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NASA's arsenic-eating life form gets a second lookWashington (AFP) Dec 15, 2010 Soon after NASA-funded researchers announced this month they had found a new life form that thrives on arsenic, critics took to the blogosphere with skeptical views and downright insults. "I don't know whether the authors are just bad scientists or whether they're unscrupulously pushing NASA's 'There's life in outer space!' agenda," wrote Canadian microbiologist Rosie Redfield in a blog that ignited the web furor. The criticism spread with lightning speed, sparking a wide debate over what exactl ... read more |
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  Unstable Antarctica: What's Driving Ice Loss Scientists have previously shown that West Antarctica is losing ice, but how that ice is lost remained unclear. Now, using data from Earth observing satellites and airborne science missions, scienti ... more | .. |
  Russian Rocket With Three Crew Blasts Off Into Space A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a crew of three to the International Space Station blasted off Wednesday from Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz TMA-20 rocket, with a ... more | .. |
  Cyclone Lasting More Than Five Years Is Detected On Saturn Researchers from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) have been monitoring a cyclone on Saturn for more than five years. This makes it the longest-lasting cyclone detected to date on any o ... more | .. |
  Air Force Flight Control Improvements Flying insects' altitude control mechanisms are the focus of research being conducted in a Caltech laboratory under an Air Force Office of Scientific Research grant that may lead to technology that ... more |
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  ESA And Canada Renew Partnership In Space Science And Technology Today, Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General of ESA, and Steve MacLean, President of the Canadian Space Agency, signed a new Cooperation Agreement between ESA and Canada that will extend their part ... more | .. |
  Israel general drops missile defense bombshell Maj. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, commander of Israel's northern front, has dropped a bombshell by disclosing that the anti-missile systems the defense industry has developed are intended to protect the country's military installations, not its cities and civilian population. ... more | .. |
  Western Military District Gets First Iskander Tactical Missile System The first Iskander tactical surface-to-surface ballistic missile system has entered service with the Russian Army's Western Military District, regional commander Arkady Bakhin said on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
  United Vision Logistics Selects New Technologies United Vision Logistics is pleased to announce its selection of McLeod Software for its enterprise transportation management solution and Qualcomm Transportation Services to provide its mobile commu ... more |
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 Antenova Launches M10372 GPS RADIONOVA with CSR's SiRFstarIV Architecture Antenova has announced M10372 GPS RADIONOVA - a planar mount GPS Radio Antenna Module incorporating CSR's market leading SiRFstarIV GPS chipset with Antenova's high performing patented antenna techn ... more | .. |
 Clarion Voice-Activated Navigation System The Clarion-supplied, factory-installed Voice-Activated Navigation System, available in the Ford Fusion, ranks "Highest Satisfaction," according to J.D. Power and Associates 2010 Navigation Usage an ... more | .. |
 NAVTEQ Expands Global R And D Capabilities NAVTEQ has announced the company's expansion of designated R and D Global Development Centers (GDC) to include operations in Mumbai, India. The center will employ 150 R and D team members and ... more | .. |
 Universal Address And GPS Enhanced Google Maps For iPhones NAC Geographic Products Inc. announced the release of NACMaps for iPhones - a suite of three tools: NAC Locator, NAC Searcher and NAC Router. NACMaps is a feature enriched Universal Addresses and GP ... more |
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 New GeoGroups App Reinvents Geo-Social Experience GeoGroups has launched its geo-social mobile app that helps families, friends, like-minded individuals and professionals interact via separate public or private groups on a single personalized map. ... more | .. |
 Officials Complete GPS Software Upgrade Ahead Of Schedule Officials with the 2nd Space Operations Squadron at Schriever AFB, Colo., have completed their sustainment software release for the GPS operational control segment ground system ahead of schedule. ... more | .. |
 Trimble Introduces SiteFID Gas Monitoring Solution Trimble has introduced the SiteFID Gas Monitoring solution for the environmental services market. The solution, specifically designed for environmental consultants and landfill operations mana ... more | .. |
  Solar Scientists Discover Physical Mechanism Behind Sympathetic Flares A serendipitous alignment of high-powered spaceborne solar instruments has finally provided the data allowing scientists to uncover the physical mechanism behind so-called "sympathetic flares" on th ... more |
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 How Hard Are We Pushing The Land We may be becoming an ever more technologically advanced society, but we remain as dependent as ever - if not more and more so - on the natural world that surrounds us. That is one takeaway fr ... more | .. |
 Satellites Pinpoint Drivers Of Urban Heat Islands In The Northeast Cities such as New York, Philadelphia, and Boston are prominent centers of political power. Less known: Their size, background ecology, and development patterns also combine to make them unusually w ... more | .. |
  Qatar-Led International Team Finds Its First Alien World In an exciting example of international collaboration, a Qatar astronomer teamed with scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and other institutions to discover a new ali ... more | .. |
  Clouds Likely Created Positive Climate Feedback In Past Decade A Texas A and M scientist's study of 10 years of NASA and other data found that clouds likely responded to carbon dioxide-induced global warming by amplifying that warming. This amplified resp ... more |
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  LockMart Successfully Tests First GMLRS+ Rocket Lockheed Martin has successfully launched a Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System Plus (GMLRS+) rocket recently in a test at White Sands Missile Range, NM. The GMLRS+ rocket, which is equipped ... more | .. |
 Satellite Data Provide A New Way To Monitor Groundwater In Agricultural Regions When you dive into that salad full of lettuce grown in the American West, there's a good chance you are enjoying the product of irrigation from an underground water source. These hidden groundwater ... more | .. |
 IBEX Makes First-Ever Images Of Magnetotail Structures Invisible to the naked eye, yet massive in structure around the Earth is the magnetosphere, the region of space around the planet that ebbs and flows in response to the million-mile-per-hour flow of ... more | .. |
  Voyager spacecraft nears exit of solar system The US space agency's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached the outer edge of the solar system where wind from the Sun is no longer blowing outward, but sideways, NASA said. ... more |
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