01/07/2005

Planet With Largest Solid Core Ever Discovered

NASA researchers recently discovered the largest solid core ever found in an extrasolar planet, and their discovery confirms a planet formation theory. "For theorists, the discovery of a planet with such a large core is as ...

Engineers Deliver Robot to Neutralize Remote Explosives

Engineers from the Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate have rapidly prototyped, developed, and delivered low-cost expendable robots to disable and dispose of improvised explosive devices. ...

Sunshine Mapping From Space Means Brighter Solar Energy Future

How sunny is it outside right now – not just locally but all across Europe and Africa? Answering this question is at the heart of many weather-related business activities: solar power and the wider energy sector, architecture ...

Scientist: Rate of progress slowing

A U.S. scientist says that the rate of innovation peaked around the year 1900 and might actually grind to a halt comparable to the Dark Ages.

Russian Space Center To Complete Third Orbital Module

The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roskosmos) has allocated money to the Khrunichev Space Center to complete the construction of a multipurpose research module (MRM) for the International Space Station (ISS), the center's ...

Japanese Space Observatory To Carry NASA X-RAY Instrument

A pioneering X-ray detector developed at NASA'S Goddard Space Flight Center will launch on board the new Astro-E2 space observatory. Astro-E2's primary instrument is the high-resolution X-ray Spectrometer (XRS), developed ...

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