AScribe Science News Service articles from December 2006

AScribe Science News Service archives from December 2006

NLRview Architecture Will Launch in 2007; National LambdaRail to Provide Researchers With New Monitoring and Measurement Capabilities.
December 1, 2006... Byline: FirstMile.US CYPRESS, Calif., Dec. 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- National LambdaRail announced today the provisioning and availability of new research architecture for novel network performance monitoring and measurement called NLRview....

University of Central Florida Researcher's 3-D Digital Storage System Could Hold a Library on One Disc.
December 4, 2006... Byline: University of Central Florida ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Imagine taking the entire collection of historical documents at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum and storing it on a single DVD. University...

Exploratorium to Offer Live Webcasts Dec. 9, Dec. 30 Highlighting University of Chicago's South Pole Telescope.
December 4, 2006... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Dec. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- Three University of Chicago cosmologists are providing an insider's look at the race to finish building their 10-meter South Pole Telescope in a series of blogs and video...

NASA Mars Orbiter Photographs Spirit and Vikings on the Ground.
December 4, 2006... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 4 (AScribe Newswire) -- New images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show three additional NASA spacecraft that have landed on Mars: the Spirit rover active on the surface...

Chabot Space & Science Center Names Mark Roberts Director of Development.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Chabot Space & Science Center OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- Chabot Space & Science Center has hired Mark Roberts as its Development Director. Roberts is a former fundraising director for the University of San...

We're No. 1: Johns Hopkins University/University of Illinois at Chicago Team Wins Bandwidth Bowl.
December 5, 2006... Byline: Johns Hopkins University BALTIMORE, Dec. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- A team from The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Illinois at Chicago's National Center for Data Mining recently won the seventh annual Bandwidth...

NASA Images Suggest Water Still Flows in Brief Spurts on Mars.
December 6, 2006... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA photographs have revealed bright new deposits seen in two gullies on Mars that suggest water carried sediment through them sometime during the past seven...

High-Resolution Satellite Images Now Available to Universities via New Public-Private Partnership.
December 11, 2006... Byline: University of California, Santa Barbara SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Dec. 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- A major boost to U.S. university research using satellite imagery has occurred in Santa Barbara, through a public-private partnership....

Is Dark Matter a Source of High Energy Gamma Rays? Asks Physical Review Letters; Jerome Drexler's Books Say 'Yes!'.
December 18, 2006... Byline: The Drexler Foundation LOS ALTOS HILLS, Calif., Dec. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Earlier this month, Physical Review Letters published a letter titled "H.E.S.S. observations of the Galactic Center region and their possible dark matter...

Study Finds the Air Rich With Bacteria.
December 18, 2006... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 18 (AScribe Newswire) -- Want biodiversity? Look no further than the air around you. It could be teeming with more than 1,800 types of bacteria, according to a...

A Surprise Award to Berkeley Lab's George Smoot: The Daniel Chalonge Medal.
December 20, 2006... Byline: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory BERKELEY, Calif., Dec. 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- George Smoot of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has been awarded the Daniel Chalonge Medal by the International School of Astrophysics...

New Chicago-Indiana Computer Network Prepared to Handle Massive Data Flow from World's Largest Scientific Experiment.
December 21, 2006... Byline: University of Chicago CHICAGO, Dec. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- Massive quantities of data will soon begin flowing from the largest scientific instrument ever built into an international network of computer centers, including one...