Space Daily articles from December 2007

Space Daily archives from December 2007

An X-Ray Santa Claus In Orion.
December 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Dec. 3 (SPX) -- Right in time for the festive season, ESA's XMM-Newton X-ray observatory has discovered a huge cloud of high-temperature gas resting in a spectacular nearby star-forming region, shaped somewhat...

Aurora Borealis Breaks New Grounds - And Old Ice.
December 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Dec. 3 (SPX) -- It can crush ice sideways and stay precisely on station to an accuracy of a metre. It can drill a hole 1,000 metres deep into the seabed while floating above 5,000 metres of ocean and it can...

Between Water And Rock -- A New Science.
December 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BLACKSBURG, Va., Dec. 3 (SPX) -- Water chemistry and mineralogy are scientific fields that have been around long enough to develop extensive knowledge and technologies. The boundary of water and rock, however, is not...

Campaigns Should Support Space Exploration.
December 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 3 (SPX) -- Presidential campaigns should publicly express their support of NASA's Constellation Program to ensure America's leadership in space exploration as well as boost education, Aerospace...

Caught In The Wind From The Sun.
December 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Dec. 3 (SPX) -- Venus Express has exposed the true extent to which the Sun strips away the atmosphere of Venus. This process could be an important contribution to the way the planet has evolved to become so...

Dark Energy -- 10 Years On.
December 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (SPX) -- Three quarters of our universe is made up of some weird, gravitationally repulsive substance that was only discovered ten years ago - dark energy. This month in Physics World, Eric Linder...

Duke Scientists Map Imprinted Genes In Human Genome.
December 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers DURHAM, N.C., Dec. 3 (SPX) -- Scientists at Duke University have created the first map of imprinted genes throughout the human genome, and they say a modern-day Rosetta stone - a form of artificial intelligence called...

Earth-like Venus.
December 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Dec. 3 (SPX) -- ESA's Venus Express has revealed Venus as never before. For the first time, scientists are able to investigate from the top of its atmosphere, down nearly to the surface. They...

Improving Drought Forecasts.
December 2, 2007... Byline: Dauna Coulter HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Dec. 3 (SPX) -- From the deserts of the American southwest to the pine forests of the Deep South, drought-weary residents have one thing on their minds: "I wish it would rain!" Technically, what they...

Jules Verne ATV Given Its Wings.
December 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Dec. 3 (SPX) -- The next time Jules Verne ATV's four solar arrays are fully deployed, giving the vehicle a total span of 22.3 m, will be in early 2008, at 28 000 km/h over the South Pacific Ocean. Just 100...

Military Must Understand And Master Change.
December 2, 2007... Byline: Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 (SPX) -- The U.S. military needs to understand change and the pace of change to succeed in the future, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told students at the Army...

Mountain Summits In The Alps Becoming Increasingly Similar.
December 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LEIPZIG, Germany, Dec. 3 (SPX) -- Alpine summit vegetation will become increasingly homogenized as a result of climate change, say researchers from the University of Bayreuth and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental...

New X-ray Technique Targets Terrorists And Tumors.
December 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MANCHESTER, UK, Dec. 3 (SPX) -- Scientists at The University of Manchester have developed a new x-ray technique that could be used to detect hidden explosives, drugs and human cancers more effectively. Professor...

Noctis Labyrinthus, Labyrinth Of The Night.
December 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Dec. 3 (SPX) -- These images taken by the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), onboard ESA's Mars Express imaged the Noctis Labyrinthus region, the 'labyrinth of the night' on Mars. The HRSC took these...

Northrop Grumman Receives Contract For ICBM Propulsion Replacement Program.
December 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CLEARFIELD, Utah, Dec. 3 (SPX) -- The U.S. Air Force awarded Northrop Grumman a 23-month, $176 million contract in October to continue the full-rate production phase of the Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM)...

Quality Groundwater Essential To Global Development.
December 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PERTH, Australia, Dec. 3 (SPX) -- The 6th International Association of Hydrological Sciences Groundwater Quality Conference 2007 (GQ07) features a program of over 300 international scientists working in the field of...

Sealift Of Mine-Resistant, Ambush-Protected Vehicles Begins.
December 2, 2007... Byline: Cynthia Bauer Special to American Forces Press Service SCOTT AFB, Ill., Dec. 3 (SPX) -- A commercial cargo ship carrying more than 100 mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles for troops in Iraq set sail this week from Naval...

