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Funding Woes Halt Plans To Search Out Potential "Killer" Asteroids
Ames CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2007A giant rock, perhaps half a mile in diameter, may be hurtling towards us this very minute through the emptiness of space. If it strikes the Earth, or blows up in the atmosphere, the explosion would be equivalent to that of 100 million tons of TNT, twice as powerful as the largest nuclear bomb ever detonated. If it struck the United States, it could wipe out a small state. But chances are, we will never see it coming. X PRIZE Foundation Raises $2.7 Million At Gala Hosted At Google 
Los Angeles (SPX) Mar 09, 2007The X PRIZE Foundation raised more than $2.5 million at the "Radical Benefit for Humanity" on Saturday evening. Hosted by Larry Page at Google's headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., luminaries from around the world attended including: Lawrence Bender, producer of "An Inconvenient Truth"; Tipper Gore; Sergey Brin, Google co-founder; Sir Richard Branson; Dr. Stuart Blusson, sponsor of the Archon X PRIZE for Genomics; Erik Lindbergh, grandson of Charles Lindbergh. Publish, Perish Attitudes Make Profs Balk At Online Publication 
Little Rock AR (SPX) Mar 09, 2007Scientists and researchers appreciate the speed by which online journals can distribute new findings to their colleagues and the academic world, but they fear non-traditional publication can affect their chances of promotion and tenure, according to new study released today by professors at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and the University of Munich. |
NASA Budget Tucked Away For Now But Hard Decisions Only Deferred
Sacramento CA (SPX) Mar 09, 2007The new Democratic Congress has now officially passed its "Continuing Resolution" funding NASA for Fiscal Year 2007 at the same level as the agency's FY 2006 funding, in response to the previous GOP Congress' total, failure to pass a final budget for NASA (or for most of the rest of the American government) before closing down. Solar Power At Play 
Belfast, Ireland (SPX) Mar 09, 2007For the very first time, astronomers have witnessed the speeding up of an asteroid's rotation, and have shown that it is due to a theoretical effect predicted but never seen before. The international team of scientists used an armada of telescopes to discover that the asteroid's rotation period currently decreases by 1 millisecond every year, as a consequence of the heating of the asteroid's surface by the Sun. Gamma-Ray Burst Challenges Theory 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 09, 2007In a series of landmark observations gathered over a period of four months, NASA's Swift satellite has challenged some of astronomers' fundamental ideas about gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), which are among the most extreme events in our universe. GRBs are the explosive deaths of very massive stars, some of which eject jets that can release in a matter of seconds the same amount of energy that the sun will radiate over its 10-billion-year lifetime. |
SPACEHAB Subsidiary Awarded $3 Million Contract
Houston TX (SPX) Mar 09, 2007SPACEHAB has announced that its Astrotech Space Operations subsidiary has been awarded a one-year contract extension for payload processing services by United Launch Alliance (ULA). The contract is valued at $3.3 million for support of Atlas missions during the one-year period. Individual Differences In A Clock Gene Predict Decline Of Performance During Sleep Deprivation 
Guildford UK (SPX) Mar 09, 2007People are known to differ markedly in their response to sleep deprivation, but the biological underpinnings of these differences have remained difficult to identify. Researchers have now found that a genetic difference in a so-called clock gene, PERIOD3, makes some people particularly sensitive to the effects of sleep deprivation. Novel Salamander Robot Crawls Its Way Up The Evolutionary Ladder 
Lausanne, France (SPX) Mar 09, 2007A group of European researchers has developed a spinal cord model of the salamander and implemented it in a novel amphibious salamander-like robot. The robot changes its speed and gait in response to simple electrical signals, suggesting that the distributed neural system in the spinal cord holds the key to vertebrates' complex locomotor capabilities. |
Austin Physicists Slow And Control Supersonic Helium Beam
Austin TX (SPX) Mar 09, 2007The speed of a beam of helium atoms can be controlled and slowed using an "atomic paddle" much as a tennis player uses a racquet to control tennis balls, physicists at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered. The slow helium beam technique-a breakthrough in the field of atom optics-could someday be used to better probe microscopic surfaces or create advanced navigation systems. Prototype Space Probe Prepares To Explore Earth Deepest Sinkhole 
Austin TX (SPX) Mar 09, 2007Scientists return this week to the world's deepest known sinkhole, Cenote Zacaton in Mexico, to resume tests of a NASA-funded robot called DEPTHX, designed to survey and explore for life in one of Earth's most extreme regions and potentially in outer space. If all goes well with this second round of testing and exploration, the team will return in May for a full-scale exploration of the Zacaton system. Ariane 5 Mission Is A "Go" 
Kourou, French Guiana (SPX) Mar 09, 2007The green light has been given for this Saturday's Ariane 5 launch with a dual-satellite payload, while a second heavy-lift Ariane 5 is taking shape for Arianespace's subsequent mission with another pair of satellite passengers. |
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