News tagged with balloon
A bubbling ball of gas (w/ Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 11, 2009 |
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The Sun is a bubbling mass. Packages of gas rise and sink, lending the sun its grainy surface structure, its granulation. Dark spots appear and disappear, clouds of matter dart up - and behind the whole thing ...
Robot Armada Might Scale New Worlds
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An armada of robots may one day fly above the mountain tops of Saturn's moon Titan, cross its vast dunes and sail in its liquid lakes.
Swiss team unveil pioneering solar plane
Jun 26, 2009 |
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Round-the-world balloooning pioneer Bertrand Piccard unveiled his solar-powered aircraft in Switzerland on Friday, ready for another trend-setting circumnavigation of the globe powered solely by the sun.
MIT wins Pentagon prize in social networking contest
Dec 07, 2009 |
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A team from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has won a 40,000-dollar prize for using social networking tools to identify the locations of 10 large weather balloons in a contest sponsored by ...
MIT Student Takes Pictures from Space on Less Than $150 (w/ Video)
Oct 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When we think of taking pictures of the earth from space, we assume that a great deal of money has to be spent on high-tech equipment and complex vehicles to get the camera up there. But, ...
Giant balloon flying high over Atlantic to catch cosmic rays
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Delaware researchers in Sweden have launched a giant balloon taller than a football field that is now flying at the edge of space to collect data on cosmic rays -- the most super-charged ...
New Balloon Successfully Flight-Tested Over Antarctica
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jan 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and the National Science Foundation have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super pressure balloon prototype that may enable a new era of high-altitude scientific ...
Helium Balloon in Paris Displays Air Pollution Levels
Jul 09, 2008 |
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People in Paris won't have to look far to see the city's air pollution levels. A giant tethered helium balloon will display real-time reports of atmospheric pollution using an innovative lighting system, which ...
Tropical zone expanding due to climate change: study
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 06, 2009 |
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Climate change is rapidly expanding the size of the world's tropical zone, threatening to bring disease and drought to heavily populated areas, an Australian study has found.
Mount Sinai first in nation to ablate atrial fibrillation using new visually-guided balloon catheter
Sep 18, 2009 |
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Physicians at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York became the first in the U.S. to ablate atrial fibrillation using a visually-guided laser balloon catheter. The procedure was performed September 15 by Vivek Y. Reddy, ...
Immediate intervention for patients with ACS not always more beneficial
Sep 01, 2009 |
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For some patients with acute coronary syndromes, the strategy of immediate intervention at a medical center does not appear to result in differences in outcomes in comparison with an intervention performed the next working ...
Genetic variation associated with poorer response, cardiovascular outcomes with use of clopidogrel
Aug 25, 2009 |
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Patients with a certain genetic variation who received the antiplatelet drug clopidogrel had a decreased platelet response to treatment and among those who had percutaneous coronary intervention (procedures such as balloon ...
Students Launch Cockroaches and Cameras Into Space
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of cockroaches recently took a ride on a high-altitude balloon launched into space by freshmen aerospace engineering students from the University of California, San Diego. The cockroaches ...
