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Science and Technology
Jun 2, 2009
The U.S. Gulf of Mexico contains very thick and concentrated gas-hydrate-bearing reservoir rocks which have the potential to produce gas using current technology. Recent drilling by a government and industry consortium confirm that the Gulf of Mexico is the first…
May 26, 2009
EDWARDS, Calif. -- Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew landed at 8:39 a.m. PDT Sunday, May 24 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., completing the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Atlantis astronauts conducted five successful spacewalks during…
May 19, 2009
Work could help heal sports injuries, arthritis CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--MIT engineers and colleagues have built a new tissue scaffold that can stimulate bone and cartilage growth when transplanted into the knees and other joints. The scaffold could offer a potential new…
May 19, 2009
By Jo Gellerman, Arizona Health Sciences Center A three-member surgeon team successfully completed the first intestine transplant in the state of Arizona. Photo courtesy of the Arizona Health Sciences Center The patient who received the first intestine transplant using a…
May 10, 2009
MIT and Cambridge University scientists developed this tissue scaffold that could help repair knees and other joints. The top section, indicated by the green arrow, stimulates bone growth, while the lower half, marked by the orange arrow, stimulates cartilage growth.…
May 5, 2009
Left: Angelos Vourlidas, SECCHI Project Scientist, talks about coronal mass ejections- explosions of the suns atmosphere that propagate in space in the form of a cloud, and how the STEREO satellites are helping scientists reconstruct a three-dimensional view of their…
May 5, 2009
PASADENA, Calif. -- NASAs Kepler mission has taken its first images of the star-rich sky where it will soon begin hunting for planets like Earth. The new first light images show the missions target patch of sky, a vast starry…
May 5, 2009
Measuring Snowfall with Solar Panels. Using the device pictured right, government scientists are measuring snowfall in remote areas with a bucket, a small windmill, and the sun -- all the while saving money, energy, and ultimately helping to save lives.…
Apr 14, 2009
University of Arizona Scientist Thomas Swetnam testifed before the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources in 2007. He told the House subcommittee that more place-based scientists are needed in the nations public lands to work with agency…
Mar 31, 2009
Volunteers across the nation are being recruited to get outdoors and help track the effects of climate on seasonal changes in plant and animal behavior. The USA-National Phenology Network (USA-NPN), a consortium of government, academic and citizen-scientists, is launching a…
Mar 3, 2009
Ares I-X Forward Skirt Extension Separation Test - A full-scale separation test of the forward skirt extension for the Ares I-X flight test at its facility in Promontory, Utah on January 29, 2009. (Image credit: NASA/ATK) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. --…
Mar 3, 2009
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--Lip reading is a critical means of communication for many deaf people, but it has a drawback: Certain consonants (for example, p and b) can be nearly impossible to distinguish by sight alone. Tactile devices, which translate sound waves…