Space Daily articles from September 2007

Space Daily archives from September 2007

Amber Specimen Captures Ancient Chemical Battle.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CORVALLIS, Ore., Sept. 3 (SPX) -- It appears that chemical warfare has been around a lot longer than poison arrows, mustard gas or nerve weapons - about 100 million years, give or take a little. A new study by...

Bioengineers Devise Nanoscale System To Measure Cellular Forces.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers UNIVERSIRTY PARK, Pa., Sept. 3 (SPX) -- University of Pennsylvania researchers have designed a nanoscale system to observe and measure how individual cells react to external forces. By combining microfabricated...

Biosensors To Probe The Metals Menace.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CANBERRA, Australia, Sept. 3 (SPX) -- If the pond life goes star-shaped, you'd be wise not to drink the water. Researchers from CRC CARE are pioneering a world-first technology to warn people if their local water or...

Boeing Demonstrates Future On-Orbit Servicing Capability With Orbital Express.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, Sept. 3 (SPX) -- A four-month demonstration conducted in space of the Boeing Orbital Express system culminated in an unqualified success. The mission, sponsored and led by the Defense Advanced Research...

Boeing KC-767 Tanker Win Would Benefit Iowa Economy.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, Aug. 31 (SPX) -- Boeing has announced that Iowa will benefit from an estimated 1,600 direct and indirect jobs if it is selected to build the U.S. Air Force's new tanker aircraft fleet. The economic...

Brazil's TAM Airlines Orders 1,000th Boeing 777.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SEATTLE, Aug. 31 (SPX) -- Boeing has announced that an order from Brazil's TAM Airlines for four additional 777-300ERs brings to 1,003 the number of 777s ordered since the first order of the popular widebody in 1990....

Central Targets May Hinder Wider Waste Management Objectives.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LONDON, UK, Aug. 31 (SPX) -- Government priorities can drive local waste partnerships towards the achievement of central targets and efficiency savings rather than wider sustainable waste management objectives, a...

Controlling Bandwidth In The Clouds.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SAN DIEGO, Aug. 31 (SPX) -- If half your company's bandwidth is allocated to your mirror in New York, and it's the middle of the night there, and your sites in London and Tokyo are slammed, that New York bandwidth is...

Discovery Could Help Stop Malaria At Its Source - The Mosquito.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers TROY, N.Y., Aug. 31 (SPX) -- As summer temperatures cool in the United States, fewer mosquitoes whir around our tiki torches. But mosquitoes swarming around nearly 40 percent of the world's population will continue...

Discovery May Help Defang Viruses.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers UNIVERSITY PARK, Sept. 3 (SPX) -- Researchers may be able to tinker with a single amino acid of an enzyme that helps viruses multiply to render them harmless, according to molecular biologists who say the discovery...

DRS Receives 250 Million Dollars Award From US Navy To Provide a Sat-Based Network For Overseas Troops.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARSIPPANY, N.J., Aug. 31 (SPX) -- DRS Technologies has announced that it received a $250 million contract, including options, from the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR) Charleston in South...

Eighth Continent Project To Integrate Space Business into Global Economy.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers GOLDEN, Colo., Aug. 31 (SPX) -- The Eighth Continent Project, the world's most comprehensive program to integrate space technology and resources into the global economy, was launched here today at the Colorado School...

Engineers Perfecting Hydrogen-Generating Technology.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind., Sept. 3 (SPX) -- Researchers at Purdue University have further developed a technology that could represent a pollution-free energy source for a range of potential applications, from golf carts to...

Environmental Tectonics' NASTAR Center To Provide Space Training For Virgin Galactic.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SOUTHAMPTON, Pa., Aug. 31 (SPX) -- Environmental Tectonics' National Aerospace Training and Research (NASTAR) Center, has signed a contract with Virgin Galactic to provide training for Virgin Galactic's suborbital...

First Orchid Fossil Puts Showy Blooms At Some 80 Million Years Old.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Aug. 31 (SPX) -- Biologists at Harvard University have identified the ancient fossilized remains of a pollen-bearing bee as the first hint of orchids in the fossil record, a find they say suggests...

India Lofts GEO Bird Using Powerful New Domestic Built Launcher.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SRIHARIKOTA, India, Sept. 3 (SPX) -- India's Geosynchronous Satellite Launch Vehicle, GSLV-F04, had a successful launch at 18.20 hours September 2nd from Satish Dhawan Space Centre SHAR (SDSC SHAR), Sriharikota and it...

