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- NASA scientist wins Nobel prize for physics
- It was all champagne and toasts yesterday at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center, as employees celebrated one of their own winning the Nobel Prize for Physics, The Washington Post reports. Dozens of co-workers signed a banner inscribed with "Congratulations, John Mather" and many others stood in long lines...
- Tags: NASA, Goddard
- Blog posts 2006-10-05
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- Will the Earth fry future moon astronauts?
- Researchers working for NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission have discovered that the Earth's magnetic tail could be harmful to future astronauts. The moon stays inside Earth's 'magnetotail' for six days every month -- during full moon. This can have consequences ranging from lunar 'dust storms' to strong electrostatic discharges, according...
- Tags: Earth, NASA, Moon, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-04-20
- AMD's CTO steps down; Chipmaker says bench strong
- Phil Hester, AMD's chief technology officer, has stepped down. According to the company, Friday is Hester's last day at the company and he's looking at other opportunities. Before AMD Hester had been CEO of Newisys, a Sanmina-SCI company, and spent 23 years at IBM. Hester was responsible...
- Tags: CTO, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Semiconductors, Processors, Network Technology, Hardware, Components, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-11
- North America polluted by East Asia?
- In a recently released study, NASA researchers have confirmed that air pollution travels around the world. They've used new satellite sensor capabilities to measure pollution traveling from East Asia to North America between 2002 and 2005. According to NASA, the amount of pollution arriving in North America is equivalent to...
- Tags: NASA, Pollution, Satellite, North America, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-03-26
- A nanotechnology award for NASA
- NASA is rarely associated with nanotechnologies. But one of its researchers working at the NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center just received a Nanotech Briefs Nano 50 award for a manufacturing process for high-quality carbon nanotubes CNTs. Because of its ability to produce bundles of CNTs without using a metal catalyst,...
- Tags: Nanotube, NASA, Carbon Nanotube, Manufacturing, CNT, Metal Catalyst, Nanotechnology, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- NASA pundits launch debate over space flight
- NASA pundits launch debate over space flightNot sure I agree with RutanThe fact is, that the airplane industry is incredibly advanced. Which is precisely the problem.What do I mean by this? Well, we've had cars around for about as long, and that industry has flourished. And yet its the issue...
- Tags: Government, Aerospace & Defense, Vertical industries, NASA, space flight
- Discussion threads 2007-09-21
- NASA monitors lightning inside hurricanes
- According to a new study from NASA, it is possible to forecast a storm's intensity by monitoring the lightning strikes near a hurricane's eye. And it can be done weeks before the storm arrives with the help of 'highly-sensitive sensors located thousands of miles from the storm.' Today, the Pacific...
- Tags: Intensity, Monitor, Ice, NASA, Microwave, Hurricane, Sensor, Lightning, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-09-10
- NASA checks coastal waters from space
- Using NASA satellite imagery, researchers at the University of South Florida USF in St. Petersburg have found that it is possible to monitor coastal water quality. This means that water quality can be checked daily rather than monthly as done by traditional methods which involves expensive boat surveys. This information...
- Tags: Technique, NASA, Satellite, Water, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-30
- NASA looks at the next Great Wall of China
- Can astronauts really see the Great Wall of China from space? It's not really sure. But they'll be able to see the gigantic Three Gorges Dam reservoir along China's Yangtze River when it's completed in 2009, as NASA satellites already show. NASA has watched the dam since the beginning of...
- Tags: Energy &, Environment, Science &, Nature, Space &, Aerospace
- Blog posts 2007-06-16
- (Photos: Pluto probe returns photos of Jupiter)
- (Photos: Pluto probe returns photos of Jupiter)THERE SURE ARE SOME SMART PEOPLE OUT THEREIf you were in the NASA project work up room for the Jupiter mission how many words could you add?Very cool ntntJob securityThis probe won't reach Pluto until 2015. That means the team in control of...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Pluto, camera, Jupiter, photograph, subsystem
- Discussion threads 2007-02-28
- Microshutters for the Webb Space Telescope
- In case you dont remember, the Webb Space Telescope will replace Hubble, probably after 2011, and should be able to catch phenomena which happened 13.5 billion light-years ago (read more for a Hubble vs. Webb comparison). At these distances, the instruments onboard will need to be more precise than ever....