Secretary Sees First Afterburning Engine Test With Synthetic Fuel.
December 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ARNOLD AFB, Tenn., Dec. 3 (SPX) -- The secretary of the Air Force viewed the first ground testing of the General Electric F101 engine using a 50-50 mix of Fischer-Tropsch and JP-8 jet fuels Nov. 27 at Arnold Air Force...

Star Talk.
December 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers for Astrobiology Magazine MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Dec. 3 (SPX) -- In a new effort to bring science to the masses, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of New York's Hayden Planetarium, is hosting a popular...

Telemedicine: Health Alert Via Satellite.
December 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Dec. 3 (SPX) -- An earthquake has just shaken the Greek island. Damage is widespread and all conventional, terrestrial communications have been destroyed. The rescue operations have only one means at their...

The European Columbus Space Laboratory Set To Reach ISS.
December 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Dec. 3 (SPX) -- With NASA's announcement today of the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis on 6 December, ESA astronauts Hans Schlegel, from Germany, and Leopold Eyharts, from France, are set to carry ESA's...

Boeing Submits Proposal To USAF For Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, Dec. 4 (SPX) -- Boeing has submitted a proposal to the U.S. Air Force for the development of a next-generation Common Range Integrated Instrumentation System (CRIIS) that will help improve the accuracy and...

Canadian Govt Calls On Industry To Participate In New Biofuels Initiative.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers QUEBEC CITY, Dec. 4 (SPX) -- More Canadians will soon be putting cleaner biofuels in their vehicles such as ethanol and biodiesel. The Honourable Gerry Ritz, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food and Minister for the...

Dark Matter In Newborn Universe Doused Earliest Stars.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 4 (SPX) -- Perhaps the first stars in the newborn universe did not shine, but instead were invisible "dark stars" 400 to 200,000 times wider than the sun and powered by the annihilation of...

Energy Tech Company Helps Bowling Alley Pocket A Big Check.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MISSION VIEJO, Calif., Dec. 4 (SPX) -- New Millennium Power, Inc. president H.D. Boesch doesn't bowl. But when Mickey Cogan became concerned over the increasing cost of running his California bowling alley, Mr. Boesch...

Fossils Excavated From Bahamian Blue Hole May Give Clues Of Early Life.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers GAINESVILLE, Fla., Dec. 4 (SPX) -- Long before tourists arrived in the Bahamas, ancient visitors took up residence in this archipelago off Florida's coast and left remains offering stark evidence that the arrival of...

Germany Using Photovoltaics To Reduce Carbon Emissions And Strengthen The Economy.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers FUKUOKA, Japan, Dec. 4 (SPX) -- Days before world leaders gather in Bali to discuss a post-Kyoto agreement, Germany will display its balancing of the environment and the economy at the 17th Photovoltaic Science and...

Leaving No Stone Unturned.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Henry Bortman for Astrobiology Magazine MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Dec. 4 (SPX) -- Kimberley Warren-Rhodes has spent the past several years wandering some of the world's driest deserts, turning over rocks. Lots of rocks. "I would say at...

'Magma P.I.' Unearths Clues To How Crust Was Sculpted.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BALTIMORE, Dec. 4 (SPX) -- About a decade ago, Johns Hopkins University geologist Bruce Marsh challenged the century-old concept that the Earth's outer layer formed when crystal-free molten rock called magma oozed to...

Mapmaking For The Masses.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Dec. 4 (SPX) -- Websites such as Wikimapia and OpenStreetMap are empowering citizens to create a global patchwork of geographic information while Google Earth is encouraging individuals to...

MU Engineers Develop Software Solution For Complex Space Missions.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers COLUMBIA, Mo., Dec. 4 (SPX) -- Sending an unmanned spacecraft to the outer fringes of the solar system requires extensive planning. At the University of Missouri, engineers have developed an efficient and highly...

Multi-Tasking Rover Supports Multiple Missions.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 4 (SPX) -- Opportunity continues to investigate the rock exposure known as "Smith2" in the second of three bathtub ring-like layers of rock inside "Victoria Crater" as well as test...

New Thermal Protection Technologies For Reusable Launch Vehicles To Be Validated.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Dec. 3 (SPX) -- The four-year, $2.9 million effort is known as the Advanced Development of Integrated Warm Structures (ADIWS). It will demonstrate the relative weight and performance benefits of...

NGA And Lockheed Martin Work To Improve Delivery Of Geospatial Data To Users.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers HERNDON, Va., Dec. 4 (SPX) -- The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) and Lockheed Martin are working to streamline and speed the delivery of critical maps, imagery and other geospatial data to users...

