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The Sun's Magnetic Fountains
London, UK (SPX) Apr 02, 2008Astronomers have known for decades that the Sun has a very dynamic atmosphere. Huge fountains of hot gas erupt in the atmosphere, or corona, every few minutes, travelling at tens of thousands of km per hour and reaching great heights. Now a team of scientists have used the Hinode spacecraft to find the origin and driver of these fountains - immense magnetic structures that thread through the ... more Workers Ready Course For NASA's 15th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race 
Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 03, 2008Each year around this time, John Tripp walks across a lunar surface, pondering the challenges ahead for explorers brave enough to take on its cratered terrain. For now, his "moon" is a winding ribbon of cement footpaths looped around Huntsville's famed U.S. Space and Rocket Center, where Tripp is a construction foreman. By month's end, a half-mile of the paths will be transformed into a ha ... more NASA predicts thousands of job cuts 
Houston, April 2, 2008 U.S. space officials said between 5,800 and 7,300 workers will lose their jobs over the next three yeas as NASA's shuttle fleet is retired. In a report to Congress, NASA said the biggest cuts will occur at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Fla., where job losses could go as high as 6,800, the Houston Chronicle reported Wednesday. Up to 2,300 jobs, mostly contractor ... more NASA's Glast Satellite Gets Twin Solar Panels In Prep For Launch 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Apr 03, 2008Preparations for launching NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Telescope (GLAST) satellite are underway at NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. NASA KSC's "NASA Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report" on Thursday, March 20, noted that GLAST's twin solar panels have been attached. The panels will provide electrical power for GLAST after its launch into earth orbit. As part of the process for ... more Newly Discovered Galaxy Cluster In Early Stage Of Formation Is Farthest Ever Identified 
Irvine CA (SPX) Apr 03, 2008UC Irvine scientists have discovered a cluster of galaxies in a very early stage of formation that is 11.4 billion light years from Earth - the farthest of its kind ever to be detected. These galaxies are so distant that the universe was in its infancy when their light was emitted. The galaxy proto-cluster, named LBG-2377, is giving scientists an unprecedented look at galaxy formation and ... more |
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Hong Kong (SPX) Apr 03, 2008Sixty-one percent of mainland China and Taiwan portable GPS manufacturers expect to reduce export quotes in 2008 due to fierce price competition. Seventy-nine percent of these manufacturers expect to decrease their export quotes by up to 10 percent. This is according to Global Sources' China Sourcing Report: Portable GPS. Despite the price decrease, 77 percent of the surveyed manufacturers ... more Garmin Simplifies Searching, Sending And Navigating To Locations Through Google Maps 
Las Vegas NV (SPX) Apr 03, 2008Garmin International has announced that users can now send locations found on Google Maps, an innovative online mapping service, directly to their Garmin personal navigation device. "Given the amount of time we all spend at a computer or in our cars, teaming with Google Maps gives users the versatility of planning their travels at their keyboard in addition to their Garmin device," said Dan Bart ... more Proximex Ships Surveillint 3.0 
Las Vegas NV (SPX) Apr 03, 2008In conjunction with the ISC West 2008 conference, Proximex, a developer of award-winning solutions for the physical security information market (PSIM), has announced that it is now shipping Proximex Surveillint version 3.0. Proximex Surveillint is a premier physical security solution for policy-based incident discovery, connection and resolution and is receiving high accolades from customers and ... more PhantomAlert Alerts Drivers To Red-Light Cameras And Speed-Traps 
Harrisburg PA (SPX) Apr 02, 2008PhantomAlert has announced a limited, free distribution of a breakthrough GPS-based database that locates and warns drivers about stationary red-light and speed cameras as well as traditional speed trap locations. Designed to work with PhantomPlate's new PhantomAlert device, the proprietary database "...is the biggest breakthrough motorists have seen since radar detectors," said Joe Scott, Phantom ... more MapQuest And Garmin Announce Partnership For Delivery Of MapQuest Directions And Maps 
Las Vegas NV (SPX) Apr 03, 2008MapQuest and Garmin International have announced plans for the upcoming launch of a new feature that will allow consumers to send trip planning results from MapQuest.com, the Number 1 online mapping website, directly to their Garmin personal navigation device. Through the partnership, users can find a place, as well as plan and research routes, at MapQuest.com, then send the locations ... more |
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Manila (AFP) April 2, 2008Fifty rivers in the Philippines have been destroyed because people are using them to dump their rubbish, leaving some ecologically dead, an official said Wednesday. Of the country's 421 major rivers and 20 large river basins, 50 are "highly degraded because of man's abuse and neglect," Environment and Natural Resources Secretary Joselito Atienza said in a statement. "History tells us that ... more Seismologist's Project Uses Public's Laptops To Monitor And Predict Earthquakes 
Riverside CA (SPX) Apr 03, 2008A simple idea for monitoring earthquakes that Elizabeth Cochran, a seismologist at UC Riverside, came up with in 2006 is being realized today, and has the potential to save lives in case an earthquake strikes. The idea involves inviting the public to help monitor earthquakes by simply using their laptop computers at home. In doing so, the laptops join a network of computers designed to take a ... more Sudden Ecosystem Flips Imperil World's Poorest Regions 
Montreal, Canada (SPX) Apr 03, 2008Modern agriculture and land-use practices may lead to major disruptions of the world's water flows, with potentially sudden and dire consequences for regions least able to cope with them researchers at the Stockholm University-affiliated Stockholm Resilience Centre and McGill University have warned. In a paper published April 1 in the journal Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Dr. Line ... more Emission Reduction Assumptions For CO2 Overly Optimistic 
Washington DC (SPX) Apr 03, 2008Reducing global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) over the coming century will be more challenging than society has been led to believe, according to a research commentary appearing this week in the journal Nature. The authors, from the University of Colorado at Boulder, the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, and McGill University in Montreal, said the technological ... more Worldwide Water Shortage On Horizon 
Albuquerque NM (SPX) Apr 03, 2008A crisis is looming over water shortages worldwide. By 2025 more than half the nations in the world will face freshwater stress or shortages and by 2050 as much as 75 percent of the world's population could face freshwater scarcity. So say Mike Hightower and Suzanne Pierce, water experts at Sandia National Laboratories, in an article they wrote that appeared in a recent issue of Nature. ... more
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