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AP Science NewsBrief at 6:16 a.m. EDT
(AP Online Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Japan's space lab about to get biggerCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) _ The newest space station addition, a giant Japanese science lab, is about to get bigger. After installing TV cameras and removing covers during a spacewalk Thursday, the astronauts at the linked shuttle and station got ready for their next challenge: attaching a storage shed to the bus-size lab. The 210-mile construction job was set for Friday afternoon.
Egypt uncovers 'missing' pyramid of a pharaohSAQQARA, Egypt (AP) _ Egyptian archaeologists unveiled on Thursday a 4,000-year-old "missing pyramid" that is believed to have been discovered by an archaeologist almost 200 years ago and never seen again. Zahi Hawass, Egypt's antiquities chief, said the pyramid appears to have been built by King Menkauhor, an obscure pharaoh who ruled for only eight years.
NASA chief urges Europe to build manned spaceshipPARIS (AP) _ NASA encouraged Europe on Thursday to develop its own manned spaceship, which would give the world _ and particularly the U.S. _ another way of reaching the international space station. Europe became "a full-fledged space power," the agency's administrator said, when flight controllers at a European Space Agency center guided an unmanned cargo ship to the international space station in April, successfully delivering food, water and clothes.
Study: $45 trillion needed to combat warmingTOKYO (AP) _ The world needs to invest $45 trillion in energy in coming decades, build some 1,400 nuclear power plants and vastly expand wind power in order to halve greenhouse gas emissions by 2050, according to an energy study released Friday. The report by the Paris-based International Energy Agency envisions a "energy revolution" that would greatly reduce the world's dependence on fossil fuels while maintaining steady economic growth.
Toyota develops new fuel cell hybridTOKYO (AP) _ Toyota has developed a new fuel cell hybrid, a green car powered by hydrogen and electricity, that can travel more than twice the distance of its predecessor model without filling up, the automaker said Friday. The improved model's maximum cruising range is 516 miles (830 kilometers) compared with 205 miles (330 kilometers) for Toyota's previous fuel cell model, the maker of the Camry sedan and Lexus luxury cars said in a statement.
Communications glitch delays Mars lander diggingLOS ANGELES (AP) _ The Phoenix lander's first dig into the Martian soil for scientific study was delayed Wednesday because of a communications glitch on a spacecraft that relays commands from Earth to the red planet. The orbiting Odyssey satellite went into safe mode and failed to send instructions to Phoenix to claw into the permafrost to search for evidence of the building blocks of life, said Chad Edwards, chief telecommunications engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
Study secretly tracks cell phone users outside USWASHINGTON (AP) _ Researchers secretly tracked the locations of 100,000 people outside the United States through their cell phone use and concluded that most people rarely stray more than a few miles from home. The first-of-its-kind study by Northeastern University raises privacy and ethical questions for its monitoring methods, which would be illegal in the United States.
GE, Pittsburgh hospital establish imaging businessHARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ General Electric Co., the international conglomerate with a stake in everything from jet engines to network television, is investing $20 million in technology that will allow doctors to share and transmit images of microscopic human tissue. The partnership with a Pittsburgh hospital marks GE's entrance into a $2 billion market and could help expand its GE Healthcare division.
Mars lander told to start digging up dirtLOS ANGELES (AP) _ NASA's Phoenix lander has begun its long-awaited exploration of Mars' north pole region. Scientists on Wednesday told the long-armed spacecraft to dig up three scoops of soil. Over the next several days, it will dump a soil sample into a tiny oven where it will be baked and studied. Phoenix landed in the Martian arctic plains about 10 days ago on a three-month mission. The robot will study whether the polar environment is capable of supporting primitive life forms.
IBM developing miniature pipes for chip coolingBOSTON (AP) _ Since a computer microprocessor is veined with electric circuitry, it might seem like a bad place to put water. But IBM Corp. researchers believe that sloshing water through hair-thin pipes inside chips will solve a vexing problem facing next-generation computers. That problem is heat.
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