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The following entries cover events of a science or technology related nature which occurred in the listed year. ...

August 31, 2005

• The decoding of genome of the chimpanzee is announced and a first draft is published. (AP/YahooNews)

August 31 is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (244th in leap years), with 122 days remaining, as the final day of August. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... In biology the genome of an organism is the whole hereditary information of an organism that is encoded in the DNA (or, for some viruses, RNA). ... Type species Simia troglodytes Blumenbach, 1775 Species Pan troglodytes Pan paniscus Chimpanzee, often abbreviated to chimp, is the common name for two species in the genus Pan. ...

August 30, 2005

• Scientists have created a material harder than diamond. (The Register)

August 30 is the 242nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (243rd in leap years), with 123 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... A scattering of round-brilliant cut diamonds shows off the many reflecting facets. ...

August 27, 2005

• By copying the wing action of seagulls, researchers at the University of Florida, supported by the US Air Force and NASA, have developed so-called micro air vehicles (MAVs) that can change their shape while in mid-flight. Possible applications of such MAVs, which are predicted to be two to three years away from deployment, include flying into urban environments to detect biological agents. (BBC)

August 27 is the 239th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (240th in leap years), with 126 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Genera Pagophila Larus Rissa Creagus Xema Rhodostethia Gulls are seabirds in the family Laridae and subfamily Lari. ... University of Florida State University System of Florida FAMU FAU FGCU FIU FSU NCF UCF UF UNF USF UWF The University of Florida, or UF, is a public university located in Gainesville, Florida. ... Seal of the Air Force. ... NASA Logo The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which was established in 1958, is the agency responsible for the public space program of the United States of America. ... The term Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) refers to a new breed of remotely controlled aircraft that are significantly smaller than currently available remotely controlled aircrafts. ... A biological agent is an infectious disease that can be used in bioterrorism or biological warfare. ...

August 26, 2005

• Scientists publish new data that supports the notion that the Earth's core is spinning with a different speed than the outer crust. (BBC)
• A study is published in The Lancet that indicates that drugs based on homeopathy may not be more effective than a placebo. (BBC)

August 26 is the 238th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (239th in leap years). ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Earth, also known as the Earth, Terra, and (mostly in the 19th century) Tellus, is the third-closest planet to the Sun. ... Rotation is the movement of a body in such a way that the distance between a certain fixed point and any given point of that body remains constant. ... Earth cutaway from core to exosphere. ... The Lancet is a British medical journal, published weekly by the Lancet Publishing Group. ... Homeopathy (also spelled homœopathy or homoeopathy) from the Greek words όμοιος, hómoios (similar) and πάθος, páthos (suffering), is a system of alternative medicine, notable for its controversial practice of prescribing water-based solutions that do not contain chemically active ingredients. ... A placebo, from the Latin for I will please, is a medical treatment (operation, therapy, chemical solution, pill, etc. ...

August 19, 2005

• The SOHO spacecraft have now provided images to discover 1000 comets. The 1000th comet was discovered by amateur astronomer, Toni Scarmato, who has now discovered 15 comets using SOHO images. (ESA)
• Scientist publish the full genome of the bacterium Pelagibacter ubique, which contains only 1,354 genes. It is estimated that it represents one quarter of the ocean's total number of organisms. (BBC)

August 19 is the 231st day of the year (232nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... The Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) is a spacecraft launched in 1995 to study the sun. ... In biology the genome of an organism is the whole hereditary information of an organism that is encoded in the DNA (or, for some viruses, RNA). ... Phyla/Divisions Actinobacteria Aquificae Bacteroidetes/Chlorobi Chlamydiae/Verrucomicrobia Chloroflexi Chrysiogenetes Cyanobacteria Deferribacteres Deinococcus-Thermus Dictyoglomi Fibrobacteres/Acidobacteria Firmicutes Fusobacteria Gemmatimonadetes Nitrospirae Omnibacteria Planctomycetes Proteobacteria Spirochaetes Thermodesulfobacteria Thermomicrobia Thermotogae Bacteria is also the fictional name of a warring nation under Benzino Napaloni as dictator, in the 1940 film The Great Dictator... Binomial name Candidatus Pelagibacter ubique Rappé , 2002 Pelagibacter, with the single species , are possibly the most numerous bacteria in the world. ... This stylistic schematic diagram shows a gene in relation to the double helix structure of DNA and to a chromosome (right). ... Ocean (from Okeanos, a Greek god of sea and water; Greek ωκεανός) covers almost three quarters (71%) of the surface of the Earth. ...

