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Shuttle docks at international space station :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: Nation (Science/Technology, 9 articles)
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Discovery performed a slow back flip and then docked at the international space station on Monday, delivering a mammoth lab and two new occupants: a NASA astronaut and Buzz Lightyear. HOUSTON Space shuttle Discovery's seven-member crew completed an inspection of the spacecraft's wings Sunday afternoon, looking for any signs of damage after launching a day earlier. HOUSTON Final outfitting of the international space station's new lab, replacing an empty nitrogen gas tank and retrieving some debris off of a solar wing rotating joint were the tasks Sunday for the final spacewalk of space shuttle Discovery's crew. On Saturday one week into their mission the astronauts planned to test drive the lab's 33-foot robot arm. In the shadow of the Kennedy Space Center, the countdown has begun in the towns that run on the space program's clock. NASA is retiring its shuttle fleet in two years, and for at least five years after that, no humans will launch from Florida's Space Coast. Shuttle Discovery and its crew of seven returned to Earth on Saturday and capped a successful expansion job at the international space station, more spacious and robust thanks to a new billion-dollar science lab.
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Coffee drinking not harmful and may help against heart disease: study (Science/Technology, 4 articles)
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While countless studies have looked at what occurs when coffee is drunk, far fewer have examined the effects of sniffing the aroma, which contains many volatile compounds. So Han-Seok Seo of Seoul National University and colleagues exposed stressed-out rats that had been deprived of sleep to coffee bean aroma and then evaluated the effects by performing genetic and protein analyses on brain tissue. Drinking copious amounts of coffee is not harmful to your health, and particularly if you 're a woman, may actually protect you from heart disease, new research suggests.
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