- Tags: Space &, Aerospace, Science &, Nature, Engineering &, Innovation, microshutter, NASA, James Webb Space Telescope, Webb Space Telescope
- Blog posts 2007-01-25
- Romanian indicted for assault on US computers
- As if trying to prove a point, a Romanian man was indicted for allegedly breaking into more than 150 U.S. government computers, reports News.com. Victor Faur, 26, of Arad, Romania, was the leader of a group know as the "WhiteHat Team," which allegedly chose the U.S. government...
- Tags: Romanian Indicted, Faur, computer, Security, Government technology, Victor Faur
- Blog posts 2006-12-04
- Is Wi-Fi bad for your health?
- Is Wi-Fi bad for your health?Next Claim Please!!!TV was going to make us blind... Walkmans were going to make us deaf, now iPods are going to do the same. Cellphones are causing brain tumors and high voltage lines are giving everyone cancer. Yet not everyone seems to get getting...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, WIRELESS, Vertical industries, Network technology, Wi-Fi, microwave, pager, health care, cell phone
- Discussion threads 2006-11-29
- NASA satellites track the growth of forests
- NASA's MODerate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer MODIS aboard the Terra and Aqua satellites has again been used to check our environment. This time, NASA satellites have been tracking the growth and the 'productivity' of U.S. forests. Even if satellite data doesn't permit to predict how future climate change will affect forests, the...
- Tags: NASA, MODIS
- Blog posts 2006-08-30
- Linux Networx lands deal for NASA Goddard
- Linux Networx lands deal for NASA GoddardLinux Networx lands deal for NASA GoddardI'm glad to see that NASA (AS will the rest of M$ users will) has figured out that Linux IS the superior OS! And before the M$ goons reply with some of your false/half-hearted slams, the proof...
- Tags: Operating systems, Linux, UNIX, NASA, NASA Goddard, Linux NetworX, operating system
- Discussion threads 2006-05-04
- How NASA can help detectives
- With a new photographic laser device developed to check damages on the Space Shuttle, NASA is going to help the FBI to investigate crime scenes. The Laser Scaling and Measurement Device for Photographic Images LSMDPI was designed to provide a non-intrusive means of adding a scale to a photograph, which...
- Tags: NASA, laser, LSMDPI
- Blog posts 2006-03-01
- While tech watchers fret about Google, US censors chief climatology expert
- Are policy officials censoring scientists? James Hansen, the top climate scientist at NASA, says he is being censored after calling for reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, the New York Times reports. Hansen said that officials at NASA headquarters had ordered the public affairs...
- Tags: Hansen
- Blog posts 2006-01-30
- Managing all the data in the world
- If you think you have a lot of data flooding into your organization, imagine how much you would have to deal with if you were tracking every weather pattern and climatological event happening on the planet. Would an SOA approach be of help here? But of course it would. eWeek's...
- Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, ESDIS, SOA
- Blog posts 2005-12-15
- 'Stereo' views of the Sun
- NASA's STEREO mission will be launched in 2006 with the goal of imaging the sun and the solar winds in 3-D. According to NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center and to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory APL, two identical spacecrafts will be placed in different orbits to provide us with...
- Tags: Stereo, orbit
- Blog posts 2005-11-11
- Exploring Mars will be a risky business
- Are humans ready to stay on Mars for several months? Can we deal with all the risks that its environment may cause to astronauts and space missions? Red Nova says that some answers are contained in a report from NASA. According to this report, the #1 risk is Martian dust...
- Tags: Mars
- Blog posts 2005-10-31
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