04/Jul 2008 | Bionic man - or woman - closer to possible | We can rebuild him." That was the premise behind The $6 Million Man , which led to the Bionic Woman , and in the years since those shows were popular, more and more parts of the human body have become... Read » |
04/Jul 2008 | Global trends and ENSO | 7:17 PM It's long been known that El Ni o variability affects the global mean temperature anomalies. 1998 was so warm in part because of the big El Ni o event over the winter of 1997-1998 which direct... Read » |
04/Jul 2008 | China Earthquake Rare And Unexpected, Says New Study | ScienceDaily (July 4, 2008) A new analysis of the setting for last month's devastating earthquake in China by a team of geoscientists at MIT shows that the quake resulted from faults with little sei... Read » |
04/Jul 2008 | Atmospheric Scientists And Engineers Demonstrate Amount Of Pollution In U.S. Originating Overseas | Overseas Pollution Hitting The U. Atmospheric Scientists And Engineers Demonstrate Amount Of Pollution In U. Environmental scientists and engineers developed mathematical models to calculate the impac... Read » |
04/Jul 2008 | Lunar Dust Detector Instrument Opportunity Added to SALMON | The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Stand Alone Missions of Opportunity Notice (SALMON), is intended to provide opportunities for science and technology investigations on space fl... Read » |
04/Jul 2008 | Scientists Eager for Hubble's Facelift | NASA's Hubble Space Telescope maintains its orbit around Earth. The space agency hopes to upgrade the aging observatory some time in 2008. Astronauts Steven Smith, and John Grunsfeld, appear as small ... Read » |
04/Jul 2008 | Landmark Document from Feds on Climate Change | Our friend Bill Brown in Taos at NMGlobalWarming. federal government's Climate Change Science Program Report. ______________ Greetings, All -- The USA federal government's Climate Change Science Progr... Read » |
04/Jul 2008 | Dr. Bradley Doorn Addresses the Remote Sensing and GIS Summit | Have You Entered the GIS in Action Video Contest?. Bradley Doorn Addresses the Remote Sensing and GIS Summit. Bradley Doorn will give the keynote address for the Remote Sensing and GIS Summit at the 2... Read » |
04/Jul 2008 | In the Blast Zone: Catastrophe and Renewal on Mount St. Helens | Geology. Charles Goodrich and Kathleen Dean Moore and Frederick J. Helens captured the attention of the region, nation, and world, and it continues to fascinate us today a constant reminder that we ... Read » |
04/Jul 2008 | Water traces found on Mercury | Instruments aboard a Maryland-built spacecraft that soared past the planet Mercury in January have provided a real surprise: traces of water molecules in the hot little world's extremely thin atmosphe... Read » |
04/Jul 2008 | Soil Scientists Restore Marshes To Protect Coastal Ecology | Soil scientists spread material dredged from shipping channels over shore areas to help rebuild marsh areas. Wetlands along the shore protect the land from storm surges, create habitat for wildlife, a... Read » |
04/Jul 2008 | Water traces detected on Mercury | Instruments aboard a Maryland-built spacecraft that soared past the planet Mercury in January have provided a real surprise: traces of water molecules in the hot little world's extremely thin atmosphe... Read » |
04/Jul 2008 | Charles Groat Named Interim Dean of Jackson School | Charles Groat's Curriculum Vita Page Energy and Earth Resources Graduate Program Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy . July 1, 2008 AUSTIN, Texas The University of Texas at Aust... Read » |
04/Jul 2008 | U.S. scientists say China quake was rare, unexpected event | A group of scientists from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) said in a report that the magnitude-8.0 earthquake that plagued China's Southwest Sichuan province was rare in its nature and har... Read » |
04/Jul 2008 | Ocean Explorium opens doors at Summerfest | Photo courtesy The Ocean Explorium at New Bedford Seaport The glowing Blue Ocean Cube in the center of the Ocean Explorium houses the first Science on a Sphere installed in New England. Science on a S... Read » |
04/Jul 2008 | Mercury s Cooling Core Causes The Planet To Shrink | The innermost planet of the solar system, Mercury, revealed its mysteries 33 years after the first flyby performed by Mariner 10 in 1974-1975. In January 2008, the MESSENGER spacecraft sent never-befo... Read » |
04/Jul 2008 | Mercury s surface had been formed by volcanic activity | Washington, July 4 : Scientists have confirmed that Mercury s surface had been formed by volcanic activity early in the planet s history. The conclusion is based on an image taken by the Messenger spa... Read » |
04/Jul 2008 | Water traces on Mercury | Instruments aboard a Maryland-built spacecraft that soared past the planet Mercury in January have provided a real surprise: traces of water molecules in the hot little world's extremely thin atmosphe... Read » |
04/Jul 2008 | How cold is the ocean? It hurts | It's pretty cold" is how 11-year-old Jessica Knight described the ocean temperature before bounding into the Atlantic with her pink dolphin boogie board Thursday. Her father, Bob, admitted that the wa... Read » |
04/Jul 2008 | Do We Need A New Government Agency That Focuses On Global Warming? | 6:00pm.Environment 'Hello, climate? We're from the government and we're here to help you.' A group of former senior federal officials have called for the establishment of an independent Earth Systems... Read » |
04/Jul 2008 | The Volcanoes That Shaped Mercury | Geology Scientists have long anguished over how little is known about Mercury, the innermost of the four terrestrial planetary bodies in our solar system. The gaps in knowledge covered such basic inf... Read » |
04/Jul 2008 | GLAST spacecraft powered up and sending data | 02 July 2008 *************************************** GLAST spacecraft powered up and sending data Menlo Park, CA After their journey into the cold reaches of space, instruments on the Gamma-ray Large ... Read » |
04/Jul 2008 | MESSENGER Scientists 'Astonished' to Find Water in Mercury's Thin Atmosphere | MESSENGER's flight through Mercury's "tail" This animation shows an artist's conception of Mercury's magnetosphere at the time of the MESSENGER flyby. The graphs at the bottom show observations made b... Read » |
04/Jul 2008 | An Educational Journey: Questions for Tony Haymet | Friday, July 4, 2008 | In September 2006, Tony Haymet, an Australian chemist, was named the 10th director of Scripps Institution of Oceanography at University of California, San Diego. He came to Scri... Read » |