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Rat pack: Scientists warming up to African rodent (AP)

Rat pack: Scientists warming up to African rodent

Biology / Plants & Animals

created 15 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(AP) -- Naked mole rats don't get cancer. They shrug off brushes with acid and age so well, some are older than the college-aged researchers handling them.


Gullies and Flow Features on Crater Wall

Gullies and Flow Features on Crater Wall

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a sample of the variety and complexity of processes that may occur ...


No Wheel Stall in Diagnostic Drive

Spirit Mars Rover: No Wheel Stall in Diagnostic Drive

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- On Sol 2095 (Tuesday, Nov. 24), Spirit performed a set of diagnostic actions related to a stall of the right-rear wheel on the previous drive, three days earlier.


Mars Reconnaissance Orbite

Mars Reconnaissance Orbite Team Plans Uplink of Protective Files

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The team operating NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter plans to uplink protective files to the spacecraft next week as one step toward resuming the orbiter's research and relay activities.


LSU gets to the bottom of things -- in Antarctica

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Antarctica has long held secrets of the earth's history locked in its icy depths, and until recently, there has been very little information on the environments that have been sealed beneath miles of ice for millions of years. ...


New computer-developed map shows more extensive valley network on Mars

New computer-developed map shows more extensive valley network on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research adds to the growing body of evidence suggesting the Red Planet once had an ocean.


Second Planned Extrication Drive is Straight Ahead Again

Second Planned Extrication Drive is Straight Ahead Again

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Because the first extrication drive for Spirit, on Sol 2088 (Nov. 17), stopped as soon as it began due to an exceeded tilt limit, the plan for an extrication drive on Sol 2090 (Nov. 19) wil ...


NASA and Microsoft Allow Earthlings to Become Martians

NASA and Microsoft Allow Earthlings to Become Martians

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash., have collaborated to create a Web site where Internet users can have fun while advancing their knowledge of Mars.


Dawn Enters Asteroid Belt -- For Good

Dawn Enters Asteroid Belt -- For Good

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft re-entered our solar system's asteroid belt today, Nov. 13, and this time it will stay there.


Taking a Bite of Antarctic Ice

Taking a Bite of Antarctic Ice

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Scientists with NASA’s IceBite project are heading this week for University Valley, a hanging valley perched more than 1600 feet (more than 1 mile) above sea level in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys. Their ...


Aircraft that can see for themselves

Aircraft that can see for themselves (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 14, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Australian researchers have made two important advances in the development of unmanned aircraft capable of seeing for themselves as they fly fast and low over dangerous terrain.


Distal Rampart of Crater in Chryse Planitia

Distal Rampart of Crater in Chryse Planitia

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Impact craters on Mars are kind of neat. Many of them look very different than impact craters seen on Earth's moon or Mercury. Fresh lunar and Mercurian craters have ejecta blankets that look ...


Discoveries in the Deep

Discoveries in the Deep

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists from NASA and the Canadian Space Agency have been using Pavilion Lake as a testing ground for the future human exploration of other worlds.


Research gives new insights into 4 billion year-old meteorites

Research gives new insights into 4 billion year-old meteorites

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have gained new insight into the makeup of ancient meteorites called Carbonaceous Chondrites, in research published in the October edition of the journal Earth Science and Planetary Le ...


NASA to Begin Attempts to Free Sand-Trapped Mars Rover

NASA to Begin Attempts to Free Sand-Trapped Mars Rover

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA will begin transmitting commands to its Mars exploration rover Spirit on Monday as part of an escape plan to free the venerable robot from its Martian sand trap.