August 18, 2005

• NASA decides to push the launch date of the next shuttle mission, STS-121, to March 2006 and reassign it from Atlantis to Discovery (MSNBC)

August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... NASA Logo The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which was established in 1958, is the agency responsible for the public space program of the United States of America. ... STS-121 is the second Return To Flight mission. ... 2006 is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Shuttle Orbiter Atlantis (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-104) is one of five NASA space shuttles. ... Shuttle Orbiter Discovery (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is a NASA Space Shuttle. ...

August 17, 2005

• The Zotob computer worm causes fatal crashes of computers worldwide. The worm only crashes PCs running Windows 2000 and earlier versions of Windows XP, shutting down and rebooting the computer endlessly. Among notable organizations whose PCs were affected are CNN, ABC, Caterpillar, New York Times and Capitol Hill. (CNN) (AP/YahooNews)

August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... The rbot. ... A eerwrewrdferdferBold textcomputer worm is a self-replicating computer program, similar to a computer virus. ... Windows 2000 (also referred to as Win2K, W2K or Windows NT 5. ... As of 2005, Windows XP is the current client version of the Microsoft Windows operating system. ... Cable News Network (CNN) is a cable television network that was founded in 1980 by Ted Turner & Reese Schonfeld [1] [2] (although the latter currently is not recognized in CNNs official history). ... ABC (disambiguation) ... Caterpillar Inc. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Capitol Hill is the name of a district in the following cities: Capitol Hill, Denver, Colorado Capitol Hill, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Capitol Hill, Seattle, Washington Capitol Hill, Washington, DC It is also a common nickname for the United States Congress and the politicians who serve it (e. ...

August 16, 2005

• Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev breaks the world record for most days spent in space while on board the International space station. (Reuters/YahooNews)

August 16 is the 228th day of the year (229th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit. ... Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev, former Russian cosmonaut, was born August 27, 1958, in Leningrad, Russia, which has been renamed St. ... Outer space (also called just space), as a name for a region, refers to the relatively empty parts of the Universe, outside the atmospheres of celestial bodies. ... ISS Statistics Crew: 2 As of August 21, 2005 Perigee: 352. ...

August 12, 2005

• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is launched from Cape_Canaveral, Florida, at 7:43 EST. (BBC)

August 12 is the 224th day of the year (225th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Conceptual drawing of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter over Mars NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (acronym: MRO) is a multipurpose spacecraft, launched August 12, 2005 to advance human understanding of Mars through detailed observation, to examine potential landing sites for future surface missions, and to provide a high-data-rate communications relay... Cape Canaveral from space, August 1991 Cape Canaveral is a strip of land in Brevard County, Florida, United States, near the center of that states Atlantic coast. ... State nickname: Sunshine State Other U.S. States Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Governor Jeb Bush (R) Official languages English Area 170,451 km² (22nd)  - Land 137,374 km²  - Water 30,486 km² (17. ... EST may stand for: Eastern Standard Time - There are three time zones known as Eastern Standard Time (Australian time zone UTC+10, Brazilian Eastern time zone UTC-3 and North American time zone, UTC-5) Electron Spiral Toroid (Energy technology) Erhard Seminars Training Expressed sequence tag (biology) This page concerning...

August 11, 2005

• Pakistan's first domestically designed cruise missile, the Babur missile, is test launched. (BBC)
• Scientists at the German Primate Centre and the University of Göttingen announce the discovery of two new species of lemur, Mirza zaza and Microcebus lehilahytsara. (German press release), (BBC)

August 11 is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... A Tomahawk cruise missile A cruise missile is a guided missile which uses a lifting wing and most often a jet propulsion system to allow sustained flight. ... The Babur missile is the first cruise missile designed and made by Pakistan. ... The Northern giant mouse lemur (Mirza zaza) was discovered to be a species in 2005 by Kappeler from the German primates centre and the University of Göttingen. ... Binomial name Microcebus lehilahytsara Roos and Kappeler, 2005 Goodmans Mouse Lemur (Microcebus lehilahytsara) is a species of mouse lemur from Andasibe in eastern Madagascar. ...

August 10, 2005

• Apple Computer fails to patent the iPod interface technology because a Microsoft researcher already registered a similar patent in 2002. (YahooNews)
• Astronomers discover the first triple asteroidal system. Two satellites orbit the asteroid 87 Sylvia. (CNN/space.com) (Nature)

August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Apple Computer, Inc. ... A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to a person for a fixed period of time in exchange for the regulated, public disclosure of certain details of a device, method, process or substance (known as an invention) which is new, inventive and useful. ... A grayscale fourth-generation iPod with earphones. ... The user interface is the part of a system exposed to users. ... Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) is the worlds largest software company, with over 50,000 employees in various countries as of May 2004. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 87 Sylvia (sil-vee-a) is one of the largest main belt asteroids. ...