Jupiter: Friend Or Foe.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers for Astrobiology Magazine MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., Aug. 31 (SPX) -- The traditional belief that Jupiter acts as a celestial shield, deflecting asteroids and comets away from the inner Solar System, has been challenged...

Molecules Line Up To Make The Tiniest Of Wires.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers EDMONTON, Aug. 31 (SPX) -- As technology gets smaller and smaller, the computer industry is facing the complex challenge of finding ways to manufacture the minuscule components necessary. "Computer chips are...

NASA Scientist Treks To Burning Man Festival.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers GREENBELT, Md., Aug. 31 (SPX) -- August 27 marks the beginning of this year's Burning Man festival, held in Nevada's Black Rock Desert, two hours from Reno and 12 miles from the nearest town. The week-long, annual...

NASA Study Will Help Stop Stowaways To Mars.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Aug. 31 (SPX) -- NASA clean rooms, where scientists and engineers assemble spacecraft, have joined hot springs, ice caves, and deep mines as unlikely places where scientists have discovered...

Now It's Not Just Spiderman That Can Scale The Empire State Building.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 (SPX) -- Physicists have found the formula for a Spiderman suit. Only recently has man come to understand how spiders and geckos effortlessly scuttle up walls and hang from ceilings but it was...

One Of The Most Curious Objects In The Sky Delights Astronomers Again.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MAUNA KEA, Hawaii, Aug. 31 (SPX) -- Edwin Hubble once called IC 10 "one of the most curious objects in the sky," and new observations of the extremely faint, lightweight dwarf galaxy are giving scientists new clues...

OSU Sweet Biofuels Research Goes Down On The Farm.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers STILLWATER, Okla., Aug. 31 (SPX) -- Oklahoma State University's sorghum-related biofuels research is taking a localized approach, with the aim of making possible the effective production of ethanol in the farmer's...

Presence Of Essential Molecule In Space Could Support Life On Other Planets.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers COLUMBIA, Mo., Sept. 3 (SPX) -- Some of the elements necessary to support life on Earth are widely known - oxygen, carbon and water, to name a few. Just as important in the existence of life as any other component is...

Progress On The Hornet Capability Upgrade.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CANBERRA, Australia, Sept. 3 (SPX) -- An important milestone has been achieved with the recent completion of the first centre barrel replacement for Australia's F/A- 18 Hornets. The centre barrel replacement program...

Raytheon Names Dr. Thomas Kennedy VP Tactical Airborne Systems.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Aug. 31 (SPX) -- Raytheon's Space and Airborne Systems business has named Dr. Thomas A. Kennedy vice president of its Tactical Airborne Systems organization. Kennedy will report to Jon Jones,...

Researchers Aim To Make Internet Bandwidth A Global Currency.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BOSTON, Aug. 31 (SPX) -- Computer scientists at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, in collaboration with colleagues from the Netherlands, are using a novel peer-to-peer video sharing application to...

Scientists Find Elusive Waves In Solar Corona.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 3 (SPX) -- Scientists for the first time have observed elusive oscillations in the Sun's corona, known as Alfven waves, that transport energy outward from the surface of the Sun. The discovery is...

Shrinking Giants, Exploding Dwarves.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 3 (SPX) -- When white dwarf stars explode, they leave behind a rapidly expanding cloud of 'stardust' known as a Type Ia supernova. These exploding events, which shine billions of times brighter...

Social Parasites Of The Smaller Kind.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTIN, D.C., Sept. 3 (SPX) -- Cooperation is widespread in the natural world but so too are cheats - mutants that do not contribute to the collective good but simply reap the benefits of others' cooperative...

SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft Receives Initial Approval From NASA Safety Review Panel.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Aug. 31 (SPX) -- SpaceX has successfully completed the first of three phases of review required by NASA's Safety Review Panel (SRP) to send its Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station...

Structure Of 450 Million Year Old Protein Reveals Evolution Steps.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CHAPEL HILL, N.C., Sept. 3 (SPX) -- A detailed map that pinpoints the location of every atom in a 450-million-year-old resurrected protein reveals the precise evolutionary steps needed to create the molecule's modern...

Surviving Desert Storm.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 3 (SPX) -- After six weeks of hunkering down during raging dust storms that limited solar power, both of NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have resumed driving. Now the...

Thin-Layer Solar Cells May Bring Cheaper Green Power.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers DURHAM, UK, Sept. 3 (SPX) -- Scientists are researching new ways of harnessing the sun's rays which could eventually make it cheaper for people to use solar energy to power their homes. The experts at Durham...

