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National Consortium Picks Aviation Technology Test Date
Danville VA (SPX) Aug 03, 2004A public-private partnership working to improve aviation and make air travel accessible to more people has chosen next June for a demonstration of NASA's improved Small Aircraft Transportation System. Moon Written In Stone 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 02, 2004Scientists have pinpointed the source of a meteorite from the moon for the first time. Their unique meteorite records four separate lunar impacts. NASA Exercises $3.6 Billion Option On Space Flight Operations Contract 
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 03, 2004NASA has exercised a $3.6 billion option to extend for two years the Space Flight Operations Contract, with United Space Alliance through Sept 2006. |
Virtual Mars
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2004NASA scientists have modified a scientific Web site so the general public can inspect big regions and smaller details of Mars' surface, a planet whose alien terrain is about the same area as Earth's continents. Opportunity Sees Double 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 03, 2004Opportunity marked its 180th sol on Mars without pausing to celebrate. Originally slated for missions of 90 sols each, both Spirit and Opportunity have passed the double-mission milestone and are continuing their phenomenal journeys of discovery. Saturnian Shadow Looms Across Rings 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2004Two weeks after orbit insertion, Cassini glanced back at Saturn, taking in the entire planet and its expansive rings. Currently it is summer in Saturn's southern hemisphere. |
Francis Crick Remembered
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 02, 2004The British molecular biologist Francis Harry Crick died on Wednesday at the age of 88. Crick changed our understanding of life when, in 1953, he and James Watson announced that DNA came packaged in an elegant double helix structure. Crick reportedly claimed they had found 'the secret of life.' Ancient Life Form May Help Create Newest Technologies 
Portland OR (SPX) Aug 03, 2004Diatoms, a single-celled marine life form that has been around at least 100 million years, are being harnessed by researchers at Oregon State University in aid of nano materials. Researchers Overcome Barrier To Shrinking Wireless Devices 
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Jul 22, 2004James Bond-style technologies such as cell phones the size of earpieces and invisible sensors sprinkled about to detect toxins are closer to reality. |
Scientists Able To Harness Plankton Power
Newport OR (SPX) Aug 03, 2004During the past two years, scientists have successfully tapped the chemical reactions from decomposing organic matter on the ocean floor to create fuel cells that can provide low levels of electrical power for many months. Asymmetric Feature Shows Puzzling Face For Superconductivity 
Champaign IL (SPX) Aug 03, 2004The weird behavior of electrons tunneling across an atomically flat interface within a cuprate superconductor has defied explanation by theories of high-temperature superconductivity. Matter-Antimatter: New, Striking Difference Discovered 
Rome, Italy (SPX) Aug 03, 2004If we can look at stars, planets and all living beings in the Universe, as well as ourselves, it's because, as theoretical physicists suggest, after the primordial cosmic explosion, the "Big Bang", matter has prevailed over antimatter originating Universe as we know it. |
Quake Global Delivers New Satellite Communicators
San Diego CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2004Quake Global is announcing the delivery of its new Q1200-SG satellite communicators to Caterpillar. These satellite communicators are one component of a technology attachment used on multiple Cat construction and mining machines, which provide essential machine data. World Smallest A-GPS System-In-Package Packs A Sting 
San Jose CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2004Global Locate has introduced Stingray, a single package A-GPS system-in-package that incorporates Global Locate's IndoorGPS baseband and RF technology in the smallest form factor available to date. |
Retreating Glaciers Spur Alaskan Earthquakes
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 03, 2004In a new study, NASA and United States Geological Survey (USGS) scientists found that retreating glaciers in southern Alaska may be opening the way for future earthquakes. Study Disputes Trees Can Migrate Quickly In Response To Climate Change 
Portland OR (SPX) Aug 02, 2004In a study with implications for how North American trees might respond to a changing climate, molecular information collected by Duke University researchers refutes a widely accepted theory that many of the continent's tree species migrated rapidly from the deep South as glaciers retreated at the end of the last Ice Age. |
Picking Hubble's Course
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2004NASA has selected nine studies to investigate new ideas for future mission concepts within its Astronomical Search for Origins Program. Scientists' Showdown With Soil Moisture At The O.K. Corral 
Tombstone AZ (SPX) Aug 02, 2004Tombstone, Ariz., is a dusty place known for Wyatt Earp's famous 1881 "Shootout at the O.K. Corral." This year, from August 2 to 27, it will be known as the place where scientists from NASA, USDA and NOAA gather and study soil moisture to improve weather forecasts and the ability to interpret satellite data. Forest Fire Sensor Inspired By Nature 
Bonn Germany (SPX) Jul 29, 2004They are what fire fighters have long been calling for: low-cost and highly sensitive infrared sensors that automatically monitor large forest areas and trigger an early warning in the event of fire. Zoologist at the University of Bonn have taken an important step towards this goal. The Doodle Gig 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 30, 2004Is the nascent field of astrobiology getting new inspiration from the mainstream? Evidence put forth this summer might suggest the question is answerable anecdotally. Moving Water Molecules By Light 
Tempe AZ (SPX) Jul 30, 2004A team of researchers at Arizona State University has demonstrated the ability to move water molecules by light - a phenomenon they believe could have widespread use in analytical chemistry and possibly pharmaceutical research. Anti-HIV Protein Evolved Millions Of Years Before The Emergence Of AIDS 
Seattle WA (SPX) Jul 30, 2004A protein that the body uses to attack the AIDS virus is actually a stealthy defense mechanism that evolved 32 million years before the emergence of HIV, according to new findings from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. Research Traces Origins, Uplift Of California's Highest Mountains 
Boulder CO (SPX) Jul 30, 2004A new study of California's southern Sierra Nevada range by a University of Colorado at Boulder research team has located a massive body of rock that sank into Earth's mantle some 3.5 million years ago, allowing the mountains to pop up. |
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