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Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer Coming Together

(PhysOrg.com) -- The science instrument for NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer has been shipped to Boulder, Colo., for a planned launch in November.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0




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Undiagnosed trimethylaminuria may explain many cases of personal malodor

Scientists from the Monell Center report that approximately one third of patients with unexplained body malodor production test positive for the metabolic disorder trimethylaminuria (TMAU). A definitive diagnosis offers relief ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA satellite observes unusually hot July in the Great Plains

Much of the United States sweated through an unusually humid heat wave during July, a month that brought record-breaking temperatures to many areas across the Great Plains. As temperatures soared, NASA satellites ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Learning the lessons of Fukushima

Among the lessons to be learned from the accident at Japan’s Fukushima Daichii nuclear powerplant, according to a new report from MIT, are that emergency generators should be better protected from flooding ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 21

A night with the stars…in a conference room

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ancient astronomers looked up at the dark skies in wonder, as the stars marched by overhead like precision dancers. In the early 17th century, Galileo Galilei brought the world one step closer ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

More than mere pond scum

(PhysOrg.com) -- Algae could soon become a valuable biofuel resource, according to research at the University of Arizona.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 25, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

NASA's NEOWISE completes scan for asteroids and comets

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's NEOWISE mission has completed its survey of small bodies, asteroids and comets, in our solar system. The mission's discoveries of previously unknown objects include 20 comets, more ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Study gathers comprehensive wind info to improve renewable energy

Meteorological equipment typically used to monitor storms could help power grid operators know when to expect winds that will send turbine blades spinning, as well as help them avoid the sudden stress that ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 20, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

For some, laparoscopic technique not always better

(PhysOrg.com) -- If skin is the body’s fortress against germ invaders, shouldn’t minimally invasive surgeries – operations guided by camera probes, conducted entirely within the abdomen – ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 07, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

WISE captures key image of comet mission's destination

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, caught a glimpse of the comet that the agency's EPOXI mission will visit in November. The WISE observation will help the EPOXI team put together a large-scale ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 06, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Missing piece inspires new look at Mars puzzle

(PhysOrg.com) -- Experiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA's Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks ...

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created Sep 03, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 4 | with audio podcast


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