Toxic Air Pollution In Urban Parking Garages Study Finds SUVs Bigger Polluters.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 3 (SPX) -- The pollution produced by light trucks, SUVs and minivans is only half a percent higher than that produced by conventional cars, based on a recent study. But researchers say that this...

Tracking The Elusive Shipping Container Out Beyond The Horizon.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WASHINGTON, Sept. 3 (SPX) -- The world is a very different place out beyond the horizon. Even as you read this, there are some 40,000 large cargo ships plying the world's waterways and oceans, not to mention...

Volcanoes Key To Earth's Oxygen Atmosphere.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Aug. 31 (SPX) -- A switch from predominantly undersea volcanoes to a mix of undersea and terrestrial ones shifted the Earth's atmosphere from devoid of oxygen to one with free oxygen, according...

Water Vapor Seen Raining Down On Young Star System.
September 3, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 3 (SPX) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected enough water vapor to fill the oceans on Earth five times inside the collapsing nest of a forming star system. Astronomers say the water...

500 Days At Venus, And The Surprises Keep Coming.
September 4, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Sept. 4 (SPX) -- Venus Express has now orbited Earth's twin for 500 Earth days, completing as many orbits. While the satellite maintains steady and excellent performance, the planet continues to surprise and...

Boeing-Led Airborne Laser Team Completes Low Power Flight Tests.
September 4, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, Sept. 4 (SPX) -- Boeing, industry teammates and the U.S. Missile Defense Agency successfully demonstrated in flight tests that the Airborne Laser's battle management and beam control/fire control systems...

Dow Corning Solar Solutions Introduces Three Materials To Support Photovoltaic Module Manufacturing.
September 4, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MIDLAND, Mich., Sept. 4 (SPX) -- Following the launch of its first solar feedstock material (Dow Corning PV 1101 SoG Silicon) last year, Dow Corning's Solar Solutions Group has extended its product offerings for the...

Iowa State Researcher Studies The Sustainability Of The Bioeconomy.
September 4, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers AMES, IO, Sept. 4 (SPX) -- This spring farmers responded to the ethanol industry's demand for grain by increasing their corn acreage by 19 percent over last year, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates....

Messenger To Feel The Heat During First Hot Periapsis.
September 4, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers LAUREL, Md., Sept. 4 (SPX) -- Tomorrow, the MESSENGER probe will come within 0.33 AU of the Sun - 49.67 million kilometers (or 30.86 million miles). "This is the closest we've approached the Sun during the mission so...

Mice Stressed In Simulated Weightlessness Show Organ Atrophy.
September 4, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Sept. 4 (SPX) -- A ground-based, experimental model used to simulate astronaut weightlessness in space has provided Rutgers scientists an opportunity to study the effects of stress on immune...

NASA Study Predicts More Severe Storms With Global Warming.
September 4, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers GREENBELT, Md., Sept. 4 (SPX) -- NASA scientists have developed a new climate model that indicates that the most violent severe storms and tornadoes may become more common as Earth's climate warms. Previous...

NASA's Troubled Future.
September 4, 2007... Byline: Donald A. Beattie WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (SPX) -- Some in the aerospace community believe that unless NASA sends astronauts back to the Moon and conducts extensive exploration, it is in danger of disappearing as a government agency....

One Of The Most Curious Objects In The Sky Delights Astronomers Again.
September 4, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MAUNA KEA, Hawaii, Aug. 30 (SPX) -- Edwin Hubble once called IC 10 "one of the most curious objects in the sky," and new observations of the extremely faint, lightweight dwarf galaxy are giving scientists new clues...

Phoenix Takes Flight.
September 4, 2007... Byline: Henry Bortman for Astrobiology Magazine PHOENIX, Sept. 4 (SPX) -- Phoenix is on its way to Mars. The latest spacecraft in NASA's program of Mars exploration launched from Cape Canaveral on August 4 of this year, and is scheduled to...

Princeton Engineers Develop Low-Cost Recipe For Patterning Microchips.
September 4, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PRINCETON, N.J., Sept. 4 (SPX) -- Creating ultrasmall grooves on microchips -- a key part of many modern technologies -- is about to become as easy as making a sandwich, using a new process invented by Princeton...

Space Experts Meet To Address Warfighter Needs.
September 4, 2007... Byline: Capt. Catie Hague Air Force Space Command Public Affairs PETERSON AFB CO (AFNS) SEP, 04, 2007, Sept. 4 (SPX) -- More than 70 senior leaders and experts from across the Services, joint agencies and Intelligence Community came...

