Space Daily articles from March 2007

Space Daily archives from March 2007

A Hidden Twist In The Black Hole Information Paradox.
March 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers HESLINGTON, England, March 1 (SPX) -- Professor Sam Braunstein, of the University of York's Department of Computer Science, and Dr Arun Pati, of the Institute of Physics, Sainik School, Bhubaneswar, India, have...

Aerojet Tests Next Generation Safety Capability.
March 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SACRAMENTO, March 1 (SPX) -- Aerojet recently conducted an internally-funded static firing of a key Launch Abort System component. Orion's Launch Abort System is a new capability that will allow the astronaut crew to...

Cornell To Study Planetary Magnetic Fields Propulsion Research Under NASA Grant.
March 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ITHACA, N.Y., March 1 (SPX) -- Dr. Mason Peck from the Cornell University College of Engineering received a NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Phase I $75,000 award to study an innovative idea for altering...

DNA Study Explains Unique Diversity Among Melanesians.
March 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PHILADELPHIA, March 1 (SPX) -- Small populations of Melanesians - among the most genetically diverse people on the planet - have significant differences in their mitochondrial DNA that can be linked to where they...

Former Dutch Minister Brinkhorst Advises ESA DG On European Affairs.
March 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, March 1 (SPX) -- Laurens Jan Brinkhorst, the Dutch former Minister of Economic Affairs, has recently been appointed advisor to ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain. Brinkhorst has been a prominent figure...

Gates Calls On Congress To Fund IED Research.
March 2, 2007... Byline: Jim Garamone WASHINGTON, March 1 (SPX) -- Defense leaders yesterday called on Congress to approve a further $2.4 billion to defeat the biggest killer of Americans in the Middle East: the improvised explosive device. Defense...

Hunter-Viper Strike Team Completes Successful Missile Range Tests.
March 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WHITE SANDS, N.M., March 1 (SPX) -- Northrop Grumman's Hunter-Viper Strike weapon system successfully destroyed a series of moving and stationary targets in testing at the White Sands Missile Range in January. The...

Lockheed Martin Awarded $979,175,217 To Build Better Signal Processor For Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense.
March 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MOORESTOWN, N.J., March 1 (SPX) -- The U.S. Department of Defense's Missile Defense Agency (MDA) today awarded Lockheed Martin $979,175,217 for continued development and evolution of the Aegis Ballistic Missile...

Milky Way Black Hole May Be a Colossal Particle Accelerator.
March 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers TUCSON, March 1 (SPX) -- Scientists were startled when they discovered in 2004 that the center of our galaxy is emitting gamma rays with energies in the tens of trillions of electronvolts. Now astrophysicists at The...

New Evidence That Global Warming Fuels Stronger Atlantic Hurricanes.
March 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MADISON, Wis., March 1 (SPX) -- Atmospheric scientists have uncovered fresh evidence to support the hotly debated theory that global warming has contributed to the emergence of stronger hurricanes in the Atlantic...

Pluto-Bound New Horizons Spacecraft Gets A Boost From Jupiter.
March 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LAUREL, Md., March 1 (SPX) -- NASA's New Horizons spacecraft successfully completed a flyby of Jupiter early this morning, using the massive planet's gravity to pick up speed on its 3-billion mile voyage to Pluto and...

Priming The Instruments To Map Planetary Crust Of Mercury.
March 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LAUREL, Md., March 1 (SPX) -- Understanding if ice exists on the surface of Mercury, and if so what types, will mark an important component of the investigations by the MESSENGER spacecraft about the origin and...

Raytheon Awarded Phalanx Performance Based Logistics Contract.
March 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LOUISVILLE, Ky., March 1 (SPX) -- Raytheon has been awarded a five-year, $169.9 million Performance Based Logistics contract to manage the spare parts for the U.S. Navy's Phalanx Close-In Weapon System. More than...

Raytheon To Bid For Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System.
March 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers TEWKSBURY, Mass., March 1 (SPX) -- Raytheon plans to offer the Army a world-class team in a bid for the U.S. Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS). "We plan to forge an all-star team...

Scientists Invent Real-Life Tricorder For Chemical Analysis.
March 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., March 1 (SPX) -- Purdue University researchers have created a handheld sensing system its creators liken to Star Trek's "tricorder" used to analyze the chemical components of alien worlds. But...

SkyPort Signs Letter Of Intent To Purchase RAMTelecom.
March 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers HOUSTON, March 1 (SPX) -- A newly-formed subsidiary of SkyPort International has signed a letter of intent to purchase RAMTelecom Inc. of Canada, a transaction that will significantly increase SkyPort's capability to...

