Science and Technology

Jun 30, 2009

Cassini imaging scientists used views like this one to help them identify the source locations for individual jets spurting ice particles, water vapor and trace organic compounds from the surface of Saturns moon Enceladus. photo courtesy: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute PASADENA,…

Jun 30, 2009

By Marcia Wood In a wood near you, powerful microbes quicken the decay of fallen tree branches. These adroit decomposers perform that essential role by producing specialized enzymes. In the United States and abroad, biofuels researchers prize these enzymes because…

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…