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Phoenix Mars Lander Working With Sticky Soil

Phoenix Mars Lander Working With Sticky Soil

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 29, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists and engineers on NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission spent the weekend examining how the icy soil on Mars interacts with the scoop on the lander's robotic arm, while trying different techniques ...


Phoenix Revises Method to Deliver Icy Sample

Phoenix Revises Method to Deliver Icy Sample

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 28, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's robotic arm will use a revised collection-and-delivery sequence overnight Sunday with the goal of depositing an icy soil sample in the lander's oven.


Phoenix Rasps Frozen Layer, Collects Sample

Phoenix Rasps Frozen Layer, Collects Sample

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 16, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (19) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- A powered rasp on the back of the robotic arm scoop of NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander successfully drilled into the frozen soil and loosened material that was collected in the lander's scoop.


Sample-Collection Tests by Phoenix Lander Continue

Sample-Collection Tests by Phoenix Lander Continue

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 09, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's science and engineering teams are testing methods to get an icy sample into the Robotic Arm scoop for delivery to the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer, or TEGA.





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Fears mount over giant carp reaching Great Lakes (AP)

Fears mount over giant carp reaching Great Lakes

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Fears that giant, voracious species of carp will get into the Great Lakes and wipe out other fish have led to rising demands that the government close the waterway connecting the lakes to the Mississippi ...


Scientists show how ubiquitin chains are added to cell-cycle proteins

Scientists show how ubiquitin chains are added to cell-cycle proteins

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have been able to view in detail, and for the first time, the previously mysterious process by which long chains of a protein called ubiquitin ...


Game Theory: Researchers examine what makes video games click with players -- or not

Game Theory: Researchers examine what makes video games click with players -- or not

Technology / Software

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Every Friday afternoon, the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab opens its doors to anyone who wishes to drop by and play. On one such recent day, Jason Begy, a graduate student in the Comparative Media Studies program ...


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Gadgets: Digital photo gift ideas

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Once again it's that shopping time of year and if digital photography is on your shopping list, here is a roundup of accessories to kick off the season.


Teams Win at NASA National Lunar Robotics Competition

Teams Win at NASA National Lunar Robotics Competition

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nineteen teams pushed their robot competitors to the limit, and three teams claimed a total of $750,000 in NASA prizes at this year's Regolith Excavation Challenge on Oct. 18. This is the ...


With stimulus aid, scientists hope to mimic nature's dynamos

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the cosmos, all celestial objects - planets, stars, galaxies and clusters of galaxies - have magnetic fields. On Earth, the magnetic field of our home planet is most easily observed in a compass where ...


Brookhaven Lab Patents New Method for Mercury Remediation

Brookhaven Lab Patents New Method for Mercury Remediation

Chemistry / Other

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have patented a new method to remove toxic mercury from soil, sediment, sludge and other industrial waste. As described in recently ...


Ice cream may target the brain before your hips, study suggests

Ice cream may target the brain before your hips, study suggests

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Blame your brain for sabotaging your efforts to get back on track after splurging on an extra scoop of ice cream or that second burger during Friday night's football game.


Trojan horse for ovarian cancer -- nanoparticles turn immune system soldiers against tumor cells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1

In a feat of trickery, Dartmouth Medical School immunologists have devised a Trojan horse to help overcome ovarian cancer, unleashing a surprise killer in the surroundings of a hard-to-treat tumor.


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Many characteristics of Mars, including ice, are similar to Earth

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Mars gets as far as 250 million miles away, but many parts of it closely resemble places on Earth, including its landscape, history of water, soil and even its weather, says a Texas A&M University researcher ...



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