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Star System Just Right For Building An Earth
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2007An Earth-like planet is likely forming 424 light-years away in a star system called HD 113766, say astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Scientists have discovered a huge belt of warm dust - enough to build a Mars-size planet or larger - swirling around a distant star that is just slightly more massive than our sun. The dust belt, which they suspect is clumping together into planets, ... more Astronauts To Ride Rails In Emergency 
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Oct 05, 2007As NASA revamps Launch Complex 39B to host the new Orion spacecraft and Ares I rocket of the Constellation Program, engineers are preparing to install a new kind of departure system to evacuate astronauts. The agency calls it the Orion Emergency Egress System, but it is fundamentally a group of multi-passenger cars on a set of rails reminiscent of a roller coaster. Its purpose is to move astrona ... more Questioning Habitable Planets 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2007In May 2007, Victoria Meadows, Principal Investigator for the Virtual Planetary Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology's Spitzer Science Center, presented a lecture at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. In the final part of this six-part edited series, she answers audience questions about habitable worlds. Q: Wouldn't a magnetic field be necessary for a habitable planet? ... more Goddard Lunar Science On A Roll 
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 05, 2007Pack your bags because Goddard's "suitcase science" is taking off. Coming on the heels of two Lunar Sortie Science Opportunities (LSSO) awards for Goddard are two more, this time in the field of astrophysics. As before, the awards are funded by NASA Headquarters for studies that could result in simple, automated "suitcase science" instrument packages deployed on the lunar surface by astronauts. ... more International Space University To Establish Scholarship Commemorating Space Industry's Golden Jubilee 
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2007On October 4, the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik 1, the International Space University (ISU) will be conducting a 10-day auction on eBay of unusual and interesting Space-related and Sputnik/Apollo era items. Turn your office or home into a museum, dine with an astronaut, party with a movie director, attend a rocket launch, own priceless books and memorabilia, send a payload to orbit, ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) Oct 05, 2007Fifty years ago today, on the night of 4 October, the first 'beep-beep' from Sputnik fell from the heavens and marked the beginning of a new era for the human race. Satellites and space probes have dramatically changed our way of living, they have turned the world into a global village where an unprecedented wealth of information is at hand anywhere, anytime. The world has shrunk, and our percep ... more NKorean disarmament prospects dim despite landmark deal 
Beijing (AFP) Oct 4, 2007While the United States has hailed the latest deal to end North Korea's nuclear weapons programmes as a big step forward, analysts warned Thursday that total disarmament remained a very dim prospect. Doubts remain over whether the secretive regime in Pyongyang is genuinely prepared to give up its atomic ambitions, or whether it is cunningly stringing the world along in return for energy aid ... more Warning issued as Typhoon Krosa heads towards Taiwan 
Taipei (AFP) Oct 4, 2007Weathermen in Taiwan on Thursday urged ships and residents to take precautions against Typhoon Krosa which is gaining momentum and heading towards the island. "Typhoon Krosa is gaining strength and expanding its radius while approaching Taiwan," the official Central Weather Bureau said in its first warning of the typhoon at 5:30 pm (0930 GMT.) It called on ships sailing off Taiwan to hei ... more Indonesian villagers brace for potential volcanic eruption 
Jakarta (AFP) Oct 4, 2007Indonesian residents living near a rumbling volcano in East Java have begun evacuation drills, officials said Thursday as they warned activity was increasing at the site. Volcanologists lifted an alert for Mount Kelut to the third of a four-level warning system last Sunday. Hiking the warning to the four level means scientists fear an eruption is imminent. "The volcano could erupt at any ... more Geologists Recover Rocks Yielding Unprecedented Insights Into San Andreas Fault 
Stanford CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2007For the first time, geologists have extracted intact rock samples from 2 miles beneath the surface of the San Andreas Fault, the infamous rupture that runs 800 miles along the length of California. Never before have scientists had available for study rock samples from deep inside one of the actively moving tectonic plate-bounding faults responsible for the world's most damaging earthquakes. Now, ... more |
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LaJolla CA (SPX) Oct 05, 2007Electrical cables, garden hoses and strands of holiday lights seem to get themselves hopelessly tangled with no help at all. Now research initiated by an undergraduate student at the University of California, San Diego has resulted in the first model of how knots form. The study, published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, investigated the likelihood of kn ... more How Emotionally Charged Events Leave Their Mark On Memory 
Cold Spring Harbor NY (SPX) Oct 05, 2007Researchers have uncovered new evidence in mice that may explain how emotionally charged situations can leave such a powerful mark on our memories. Surges of the stress hormone norepinephrine (also known as noradrenaline) that often accompany strong emotions spark a series of molecular events that ultimately strengthen the connections between neurons, the team reports in the October 5, 2007, iss ... more Typhoon Lekima pounds Vietnam, 3 dead 
Ky Hai Commune, Vietnam (AFP) Oct 4, 2007Typhoon Lekima smashed into central Vietnam overnight, flooding thousands of homes, disrupting air travel and leaving at least three people dead and 58 injured, officials said Thursday. Packing maximum sustained winds of 117 kilometres (72 miles) an hour, the typhoon made landfall in provinces where tens of thousands of people had been evacuated in advance. Two people drowned and a 13-ye ... more Scientists create transparent, thin plastic strong like steel 
Chicago (AFP) Oct 4, 2007Scientists have developed a transparent new plastic as strong as steel and as thin as a sheet of paper, according to a study published Thursday in Science magazine. Made out of clay and a non-toxic glue similar to that used in school classrooms, the composite plastic is biodegradable and requires very little energy to produce, lead researcher Nicholas Kotov said. "It's as green as you ca ... more Hall's Warehouse And DT Solar To Build The Largest US Corporate Solar Energy Installation 
New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Oct 05, 2007DT Solar and Hall's Warehouse Corporation have announced an agreement to build a 2 MW solar electric power system to supply electricity to their facility in South Plainfield, New Jersey. When completed, this project will be the largest rooftop solar electric system serving a private company in the United States. The solar power system will be located in South Plainfield, NJ, on one of Hall ... more
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