Northrop Grumman Starts Integration And Test On LCROSS Spacecraft.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers REDONDO BEACH, Calif., Dec. 4 (SPX) -- The satellite that will impact the Moon in 2009 in a search for water has started to come together in a manufacturing high bay at Northrop Grumman's Space Technology sector. The...

PG And E Launches First Solar-Powered Billboard.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4 (SPX) -- Pacific Gas and Electric Company has unveiled the nation's first solar-powered billboard, located in San Francisco, Calif. The billboard is part of the utility's new advertising...

PPL To Develop Renewable Energy Generating Facility At Pennsylvania Landfill.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ALLENTOWN, Pa., Dec. 4 (SPX) -- PPL Renewable Energy will develop and install a 6.4- megawatt methane-to-electricity power generation system at the Community Refuse Service Landfill in Shippensburg, Pa., the company...

Report Finds Deforestation Offers Very Little Money Compared To Potential Financial Benefits.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BALI, Indonesia, Dec. 4 (SPX) -- Deforestation in tropical countries is often driven by the perverse economic reality that forests are worth more dead than alive. But a new study by an international consortium of...

Sanswire And TAO Announce Free Flight Testing For Autonomously Controlled Solar Powered Airship.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., Dec. 4 (SPX) -- Sanswire Networks and TAO Technologies, GmbH, has announced that initial testing and free flight missions of the Sanswire Autonomous Solar, "SAS-51," a solar-powered,...

Special Research Methods Find Ancient Maya Marketplace.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PROVO, Utah, Dec. 4 (SPX) -- Coaxing answers from 1500-year-old clues hidden in soil clumps, a team of archaeologists and environmental scientists identified a marketplace in an ancient Maya city, calling into...

Spirit Breaks Free In Race For Survival.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 4 (SPX) -- In typical unflagging fashion, Spirit has managed to break free of piles of soil built up around the wheels in a low, sandy area that the rover's handlers have nicknamed "Tartarus,"...

Suntech Supports The Green Long March In China.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 4 (SPX) -- Suntech Power Holdings has announced its support of The Green Long March initiative to promote increased understanding of environmental successes and challenges in China, and encourage...

Surfect Technologies Announces First Solar Tool Order.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ALBUQUERQUE, Dec. 4 (SPX) -- Surfect Holdings reports that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Surfect Technologies, has received a Letter of Intent from a Texas based solar company for up to ten Solargy tools to be...

The Venusian Climate And Its Evolution.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Dec. 4 (SPX) -- Today, Venus is a hellish place of high temperatures and crushing air pressure. Venus Express is showing that this was not always the case. Instead, some time in the past, Venus was probably...

Toll Of Climate Change On World Food Supply Could Be Worse Than Thought.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 (SPX) -- Global agriculture, already predicted to be stressed by climate change in coming decades, could go into steep, unanticipated declines in some regions due to complications that scientists...

US Navy Approves Use Of Operational ENVELOP Covers For CIWS.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers EAGAN, Mich., Dec. 4 (SPX) -- The U.S. Navy recently approved the use of Shield Technologies Corporation's (Shield Technologies) operational Envelop Protective Covers for Close-In Weapons Systems (CIWS). The move is...

WHRC Releases 4 Key Reports.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WOODS HOLE, Mass., Dec. 4 (SPX) -- As UNFCCC negotiations move towards a powerful new mechanism for compensating tropical countries for their nation-wide reductions of greenhouse gas emissions from deforestation and...

Young Chimps Top Adult Humans In Numerical Memory.
December 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers KYOTO, Japan, Dec. 4 (SPX) -- Young chimpanzees have an "extraordinary" ability to remember numerals that is superior to that of human adults, researchers report in the December 4th issue of Current Biology, a...

Adapting Agriculture To Climate Change.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CANBERRA, Australia, Dec. 5 (SPX) -- Early action to adapt to climate change impacts could have substantial short-term benefits for some Australian agricultural systems but joint research between farmers, scientists...

AFRL And Boeing Demonstrate That UAVs Can Perform Automated Aerial Refueling.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, Dec. 5 (SPX) -- Can an unmanned air vehicle be made smart enough to autonomously rendezvous with a tanker aircraft and refuel? Based on recently concluded flight tests by the U.S. Air Force Research...

Asteroid Shower.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Dr. Tony Phillips HUNTSVILLE, Ala., Dec. 5 (SPX) -- Mark your calendar: The best meteor shower of 2007 peaks on Friday, December 14th. It's the Geminid meteor shower," says NASA astronomer Bill Cooke of the Marshall Space Flight...

