SF News – A nuclear fusion-powered rocket could enable astronauts travel to Earth’s neighboring planet Mars at speeds considerably faster than before. The current travel speeds using fuel rockets make Mars travel a journey of about four years but the new fusion technology being tested by researchers at the University of Washington promises that in 30 to 90 days.
AFP – British scientists have used a custom-made 3D printer to make living tissue-like material that could one day serve medical purposes, according to findings released Thursday.
SF News – For those who loved Disney’s popular animation “Finding Nemo”, Dory, the little fish who accompanied Nemo’s father in his quest to find his son, is a familiar name. The little goofy fish, that made friends with sharks, is swimming back her way into the big screen once again.
Stop Fundamentalism – In his visit to Iraq, Iran’s Minister of Intelligence and Security (the notorious MOIS) told Iraqi officials that the Iranian opposition group, Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization or MEK, should leave Iraq immediately, reported the Iranian state-run news agency ISNA Tuesday.
By: Phil and Roslyn Heywood
“Scientists believe the first chunk of planet Mercury has landed on Earth.” (Australian Associated Press) Mercury is exceptional in having a live planetary magnetic field – perhaps only one hundredth the ‘strength’ of Earth’s, but, unlike Venus, Mars, and asteroids, it has a field. Remnant magnetism lingers in the rock of some bodies such as the moon and Mars. Venus does not have any measured magnetism as a planet and pieces of Venus have not been positively identified as meteorites.
WASHINGTON, AP — President Barack Obama is proposing a new investment into research to map the human brain in hopes of unlocking some of its mysteries, a senior administration official says.
SF News – A greenish looking rock found last year in Morocco, is believed to have come from earth’s neighboring planet in the solar system, Mercury, say Scientists who studied a collection of 35 meteorites.
Brussels, EFE (Translated from Spanish) – The leader of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, Maryam Rajavi, called on the European Union to protect 3000 Iranian refugees in Camp Liberty yesterday. The opposition leader warned about the imminent danger of an attack on the camp following the February 9 rocket attack that led to 8 deaths and about one hundred injuries among the residents.
Press Statement – Friends of a Free Iran (FoFI)
? Call by 210 Euro MPs in Brussels to Baroness Ashton on the status of Iranian dissidents in Iraq
? Maryam Rajavi, President –elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran urged engagement of European institutions in protecting 3100 Iranian refugees at Camp Liberty
Brussels – In a meeting at the invitation of the Friends of a Free Iran (FOFI) intergroup in the European Parliament on Wednesday, March 27, it was announced that 210 MEPs, in a call to Mrs Catherine Ashton, the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, warned of another attack on the residents of Camp Liberty, the place of residence of 3,100 members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran.
Stop Fundamentalism – A gas capsule explosion in a residential house in Shiraz killed 5 residents and injured at least six today, Iranian state-run television reported.
