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NASA needs new technology breakthroughs to revitalize its mission to explore the universe, President Barack Obama said Wednesday as the shuttle Atlantis was preparing for its final mission. http://phys.org/news229190843.html Space & Earth Wed, 06 Jul 2011 17:07:40 EST news229190843 The Flight Artists team from Wageningen University, the Netherlands, has been the first to make high-speed camera footage of parasitic wasps of about 1 mm wingspan. http://phys.org/news225541280.html Biology Wed, 25 May 2011 11:21:40 EST news225541280 Pioneering Swiss solar-powered aircraft Solar Impulse landed in Brussels on Friday after completing its first international flight, 13 hours after it took off from Switzerland. http://phys.org/news224522303.html Technology Fri, 13 May 2011 16:18:45 EST news224522303 Tourists will be able to journey to outer space via Abu Dhabi as part of a deal by a local investment group to take a stake in the world's first commercial space travel operator, the two companies said on Tuesday. http://phys.org/news167998332.html Space & Earth Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:30:01 EST news167998332 When the Apollo 11 crew got back from the moon, 40 years ago this week, they showed no ill effects from seven days spent in weightlessness. But as American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts began conducting longer-duration space flights, scientists noticed a disturbing trend: the longer humans stay in zero gravity, the more muscle they lose. Space travelers exposed to weightlessness for a year or more — such as those on a mission to Mars, for example — could wind up crippled on their return to Earth, unable to walk or even sit up. http://phys.org/news167498723.html Medicine & Health Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:27:02 EST news167498723 Airports have grappled with the issue of sharing the sky with members of the avian family for decades. Most recently, US Airways Flight 1549 was forced to make a water landing in the Hudson River off of New York City in January after coming into contact with a flock of geese shortly after takeoff. Recently, Logan International Airport in Boston has been testing a new radar system designed to prevent such collisions. http://phys.org/news166773266.html Technology Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:55:38 EST news166773266 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. http://phys.org/news165236897.html Technology Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:09:00 EST news165236897 An emergency rule intended to reduce the number of deaths and injuries associated with Hawaiian air tours was followed by a 47 percent reduction in sightseeing crashes, according to a new study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's Center for Injury Research and Policy. http://phys.org/news165214191.html Medicine & Health Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:10:01 EST news165214191 (PhysOrg.com) -- International Space Station Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Mike Barratt completed a spacewalk at 8:46 a.m. EDT Friday to prepare the Zvezda service module for the arrival of a new Russian module. The spacewalk was the seventh for Padalka and the first for Barratt. http://phys.org/news163420786.html Space & Earth Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:40:09 EST news163420786 (PhysOrg.com) -- Beginning today, ESA's Planck satellite will carry out a critical mid-course manoeuvre that will place the satellite on its final trajectory for arrival at L2, the second Lagrange point of the Sun-Earth system, early in July. http://phys.org/news163417527.html Space & Earth Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:45:58 EST news163417527 (AP) -- Get lost in the woods and a cell phone in your pocket can help camping buddies find you. Drive into a ditch and GPS in your car lets emergency crews pinpoint the crash site. But when a transcontinental flight is above the middle of the ocean, no one on the ground can see exactly where it is - in the air, or worse, in the water. http://phys.org/news163313926.html Technology Thu, 04 Jun 2009 06:14:38 EST news163313926 New research shows some bees brace themselves against wind and turbulence by extending their sturdy hind legs while flying. But this approach comes at a steep cost, increasing aerodynamic drag and the power required for flight by roughly 30 percent, and cutting into the bees' flight performance. http://phys.org/news163161417.html Biology Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:37:43 EST news163161417 (PhysOrg.com) -- From Leonardo da Vinci to the Greek tragedy of Icarus, birds have emboldened scientific minds to master flight. Now, Stanford researchers can be added to the list of ornithologically inspired innovators. http://phys.org/news163092004.html Technology Mon, 01 Jun 2009 16:20:46 EST news163092004 (PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have developed a small robotic drone capable of helping save lives in emergency situations or preventing terrorist