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SPACE 2008 Conference September 9-11 In San Diego
Reston VA (SPX) Jul 21, 2008The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) will hold the SPACE 2008 Conference and Exposition September 9-11 at the San Diego Convention Center, San Diego, Calif. The conference is co-chaired by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. Sponsors of the conference are: ATK; Northrop Grumman Corp.; Orbital Science Corp. ... more Phoenix Mars Lander Continues Tests With Rasp 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2008The team operating NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander plans to tell the lander to do a second, larger test of using a motorized rasp to produce and gather shavings of frozen ground. The planned test is a preparation for putting a similar sample into one of Phoenix's laboratory ovens in coming days. The instrument with the oven, the Thermal and Evolved- Gas Analyzer, called TEGA, will be used ... more NASA Names Strain New Goddard Space Flight Center Director 
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 21, 2008NASA Administrator Michael Griffin on Thursday announced that Rob Strain will be the next center director of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. Strain is currently the head of the Space Department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Md. He will assume his duties as center director on Aug. 4. Goddard Space Flight Center is located approximately ... more NASA Announces Competitive Grant Programs 
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 21, 2008NASA's Office of Education at headquarters in Washington has announced three new extramural funding opportunities that could result in the award of grants or cooperative agreements. One of the three funding opportunities is the K-12 Competitive Grants Opportunity, a competitive education grant program targeting secondary school level teaching and learning, with grants being awarded to U.S. ... more NASA Works To Improve Short-Term Weather Forecasts 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2008Sometimes seconds count. If a furious, tornado-spitting thunderstorm was bearing down on your home town, a few moments might make all the difference in the world. Will McCarty, a graduate student at the National Space Science and Technology Center, is working with data from NASA's Aqua satellite to improve short-term weather predictions--the kind that could help you dodge that thunderstorm ... more |
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Los Angeles (AFP) July 17, 2008Microsoft, the world's largest software maker, on Thursday reported a sharp rise in fourth-quarter and fiscal year profit but signaled a weak outlook ahead. Microsoft said net profit jumped 41 percent in its fiscal fourth quarter from a year ago to 4.29 billion dollars. Fourth-quarter earnings per share (EPS) were 46 cents, a penny shy of the 47 cents expected by Wall Street analysts. ... more Virtual World Is Sign Of Future For Scientists And Engineers 
West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jul 21, 2008Purdue University is operating a virtual environment that enables scientists and engineers to interpret raw data collected with powerful instruments called dynamic atomic force microscopes. The online tools, believed to be the first of their kind for the instruments, represent a research trend, with tools for other applications also being developed, said Arvind Raman, a Purdue professor of ... more Google profit up 35 percent at 1.25 billion dollars 
San Francisco (AFP) July 17, 2008Google's second-quarter profit rose 35 percent from a year ago to 1.25 billion dollars, led by strong growth outside the US market in online advertising operations, the Internet giant said Thursday. The results however were below most Wall Street forecasts with a profit excluding special items of 4.63 dollars per share, compared with a consensus expectation of 4.84 dollars. Google reports ... more China's Long March 2F Rocket Ready For Trip To Launch Center 
Beijing (XNA) Jul 21, 2008The Long March 2F rocket designed to carry China's third manned spacecraft into space will be sent to Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest Gansu province in a few days, officials with the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT) said here Saturday. The rocket was coated in red, a color to show that it was ready to fulfill its mission, said Jing Muchun, chief designer of the ... more Advertisers' dream as Japanese display identifies customers 
Tokyo (AFP) July 18, 2008A new high-tech Japanese electronic display can instantly identify people's sex or age range and target them with advertisements to suit them, maker NEC Corp. said Friday. The 50-inch (127-centimetre) plasma display will appear at an annual festival in Tokyo run by Fuji Television network. The event, which runs from Saturday until August 31, drew more than four million visitors last summer. ... more |
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Washington (UPI) Jul 17, 2008 Documents released Thursday show that undercover Maryland state police officers infiltrated three local peace and anti-death-penalty groups, attending organizing meetings and sending reports on their activities to U.S. intelligence and military agencies. The documents, obtained by the ACLU through a Maryland Public Information Act lawsuit, also show that the name of at least one local ... more Taiwan storm death toll rises to 18 
Taipei (AFP) July 19, 2008Thousands of workers continued search and rescue operations Saturday after Tropical Storm Kalmaegi wreaked havoc across Taiwan, leaving at least 18 people dead and seven missing, officials said. The casualties from floods and mudslides were reported in worst-hit central and southern Taiwan, where up to 1,000 millimetres (39 inches) of rain fell in less than two days, said the National Fire ... more Archaeologists Trace Early Irrigation Farming In Ancient Yemen 
Toronto, Canada (SPX) Jul 21, 2008In the remote desert highlands of southern Yemen, a team of archaeologists have discovered new evidence of ancient transitions from hunting and herding to irrigation agriculture 5,200 years ago. As part of a larger program of archaeological research, Michael Harrower from the University of Toronto and The Roots of Agriculture in Southern Arabia (RASA) team explored the Wadi Sana watershed ... more Study: Falling icebergs harming ecosystem 
Cambridge, England (UPI) Jul 18, 2008 Scientists in Britain have discovered a new global warming threat to marine life in Antarctica -- breakaway icebergs that destroy any life in their path. Shallow habitats of species such as giant sea spiders, Antarctic worms, sea urchins and corals face growing risk from icebergs as they tear up the sea floor, The Times of London reported Friday. The findings indicate climate ... more Single Boulder May Prove Connection Betweeen Antarctica And North America 
Washington DC (SPX) Jul 21, 2008The team's find, they argue, provides physical evidence that confirms the so-called southwestern United States and East Antarctica (SWEAT) hypothesis. "What this paper does is say that we have three main new lines of evidence that basically confirm the SWEAT idea," said John Goodge, an NSF-funded researcher with the Department of Geological Sciences at the University of Minnesota-Duluth. ... more
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