SpaceDev's Starsys Division Awarded Contract For NASA Mars Science Explorer Mission.
March 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers POWAY, Calif., March 1 (SPX) -- SpaceDev announced today that its subsidiary, Starsys, Inc., has been awarded a $1.4 million cost reimbursable design and development subcontract with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory...

Suburban Garages Suffering Identity Crisis.
March 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LOS ANGELES, March 1 (SPX) -- Forget hot tubs beckoning sybaritic adults, garages brimming with impressive cars and families frolicking on verdant lawns. From their clutter-strewn garages to their mostly lovely but...

Under Pressure, Vanadium Won't Turn Down The Volume.
March 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, March 1 (SPX) -- Scientists at Carnegie's Geophysical Laboratory have discovered a new type of phase transition-a change from one form to another-in vanadium, a metal that is commonly added to steel to...

Unique Observations Of Comet Mcnaught Reveal Sprinkling Nucleus.
March 2, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, March 1 (SPX) -- Comet McNaught, the Great Comet of 2007, has been delighting those who have seen it with the unaided eye as a spectacular display in the evening sky. Pushing ESO's New Technology Telescope to...

Antarctic Reveals First Hints of Biological Change After Collapse of Polar Ice Shelves.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers NARRAGANSETT, R.I., March 2 (SPX) -- Once roofed by ice for millennia, a 10,000 square km portion of the Antarctic seabed represents a true frontier, one of Earth's most pristine marine ecosystem, made suddenly...

Boeing Completes FAB-T Critical Design Review.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, March 2 (SPX) -- Boeing has successfully completed a Critical Design Review (CDR) of its Family of Advanced Beyond line-of-sight Terminals (FAB-T) program, helping to pave the way for deliveries to begin....

Boeing Delivers 500th Minuteman III Missile Guidance Set.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ST LOUIS, Mo., March 2 (SPX) -- Boeing delivered the 500th Minuteman III Guidance Replacement Program (GRP) Missile Guidance Set (MGS) to the U.S. Air Force and Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) prime...

Cassini Returns Never-Before-Seen Views Of The Ringed Planet.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BOULDER, Colo., March 2 (SPX) -- NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured never-before-seen views of Saturn from perspectives high above and below the planet's rings. Over the last several months, the spacecraft has...

Clyde Space To Supply SOHLA-2 Electrical Systems And Solar Arrays.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers GLASGOW, England, March 2 (SPX) -- Astro-Technology SOHLA (Space Oriented Higashiosaka Leading Association) has selected Glasgow based small satellite power specialist, Clyde Space, to supply the complete power system...

Dreams Of Homegrown Spaceflight Keeps The Farmer Busy.(Interview)
March 5, 2007... Byline: Larry Evans IRVINE, Calif., March 2 (SPX) -- "If you have a dream, you have to follow it, you at least have to try. And if you have people supporting you, it certainly helps," Billy Bob Thornton told me in a recent interview....

Engineers "Can" Do Anything To Build The James Webb Space Telescope Model.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers REDONDO BEACH, Calif., March 2 (SPX) -- Engineers "can" do almost anything it seems. During the week of Feb 19, they constructed a model of the James Webb Space Telescope out of cans. It was on display at Northrop...

Fluid Dynamics Works On Nanoscale In Real World.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ATLANTA, March 2 (SPX) -- In 2000, Georgia Tech researchers showed that fluid dynamics theory could be modified to work on the nanoscale, albeit in a vacuum. Now, seven years later they've shown that it can be...

Hughes Signs Contract With Arianespace to Launch SPACEWAY 3.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers GERMANTOWN, MD, March 2 (SPX) -- Hughes Network Systems has awarded a launch services contract to Arianespace for the launch of its next-generation SPACEWAY 3 satellite. The Ariane 5 heavy launcher will launch...

Hurricane Can Form New Eyewall And Change Intensity Rapidly.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SEATTLE, March 5 (SPX) -- Hurricanes can gain or lose intensity with startling quickness, a phenomenon never more obvious than during the historic 2005 hurricane season that spawned the remarkably destructive Katrina...

International Heliophysical Year Begins.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, March 5 (SPX) -- A year of scientific collaboration and public engagement events aimed at understanding space weather and the Sun's true effects throughout the Solar System has started. The International...

Iridium Satellite To Open New Ground Station In Norway.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BETHESDA, Md., March 2 (SPX) -- Iridium Satellite announces plans to open a new telemetry, tracking and command/control (TTAC) earth station in Norway. The TTAC opening is part of a continuous improvement plan to...

