|  Amazing Moon Rises Over City Hall in Sweden (Photo)  | A giant moon rises over a sleepy city in Sweden, marking the last moments of summer. Astrophotographer Göran Strand sent SPACE.com this magnificent photo of the moon over Östersund's city hall on Oct. 28.
| Read More » Scientists expect satellite crash next week BERLIN (AP) — The European Space Agency says its GOCE research satellite will crash to Earth on Sunday night or during the day on Monday, but debris is unlikely to cause any casualties. Read More » Doomed European Satellite May Fall to Earth Tonight, But Where?  | A European satellite at the end of its mission is expected to fall out of space tonight. According to European Space Agency predictions, the falling GOCE satellite could to Earth sometime Sunday night (Nov. 10) or early Monday. "The satellite is at an altitude of 147 km (91 miles), dropping at a rate of more than 1 km (0.6 miles) an hour," ESA's GOCE spacecraft operations manager Christoph Steiger wrote in a status update today, adding that the atmospheric drag on the satellite is too high to measure. ESA scientists expect 25 to 45 fragments of the satellite to survive the fiery re-entry through Earth's atmosphere.
| Read More » Space Station Crew and Olympic Torch Return to Earth Tonight: Watch Live  | A Russian Soyuz space capsule will bring the Olympic torch and three residents of the International Space Station back to Earth tonight (Nov. 10) and you can watch the landing live online. The Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft is due to land on the steppes of Kazakhstan in Central Asia at 9:49 p.m. EST (0249 Nov. 11 GMT) to return NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin home after a 5 1/2-month mission in orbit. The trio will also return the Olympic torch to Earth ahead of the 2014 Winter Olympics Games in Sochi, Russia. You can watch the Soyuz landing webcast live here, courtesy of NASA TV.
| Read More » 3 Tips for Getting into an Exercise Groove Many everyday activities, such as home repairs and gardening may be as good as exercise, according to an October British Journal of Sports Medicine study. These are small actions, but they may give you the momentum you need to keep going. Read More » New Laser Tech Could Detect and Destroy Brain Diseases  | A new technology that uses only light could one day detect and annihilate disease-causing proteins in the brain, researchers say. The method involves using lasers to distinguish between normal brain tissue and the abnormal tissue found in people with Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (the human form of mad cow disease). The laser technique — which has not yet been tested in animals — might one day be able to treat people with these diseases, researchers report. "Using just a source laser, we can distinguish between proteins in the amyloid structure and those functioning properly," said study researcher Piotr Hanczyc, a biophysicist at the Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden.
| Read More » The 7 Deadly Sins of Networking Whether it's online through social media sites or offline at industry events, there's a good chance that anyone you connect with can either help you directly or put you in touch with someone else who can. Mike Muhney, CEO of mobile relationship management purveyor vipOrbit, warned that while social media is incredibly powerful and useful in networking, it can also hurt your ability to create professional and personal connections if you don't utilize it well. Read More » Changing the Way You Think About Change  | Chris Majer — founder and CEO of The Human Potential Project, a Washington State-based management and leadership consulting firm — thinks of change as a never-ending cycle of learning. Armed with this definition, Majer has helped corporate clients (AT&T, Microsoft, Intel) and various military agencies (Army, Navy, Marines) break down the barriers that keep change at bay, so that these organizations can achieve greater success. In the second-edition release of his book, "The Power to Transform: Passion, Power and Purpose in Daily Life" (Rodale Books, September 2013), Majer shares the methods that he has developed over several decades for bringing about meaningful changes in his clients' personal and professional lives. Chris Majer: Transformation is simply a rapid amount of change in a short amount of time.
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