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Magma ocean found on Jupiter's moon Io
07:55 14.05.2011 |
Science
NASA's Galileo spacecraft had an incredibly productive lifetime, capped by a tour of the planet Jupiter and its moons from 1995 to 2003. The spacecraft may have died in the Jovian atmosphere but the data it sent back is still being examined and new findings are being uncovered.
Earliest material of solar system yielded from 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite
06:44 10.05.2011 |
Science
A 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite from northwest Africa has yielded one of the earliest minerals of the solar system. Officially called krotite, the mineral had never been found in nature before, though it is a human-made constituent of some high-temperature concrete, according to study researcher Anthony Kampf.
Orbiting gyroscopes detect slight sag and even slighter twist in space-time
06:35 05.05.2011 |
Science
In a tour de force of technology and just plain stubbornness spanning half a century and costing more than $750 million, a team of experimenters from Stanford University reported on Wednesday that a set of orbiting gyroscopes had detected a slight sag and an even slighter twist in space-time.
NASA discovers ice lake on Mars
04:54 22.04.2011 |
Science
NASA scientists recently discovered an underground dry ice lake containing more carbon dioxide than originally thought. The trapped carbon dioxide is thought to have come from the planet’s atmosphere earlier in its history when it was conducive for life on Mars to exist. “It really is a buried treasure,” said Jeffrey Plaut, a scientist of the NASA...
Researchers find superbugs in Delhi drinking water
07:09 09.04.2011 |
Science
A gene that makes bugs highly resistant to almost all known antibiotics has been found in bacteria in water supplies in New Delhi used by local people for drinking, washing and cooking, scientists said on Thursday. The NDM 1 gene, which creates what some experts describe as "super superbugs", has spread to germs that cause cholera and dysentery.
Patients with temporary surgical implant able to control computers by thoughts
06:11 08.04.2011 |
Science
US researchers over at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have laid claim that patients who had a temporary surgical implant, are able to make use of regions in the brain which control speech to “talk” to a computer. This unique implant enables patients to move a cursor around the computer screen through the power of thought.
Three space explorers heading to International Space Station
03:41 05.04.2011 |
Science
Three space explorers are venturing toward the International Space Station today after launching a week before the 50th anniversary of the first human spaceflight. With Russian cosmonaut Alexander Samokutyaev at the controls, the final three members of the 27th expedition to the station are due at the outpost at 7:18 p.m. Wednesday.