Lennar Homebuilding Introduces Solar Electric Systems In All New Homes In The Bay Area.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SAN RAMON, Calif., March 2 (SPX) -- Lennar Homebuilding has announced that all new communities constructed in the greater San Francisco Bay market will be equipped with a roof integrated solar electric system from...

Light Carbon-Fiber Structure Protects Heavy Space Cargo.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers KIRTLAND AFB, N.M., March 2 (SPX) -- With a successful, inaugural performance during the launch of the TacSat2 micro satellite in December, an innovative, lightweight space cargo accommodation technology, comprised of...

Marines First To Try Out High-Tech Antenna.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Lance Cpl. Richard Blumenstein, MCB Camp Butler CAMP HANSEN, Japan, March 5 (SPX) -- More than 30 Marines with 7th Communications Battalion, 3rd Marine Division and Marine Wing Communications Squadron 18, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing,...

NASA Awards SOFIA Development And Engineering Contract To L-3 Communications.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers EDWARDS AFB, Calif., March 5 (SPX) -- NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center has awarded a contract to L-3 Communications Integrated Systems, L.P., of Waco, Texas, for continued developmental and engineering work on the...

NASA Detects Trends In Rainfall Traits From Drizzles To Downpours.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers GREENBELT, Md., March 5 (SPX) -- Breaking news in recent years has been swamped with stories of extreme weather -- flash floods in East Asia, prolonged drought in Africa, destructive hurricanes like Hurricane Katrina,...

NASA Helps Create A March Madness For Robotics.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, March 2 (SPX) -- For many people, this time of year brings 'March Madness,' the frenzy of tournaments to determine the best college basketball team in the nation, but for thousands of high school students...

New Coating Is Virtual Black Hole For Reflections.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers TROY, N.Y., March 5 (SPX) -- Researchers have created an anti-reflective coating that allows light to travel through it, but lets almost none bounce off its surface. At least 10 times more effective than the coating...

New Graphene Transistor Promises Life After Death Of Silicon Chip.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MANCHESTER, UK, March 5 (SPX) -- Researchers have used the world's thinnest material to create the world's smallest transistor - a breakthrough that could spark the development of a new type of super-fast computer...

New Horizons Completes First Stage Of Long Journey To Pluto And Beyond.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Alan Stern LAUREL, Md., March 2 (SPX) -- The eighth mission to the fifth planet has reached its crescendo - Jupiter, my friends, is in the rear view mirror! Just yesterday we passed closest approach, sealing the deal on our gravity...

New Observations Show Sun-Like Star In Earliest Stage Of Development.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BOULDER, Colo., March 5 (SPX) -- Located in a region called the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula roughly 7,000 light-years from Earth, the object -- dubbed E42 -- is thought to be in the earliest stage...

New Patent Protects Essential MSV Satellite Technology.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers RESTON, Va., March 5 (SPX) -- Mobile Satellite Ventures has been awarded U.S. Patent No. 7,181,161 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. This is the nineteenth patent issued to MSV protecting the company's hybrid...

Out-Of-This-World Ride In NASA's 14th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers HUNTSVILLE, Ala., March 5 (SPX) -- Teams of high school and college students from across the country and around the world are hard at work designing and building their own lunar vehicles in preparation for NASA's 14th...

Power Of Yellowstone Shapes The Land Between Eruptions.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SALT LAKE CITY, March 5 (SPX) -- A 17-year University of Utah study of ground movements shows that the power of the huge volcanic hotspot beneath Yellowstone National Park is much greater than previously thought...

Researchers Publish First Working Model That Explains How Biological Clocks Work.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ATLANTA, March 2 (SPX) -- Science has known for decades that biological clocks govern the behavior of everything from humans to lowly bread mold. These ticking timekeepers hold the key to many diseases, annoy...

Researchers Study Superconductivity, Magnetism In Novel Material.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., March 5 (SPX) -- A University of Arkansas physics professor and his colleagues have created a nanoscale structure that contains both magnetic and superconducting properties at the same time, and...

Rosetta Delivers Phobos Transit Animation And Sees Mars In Stereo.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, March 5 (SPX) -- During Rosetta's recent Mars swingby, the OSIRIS cameras captured a series of images of Mars and of Phobos transiting Mars' disk. The OSIRIS team have produced a cool animated sequence and a 3D...

