Space Daily articles from March 2006

Space Daily archives from March 2006

Air Force Vision Embraces Warfighters Heritage.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON DC (AFNS) MAR, 01, 2006, March 1 (SPX) -- Heritage, future innovations and focus on the joint warfighter are three key points in the newly released Air Force Vision document, "Lasting Heritage...Limitless...

Boeing To Process Radar Data From Endeavour.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ST LOUIS, Mo., March 1 (SPX) -- Boeing has received a $3.5 million follow-on task order from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to enhance the digital topographic data collected by the space shuttle...

Devices Tease Out Individual Sounds From Underwater Racket.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers SEATTLE, Feb. 28 (SPX) -- While biologists sort out what levels of noise go unnoticed, are annoying or cause harm to marine mammals, physical oceanographer Jeff Nystuen is giving scientists and managers a way to sift...

ISS Crew Sends Congratulatory Olympic Message.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Feb. 27 (SPX) -- International Space Station crew members William McArthur and Valery Tokarev sent congratulations Sunday to the athletes gathered in Turin, Italy, for the closing ceremony of the 20th Olympic...

Mars Rover Update Preparing For Another Winter.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 27 (SPX) -- In a race to collect as much scientific data as possible before the onset of the Martian winter, Spirit climbed to the top of the formation in Gusev Crater called Home Plate and...

Mars Rovers Robotics Planetary Exploration Atacama Xenobiology.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ATACAMA DESERT, Chile, Feb. 28 (SPX) -- In the March 2006 issue of IEEE Spectrum, staff editor Jean Kumagai reports on what she saw and heard while observing the field team last fall. The researchers come to the...

MOD Appoints QinetiQ To Demonstrate Advanced Radar Targeting System.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers LONDON, Feb. 28 (SPX) -- The Ministry of Defence has awarded a contract to QinetiQ to demonstrate the advanced targeting capability offered by Electronically Scanned (E-Scan) radar technology. QinetiQ has teamed with...

NASA Awards Ocean Color Research Support Services Contract.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers BELTSVILLE, Md., Feb. 27 (SPX) -- NASA said Monday it has selected Science Applications International to provide support for Goddard Space Flight Center's Ocean Color research programs. SAIC will receive a five-year...

NASA Laser Camera Device Can Assess Shuttle Damage.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Feb. 27 (SPX) -- A new NASA-developed camera accessory uses twin lasers to shoot photos that can precisely measure damage to the space shuttle. The device also has applications in crime-scene...

New Horizons Update Boulder and Baltimore.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers BALTIMORE, Feb. 27 (SPX) -- Last week, we published details of the discoveries and early interpretation of Pluto's two small moons, formally called S/2005 P1 and S/2005 P2, in a pair of papers (Weaver et al. 2006 and...

Noahs Ark On The Moon.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Feb. 28 (SPX) -- With this essay by Bernard Foing, Astrobiology Magazine presents the second in our series of 'Gedanken,' or thought experiments - musings by scientists on various "what if" scenarios. Gedanken...

Orbit International Mobile Key Panel Receivers.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers HAUPPAUGE, N.Y., Feb. 28 (SPX) -- Orbit International has announced that it has received a contract valued in excess of $1,000,000 for the production of its mobile key panel receivers in support of the Defense...

Solid Progress Continues With GPS Modernization Effort.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif., Feb. 28 (SPX) -- The fleet of Global Positioning System Block IIR satellites designed and built by Lockheed Martin to significantly enhance the overall performance of the GPS constellation has now...

SpaceX Sets New Launch Date For Falcon.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Feb. 26 (SPX) -- SpaceX has reset the tentative launch window for the maiden flight of Falcon 1 to March 20 through 25. "The gating items are receiving a shipment of liquid oxygen from Hawaii...

The Critical Importance Of Mangroves To Ocean Life.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (SPX) -- Mangroves, the backbone of the tropical ocean coastlines, are far more important to the global ocean's biosphere than previously thought. And while the foul-smelling muddy forests may not...

Total Force In Action With Predator Operations.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers NELLIS AFB, Nev., Feb. 28 (SPX) -- The U.S. Air Force Warfare Center's implementation of total force initiatives continues as more Guard and Reserve members integrate into Predator operations here. In an Air Force...

Total Solar Eclipse To Be Webcast Live.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27 (SPX) -- The Exploratorium said Monday it will produce a live telecast March 29 of a solar eclipse from several locations along the path of totality. The first darkening will occur on the...

