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Japan's new unmanned space freighter loaded with supplies is safely berthed to the International Space Station.

Archaeologist and historian specialising in the Beaker cultureHumphrey Case, who has died aged 91, was a prehistorian and archaeologist whose pursuit of the subject, in the field and at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford - where he was keeper of antiquities from 1973 to 1982 - set a pattern for a generation. An authority on the Beaker culture - the Neolithic people characterised by their bell-shaped ceramic vessels - he was insistent on the nature of archaeological evidence and often critical of the many who impose their sometimes perverse notions on it.Case was born in Frome, Somerset, and educated at Charterhouse and St John's College, Cambridge, where he read history. At the outbreak of the second world war, he was commissioned into the Somerset Light Infantry. Although reticent about his war experiences, he told me that he was stationed in Gibraltar, where he patrolled the frontier with Spain and tried to catch Italian mini-submarines creeping in to attack shipping.After demobilisat

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- A brand new Japanese space station cargo ship has arrived at its destination 225 miles above Earth....

STAR CITY, Russia (AP) -- The man who plans on being 'the first clown in space' said Thursday he's got some surprises planned for the crew of the international space station....

Jerry James Stone writes 'NASA and University of Utah chemists are developing advanced tech for testing the drinkability of water. The process just began a six month run aboard the International Space Station. Water will be sampled either from the Space Station's or Shuttle's galley using a syringe. It is then forced through a chemically-imbued membrane which changes color based on toxicity. The process itself will take about two-minutes. It checks drinking water for iodine and silver which are to used kill unwanted microbes.' of this story at Slashdot.