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NASA’s Mars Rover Spirit Now a Stationary Research Platform
This view from the front hazard-avoidance camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the position of Spirit's front wheels following a backward drive during the 2,154th Martian day, or sol,...
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Marine Lab Hunts Subtle Clues to Environmental Threats to Blue Crabs
A male Atlantic blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, captured from Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay. Credit: Mary Hollinger, NOAA, 200 The Atlantic blue crab, Callinectes sapidus, long prized as a savory meal at...
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Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Motor Tested For The Final Time
image courtesy of NASA NASA’s Space Shuttle Program conducted the final test firing of a reusable solid rocket motor Feb. 25 in Promontory, Utah. The flight support motor, or FSM-17, burned for...
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NOAA Launches New Satellite – GOES P
A United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket lifts off with the NASA/NOAA GOES-P from Space Launch Complex-37 at 6:57 p.m. EST. High resolution (Credit: The Boeing Company) NOAA and NASA officials...
View ArticleAnniversary of Mount St. Helens Reawakening
A magnitude 4.2 earthquake 30 years ago Saturday marked the reawakening of Mount St. Helens after 123 years of inactivity and set the stage for the most destructive eruption in U.S. history. The...
View ArticleNOAA Announces First Tsunami Awareness Week, March 21-27
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Tsunami Hazard Mitigation Program have designated March 21-27 as Tsunami Awareness Week. This designation comes in the wake of last...
View ArticleMount St. Helens Reawakens: The Thirtieth Anniversary
Vancouver, Wash.—A magnitude 4.2 earthquake 30 years ago Saturday marked the reawakening of Mount St. Helens after 123 years of inactivity and set the stage for the most destructive eruption in U.S....
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Physics Begins at the Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider has launched a new era for particle physics. Today at 1:06 p.m. Central European Summer Time (CEST) at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, the first particles collided at the record...
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Exoplanet Researchers Find System That Spins Backwards
The discovery of nine new transiting exoplanets is announced today at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting. When these new results were combined with earlier observations of transiting exoplanets...
View ArticleNASA Managers ‘Go’ for Friday Launch
Wednesday is “L-2″ at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, meaning there are only two days remaining until the scheduled launch of space shuttle Atlantis on its STS-132 mission. Countdown clocks...
View ArticleUS-CERT Reports Malicious Email Campaign Circulating
US-CERT is aware of public reports of malware spreading via email. These reports indicate that the malicious email messages contain the subject line “Here you have” or “Just For You” and contain a link...
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NASA’s Global Hawk
Image Credit: NASA/Tony Landis The Global Hawk is a robotic plane that can fly autonomously to altitudes above 60,000 feet — twice as high as a commercial airliner — and as far as 11,000 nautical miles...
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Facebook Crashes Taking Like Buttons Across the Internet With It
For the second time in two days Facebook bit the big one and disappeared from the face of the planet. The rub today, however is the now ubiquitous like buttons are disappearing on websites everywhere...
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Raytheon Unveils “Real Ironman Suit” Exoskeleton Robotic Suit
Raytheon Company unveiled its second generation Exoskeleton (XOS 2) at its research facility in Salt Lake City, Utah, during a demonstration with Paramount Home Entertainment. The new robotic suit is...
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Monarch Butterflies Found to Use Medicinal Plants to Treat Offspring
Monarch butterflies appear to use medicinal plants to treat their offspring for disease, research by biologists at Emory University shows. Their findings were published online Oct. 6 in the journal...
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FCC Frees Up White Space Spectrum for WiFi Technologies
The Federal Communications Commission has taken steps to free up vacant airwaves between TV channels, called “white spaces,” to unleash a host of new technologies, such as “super Wi-Fi,” and myriad...
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Taste Receptors in the Lungs Could Help People with Asthma
Taste receptors in the lungs? Researchers at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore have discovered that bitter taste receptors are not just located in the mouth but also in human...
View ArticleMexican Cavefish Develop Resistance to Toxin Introduced in Indian Religious...
A centuries-old religious ceremony of an indigenous people in southern Mexico has led to small evolutionary changes in a local species of fish, according to researchers from Texas A&M University....
View ArticleZombie Apocalypse May Begin with Fungus
New research has revealed how infection by a parasitic fungus dramatically changes the behavior of tropical of carpenter ants species Camponotus leonardi, causing them to become zombie-like and to die...
View ArticleStudy Shows Structured Homeschooling Provide Kids an Academic Edge
“There’s no place like home,” an iconic line uttered by Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, might apply to learning the ABC’s, math and other core subjects. A new study from Concordia University and Mount...
View ArticleUSDA Scientists use Commercial Enzyme to Improve Ethanol Production
A commercial enzyme could reduce overall costs linked with producing ethanol from grain, and also reduce associated emissions of greenhouse gases, according to a study by U.S. Department of Agriculture...
View ArticleScientists in Front Royal Determine Family Tree for Most-endangered Bird Family
Using one of the largest DNA data sets for a group of birds and employing next-generation sequencing methods, Smithsonian scientists and collaborators have determined the evolutionary family tree for...
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