UND NASA DC8 Flies Second Mission From Grand Forks With New Experiments.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers GRAND FORKS, N.D., Feb. 28 (SPX) -- The University of North Dakota-NASA National Suborbital Education and Research Center (NSERC) sent its second DC-8 mission aloft Friday with a record 176,000-pound payload of...

VLT Captures Supernova In Messier 100.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers CERRO PARANAL, Chile, Feb. 27 (SPX) -- Thought to be similar to what the Milky Way looks like, astronomers call Messier 100 a grand design spiral galaxy that presents an intricate structure, with a bright core and two...

XCOR Aerospace Enlists Hi Tech Partners In Space Vehicle Design.
March 1, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers MOJAVE, Calif., Feb. 27 (SPX) -- XCOR Aerospace said it has teamed with two other California companies - a supercomputer maker and a specialized software provider - to speed up the design and testing processes for its...

Arianespace Resets Launch For March 9.
March 2, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers KOUROU, French Guiana, Feb. 28 (SPX) -- Arianespace said Tuesday it has reset the date for its next Ariane 5 rocket liftoff for March 9, with a launch window extending only about one hour, from 7:06 p.m. to 8:13 p.m.,...

Boeing ScanEagle UAV Surpasses 10000 Combat Flight Hours.
March 2, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ST LOUIS, Mo., March 1 (SPX) -- ScanEagle, a long-endurance fully autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle developed by Boeing and The Insitu Group, has surpassed 10,000 combat flight hours in less than two years supporting...

Cassini Captures Saturn F Ring.
March 2, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 28 (SPX) -- The Cassini spacecraft has captured an image revealing structure in Saturn's narrow and complex F ring, including one of the faint strands that seems to curl around the planet in a...

Ceradyne Receives Ceramic Body Armor Contract.
March 2, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers COSTA MESA, Calif., March 1 (SPX) -- Ceradyne announced the receipt of a $42.8 million delivery order for its lightweight ceramic body armor. This is the eighth delivery order received under the $461 million...

Ecosystem In Suspended Animation.
March 2, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., March 1 (SPX) -- Deeply buried ocean sediments may house populations of tiny organisms that have extremely low maintenance energy needs and population turnover rates of anywhere from 200 to 2,000...

Foam Issues Still Dog Shuttle Launch.
March 2, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Feb. 28 (SPX) -- Potential problems with the insulating foam covering the main fuel tank continue to occupy a great deal of time for and attention by NASA's space shuttle mission managers enough...

Glass Chip Cancels Starlight To Reveal Exoplanets.
March 2, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers TUCSON, Feb. 28 (SPX) -- A thin and tiny glass chip called an optical vortex mask might hold the key to direct imaging of planets orbiting around neighboring stars. The glass chip can block out starlight so completely...

Harris Awarded Contract By Lockheed Martin For Undersea Surveillance.
March 2, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers MELBOURNE, Fla., March 1 (SPX) -- Harris has announced that it has been awarded a three-year, $27.8 million contract by Lockheed Martin Maritime Systems and Sensors to develop and integrate a water-deployable...

Hubble Captures Its Biggest Galaxy Image Yet.
March 2, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers BALTIMORE, Feb. 28 (SPX) -- The Hubble Space Telescope's new image of the face-on spiral galaxy Messier 101 is the largest and most detailed photo of a spiral galaxy yet compiled by the orbiting observatory - and one...

Massive Ancient Flood Linked To Climate Change.
March 2, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers NEW YORK, Feb. 28 (SPX) -- Scientists from NASA and Columbia University have used computer modeling to reproduce an abrupt climate change that took place about 8,200 years ago, when at the beginning of the current...

Milky Way And Andromeda Galaxy Share Common History.
March 2, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Feb. 28 (SPX) -- Researchers said Tuesday they have found evidence that the Andromeda and Milky Way galaxies probably are quite similar in the way they evolved - at least over their first several...

Modeling The Giant Cores Of Extrasolar Planets.
March 2, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers MINNEAPOLIS, March 1 (SPX) -- University of Minnesota researchers Renata Wentzcovitch and Koichiro Umemoto and Philip B. Allen of Stony Brook University have modeled the properties of rocks at the temperatures and...

New Class Of Compounds Promise Better Drugs Clean Energy.
March 2, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PROVIDENCE, R.I., March 1 (SPX) -- By combining a common organic compound with a rare metal, a team of Brown University chemists has created a new class of molecules that have potentially important applications for...

New Missiles For The Australian Defence Force.
March 2, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers CANBERRA, Australia, March 1 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin's Joint Air-to-Surface Stand-off Missile (or JASSM) has been selected as the new long range air-to-surface missile to equip the Australian Defence Force's F/A-18...