World's Largest Digital Camera Installed On Maui Telescope.
September 4, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers HONOLULU, Sept. 4 (SPX) -- The world's largest and most advanced digital camera has been installed on the Pan-STARRS-1 (PS1) telescope on Haleakala, Maui. Built at the University of Hawaii at Manoa's Institute for...

Air France And ESA Join To Offer Passengers Unique View Of Voyage.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Sept. 6 (SPX) -- Have you ever wished you could clearly see the mountains, coastline, desert, ocean or city underneath your aircraft as you flew over? Passengers onboard select Air France flights will soon be...

America Regains Leadership With World Record.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Sept. 5 (SPX) -- The Spallation Neutron Source, the Department of Energy's $1.4 billion research facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, has established a new record as the world's most powerful...

Australia And China Partner For A Low-Emission Energy Future.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers NEWCASTLE, Australia, Sept. 6 (SPX) -- Australia and China today signed a partnership agreement that will pave the way for the installation of low-emission coal energy technology in Beijing next year. Signed by CSIRO...

Boeing Demonstrates FAB-T Interoperability With Milstar Satellite.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ST. LOUIS, Sept. 5 (SPX) -- Boeing has successfully demonstrated for the first time that its Family of Advanced Beyond line-of-sight Terminals (FAB-T) system can acquire an operational satellite and complete downlink...

Cardiovascular System Gets Lazy In Space.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers WATERLOO, Sept. 6 (SPX) -- On Earth, we all know gravity affects everything around us. But did you know gravity also influences what goes on inside our bodies? Every time we stand up, gravity pulls blood into parts of...

Cassini Prepares To Fly by Walnut-Shaped Moon.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 6 (SPX) -- Cassini will make its only close flyby of Saturn's odd, two-toned, walnut-shaped moon Iapetus on Sept. 10, 2007, at about 1,640 kilometers (1,000 miles) from the surface. This flyby...

Chandra Peers At Cosmic Super Bubbles.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers BOSTON, Sept. 6 (SPX) -- Using the Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers explored a particular region of clouds and gas where stars are forming in one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors. Combining X-ray...

Composite Technology's DeWind Announces Texas Wind Turbine Demonstration Site.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers IRVINE, Calif., Sept. 5 (SPX) -- Composite Technology has announced that is its subsidiary DeWind, in association with Texas State Technical College (TSTC), has signed a Memorandum of Intent with the City of...

Digital Dandelions: The Flowering Of Network Research.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SAN DIEGO, Sept. 6 (SPX) -- What looks like the head of a digital dandelion is a map of the Internet generated by new algorithms from computer scientists at UC San Diego. This map features Internet nodes - the red...

Europe That Much Smarter On Luna One Year On.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Sept. 5 (SPX) -- A year ago, as Europe reached the Moon for the first time, scientists on Earth eagerly watched SMART-1's spectacular impact. New results from the impact analysis and from the instruments still...

Globalstar Signs 2nd-Gen Satellite Constellation Launch Contract With Arianespace.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MILPITAS, Calif., Sept. 5 (SPX) -- Globalstar has announced it has signed a launch agreement with European launch services company Arianespace for the launch of Globalstar's second-generation LEO (low earth orbit)...

Heart Of Herschel To Be Presented To Media.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Sept. 5 (SPX) -- By the end of 2007, the assembly of the ESA's Herschel far-infrared space observatory - the latest mission to study the formation and evolution of stars and galaxies - will be completed. ESA...

How Much Will You Pay To Live Near People Like You.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers DURHAM, N.C., Sept. 5 (SPX) -- Using restricted-access Census data, a new study examines a quarter-million households on a block-by-block basis to yield new results about the correlation between household attributes...

JCSAT-11 Satellite Ready For Launch From Baikonur.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers NEWTOWN, Pa., Sept. 5 (SPX) -- The JCSAT-11 communications satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] for the JSAT Corporation (JSAT) of Japan, is ready for its scheduled launch on Sept. 6 from the...

Lockheed Martin Demonstrates In-Flight Beam Control For MDA's Airborne Laser.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers EDWARDS AFB, Calif., Sept. 6 (SPX) -- Lockheed Martin announced that the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's Airborne Laser (ABL) team has demonstrated the capability to accurately point and focus the elements of the...

Lockheed Martin Team Shifts Into Production Effort To Add GPS Demonstration Signal To Modernized Satellite.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers KING OF PRUSSIA, Pa., Sept. 5 (SPX) -- The Lockheed Martin-led team has begun production activities to reconfigure a modernized Global Positioning System Block IIR (GPS IIR-M) satellite to include a new demonstration...