August 9, 2005

• Space Shuttle Discovery lands at 5:12 PDT (12:12 UTC) at Edwards Air Force Base in California. (BBC)

August 9 is the 221st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (222nd in leap years), with 144 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Shuttle Orbiter Discovery (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is a NASA Space Shuttle. ... Edwards Air Force Base is a USAF airbase located on the border of Kern County and Los Angeles County, California in the Antelope Valley, 7 miles (11 km) due East of Rosamond, USA at 34°57′ N 117°52′ W. An airbase since 1933, Edwards has long been a home... State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4. ...

August 6, 2005

• The space shuttle Discovery undocks from the International Space Station in preparation to return to Earth. (BBC)

August 6 is the 218th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (219th in leap years), with 147 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... The Space Shuttle Columbia seconds after engine ignition, 1981 (NASA). ... Shuttle Orbiter Discovery (NASA Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is a NASA Space Shuttle. ... ISS Statistics Crew: 2 As of August 21, 2005 Perigee: 352. ... Earth, also known as the Earth, Terra, and (mostly in the 19th century) Tellus, is the third-closest planet to the Sun. ...

August 3, 2005

• Biologists at the University of California, Riverside find a gene coding for a spider silk protein used by female spiders to construct their egg cases. (PNAS) (National Geographic) (Wikinews).
• The NASA spacecraft MESSENGER successfully executes an Earth swingby on its way to Mercury. (spaceref.com)
• Astronomers announce that ground-based telescopic surveys during 2003 and 2004 show no evidence of liquids on Saturn's moon Titan. (AP/YahooNews)
• Astronaut Stephen Robinson fixes the thermal protection shield of the space shuttle Discovery while in space, docked to the International space station. (BBC)

August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... The University of California, Riverside is a public, coeducational university situated in Riverside, California beside Box Springs Mountain. ... This stylistic schematic diagram shows a gene in relation to the double helix structure of DNA and to a chromosome (right). ... A spider web made by a linyphid spider Spider silk is a fibre secreted by spiders. ... A representation of the 3D structure of myoglobin, showing coloured alpha helices. ... Suborders Araneomorphae Mesothelae Mygalomorphae See the taxonomy section for families Spiders are invertebrate animals that produce silk, have eight legs and no wings. ... An average Whooping Crane egg is 102 mm long, and weighs 208 grams A baby tortoise emerges from a reptile egg. ... NASA Logo The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), which was established in 1958, is the agency responsible for the public space program of the United States of America. ... Ariane 5 lifts off with the Rosetta space probe on March 2, 2004. ... Messenger is the following: MESSENGER is a NASA Mercury probe launched in 2004. ... Earth, also known as the Earth, Terra, and (mostly in the 19th century) Tellus, is the third-closest planet to the Sun. ... For additional meanings, see Mercury (disambiguation). ... 50 cm refracting telescope at Nice Observatory. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Atmospheric characteristics Atmospheric pressure 140 kPa Hydrogen >93% Helium >5% Methane 0. ... Titan (tye-tun, Greek Τιτάνας) is the largest moon of Saturn and the second largest moon in the solar system[1], after Jupiters moon Ganymede. ... U.S. Space Shuttle astronaut Bruce McCandless II using a manned maneuvering unit (MMU) outside the Challenger in 1984. ... Stephen Robinson Stephen K. Robinson is a NASA astronaut. ... The Space Shuttle Columbia seconds after engine ignition, 1981 (NASA). ... STS-114 was the Return to Flight Space Shuttle mission which launched Space Shuttle Discovery at 10:39 EDT (14:39 UTC), July 26, 2005. ... ISS Statistics Crew: 2 As of August 21, 2005 Perigee: 352. ...

August 2, 2005

• Scientists at Stanford University have used nanotechnology to kill cancer cells without harming healthy tissue. (BBC)
• Forecasters increase the predicted number of tropical storms for the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season to 18 to 21. (AP/YahooNews)

August 2 is the 214th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (215th in leap years), with 151 days remaining. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... For other meanings of Stanford, see Stanford (disambiguation). ... A mite next to a gear set produced using MEMS, the precursor to nanotechnology. ... When normal cells are damaged or old they undergo apoptosis; cancer cells, however, avoid apoptosis. ... Cells in culture, stained for keratin (red) and DNA (green) The cell is the structural and functional unit of all living organisms, sometimes called the building blocks of life. ... A biological tissue is a group of biological cells that perform a similar function. ... Hurricane Ivan viewed from the International Space Station, September 2004. ... The 2005 Atlantic hurricane season officially began June 1, 2005, and will last through November 30, 2005. ...

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