Scientists Produce Neurons From Human Skin.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers QUEBEC CITY, March 2 (SPX) -- Scientists from Universite Laval's Faculty of Medicine have succeeded in producing neurons in vitro using stem cells extracted from adult human skin. This is the first time such an...

Scientists Rehearse For Foton Mission.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers NOORDWIJK, Holland, March 2 (SPX) -- Over 60 scientists and technicians have taken up temporary residence in ESA's brand new microgravity science laboratory, where, for the coming days, they will rehearse procedures...

Software Patch Makes Car More Fuel-Efficient.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers EINDHOVEN, Netherlands, March 5 (SPX) -- A car wastes energy almost continuously. Whether it is running in first, second, or a higher gear, there is only one position of the accelerator that guarantees optimal...

Sol Sister.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers FLAGSTAFF, Ariz., March 2 (SPX) -- For the first time, astronomers have collected and analyzed a long-term set of activity and brightness measurements of a "solar twin." A team from Lowell Observatory and Tennessee...

Space Shuttle Atlantis Rolls Back.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., March 5 (SPX) -- Space Shuttle Atlantis began its roll back to the Vehicle Assembly Building this morning at 8:47 a.m. from Launch Pad 39A. The vehicle is being roll backed due to hail damage...

Strain Has Major Effect On High-Temp Superconductors.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BOULDER, Colo., March 2 (SPX) -- Just a little mechanical strain can cause a large drop in the maximum current carried by high-temperature superconductors, according to novel measurements carried out by the National...

Students Enter Competition To Produce A Zero-Emissions Snowmobile.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers HOUGHTON, Mich., March 5 (SPX) -- Snowmobiles long ago replaced dogsleds for hauling people and cargo in the polar regions, particularly in remote research stations and field camps such as those on the Greenland Ice...

Superbots In Action.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LOS ANGELES, March 5 (SPX) -- He has illustrated his comments with striking video of the system in action, video now posted on line. Shen's presentation took place at the Space Technology and Applications...

The Discovery Of Eris.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers for Astrobiology Magazine MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., March 2 (SPX) -- In 2005, Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology and his team discovered a large body in the outer solar system. It was not the first...

Vivid On-Line Videos Demonstrate SuperBot Progress.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LOS ANGELES, March 2 (SPX) -- Wei-Min Shen of the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute recently reported to NASA significant progress in developing "SuperBot," identical modular units...

Watching Atoms Move Is Goal Of Powerful New X-ray Sources.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ITHICA, N.Y., March 2 (SPX) -- When excited, atoms move at impossibly small length and time scales -- too small and too fast to have been observed in years past. But as applied and engineering physics professor Joel...

Gauging Earthquake Hazards Through Study Of Precariously Balance Rocks.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers RENO, Nev., March 5 (SPX) -- A seismological research team from the University of Nevada, Reno is finding ways to make precariously balanced rocks talk. In so doing, they are unlocking valuable scientific information...

Genome Sequencing Reveals A Key To Viable Ethanol Production.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 5 (SPX) -- As the national push for alternative energy sources heats up, researchers at the University of Rochester have for the first time identified how genes responsible for biomass breakdown...

GIOVE-A Navigation Signal Available To Users.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, March 5 (SPX) -- The GIOVE-A Signal-in-Space Interface Control Document, the document that gives the technical details of the signals transmitted by the GIOVE-A satellite, has been released. This will allow...

Heatwave On The Top Of The World.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SAINT-QUENTIN, France, March 5 (SPX) -- The French Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC, or GIEC in French) has just announced the conclusions of its 4th report, which restates that global warming has...

Hubble Watches Comet Galaxy Ripped Apart By Galaxy Cluster.
March 5, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BALTIMORE, March 5 (SPX) -- The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, in collaboration with several other ground- and space-based telescopes, has captured a galaxy being ripped apart by a galaxy cluster's gravitational...

Advanced Technology Peers Deep Inside Hurricanes.
March 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers GREENBELT, Md., March 7 (SPX) -- Determined to understand why some storms grow into hurricanes while others fizzle, NASA scientists recently looked deep into thunderstorms off the African coast using satellites and...

AEGIS Survey Reveals New Principle Governing Galaxy Formation And Evolution.
March 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SANTA CRUZ, Calif., March 7 (SPX) -- Faced with the bewildering array of galaxies in the universe, from orderly spirals to chaotic mergers, it is hard to imagine a unifying principle that describes them all with...

Agreement Between ESA And The European Maritime Safety Agency Signed Today.
March 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, March 5 (SPX) -- Mr Willem de Ruiter, Executive Director of the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) and Mr Volker Liebig, ESA's Director of Earth Observation Programmes, signed an agreement between the two...

