Monkey Soars from Iran into Space â€" and Back
http://fox8.com/2013/01/29/monkey-soars-from-iran-into-space-and-back/
No, it's not the title of a wacky B movie, featuring primates amongst the stars in a bid for intergalactic dominance. Rather, Iran says this plot represents its latest bid to join the space race, though Iran's foes fear the real aim may be to test missile launching ...
Chinese Internet Users Scream for Clean Air Act
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2013/01/29/chinese-internet-users-scream-for-clean-air-act/
Associated Press: A man wears a mask on Tiananmen Square in thick haze in Beijing Tuesday. Extremely high pollution levels shrouded eastern China for the second time in about two weeks, prompting government warnings for residents to stay indoors.
No survivors in plane crash in Antarctica
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/crash-victims-honoured-in-antarctica/article7935280/?cmpid=rss1
Search helicopters have found the wreckage of a small plane that crashed in Antarctica carrying three Canadians. Search crews said they were not able to land at the site but that nobody could have survived the crash.
'Asian Nobel prizes' launched by Taiwan businessman
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21235618
A Taiwanese businessmen has put up more than 3bn Taiwanese dollars ($103m; £65m) to establish what are being dubbed the "Asian Nobel prizes".
NASA joins ESA dark stuff hunt
http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/nasa-joins-probe-to-solve-dark-energy-puzzle/article4344531.ece
NASA has signed on for a European Space Agency project to send a telescope to the L2 earth-sun Lagrange point in 2020, to investigate dark matter and dark energy.
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