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Phoenix Lander Pictures Show Robotic Arm's Workspace After 90 Sols

Phoenix Lander Pictures Show Robotic Arm's Workspace After 90 Sols

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 28, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New pictures from NASA's Phoenix Lander show just what a busy summer the spacecraft on Mars – and its science team at The University of Arizona in Tucson – has been having.


Microsoft urges Web learning in case of swine flu

Technology / Software

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp. says it can help schools get through swine flu.


Phoenix Mars Lander Explores Site by Trenching

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 21, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander scientists and engineers are continuing to dig into the area around the lander with the spacecraft's robotic arm, looking for new materials to analyze and examining the soil and ice subsurface structure.


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Light Corp. Unveils Wireless Lighting Control System

Technology / Energy

created Nov 12, 2007 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Light Corp., a company from Grand Haven, Michigan, is launching a lighting control system that allows users to remotely control the lighting in industrial buildings. The system, called Intu, is inexpensive ...


A special kind of flight training

A special kind of flight training

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new generation of flight simulators will attempt to make air traffic safer.


'Exciting' project may not get to space

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 02, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

The upcoming launch of a laboratory to the International Space Station has been clouded by NASA's failure to deliver a device to study the universe's origins.


New NASA control room begins operations

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 12, 2006 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA scientists responsible for controlling operations aboard the International Space Station are now working in a new mission control room.


NASA Mars Lander Prepares to Move Arm

NASA Mars Lander Prepares to Move Arm

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 27, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

NASA's Phoenix Lander is ready to begin moving its robotic arm, first unlatching its wrist and then flexing its elbow. Mission scientists are eager to move Phoenix's robotic arm, for that arm will deliver ...


Study indicates how we maintain visual details in short-term memory

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Working memory (also known as short term memory) is our ability to keep a small amount of information active in our mind. This is useful for information we need to know on-the-fly, such as a phone number or the few items ...


Making the intelligent workspace a reality

Other Sciences /

created Apr 04, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

"Our plan is to have 'the' operating system for buildings." So says Richard Green, CEO of the newly-established Cambridge (UK) start-up Ubisense, about his company’s revolutionary new technology for locating staff within ...


Researchers find room design can enhance patient care

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The design of a consultation room can improve the quality of a visit to the physician's office. A collaborative research study developed by Nurture by Steelcase and Mayo Clinic, was conducted to understand the extent to which ...


Medical robotics expert explores the human-machine interface

Medical robotics expert explores the human-machine interface

Electronics / Robotics

created Jan 14, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Jacob Rosen, associate professor of computer engineering at the Jack Baskin School of Engineering, University of California, Santa Cruz, is developing a wearable robotic "exoskeleton" that ...


Analysis Begins on Deepest Soil Sample

Analysis Begins on Deepest Martian Soil Sample

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 02, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have begun to analyze a sample of soil delivered to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's wet chemistry experiment from the deepest trench dug so far in the Martian arctic plains. Phoenix ...


Where does consciousness come from?

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Mar 17, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 15

Consciousness arises as an emergent property of the human mind. Yet basic questions about the precise timing, location and dynamics of the neural event(s) allowing conscious access to information are not clearly and unequivocally ...


Phoenix Spacecraft Commanded to Unstow Arm

Phoenix Spacecraft Commanded to Unstow Arm

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 28, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Scientists leading NASA's Phoenix Mars mission from the University of Arizona in Tucson sent commands to unstow its robotic arm and take more images of its landing site early today.