♦ 'Exercise in a pill' helps mice

Do you have a job in which you spend most of the day at a desk? When you get home from school or work, do you eat supper in front of the TV? Do you reserve your evenings for watching TV or a movie Do your weekend plans usually consist largely of sedentary activities, such as eating, drinking and sitting around? If you have a dog, does someone else routinely walk the dog?	1 vote

♦ Shuttle Landing Site's Future Up in the Air

By Diana M. Alba, Las Cruces Sun-News, N.M. Aug. 2--LAS CRUCES -The fate of a back-up space shuttle landing site north of Las Cruces is up in the air in advance of a NASA plan to retire its space shuttle program in two years.	1 vote

♦ Medieval Astronomy Tool Acquired By British Museum

The British Museum will maintain possession of a rare astronomy tool from the 14th-century that helped scientists tell time after being outbid for the item last year.The astrolabe quadrant is a brass device that was selling at an auction last year, but the museum was initially lost out on its purchase.	1 vote

♦ A Brief History of Solar Sails

By Amanda Palleschi, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Aug. 1--No. 19 never got a chance to fly. Unlike 11 of his brothers and sisters, No. 19 didn't get a monkey to ride him into space, or a famous astronaut-turned-politician like John Glenn (his seventh sibling received that honor). No.	1 vote

♦ Alert! The Aliens Have Landed

By LORNE JACKSON ARGHH! The aliens have landed! The aliens have landed! Hopefully they'll only nab the really useless earthlings, and whisk them back to the milky-green moon of Zorg. Which means every doctor, nurse and firemen will have to vacate the planet.	1 vote

♦ Shuttle Service Changes Hands

By Kasey Fowler, Enid News & Eagle, Okla. Jul. 26--Anytime Airport Shuttle is no longer going to be in service after today, but its service will not be ending. Margie Scott, owner of Anytime Airport Shuttle, is moving to New York to be with her daughter.	1 vote

♦ New Military Communications System Progressing at Lockheed Martin

SUNNYVALE, Calif., July 24 /PRNewswire/ -Lockheed Martin is progressing steadily on the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) military communications system, most recently delivering the core propulsion module for the third space vehicle (SV-3) six months ahead of the planned schedule.	1 vote

♦ Mars Lander Prepares for Icy Sample

Martian dirt where the spacecraft touched down two months ago. informally known as Snow White. on red planet. vapors given off to determine the soil's composition. the mission past its originally-slated 90 days. to make sure they can operate TEGA properly in the early Mars morning. Mars' equator. Images: Phoenix on Mars! What is This? Imaginova Corp. All rights reserved.	1 vote

♦ QUB Hails Discovery ; BLACK HOLES

SCIENTISTS at Queen's University are one step closer to revealing the secrets of black holes. Following a study of X-rays in space, the Belfast university found the link between the death of stars and the birth of black holes.	1 vote

♦ Soyuz 2 Rocket Launch From Plesetsk Delayed By 24 Hours

PLESETSK, Arkhangelsk region. July 25 (Interfax-AVN) The launch of a military spacecraft with the aid of a Soyuz 2 rocket has been postponed for twenty-four hours. "The state commission led by Space Troops Commander Maj. Gen.	1 vote

♦ Scientists recover complete skeleton of young dinosaur

A fossilized complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur recovered in August, 2006 in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia. TOKYO — Japanese and Mongolian scientists have successfully recovered the complete skeleton of a 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, a nature museum announced Thursday.	1 vote

♦ Robotic Moon Excavation Teams Compete for NASA Technology Prize

To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: Sonja Alexander of NASA Headquarters, Washington, +1202-358-1761, sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov WASHINGTON, July 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -NASA's Regolith Excavation Challenge is scheduled for Aug.	1 vote

♦ Young Galaxies Have Surprisingly Strong Magnetic Fields: Contradicts Popular Theories

ScienceDaily (July 24, 2008) The origin of magnetic fields in galaxies is still a mystery to astronomers. Popular theories suggest continual strengthening over billions of years. The latest results from Simon Lillys group, however, contradict this assumption and reveal that young galaxies also have strong magnetic fields.	1 vote

♦ Kazakhstan to Channel 6bn Dollars into New Space Programme

NASA and Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library based in San Francisco, made available the most comprehensive compilation ever of NASA's vast collection of photographs, historic film and video Thursday.	1 vote

♦ Watching A 'New Star' Make The Universe Dusty

ScienceDaily (July 24, 2008) Using ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer, and its remarkable acuity, astronomers were able for the first time to witness the appearance of a shell of dusty gas around a star that had just erupted, and follow its evolution for more than 100 days.	1 vote

♦ Aircraft for space tourism to be unveiled

SpaceShipOne taxis out on the launch ship, White Knight, in Mojave, Calif., in 2004. British billionaire Sir Richard Branson and American aerospace designer Burt Rutan are due Monday to show off their mothership, which is designed to air launch a passenger-toting spaceship out of the atmosphere.	1 vote

♦ Exoplanet Discovery Orbits Sun-Like Star

Image Caption: A polarizing filter attached to a telescope suppresses the light emitted by dust particles and ionized gas clouds around the quasar so its true electromagnetic spectrum can be revealed. Credit: Makoto Kishimoto, with cloud image by Schartmann.	1 vote

♦ NASA Launches Centralized Resource for Images

NASA and Internet Archive, a non-profit digital library based in San Francisco, made available the most comprehensive compilation ever of NASA's vast collection of photographs, historic film and video Thursday.	1 vote

♦ Mars Lander Prepares for Icy Sample

Martian dirt where the spacecraft touched down two months ago. informally known as Snow White. on red planet. vapors given off to determine the soil's composition. the mission past its originally-slated 90 days. to make sure they can operate TEGA properly in the early Mars morning. Mars' equator. Images: Phoenix on Mars! Science. Technology. Sustainability.	1 vote

♦ Explore the Unsolved Mysteries of the Moon -- New Book Reveals Startling Details About the Origin of

MIDDLEBURY, Vt., July 23, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -There is no denying that the Moon has been the centerpiece of humanity's dream to travel in space. In the early 1960s, President John F.	1 vote