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NASA Launches Airborne Expedition To Planet EarthEdwards - Mar 05, 2004 
An international team of scientists from NASA and other research institutions embarked on a three-week expedition of discovery that will take them from the lush, dense rain forests of Central America to frozen Antarctica. |
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Saharan Groundwater At Least A Million Years Old
Illinois - Mar 04, 2004New technique dates Saharan groundwater as million years old The Mediterranean Sea was a desert, millions of years ago. In contrast, the Sahara Desert was once a lush, green landscape dotted with lakes and ponds. Warming Oceans Could Mean More Rainy Days in Paradise 
Pasadena - Mar 04, 2004Don't look for more sunny days while vacationing in paradise! A recent study of tropical oceans that used satellites including NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission, found that rain in the tropics will become more frequent as ocean temperatures rise. Should Publicly Funded Research Be Free And Available To The Public? 
Stanford - Mar 04, 2004Last October, a small, San Francisco-based organization known as the Public Library of Science (PloS) shook up the scientific publishing world when it launched a free, online journal called PloS Biology. |
Fuel Cells Could Oust Batteries In Next Phase Of Micro Wars
London - Mar 04, 2004Cellphone giant Nokia said last week that battery technology is not keeping pace with advanced phone functions - but a trick that boosts the power of miniature hydrogen fuel cells by up to 50 per cent could help keep energy-hungry gadgets working reports New Scientist. Power Station Operators Could Trade Carbon Outputs With Farmers 
College Station - Mar 04, 2004Two research economists say electrical power plants and other manufacturing agencies could someday seek the aid of farmers, offering contracts to help industrial firms reduce carbon emissions. For farmers, such agreements could create an additional source of income and make carbon a traded commodity. Hydrogen Initiative Report 
Washington - Mar 04, 2004The American Physical Society's Panel on Public Affairs (POPA) today released a report that analyzes the Hydrogen Initiative. President Bush proposed the initiative in his 2003 State of the Union Address. |
Climate Change Could Release Old Carbon Locked In Arctic Soils
Washington - Mar 04, 2004The Arctic Ocean receives about ten percent of Earth's river water and with it some 25 teragrams [28 million tons] per year of dissolved organic carbon that had been held in far northern bogs and other soils. DoD Buys net.com's SHOUTIP Secure Voice Over IP For Satellite Medium 
Fremont - Mar 04, 2004net.com announced today that the United States Department of Defense has selected net.com's SHOUTIP secure voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) solution to provide secure and un-secure voice calls between coalition sites as part of the Kuwait-Iraq Command, Control, Communications and Computers Commercialization (KICC) program. |
ILS, Alcatel Sign Contract to Launch WORLDSAT 3 Satellite
Mclean - Mar 04, 2004International Launch Services (ILS) will provide a Russian Proton rocket to launch the WORLDSAT 3 communications satellite, under a contract with Alcatel Space of Paris announced today. The launch is targeted for late 2005 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA Fills Key Space Flight Positions 
Houston - Mar 04, 2004Two veteran astronauts have been named to key space flight posts at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston. Robert Cabana (Colonel, USMC, Ret.), who has flown on four Space Shuttle flights, has been named JSC Deputy Director. |
Information Paradox Solved? If So, Black Holes Are "Fuzzballs"
Columbus - Mar 04, 2004Stephen Hawking and Kip Thorne may owe John Preskill a set of encyclopedias. In 1997, the three cosmologists made a famous bet as to whether information that enters a black hole ceases to exist -- that is, whether the interior of a black hole is changed by the particles that enter it. Particle Physicists Look to the Future 
London - Mar 04, 2004The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council has this week approved a 21 million programme of Accelerator Research and Development for future facilities in particle physics, including a Linear Collider and a possible Neutrino Factory. New Nanotube-Laced Gel, Create New Means Of Aligning Nanotubes 
Philadelphia - Mar 04, 2004Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have devised a new method for aligning isolated single wall carbon nanotubes and, in the process, have created a new kind of material with liquid crystal-like properties, which they call nematic nanotube gels. |
Army Orders 11 New Shadow Tactical UAVs From United Industrial
Hunt Valley - Mar 04, 2004United Industrial Corporation said Monday that its AAI Corporation defense subsidiary has received two related orders from the U.S. Army for a total of 11 additional RQ-7A Shadow Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle systems. Total value of the two orders is $97 million. ATK Awarded $21 Million Contract for Production of the AN/AAR-47 Missile Warning System 
Minneapolis - Mar 04, 2004Alliant Techsystems (ATK) has received a $21 million production contract from the Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Md., for additional AN/AAR-47 Missile Warning Systems and sensor upgrade kits. Aerojet/Roxel Team Achieves Key Milestone On Rocket Motor For Joint Common Missile 
Sacramento - Mar 04, 2004Aerojet announced Monday a successful rocket motor demonstration in support of the Lockheed Martin bid for the U.S. Army and Navy's Joint Common Missile program. |
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