Atlantis Crew And Launch Team Prep For STS-122.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Dec. 5 (SPX) -- From astronauts practicing shuttle landings to engineers and technicians running tests on space shuttle Atlantis, NASA's Kennedy Space Center is excitedly preparing for its fourth...

Boeing Wins US Air Force B-1B Upgrade Contract.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, Dec. 5 (SPX) -- Boeing has been awarded a $45 million U.S. Air Force contract to upgrade the B-1B bomber's avionics software. The contract award continues an annual upgrade program launched in 2003 to...

Collision Avoidance Technology For Mine Haul Trucks.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CANBERRA, Australia, Dec. 5 (SPX) -- Today's mine haul tracks are massive vehicles in which drivers have limited vision and cannot see anything within around 30 metres. If a smaller vehicle on the mine site gets in...

Cooler, Faster, Cheaper: Clemson Researchers Advance Process To Manufacture Silicon Chips.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CLEMSON, S.C., Dec. 5 (SPX) -- The next generation of laptops, desk computers, cell phones and other semiconductor devices may get faster and more cost-effective with research from Clemson University. "We've developed...

Cosmopolitan Microbes -- Hitchhikers On Darwin's Dust.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers OLDENBURG, Germany, Dec. 5 (SPX) -- Scientists have analysed aerial dust samples collected by Charles Darwin and confirmed that microbes can travel across continents without the need for planes or trains - rather...

Energy Driving Long-Term Growth Prospects In African Market.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers NEWTOWN, Conn., Dec. 5 (SPX) -- The African arms market, traditionally recognized for its low value and opaque business environment, may represent tomorrow's growth market for the global defense industry, according to...

Five Years In Orbit For First DMC Satellite AlSAT-1.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LONDON, Dec. 5 (SPX) -- This week, Algeria celebrates the 5th anniversary of its first satellite, AlSAT-1 which marked the beginning of the country's national space programme. Five years on, the African nation not...

GD Awarded Contract To Continue US And UK Submarine Control Systems Work.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers FAIRFAX, Va., Dec. 5 (SPX) -- The U.S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems a $91 million contract to continue providing modifications and support for fire control systems aboard U.S. and...

Green Morality.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers STANFORD, Calif., Dec. 5 (SPX) -- We can disguise environmentally harmful practices and dress them up in words to help ease our consciences, argues Albert Bandura of the Department of Psychology at Stanford...

L-3 Coleman Aerospace Wins Contract To Provide Target For Arrow Interceptor Mission.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 5 (SPX) -- L-3 Coleman Aerospace announced that it has been awarded a Task Order from the U.S. Air Force for a Short Range Air Launch Target (SRALT). Coleman Aerospace will provide one launch...

Lockheed Martin Demonstrates Spy-1F Naval Radar Extreme Short Range (ESR) Mode Capability.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MOORESTOWN, N.J., Dec. 5 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin successfully demonstrated a new Extreme Short Range (ESR) mode for its family of SPY-1 naval radars - a radar family most noted for its unmatched performance detecting...

Neanderthal Bearing Teeth.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LEIPZIG, Germany, Dec. 5 (SPX) -- An international European research collaboration led by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology reports evidence for a rapid developmental pattern in a...

New Form Of Compound Stimulates Research On Hydrogen Storage.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers GRENOBLE, France, Dec. 5 (SPX) -- Research on hydrogen-fueled cars may be one step closer to application thanks to a new form of hydride discovered by scientists at the ESRF. The material, lithium borohydride, is a...

New Hypothesis For Origin Of Life Proposed.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SANTA BARBARA, Calif., Dec. 5 (SPX) -- Life may have begun in the protected spaces inside of layers of the mineral mica, in ancient oceans, according to a new hypothesis. The hypothesis was developed by Helen Hansma,...

Northrop Grumman's LITENING Advanced Targeting System Achieves Operational Availability Milestone.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill., Dec. 5 (SPX) -- Northrop Grumman announced that the LITENING Advanced Targeting (AT) has achieved more than two years of operational availability consistently above 95 percent among all U.S....

Radiation Flashes May Help Crack Cosmic Mystery.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CHICAGO, Dec. 5 (SPX) -- Faint, fleeting blue flashes of radiation emitted by particles that travel faster than the speed of light through the atmosphere may help scientists solve one of the oldest mysteries in...