Major Gift Supports Crucial Piece Of Automated Planet Finder.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Sept. 5 (SPX) -- A $600,000 gift from the Gloria and Kenneth Levy Foundation will help fund an integral part of the Automated Planet Finder now being built at the University of California's Lick...

MIT Unraveling Secrets Of Red Tide.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 5 (SPX) -- In work that could one day help prevent millions of dollars in economic losses for seaside communities, MIT chemists have demonstrated how tiny marine organisms likely produce the...

Nanowire Coating For Bone Implants And Stents.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers FAYETTEVILLE, Alaska, Sept. 6 (SPX) -- University of Arkansas researchers have found a simple, inexpensive way to create a nanowire coating on the surface of biocompatible titanium that can be used to create more...

NASA Satellites Eye Coastal Water Quality.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers GREENBELT, Md., Sept. 6 (SPX) -- Using data from instruments aboard NASA satellites, Zhiqiang Chen and colleagues at the University of South Florida in St. Petersburg, found that they can monitor water quality almost...

NASA Technology Forms The Basis For A New Nanotech Company.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers GREENBELT, Md., Sept. 6 (SPX) -- A NASA-developed innovative process is making waves in the nanotechnology field and spurring the development of new companies in the process. A new company based in Austin, Texas,...

New LITENING Targeting System Demonstrated During USJFC's Bold Quest Exercise.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill., Sept. 5 (SPX) -- Northrop Grumman will demonstrate the latest generation of its LITENING Advanced Targeting (AT) pod, an advanced precision targeting and sensor system, during "Bold Quest," a...

New NASA And NOAO Partnership To Open Doors Of Cosmic Discovery.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers TUCSON, Sept. 5 (SPX) -- The National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) and NASA's upcoming Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) mission have forged a partnership designed to open the door for major...

Northrop Grumman Receives Major Contract For Guardrail Modernization.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers RESTON, Va., Sept. 5 (SPX) -- Northrop Grumman has been awarded a Guardrail Modernization system integration contract to continue upgrading and enhancing the system, extending Guardrail's operational life beyond 2020....

Phoenix Mars Lander: Radar And Other Gear Pass Checkouts.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 6 (SPX) -- Two crucial tools for a successful landing of America's latest mission to Mars, the radar and UHF radio on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, have passed in-flight checkouts. The...

Researchers Discover New Strategies For Antibiotic Resistance.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers TORRANCE, Calif., Sept. 6 (SPX) -- With infections increasingly resistant to even the most modern antibiotics, researchers at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (LA BioMed)...

Researchers Propose New Molecule To Explain Circadian Clock.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Anne Ju CORNELL, N.J., Sept. 6 (SPX) -- The internal clock in living beings that regulates sleeping and waking patterns -- usually called the circadian clock -- has often befuddled scientists due to its mysterious time delays....

Stellar Firework In A Whirlwind.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers PARIS, Sept. 5 (SPX) -- Stars do not like to be alone. Indeed, most stars are members of a binary system, in which two stars circle around each other in an apparently never-ending cosmic ballet. But sometimes, things...

Switching Goals.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers TEL AVIV, Israel, Sept. 6 (SPX) -- Is heading straight for a goal the quickest way there? If the name of the game is evolution, suggests new research at the Weizmann Institute of Science, the pace might speed up if...

Synova-Manz Automation Partnership Unveils Fully Automated Photovoltaic Manufacturing System For Edge Isolation.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MILAN, Italy, Sept. 6 (SPX) -- EU PVSEC -- Manz Automation AG (Reutlingen, Germany) and Synova SA has unveiled the ILE 2400, an inline laser edge isolation system for photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing of mono- and...

The 5 Ws Of Corn Production.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MADISON, Wis., Sept. 5 (SPX) -- As of late, many uncertainties have been sprouting up in corn production. Researchers and producers have been wondering if precision agricultural technologies can improve crop yield and...

When Bivalves Ruled The World.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MILWAUKEE, Sept. 5 (SPX) -- Before the worst mass extinction of life in Earth's history - 252 million years ago - ocean life was diverse and clam-like organisms called brachiopods dominated. After the calamity, when...

World PV Leaders To Gather In Milan.
September 6, 2007... Byline: Staff Writers MILAN, Italy, Sept. 6 (SPX) -- Worldwide leaders in the PV industry will be gathering in Milan, Italy from September 3rd-7th, 2007 for the 22nd annual European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference. In recent years,...