NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler space telescope discovered more than 100 confirmed planets in its just-completed main mission and will now begin to hunt for Earth-like planets on an extended mission that could last to 2016, the space agency announced this week. The Kepler space observatory was launched on March 7, 2009 atop a Delta II rocket and has spent the last three-and-a-half years scanning more than 150,000 stars for signs of planetary activity from an Earth-trailing heliocentric orbit. Continue reading
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Jozi Tourism the world ‘s best?
The Johannesburg Tourism Company (JTC) has been nominated as World’s Leading Tourist Board at the World Travel Awards 2012. “This being the second time Joburg Tourism has been nominated, we’re thrilled with the news, and call on all our stakeholders to please support our nomination by voting online for JTC,” acting JTC CEO Phelisa Mangcu said in a statement on Tuesday. Now in its 19th year, the World Travel Awards is regarded as the highest achievement in travel, tourism and hospitality. Continue reading
Cell therapy may ease chronic pain
Washington, May 25 : A new study has described how a cell therapy might one day be used not only to quell some common types of persistent and difficult-to-treat pain, but also to cure the conditions that give rise to them. UCSF scientists, working with mice, focused on treating chronic pain that arises from nerve injury — so-called neuropathic pain. Continue reading