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NASA to test faulty shuttle gauges next week
Washington (AFP) Dec 12, 2007NASA will test next week the faulty fuel tank sensors that grounded the Atlantis' mission to the International Space Station until January, space shuttle program manager Wayne Hale said. The results of the tests to be conducted December 18 will help decide the launch date for Atlantis, he told reporters via teleconference Tuesday. The Atlantis and its crew of seven, including a German an ... more China's space ambitions key to nation's strength: Hu 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 12, 2007China's space exploration should be used to help build the nation's social, economic and technological strength, President Hu Jintao said Wednesday, while stressing the endeavour will be peaceful. In a speech marking the success of China's first lunar probe, Hu called on the nation to support its fledgling space programme as a platform to advance competitiveness, build up human resources and ... more India To Launch GSAT-4 For Better Connectivity In Remote Areas 
Bangalore, India (PTI) Dec 13, 2007India would launch a satellite in June next year to provide computer connectivity in remote villages, a Space Department official has said. "We are going to launch GSAT-4 which will have digital connectivity on board. It's meant for data transfers from computers at remote villages", Chairman of Indian Space Research Organisation, G Madhavan Nair, told an international conference on e-science and ... more Mars Orbiter Examines Lace And Lizard Skin Terrain 
San Francisco CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2007Scrutiny by NASA's newest Mars orbiter is helping scientists learn the stories of some of the weirdest landscapes on Mars, as well as more familiar-looking parts of the Red Planet. One type of landscape near Mars' south pole is called "cryptic terrain" because it once defied explanation, but new observations bolster and refine recent interpretations of how springtime outbursts of carbon-di ... more Brain Stem Cells Sensitive To Space Radiation 
Gainesville FL (SPX) Dec 13, 2007Measures to protect astronauts from health risks caused by space radiation will be important during extended missions to the moon or Mars, say researchers in a paper currently online in Experimental Neurology. Using a mouse model designed to reveal even slight changes in brain cell populations, scientists found radiation appeared to target a type of stem cell in an area of the brain believed to ... more |
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Tempe AZ (SPX) Dec 13, 2007Quick: What's the order of the planets in the solar system? Need a little help? Maybe the following mnemonic rings a bell: "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Up Nine Pizzas." It's useful for remembering the order of the planets today, but it wouldn't have been as useful in the past, and not just because the International Astronomical Union demoted Pluto to "dwarf planet" last year. The r ... more Saturn Rings May Be Old Timers 
San Francisco CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2007New observations by NASA's Cassini spacecraft indicate the rings of Saturn, once thought to have formed during the age of the dinosaurs, instead may have been created roughly 4.5 billion years ago, when the solar system was still under construction. Larry Esposito, principal investigator for Cassini's Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph at the University of Colorado, Boulder, said data from N ... more US 'deeply regrets' Russia's 'wrong' decision on CFE 
Washington (AFP) Dec 12, 2007The United States said Wednesday it "deeply regrets" that Russia has suspended a key Soviet-era arms pact and urges Moscow to reverse course. The United States "deeply regrets the Russian Federation's decision to 'suspend' implementation of its obligations under the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE)," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said. "Russia's conventiona ... more Spanish Government Signed Acquisition Contract For Spike-ER Missiles 
Madrid, Spain (SPX) Dec 13, 2007The Spanish Government has released the following announcement: "Cabinet Meeting summary of the Spanish Government of the 30/11/2007 AGREEMENT that authorize the signature of the acquisition contract for the Spike-ER Air-Land missiles systems for the Tiger helicopter by a global amount of 44.027.963 Euro, to distribute among the exercises 2007-2012." The GD Santa Barbara and Rafael deal is ... more Deep-Ocean Drilling Researchers Target Earthquake And Tsunami Zone 
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 13, 2007Researchers fresh from an eight-week scientific drilling expedition off the Pacific coast of Japan reported their discovery of strong variation in the tectonic stresses in a region notorious for generating devastating earthquakes and tsunamis, the Nankai Trough. The scientists conducted their expedition aboard the new scientific drilling vessel Chikyu, drilling deep into the zone responsib ... more |
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San Francisco CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2007New findings from NASA's CloudSat and other spacecraft in NASA's "A-Train" constellation of five Earth observing satellites offer important insights into this year's record reduction of Arctic sea ice, global rainfall patterns and the effects of pollution on clouds. The investigations are giving scientists a greater understanding of factors influencing Earth's present climate and an important fo ... more Walking Tall To Protect The Species 
Sao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Dec 13, 2007The transition from apes to humans may have been partially triggered by the need to stand on two legs, in order to safely carry heavier babies. This theory of species evolution presented by Lia Amaral from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil has just been published online in Springer's journal, Naturwissenschaften. For safety, all nonhuman primates carry their young clinging to their fur ... more Wind Turbines Produce Green Energy - And Airflow Mysteries 
Baltimore MD (SPX) Dec 13, 2007Using smoke, laser light, model airplane propellers and a campus wind tunnel, a team led by Johns Hopkins University researchers is trying to solve the airflow mysteries that surround wind turbines, an increasingly popular source of "green" energy. The National Science Foundation recently awarded the team a three-year, $321,000 grant to support the project. The rise in oil prices and a gro ... more Truck-Safe Bamboo Bridge Opens In China 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Dec 13, 2007In China bamboo is used for furniture, artwork, building scaffolding, panels for concrete casting and now, truck bridges. Yan Xiao, a professor at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering is the designer of a new span in the village of Leiyang, Hunan Province, which formally opens for traffic December 12. Made from pre-fabricated structural elements, the bridge w ... more New Paper Reveals Nanoscale Details Of Photolithography Process 
Washington DC (SPX) Dec 13, 2007Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have made the first direct measurements of the infinitesimal expansion and collapse of thin polymer films used in the manufacture of advanced semiconductor devices. It's a matter of only a couple of nanometers, but it can be enough to affect the performance of next-generation chip manufacturing. The NIST measurements, ... more |
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