New Research Forecasts Better Weather Forecasts.
March 2, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 1 (SPX) -- A Purdue University researcher and his team have used improved satellite imaging and powerful computer modeling to more accurately forecast the likelihood and intensity of storms...

Pulsar Causes Mysterious Collision With Stellar Winds.
March 2, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Feb. 28 (SPX) -- Astronomers using ESA's XMM-Newton spacecraft have witnessed a collision between a pulsar and a ring of gas around a neighboring star. The rare passage, in which the pulsar plunged into and...

Raytheons JPS Communications ACU T Enables Better Comms For Afghan Army.
March 2, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers RALEIGH, N.C., March 1 (SPX) -- The U.S. Military's Office of Security Cooperation-Afghanistan (OSC-A) has improved the Afghan National Army's (ANA) radio communications and safety readiness by deploying Raytheon's...

Scientist Discovers Lost Kingdom Of Tambora.
March 2, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PROVIDENCE, R.I., March 1 (SPX) -- The eruption of Mount Tambora on the Indonesian island of Sumbawa in 1815, the largest volcanic eruption in human history, killed 117,000 people and extinguished the tiny kingdom of...

The Evolution Of Right And Left Handedness.
March 2, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WINNIPEG, Manitoba, March 1 (SPX) -- A study from the April issue of Current Anthropology explores the evolution of handedness, one of few firm behavioral boundaries separating humans from other animals. "The...

USS Hopper Supports Ballistic Missile Defense in Sky Hunter.
March 2, 2006... Byline: Ensign Jamie Lynn De Coster SAN DIEGO, March 1 (SPX) -- USS Hopper (DDG 70), an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer homeported at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, participated in the successful "Sky Hunter" Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) test...

2004 Tsunami Forces Rethinking Theory Of Giant Earthquakes.
March 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., March 3 (SPX) -- The Sumatra-Andaman earthquake of December 26, 2004, was one of the worst natural disasters in recent memory, mostly on account of the devastating tsunami that followed it. A group...

Amber Reveals Ecology Of 30 Million Year Old Spiders.
March 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers MANCHESTER, UK, March 2 (SPX) -- Scientists at The University of Manchester and the Manchester Metropolitan University have carried out the first comparative scientific study of ancient spiders trapped in amber more...

Arianespace Confirms WildBlue-1 For GEO Launch.
March 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers DENVER, March 1 (SPX) -- WildBlue Communications announced today that Arianespace has scheduled the launch of its Ka-band spot beam satellite, WildBlue-1, on an Ariane 5 vehicle in the fourth quarter of 2006 from the...

Boeing GMD Team Launches Target Tests Upgraded Radar.
March 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers ST LOUIS, Mo., March 1 (SPX) -- A Boeing-led industry team and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) have successfully completed a test of key parts of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system. During today's...

Discoverys Main Tank Arrives At The Cape.
March 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 1 (SPX) -- Shuttle Discovery's main fuel tank arrived by barge at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday afternoon, after leaving its assembly facility in Michoud, La., last Saturday. ...

ESA Satellite Program Monitors Dangerous Ocean Eddies.
March 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, March 1 (SPX) -- Ocean FOCUS began issuing ocean-current forecasts on Feb. 16 - just in time to warn Gulf of Mexico offshore oil and natural gas producers that a new warm eddy had formed in the area. The...

Forecasting The Seas.
March 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers VIRGINIA KEY, Fla., March 3 (SPX) -- Shipping companies can route ships more safely and efficiently. Ocean search-and-rescue can operate more effectively. Meteorologists and climatologists now have a tool to provide...

IODP Scientists Acquire Treasure Trove Of Climate Records Off Tahiti Coast.
March 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, March 3 (SPX) -- An international team of scientists, supported by the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program, reunited at the University of Bremen to analyze a trove of coral fossil samples retrieved from...

Lockheed Martin And ATK Achieve Final Qualification Of Orbus 1A Motor.
March 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers DENVER, March 1 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin has announced that the ORBUS 1A second- and third-stage solid rocket motor has completed qualification testing for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's (MDA's) Boost Vehicle-Plus...

Magnetic Field Sculpts Narrow Jets From Dying Star.
March 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers MANCHESTER, England, March 1 (SPX) -- Astronomers have detected a tightly wound magnetic field around a dying star that is confining its ejected matter into narrow, corkscrew-shaped jets. British and Japanese...

Mars Rover Team Plays It Safes With Spirit.
March 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., March 1 (SPX) -- NASA's Spirit recorded this view while approaching the northwestern edge of the formation Mars Exploration Rover mission controllers have named Home Plate, a circular plateau-like...