attacks in urban areas. http://phys.org/news162819811.html Technology Fri, 29 May 2009 12:44:04 EST news162819811 (AP) -- Venezuela's health ministry is reporting the country's first swine flu case: a 22-year-old man who arrived on a flight from Panama earlier this week. http://phys.org/news162794923.html Medicine & Health Fri, 29 May 2009 05:49:11 EST news162794923 Australian and US scientists have successfully tested hypersonic aircraft technology which could revolutionise international flight, officials said. http://phys.org/news162184185.html Technology Fri, 22 May 2009 04:10:19 EST news162184185 (AP) -- Atlantis' astronauts checked their ship's flight systems and packed up Thursday in hopes of an on-time end to their triumphant Hubble Space Telescope repair mission, although the weather prospects were dismal. http://phys.org/news162129133.html Space & Earth Thu, 21 May 2009 12:52:39 EST news162129133 (AP) -- Atlantis' astronauts grabbed the Hubble Space Telescope on Wednesday, then quickly set their sights on the difficult, dangerous and unprecedented spacewalking repairs they will attempt over the next five days. http://phys.org/news161441807.html Space & Earth Wed, 13 May 2009 13:57:14 EST news161441807 (AP) -- The Atlantis astronauts uncovered a 21-inch stretch of nicks on their space shuttle Tuesday, but NASA said the damage did not appear to be serious. http://phys.org/news161364106.html Space & Earth Tue, 12 May 2009 16:22:42 EST news161364106 (AP) -- In what's expected to be the last time ever, both of NASA's shuttle launch pads are occupied. Atlantis is on one, primed for a flight this coming week to the Hubble Space Telescope. Endeavour sits on the other a mile away for a mission no one wants. http://phys.org/news161142179.html Space & Earth Sun, 10 May 2009 02:43:31 EST news161142179 Astronauts set to blast off for the International Space Station said Thursday that constructing a new dinner table would be a top priority as its permanent crew expands to six. http://phys.org/news160924419.html Space & Earth Thu, 07 May 2009 14:14:26 EST news160924419 (PhysOrg.com) -- NASA managers completed a review Thursday of space shuttle Atlantis' readiness for flight and selected an official launch date for the STS-125 mission to upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. Commander Scott Altman and his six crewmates are scheduled to lift off at 2:01 p.m. EDT, May 11, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. http://phys.org/news160327349.html Space & Earth Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:23:16 EST news160327349 (PhysOrg.com) -- When a jet is flying faster than the speed of sound, one small mistake can tear it apart. And when the jet is so experimental that it must fly unmanned, only a computer control system can pilot it. http://phys.org/news160234081.html Technology Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:28:56 EST news160234081 In London, motorists pay a fee to drive into certain parts of the city during peak traffic hours, and the idea has been considered for implementation in New York as well. Now Dr. Itai Ater, an economist from Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Management, is suggesting that introducing "congestion pricing" at airports could save travellers time and airlines money. http://phys.org/news159630364.html Other Sciences Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:46:32 EST news159630364 The Navy's newest flight deck cleaning technology cuts grime with the power of a Zamboni and the environmental safety of clean running water. http://phys.org/news159630256.html Technology Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:45:05 EST news159630256 (AP) -- Wanted: Computer hackers. Federal authorities aren't looking to prosecute them, but to pay them to secure the nation's networks. http://phys.org/news159342320.html Technology Sun, 19 Apr 2009 06:46:07 EST news159342320 A Russian and US space crew denied on Friday that new rules forbid them from sharing toilets and food in orbit, hailing their work as the "best partnership" in human history. http://phys.org/news158586817.html Space & Earth Fri, 10 Apr 2009 12:54:06 EST news158586817 (PhysOrg.com) -- A Manchester scientist has put forward a controversial new way of tackling a typically Darwinian chicken and egg question - the evolution of flapping flight in birds. http://phys.org/news158255381.html Biology Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:50:14 EST news158255381 The hatch slammed shut Tuesday behind six volunteers from Europe and Russia who will spend three months isolated in a capsule in Moscow to simulate conditions for a manned mission to Mars. http://phys.org/news157702743.html Space & Earth Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:19:49 EST news157702743 Commander Gennady Padalka and Flight Engineer Michael Barratt of the 19th International Space Station crew docked their Soyuz TMA-14 to the International Space Station at 9:05 a.m. EDT Saturday. http://phys.org/news157640632.html Space & Earth Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:04:35 EST news157640632