Amber Penetrates To The Heart Of The Stars.
March 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, March 6 (SPX) -- Numerous astronomical results have been obtained thanks to AMBER, the instrument which equips the Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) at the European Southern Observatory (ESO). AMBER...

Atomic Clock Signals May Be Best Shared By Fiber-Optics.
March 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BOULDER, Colo., March 6 (SPX) -- Time and frequency information can be transferred between laboratories or to other users in several ways, often using the Global Positioning System (GPS). But today's best atomic...

Atoms Under The Mantle.
March 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LILLE, France, March 7 (SPX) -- At a depth of 2900 kilometres, the layer between the Earth's mantle and its core has always intrigued geophysicists because they are unable to explain the seismic data it generates....

Conflicting Signals Can Confuse Rescue Robots.
March 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BOULDER, Colo., March 6 (SPX) -- Sensor-laden robots capable of vital search and rescue missions at disaster sites are no figment of a science fiction writer's imagination. Prototypes and commercial models of urban...

Dawn Gets An Environmental Test.
March 7, 2007... Byline: Dr. Marc D. Rayman WASHINGTON, March 6 (SPX) -- The Dawn spacecraft has just completed the final and most challenging of the environmental tests needed to prepare for its launch and travels through space. During the past month, it...

Down With Physics: Giant CMS Magnet Goes Underground At CERN.
March 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BATAVIA, Ill., March 6 (SPX) -- Scientists of the US CMS collaboration joined colleagues around the world in announcing today (February 28) that the heaviest piece of the Compact Muon Solenoid particle detector has...

Engineers Share Designs On Clean Water.
March 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 7 (SPX) -- An MIT engineer working toward clean drinking water in Nepal describes in a recent issue of the Journal of International Development how people from developed and developing...

ESA Award SSTL Contract To Build A Second GIOVE-A.
March 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, March 7 (SPX) -- The European Space Agency (ESA) awarded a contract to Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) to build a second satellite for the Galileo satellite navigation system. Named GIOVE-A2, the new...

F-35 Production A Step Closer After Wind Tunnel Test.
March 7, 2007... Byline: Philip Lorenz III Arnold Engineering Development Center Public Affairs ARNOLD AFB, Tenn., March 7 (SPX) -- Arnold Engineering Development Center workers completed the last developmental wind tunnel test in February for all Joint...

Fats Into Jet Fuel: NC State Develops Biofuels Technology.
March 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers RALEIGH, N.C., March 6 (SPX) -- New biofuels technology developed by North Carolina State University engineers has the potential to turn virtually any fat source - vegetable oils, oils from animal fat and even oils...

Finger Rafting - Ice Sheets That Mesh When They Meet.
March 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 6 (SPX) -- A study reported in Physical Review Letters demonstrates how ice sheets sometimes interlace when they meet, rather than riding over or under each other, and discusses the...

Forest Replacing Tundra At Rapid Rate.
March 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers EDMONTON, March 7 (SPX) -- Forests of spruce trees and shrubs in parts of northern Canada are taking over what were once tundra landscapes--forcing out the species that lived there. This shift can happen at a much...

Frozen Lightning Offers New Type Of Nanoelectronic Switch.
March 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, March 6 (SPX) -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated a prototype nanoscale electronic switch that works like lightning-except for the speed. Their...

Full-Spectrum Study Of Small Patch Of Sky Yields Portrait Of Maturing Universe.
March 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BERKELEY, Calif., March 7 (SPX) -- A massive project to generate an all-color map of the galaxies in a small area of sky, utilizing four satellite telescopes and four ground-based telescopes, is yielding new...

Geologists Reveal Secrets Behind Supervolcano Eruption.
March 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers TROY, NY, March 7 (SPX) -- Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have discovered what likely triggered the eruption of a "supervolcano" that coated much of the western half of the United States with ash...

Hidden Ice Lakes Speed Ice Flow Into Ocean.
March 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers NEW YORK, March 7 (SPX) -- Just as explorers once searched the vast reaches of Africa's Nile River for clues to its behavior and ultimate source, modern-day scientists are searching Antarctica for its hidden lakes and...

Hubble Pans Across Heavens To Harvest 50,000 Evolving Galaxies.
March 7, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BALTIMORE, MD, March 7 (SPX) -- Several hundred images taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have been woven together into a rich tapestry of at least 50,000 galaxies. The Hubble view is yielding new clues about...