it is just 22 light years away from Earth. Super-Earth takes about 28 days to ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226665/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:27:50 -0500 IBTimes http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226665/ Android developer Web site as the company has removed nearly all reference to CDMA phones and tablets from its official documents and Google's developer site, ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226388/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:27:49 -0500 IBTimes http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226388/ China's premier said Friday that the country does not discriminate against foreign companies in terms of rare earth supplies, stating that policies and quotas for both domestic and foreign ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226664/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:25:47 -0500 Global Times http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226664/ NASA has sent back its first footage of the 'dark' side of the moon, the one that is not visible from the Earth. The footage shows a journey from the north to ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226657/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:05:43 -0500 Times of India http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226657/ Have you ever asked yourself ';Where am I?'; ';What am I?'; ';Who am I?';; Have you ever just stopped to ask ';where is the universe?'; Let us deviate from ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226644/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:31:40 -0500 Web Pro News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226644/ Astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) captured this stunning nighttime panorama of the major cities along the East Coast of the United States on Jan. 29, 2012. Credit: NASA Do ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226656/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:31:03 -0500 Universe Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226656/ A 3-d view of a well-preserved and unnamed impact crater on Mars, as seen by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona. Click for high-resolution ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226655/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:31:02 -0500 Universe Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226655/ The Rosetta mission will do something never before attempted: land on a comet. The spacecraft is now on its way to intercept comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in January 2014 and land a probe on it ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226654/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:31:01 -0500 Universe Today http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226654/ Blue Marble " views, come from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) satellite. The minivan-size spacecraft is the first of its kind: an Earth-observing satellite built to collect ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226658/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:22:19 -0500 CBS News http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226658/ WORCESTER, Mass. - Venus Williams's comeback to competitive tennis will have to wait at least one more day. http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226652/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:20:14 -0500 International Herald Tribune http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203226652/ SAN JOSE (CBS/AP) — NASA has awarded $73 million to San Jose State University to participate in research on how people interact with new technology that will be introduced during an overhaul ... http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203222235/ Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:15:20 -0500 CBS 5 http://story.israelherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/203222235/