MHF Logistical Solutions Demonstrate Live Remote Cargo Tracking.
March 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PITTSBURGH, March 2 (SPX) -- MHF Logistical Solutions offered live, real-time demonstrations of its new remote tracking and cargo monitoring service at the Waste Management Conference which met in Tucson, Arizona,...

NASA Sets Media Rollout Of CEV Model.
March 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., March 1 (SPX) -- NASA is inviting news media representatives to view a scale model of the new Crew Exploration Vehicle at its Ames Research Center on March 7. Reporters are invited to view...

Northrop Grumman to Provide F-16 Fleet To Greek Air Force.
March 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers BALTIMORE, March 3 (SPX) -- Northrop Grumman has been awarded a $63.9 million contract to provide AN/APG-68(V)9 airborne radars for F-16 Block 52+ aircraft for the Hellenic Air Force. Northrop Grumman has a direct...

Raytheon Awarded Contract For Submarine Satellite Comms Solution.
March 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers MCKINNEY, Texas, March 2 (SPX) -- Raytheon has been awarded a $35.9 million U.S. Navy contract to deliver 15 Submarine High Data Rate (Sub HDR) multi-band satellite communication systems (SATCOM). Sub HDR gives...

Responsive Space Means Microsats Are Go For Launch.
March 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers VANDENBERG AFB CA (AFM) MAR, 02, 2006, March 5 (SPX) -- As a US combatant commander prepares for battle, he might need a close, up-to-date look at what is happening on the ground. He may need to put more "eyes" on a...

Russian Space Industry Still Optimistic And Creative.
March 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers MOSCOW, Russia (RIA) Mar 02, March 5 (SPX) -- Russia's Federal Space Program for 2006-2015 includes government allocations for a series of light spacecraft, so technologically advanced that, at two- to three-digit...

Satellites Detect Significant Ice Loss In Antarctica.
March 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers BOULDER, Colo., March 2 (SPX) -- Antarctica's ice sheet has lost a significant amount of ice in just three years, researchers reported Thursday. A team using data from the joint NASA/German Aerospace Center Gravity...

SDR-3002 EWRDP For Electronic Warfare Apps.
March 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers BURNABY, British Columbia, March 3 (SPX) -- Spectrum Signal Processing has announced the flexComm SDR-3002 EWRDP, an "IF to Ethernet" platform for the development and deployment of wideband Electronic Warfare (EW)...

Sex Why Bother Evolutionary Mysteries Probed At UH.
March 5, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, March 2 (SPX) -- Ricardo Azevedo's research on pros, cons of sexual reproduction explained in Nature magazine What advantage did sex offer when it first appeared and why does sex persist in modern...

CAESAR Triumphs As New Gen Of Radar Takes Flight.
March 8, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WILTSHIRE, England, March 6 (SPX) -- The new generation of electronically scanned (E-Scan) radar systems has moved from lab tests to field trials when the first successful airborne operational test of Euroradar's...

Managing Coal Combustion Residues In Mines.
March 8, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WAYLAND, Mass., March 2 (SPX) -- Filling mines with the residues of coal combustion is a viable way to dispose of these materials, provided they are placed so as to avoid adverse health and environmental effects, says...

Mass Migration Of Mormon Crickets Driven By Hunger Fear.
March 8, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers KENT, Ohio, March 6 (SPX) -- An international team of researchers, including Kent State University professor Dr. Patrick D. Lorch, have revealed the motivating factors behind the seasonal mass migration of Mormon...

Mile Wide Asteroid Passes Close On Monday.
March 8, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers BOULDER, Colo., March 5 (SPX) -- An asteroid named 2000 PN9 will fly past Earth at a distance of about 2 million miles on March 6. There is no danger of a collision with the mile-wide space rock, but its nearest...

NASA Awards 5M Hours Of Supercomputing Time To Researchers.
March 8, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers MOFFET FIELD, Calif., March 5 (SPX) -- NASA said Friday it has awarded 4.65 million hours of supercomputing time to help four groups of scientists solve some of the most challenging research problems involving climate...

NASA Pushes Back New Millennium ST5 Launch To March 14.
March 8, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers VANDENBERG, Calif., March 2 (SPX) -- NASA said it has rescheduled the launch of is Science Technology 5 mission, which will carry three tiny satellites aboard a Pegasus expendable lift vehicle, due to an access...

New Heavy Airlift Capability For Oz Air Force.
March 8, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers CANBERRA, Australia, March 6 (SPX) -- I am pleased to announce that the Australian Government will acquire up to four new Boeing C-17 Globemaster III aircraft and associated equipment to provide the Australian Defence...

