Peter F Hamilton is one of my favourite authors so it was great to come across these French releases for his Commonwealth Saga from Milady. The artist is Manchu and I think he's done a very nice job indeed of capturing the scenes fairly accurately and with complete style. My personal favourite is the second one - the image of the conical ships of ...
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AXNT20 KNHC 280523 TWDAT TROPICAL WEATHER DISCUSSION NWS TPC/NATIONAL HURRICANE CENTER MIAMI FL 105 AM EST SAT NOV 28 2009 TROPICAL WEATHER DISCUSSION FOR NORTH AMERICA...CENTRAL AMERICA...GULF OF MEXICO...CARIBBEAN SEA...NORTHERN SECTIONS OF SOUTH AMERICA...AND ATLANTIC OCEAN TO THE AFRICAN COAST FROM THE EQUATOR TO 32N. THE FOLLOWING ...
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UN head Ban Ki-moon urges world leaders to "seal a deal" on climate change when they meet in Copenhagen next month.
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Denmark Passes “Anti-Riot” Law 12 days before UN Climate Negotiations.
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Yesterday the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen passed a hotly disputed “anti-riot law”, less than two weeks before what is shaping up to be the largest single convergence around climate change ever. The law, passed to stymie public protest around the UN climate negotiations in Copenhagen, strips people of civil liberties, freedoms, ...
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Copenhagen: Why Bother?
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With little more than a week to go before the start of the COP15 climate change conference in Copenhagen, the “Road to Copenhagen” starts to sound a little tired, even as participants prepare for actually heading to Copenhagen. With the roller-coaster-like ride of pre-COP15 news, reeling from despair to faint glimmers of hope* that ...
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Well, the weekend is here and so I have wrapped up most of the official part of my visit to Madrid. Lest you think that I spent most of my time eating (not that there's anything wrong with that), let me mention that I ended up, from Monday to Thursday giving about eight hours of detailed exposition at the board and fielding questions (the ...
A Cleveland entomologist is studying insects collected from the bodies found in Anthony Sowell's duplex. 'I follow where the bugs lead me. Their lives tell a story about death.' Joe Keiper squinted into a microscope and pressed the dead maggot with a pair of surgical forceps to determine how much human flesh the fat white larva had eaten.
DNA studies aim to find if the venomous reptiles are distinct from the rattlers found around Southern California. Could the rattlesnakes on Santa Catalina Island be a subspecies new to science?
The space shuttle Atlantis sailed down through clear skies to a Florida landing on Friday, wrapping up an 11-day mission to the International Space Station and bringing a new father down to meet his week-old daughter.
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The Brightness of the Sun
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The bright sun greets the International Space Station in this Nov. 22 image, taken from the Russian ...
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Live chat: Recap of space shuttle Atlantis' return
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Click below for a transcript of the live chat conducted to track the landing of space shuttle Atlantis Friday morning. Live chat: The return of space shuttle Atlantis...
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Atlantis, 7 Astronauts Back on Earth
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(CBS/AP) With clear, crisp weather back home, space shuttle Atlantis aimed for an on-time landing Friday morning in Florida to wrap up an 11-day mission to the International Space Station.
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Space shuttle lands safely in Florida
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The space shuttle Atlantis glided to a picture-perfect landing Friday morning under bright, sunny skies at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Space shuttle Atlantis heads for landing
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Astronauts aboard space shuttle Atlantis have fired their ship's braking rockets to leave orbit and begin an hour-long glide to earth, the last leg of an 11-day mission to the International Space Station.
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Shuttle Atlantis Returns Home
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Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of seven astronauts landed safely at Kennedy Space Center Friday morning at 9:44 a.m. EST, ending an 11-day journey to the ISS. Atlantis flew 171 orbits around Earth and traveled 7,226,176 kilometers (4,490,138 miles) since its Nov. 16 launch. STS-129 was the 129th space shuttle mission, the 31st [...]
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AFP - Japan on Saturday launched a next-generation spy satellite as part of efforts to beef up its surveillance system against the threat of North Korea's missiles, officials said.
UGLOVKA, Russia (Reuters) - At least 39 people were killed and nearly 100 injured when a Russian express train came off the rails late on Friday in what the head of the national railway company said could have been a bomb attack.
In a turnaround from long-standing guidelines from the American Cancer Society, a U.S. task force recommends that women begin regular breast-cancer screening at age 50, not 40
Days after a government task force rolled back its mammography screening recommendations, another influential group issued revised guidelines on Pap tests for young women
 
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As luck would have it, I am scheduled to interview prominent climate scientist James Hansen Monday afternoon in advance of his visit to Houston on Monday, Dec. 7. Hansen is a lightning rod for criticism both because he was one...
Katie Kyser, with her daughter Kayle. Lacking health insurance, Ms. Kyser used a price-listing Web site to find a gynecologist who charged less than half the usual rate for an office visit.
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The Physics arXiv Blog produces daily coverage of the best new ideas from an online forum called the Physics arXiv on which scientists post early versions of their latest ideas. Contact me at KentuckyFC @ arxivblog.com
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Blog - Solving the Puzzle of Triangular Snowflakes
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Hundreds have undergone brain surgery for problems like depression, anxiety, even obesity.
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The SyFy Channel is airing a re-imagined version of Alice in Wonderland called Alice , premiering Sunday December 6th. Here's a behind-the-scenes peek: More videos can be found here .
AP - Two giant pandas from China were welcomed to Australia on Saturday with gifts of bamboo and a city party before settling in to their new home, a 25-acre (10-hectare) natural enclosure at the Adelaide Zoo.
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Australia's oceans under pressure
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Scientists have given the state of Australia's marine environment a low grade in the country's first Marine Climate Change report card released today.
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A huge performance from Miikka Kiprusoff on Friday night allowed his Calgary Flames to escape the Joe Louis Arena with both a 3-0 win over the Detroit Red Wings and sole possession of the Northwest Division lead.
MIAMI (Reuters) - Tiger Woods, the world's best golfer and a leading force in sports marketing, was hurt in a car accident in Florida on Friday but was released from a hospital in good condition after treatment.
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Rocket Lab Primed to Launch New Zealand's First Rocket Into Space "Private aerospace company Rocket Lab is preparing for a historic first launch into space from New Zealand. The Atea-1 launch vehicle is scheduled to fly the week beginning November 30th from Great Mercury Island. The exact launch date and time is weather dependent. One of the ...
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