AScribe Science News Service articles from July 2005

AScribe Science News Service archives from July 2005

NASA'S Deep Impact Spacecraft Preps for July 4 Fireworks.
July 1, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., July 1 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft continues to sail through its final checkout, as it hurtles toward comet Tempel 1. Impact with the comet is scheduled for 1:52...

Photo Release: Hubble Captures Deep Impact's Collision With Comet.
July 5, 2005... Byline: European Space Agency - Hubble GARCHING, Germany, July 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured the dramatic effects of a collision early Monday, July 4, between a 370-kilogram projectile released by the...

DNA From Feathers Tells Tale of Eagle Fidelity.
July 6, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- A trail of feathers led a team of Purdue University scientists to confirm that eagles from central Asia are quite possibly the most faithful of birds. By...

Forty-two Biomedical Scientists Worldwide Named Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Research Scholars.
July 7, 2005... Byline: Howard Hughes Medical Institute CHEVY CHASE, Md., July 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- Tuberculosis, malaria, hemorrhagic fevers, and anthrax all are infectious and parasitic diseases posing a global problem that calls for a global...

News Tip: Bush's Comments on Global Warming Signal that America has Reached a 'Tipping Point,' Duke Policy Expert Says.
July 7, 2005... Byline: Duke University Durham, N.C., July. 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- President George Bush's acknowledgment this week that an increase in human-caused greenhouse gas emissions is contributing to the problem signals more than a shift in...

NASA Satellites Measure, Monitor Sea Level.
July 7, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., July 7 (AScribe Newswire) -- For the first time, NASA has the tools and expertise to understand the rate at which sea level is changing, some of the mechanisms that drive those changes and...

Purdue Engineer Still Recalls His Job on Manhattan Project.
July 11, 2005... Byline: Purdue University WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., July 11 (AScribe Newswire) -- Six decades ago, when Lyle Albright was a 23-year-old engineer newly hired to work at a lab in wartime Cleveland, his supervisor picked up a slug of metal and...

Carnegie Mellon's Sandstorm Robot Makes Unprecedented 200-Mile Autonomous Run.
July 13, 2005... Byline: Carnegie Mellon University PITTSBURGH, July 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carnegie Mellon University's autonomous robotic HUMMER Sandstorm drove an unprecedented 200 miles in seven hours without human guidance last week in preparation...

Media Advisory: UC Davis Veterinarians Take First Close Look at Snake Eyes.
July 15, 2005... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., July 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Using a leading-edge form of the ultrasound technology now commonplace in human pregnancies, vision specialists at the UC Davis School of Veterinary...

NASA Briefing Previews Next Step for Exploring Mars.
July 15, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., July 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's launch opportunities will begin Aug. 10, 2005, for the agency's next mission to Mars. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is a robotic spacecraft, and...

National High School Solar Car Race Heads to Jet Propulsion Lab Finish Line.
July 15, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., July 15 (AScribe Newswire) -- Some local students are competing in the world's longest-running high school solar car race. Racers started the eight-day, 1,600-mile trek in Texas last week...

Kids Can Get Feet Wet Learning About Tahoe.
July 19, 2005... Byline: University of California, Davis DAVIS, Calif., July 19 (AScribe Newswire) -- Children ages 8 and older are invited to spend the day at Lake Tahoe on Thursday, Aug. 4, learning about the environmental challenges facing the Tahoe...

Kansas State Professor, Graduate Student Win R&D 100 Award for Inexpensive Gamma Ray Detector Device.
July 20, 2005... Byline: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan., July 20 (AScribe Newswire) -- Douglas S. McGregor and Walter McNeil have a philosophy: use clever methods to keep things simple. "You can always add more circuitry to make things...

NASA's New Mars Orbiter Will Sharpen Vision of Exploration.
July 21, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., July 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- NASA's next mission to Mars will examine the red planet in unprecedented detail from low orbit and provide more data about the intriguing planet than all...

NASA Telescope Reveals Nearby Galaxy's Invisible Arms.
July 25, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, July 25 (AScribe Newswire) -- A new image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer shows that a galaxy once thought to be rather plain and old is actually endowed with a gorgeous set of young spiral...

Breastfeeding Soothes Baby, Mom; Douglas Hospital Research Shows Benefits of Breastfeeding on Mental Health.
July 26, 2005... Byline: McGill University MONTREAL, July 26 (AScribe Newswire) -- Moms, want to lower stress? Try breastfeeding. New research from the Douglas Hospital Research Centre in Montreal shows mothers who breastfeed respond less to stressful...

Marines Recruit Kansas State Professor to Assist in War on Terrorism With Bomb Detection Research.
July 27, 2005... Byline: Kansas State University MANHATTAN, Kan., July 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Marines are looking for a few good men... to assist them in their efforts in the war on terrorism. A Kansas State University professor is one of those men....

Planetary Scientists Discover Tenth Planet.
July 29, 2005... Byline: Jet Propulsion Laboratory PASADENA, Calif., July 29 (AScribe Newswire) -- A planet larger than Pluto has been discovered in the outlying regions of the solar system with the Samuel Oschin Telescope at Palomar Observatory near San...