Raytheon Tests New Air-Launched Missile Defense System.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers TUCSON, Dec. 5 (SPX) -- Raytheon has successfully flight tested a key component of the Network Centric Airborne Defense Element missile defense system with the intercept of a test ballistic missile. The Dec. 3 test at...

Research Forecasts Increased Chances For Stormy Weather.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Dec. 5 (SPX) -- Researchers who study severe weather and climate change joined forces to study the effects of global warming on the number of severe storms in the future and discovered a dramatic...

Technique Controls Nanoparticle Size, Creates Large Numbers.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Erin Fults ST. LOUIS, Dec. 5 (SPX) -- In a world that constantly strives for bigger and bigger things, Washington University in St. Louis' Pratim Biswas, Ph.D., the Stifel and Quinette Jens Professor and chair of the Department of...

The Restless Atmosphere Of Venus.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Dec. 5 (SPX) -- Venus Express has studied the true extent of Venus's restless atmosphere. This includes the planet's glow, its highly variable south polar vortex and the dynamic upper atmosphere, different from...

The Unexpected Temperature Profile Of Venus's Atmosphere.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Dec. 5 (SPX) -- Venus has a rich and complicated atmosphere - the densest of all the rocky planets - which is the key to understanding the planet itself. Venus Express, designed to perform an extensive...

UBC Astronomers Discover How White Dwarf Stars Get Their Kicks.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers VANCOUVER, Dec. 5 (SPX) -- University of British Columbia astronomer Harvey Richer and UBC graduate student Saul Davis have discovered that white dwarf stars are born with a natal kick, explaining why these smoldering...

US Army Awards Lockheed Martin Contract For Bridge 3 M299 Launcher.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ORLANDO, Fla., Dec. 5 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin received a $51.3 million U.S. Army contract to supply an additional 430 M299 helicopter-mounted missile launchers and 376 launcher electronic assemblies for U.S. and...

V2G Car Generates Electricity And Cash.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers NEWARK, Del., Dec. 5 (SPX) -- The price of oil nearly reached $100 a barrel recently, but a new University of Delaware prototype vehicle demonstrates how the cost of the black stuff could become a concern of the past....

ATK Selects Avionics Contractor For Ares I First Stage.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 9 (SPX) -- Alliant Techsystems has selected L-3 Communications, to provide key components of the avionics subsystem for the First Stage of NASA's next-generation human launch vehicle -- the Ares I....

Boeing Demonstrates FAB-T Multi-terminal Link Capability To USAF.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, Nov. 19 (SPX) -- Boeing has successfully demonstrated secure interoperable communications between two Family of Advanced Beyond line-of-sight Terminals (FAB-T) software-defined radios, validating a...

Boeing Projects 290 Billion Dollar Southeast Asia Market For New Commercial Airplanes.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers TAIPEI, Taiwan, Nov. 9 (SPX) -- Boeing forecasts that Southeast Asia airlines will need 1,930 airplanes worth $290 billion over the next 20 years. Strong demand for new airplanes will lead to a world fleet with...

Boeing Supports First Dual Intercept Test Of Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, Nov. 9 (SPX) -- Boeing played a key role in today's successful test of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense weapon system, which intercepted two ballistic missile targets with two Standard Missile-3 (SM-3)...

Brain Systems Become Less Coordinated With Age, Even In The Absence Of Disease.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CAMBRIDGE, MA, Dec. 6 (SPX) -- Some brain systems become less coordinated with age even in the absence of Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study from Harvard University. The results help to explain why advanced...

Bug-Zapper: A Dose Of Radiation May Help Knock Out Malaria.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (SPX) -- How are physicists helping an effort to eradicate malaria, the mosquito-borne disease that kills more than one million people every year" Researchers at the National Institute of Standards...

Computer Scientists Use Data Mining To Advance Neuroinformatics.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BLACKSBURG, Va., Nov. 19 (SPX) -- Advances in sensing technologies have made exquisite measurements of brain activity possible in the past decade. Using these measurements, computer scientists will now help...

Cooling Down Begins At Svalbard Global Seed Vault.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LONGYEARBYEN, Norway, Nov. 19 (SPX) -- Refrigeration units began pumping chilly air deep into an Arctic mountain cavern today, launching the innovative and critical "cooling down" phase of the Svalbard Global Seed...

Data For The Next Generations.
December 5, 2007... Byline: Joe Peterson BOULDER, Colo., Nov. 9 (SPX) -- New Horizons is about to enter hibernation for its long trip to Pluto. It will be deep in slumber, but not forgotten, and we've taken a crucial step to ensure that its precious data will...