WASHINGTON - The U.S. space shuttle Discovery is set to launch to the International Space Station July 1, a decision that has caused controversy. The space agency, NASA, is sending the ship up for the first time in nearly one year, despite objections from two top agency officials that engineers have not done everything possible […]

KENSINGTON, Md. - “Psoriasis Cure Now,” a nonprofit patient advocacy group, today asked internet search giant Google to enforce its own corporate policy against accepting advertisements that promote phony cures for incurable diseases. Google is currently running numerous paid ads designed to deceive people with psoriasis, a painful, incurable and often debilitating immune system disease […]

Buckeye System Brings New Digital Capability to Warfighters
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service

FORT BELVOIR, Va – A system initially adopted to help the Army Corps of Engineers detect invasive vegetation growing in coastal waterways is giving warfighters an edge in the global war on terror.”Buckeye,” a digital imaging system that’s installed on an aircraft, gives […]

China Tightens Web Controls to Knock Out Proxies, Google 
HONG KONG - China has tightened its already firm grip on the Internet, with a slew of new controls that make access to the Internet outside China harder than ever, Web users said Wednesday.
Chengdu-based Web site operator Deng Yongliang said Google’s international search engine, which the company […]

Space Station Crew Perform Spacewalk For Maintenance Chores 
WASHINGTON - The two U.S. and Russian International Space Station crewmen stepped outside the outpost for a spacewalk to perform maintenance chores as the U.S. space agency prepares to resume shuttle flights.
Russian commander Pavel Vinogradev and American flight engineer Jeff Williams donned Russian space suits for their six-hour […]