Archive: 07/21/2005
NASA honors former astronaut John Young
Space pioneer John Young has been named a NASA Ambassador of Exploration. The award, along with a commemorative moon rock, were presented Wednesday during a ceremony at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
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Innovative measurement technology: our planet is 'attractive' enough
The Earth's magnetic field is strong enough for some kinds of analyses – this opens up new opportunities for carrying out examinations under difficult conditions.
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Jul 21, 2005 |
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Size matters: preventing large mammal extinction
Saving large mammals such as elephants and rhino from extinction could be made more effective by focusing efforts on individual species as well as their habitats. Scientists at the Zoological Society of London’s Institute of ...
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Christians may have copied Jewish rites
Scientists say radiocarbon dating of organic material from the catacombs of ancient Rome indicates Christians might have copied Jewish burial customs.
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Study: Meteoroid erased small Eros craters
Astronomers say they have determined a single gigantic meteoroid erased most small craters from 40 percent of the surface of asteroid Eros.
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Sharp to Introduce High-Throughput Combination Memory for Third-Generation Mobile Phones
Sharp Corporation has developed a high-speed combination flash/SCRAM memory device featuring a throughput of 320 MBps (bytes/second), more than three times the transfer rate of its predecessor model. The LRS1887 ...
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Is ours the only universe?
Is ours the only universe? Astronomers Chris Palma and Jane Charlton answer: Palma: There's a distinction that needs to be made here. When we loosely throw around the term "universe," usually what we mean ...
Jul 21, 2005 |
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Pittsburgh Center Unveils a Bigger, Faster Supercomputer Called 'Big Ben'
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) now has it own "Big Ben" -- only this technological bellwether rings out in teraflops. PSC acquired Big Ben, the first XT3 system to be shipped from Cray, Inc., with a ...
Jul 21, 2005 |
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NASA Moving Toward Tuesday Launch Attempt For Shuttle Discovery
With some work still to go, NASA is moving toward a new launch attempt for the Space Shuttle Discovery Tuesday, July 26, at 10:39 a.m. EDT. Engineers are wrapping up a troubleshooting plan to address a fuel se ...
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Chandra Finds Long-Sought Link to Origin of Millisecond Pulsars
The peculiar cosmic object known as 47 Tuc W (denoted by arrow in the X-ray image) is a double star system consisting of a normal star and a neutron star that makes a complete rotation every 2.35 milliseconds. ...
Jul 21, 2005 |
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IBM Storage Services Maintains Worldwide Lead in Market Share
IBM today announced that it continues to lead in the 2004 storage services marketplace based on revenue throughout Americas, EMEA and Asia Pacific and Japan, according to a recent Gartner annual report on the worldwide storage ...
Jul 21, 2005 |
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Revelations about the center of the Earth
Recently, seismologists have observed that the speed and direction of seismic waves in Earth’s lower mantle, between 400 and 1,800 miles below the surface, vary tremendously. "I think we may have discovered ...
Jul 21, 2005 |
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'Satellites and the city'
Just how does society's desire to live in densely populated areas have the potential to change our Earth's climate? According to a new paper, satellites can help us answer that question.
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Virtual trip to the heart of 400 million years old microfossils
Researchers from the Université de Montpellier II (France), the Institute of Geology of China, and the ESRF have been able to identify enigmatic fossils from Devonian (about 400 million years) as fructification ...
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R&D 100 award for inexpensive gamma ray detector device
Douglas S. McGregor and Walter McNeil have a philosophy: use clever methods to keep things simple. "You can always add more circuitry to make things complex, but that is just more to break down," McGregor said. "If we kee ...
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