NASA’s Physical Science Research Program will fund eight proposals to help investigate how complex fluids and macromolecules behave in microgravity. The investigations will be conducted aboard the International Space Station. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Phys.org
By ScottCWaring
NASA scientists have established a new way to use satellites to measure what’s occurring inside plants at a cellular level. …read more
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A new photo by NASA’s sharp-eyed Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the agency’s Curiosity rover wrapping up work near its landing site before beginning the long trek to the huge and mysterious Mount Sharp, its ultimate science destination. …read more
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The fourth tropical depression of the Atlantic Ocean hurricane season was born west of the Cape Verde Islands in the Eastern Atlantic Ocean on July 24. NOAA’s GOES-13 satellite provides continuous views of the Atlantic Ocean basin and captured an image of the newborn storm. …read more
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With the Hubble Space Telescope’s successor on schedule to reach outer space in 2018, taking Hubble’s place as NASA’s premier eye in the sky, it seems appropriate to look back on what may become Hubble’s most enduring legacy: its stunning images. …read more
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Area families came to NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., on July 14 to launch model rockets and at a 150-foot-wide ‘moon.’ The contest marked the 44th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch. …read more
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It’s not often that some event comes along to really show humanity its true place in the universe, but two NASA spacecraft have just managed the feat. The photos of Earth from Saturn and Mercury give us perspective on humanity’s role. …read more
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The US space agency said Tuesday it is launching a second investigation into a leaking helmet that forced an abrupt halt to an Italian astronaut’s spacewalk last week. …read more
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Serena Aunon, the second Hispanic woman to become a NASA astronaut, spoke to about 100 Latino high school students Friday to try to spark their interest in science and technology.
“I think the biggest thing to start with is exposure,” she said. “Sometimes you just have to plant that seed. You just need to plant one idea.”
Aunon’s audience was made up of high school juniors and seniors from throughout the state attending the four-day Hispanic College Institute at Virginia State University in Chesterfield County.
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Two NASA spacecraft, flying millions of miles away from home, have sent back portraits of Earth. …read more
Color and black-and-white images of Earth taken by two NASA interplanetary spacecraft on July 19 show our planet and its moon as bright beacons from millions of miles away in space. …read more
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By Matt Cantor
Stunning new pictures taken from near Saturn and Mercury make our planet look pretty insignificant. We’re just a tiny dot next to the Saturn in an image taken by the NASA spacecraft Cassini, Space.com reports. That makes it a little tough to see that some 20,000 humans were… …read more
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(AP)—NASA is rushing to get spacesuit repair tools on a launch to the International Space Station this weekend. …read more
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Boeing threw open the hatch to its new commercial spacecraft, the CST-100, offering a first look inside its capsule to fly NASA astronauts to the International Space Station. See inside Boeinig’s first full-scale CST-100 model. …read more
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Toyota is going to be back in the spotlight, as the first of its unintended acceleration lawsuits is headed for trial. This case covers a Los Angeles sushi shop owner, Noriko Uno. According to the what the family told The Detroit News, Uno only put about 10,000 miles on her 2006 Toyota Camry in four years. Uno was apparently afraid of high speeds, avoiding the freeway and taking a route home along LA’s surface streets to avoid them.
On August 28, 2009, Uno’s Camry suddenly accelerated to 100 miles per hour, eventually striking a telephone poll and a tree and killing her. The family contends that Uno attempted to step on the brakes and pull the emergency brake, neither of which brought her speed under control, while Toyota maintains that improperly installed floormats and driver error have been behind the majority of the 80 cases expected to be heard in court.
In Uno’s case, The Detroit News is expecting the trial to focus on the lack of an override if the gas and brake pedals were pressed at the same time. Brake overrides were installed on Toyota’s European fleet. The Uno family attorney will need to prove to the jury that it wasn’t driver error that killed Noriko Uno.
Uno’s case will be a bellwether case, which other state courts will use to predict potential outcomes for similar lawsuits. Toyota is also combating suits in federal court as well, although in most cases both sides have chosen to settle. The federal suit argues that the Camry and other models had defective electronic throttle control systems, despite denials from Toyota and investigations from National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and NASA coming up empty.
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The CIA along with NASA and NOAA is reportedly funding a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) project whose goal is to study several geoengineering options aimed at reversing global warming. Dana Liebelson and Chris Mooney have written an article which has been printed in both Slate and MotherJones claiming that William Kearney, a spokesman for NAS told them that the CIA is the “US intelligence community” member identified on the NAS web site describing the project. …read more
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These UFO have been recorded by SOHO for years, but more and more people are finding out about it today, which will one day force NASA to come up with a truth or lie as a response. Now please understand this is not a small thing but these objects are near the size of our Earth. Look closely and you will see these objects are not on fire, not leaving a tail like a comet and not as hot as the sun. Instead these objects look calm, cold and unscathed by the heat. That…should not be possible. SCW
Datamation: On July 19th, 2010, the CTO of NASA joined with Rackspace to announce a new effort, known as OpenStack.
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Linux Today