New Method For Identifying Microbes.
March 8, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers UPTON, N.Y., March 6 (SPX) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have developed a new, high-throughput technique for identifying the many species of microorganisms living in...

New Tree Of Life Allows A Closer Look At Origin Of Species.
March 8, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers HEIDELBERG, Germany, March 6 (SPX) -- In 1870 the German scientist Ernst Haeckel mapped the evolutionary relationships of plants and animals in the first 'tree of life'. Since then scientists have continuously redrawn...

Pesticides In The Nations Streams And Ground Water.
March 8, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers RESTON, Va., March 6 (SPX) -- The U.S. Geological Survey has released a report describing the occurrence of pesticides in streams and ground water during 1992-2001. The report concludes that pesticides are typically...

QinetiQ Secures Orders For Its Anti Satellite Jamming System.
March 8, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers TOKYO, March 2 (SPX) -- QinetiQ has sold a complete satID satellite geolocation system to the Space Communications of Japan, allowing SCC to identify and accurately locate the source of interference to satellites....

Role Of Showoff Hypothesis In Social Decisions Investigated.
March 8, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers CHICAGO, March 2 (SPX) -- A new study of the Hadza population in Tanzania, forthcoming in the April 2006 issue of Current Anthropology, explores the role of hunting in human evolution. Among chimpanzees and most human...

Saturn Moons In Ghostly Specter.
March 8, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., March 1 (SPX) -- Ghostly details make this dark scene more than just a beautiful grouping of two Saturn moons, with Tethys on the left and Titan on the right. In Titan's thick and inflated...

SMART-1 Tracks Crater Lichtenberg And Young Lunar Basalts.
March 8, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 (SPX) -- This image, taken by the Advanced Moon Imaging Experiment on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, illustrates a special pointing mode, the so-called target-tracking mode. The image shows...

Study Finds Californians Unmotivated To Prepare For Next Disaster.
March 8, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers LOS ANGELES, March 3 (SPX) -- Californians believe that their state is prone to disasters, but see little motivation to prepare for nature's crushing blows, a new poll has found. The poll, sponsored by the Insurance...

SuitSat Experiment Ends.
March 8, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers MOSCOW, Feb. 27 (SPX) -- The SuitSat-1 experiment, called RadioSkaf - or Radio Sputnik in Russian - has been completed successfully by the International Space Station crew, Sergei Samburov, the project's deputy...

Titan's Methane Mystery May Be Solved.
March 8, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers NANTES, France, March 1 (SPX) -- An international team of planetary scientists said they may have solved the mystery of why the atmosphere of Saturn's giant moon, Titan, is rich in methane. Scientists at the...

TPS Picks Postcards From Venus Winners.
March 8, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., March 2 (SPX) -- The Planetary Society is commemorating the imagined rugged beauty of the Venusian landscape by picking winning entries in the "Postcards from Venus" art contest. The competition was...

u-blox LEA 4T Precision Timing GPS Module For Global Synchronicity.
March 8, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers THALWIL, Switzerland, March 2 (SPX) -- u-blox AG has introduced the LEA-4T, a high performance, low power, precision timing GPS receiver capable of a (compensated) time pulse accuracy of 15 ns. Needing just one...

US-India Issue Joint Statement.
March 8, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, March 3 (SPX) -- President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today expressed satisfaction with the great progress the United States and India have made in advancing our strategic partnership...

A New Awakening For Sleep Research.
March 9, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers THESSALONIKI, Greece, March 6 (SPX) -- Whether you are having problems to stay awake or falling asleep, sleep science has yet offered little help, due to costly and complicated diagnostics and treatments. Researchers...

Archaeologists To Establish True Value Of Roman Silver Coins.
March 9, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers LIVERPOOL, UK, March 6 (SPX) -- An archaeologist at the University of Liverpool is examining more than 1,000 Roman silver coins from museums around the world in order to establish their true economic value. An...

Cassini Catches Enceladus Transit.
March 9, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers DESKTOP AVAILABLE - 1024X768THIS IMAGE WAS TAKEN ON MARCH, 03, 2006 and received on Earth March 04, March 9 (SPX) -- by Staff Writers Pasadena CA (SPX) March 5, 2006 The Cassini spacecraft captured this...

Convergent Evolution Of Molecules In Electric Fish.
March 9, 2006... Byline: Staff Writers AUSTIN, Texas, March 6 (SPX) -- Having a set of extra genes gave fish on separate continents the ability to evolve electric organs, report researchers from The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Harold Zakon and...