Space pioneer John Young has been named a NASA Ambassador of Exploration. The award, along with a commemorative moon rock, were presented Wednesday during a ceremony at the Houston Museum of Natural Science.
Jul 21, 2005
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The Earth's magnetic field is strong enough for some kinds of analyses – this opens up new opportunities for carrying out examinations under difficult conditions.
Jul 21, 2005
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Saving large mammals such as elephants and rhino from extinction could be made more effective by focusing efforts on individual species as well as their habitats. Scientists at the Zoological Society of London’s Institute ...
Jul 21, 2005
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Scientists say radiocarbon dating of organic material from the catacombs of ancient Rome indicates Christians might have copied Jewish burial customs.
Jul 21, 2005
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Astronomers say they have determined a single gigantic meteoroid erased most small craters from 40 percent of the surface of asteroid Eros.
Jul 21, 2005
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Sharp Corporation has developed a high-speed combination flash/SCRAM memory device featuring a throughput of 320 MBps (bytes/second), more than three times the transfer rate of its predecessor model. The LRS1887 High-Speed ...
Jul 21, 2005
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Is ours the only universe? Astronomers Chris Palma and Jane Charlton answer: Palma: There's a distinction that needs to be made here. When we loosely throw around the term "universe," usually what we mean is the observable ...
Jul 21, 2005
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Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) now has it own "Big Ben" -- only this technological bellwether rings out in teraflops. PSC acquired Big Ben, the first XT3 system to be shipped from Cray, Inc., with a $9.7 million grant ...
Jul 21, 2005
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With some work still to go, NASA is moving toward a new launch attempt for the Space Shuttle Discovery Tuesday, July 26, at 10:39 a.m. EDT. Engineers are wrapping up a troubleshooting plan to address a fuel sensor system ...
Jul 21, 2005
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The peculiar cosmic object known as 47 Tuc W (denoted by arrow in the X-ray image) is a double star system consisting of a normal star and a neutron star that makes a complete rotation every 2.35 milliseconds. Blink your ...
Jul 21, 2005
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