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NASA's Asteroid Sample Return Mission Moves Into Development
NASA's first mission to
sample an asteroid is moving
ahead into development and
testing in preparation for
its launch in 2016. ... > full story
Galaxy's 'Burning Ring of Fire' Is Frenetic Region of Star Formation
Johnny Cash may have
preferred this galaxy's
burning ring of fire to the
one he sang about falling
into in his popular song.
... > full story
New Endurance Record for Small Electric Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
Using liquid hydrogen fuel
stored in a new
NRL-developed cryogenic fuel
storage tank, the flight
shatters the previous
... > full story
Dust in the Clouds: Cirrus Clouds Form Around Mineral Dust and Metallic Particles
Cirrus clouds influence
global climate, cooling the
planet by reflecting
incoming solar radiation and
warming it by trapping
... > full story
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NASA Opens New Era in Measuring Western U.S. Snowpack
May 6, 2013 — A new NASA airborne mission has created the first maps of the entire snowpack of two major mountain watersheds in California and Colorado, producing the most accurate measurements to date of how much ... > full story -
Flight Behavior of Hungry Malaria Mosquitoes Analyzed
May 3, 2013 — Malaria mosquitoes go to work cautiously before landing on human skin and biting. Just before a mosquito lands, it reacts to both odors and heat given off by the human body. Researchers came to this ... > full story -
Robotic Insects Make First Controlled Flight
May 2, 2013 — In the very early hours of the morning, in a Harvard robotics laboratory last summer, an insect took flight. Half the size of a paperclip, weighing less than a tenth of a gram, it leaped a few ... > full story -
The Day NASA's Fermi Dodged a 1.5-Ton Bullet
May 1, 2013 — NASA scientists don't often learn that their spacecraft is at risk of crashing into another satellite. But when Julie McEnery, the project scientist for NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, ... > full story -
Bird Fossil Sheds Light on How Swift and Hummingbird Flight Came to Be
May 1, 2013 — A tiny bird fossil discovered in Wyoming offers clues to the precursors of swift and hummingbird wings. The fossil is unusual in having exceptionally well-preserved feathers, which allowed the ... > full story -
Scientists Investigate Release of Bromine in Polar Regions
April 26, 2013 — Researchers have employed a novel measurement device for new studies in ... > full story -
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Cost-Effectiveness of Helicopter Transport of Trauma Victims Examined
April 25, 2013 — Researchers have for the first time determined how often emergency medical helicopters need to help save the lives of seriously injured people to be considered cost-effective compared with ground ... > full story -
Nothing Bugs These NASA Aeronautical Researchers
April 24, 2013 — A team of scientists at NASA's Langley Research Center in Virginia are studying ways to prevent the remains of insect impacts from adhering to the wing of an aircraft in flight. While the effort is ... > full story -
NASA's HyspIRI: Seeing the Forest and the Trees and More
April 22, 2013 — Light contains fingerprints of materials that can be detected by sensors that capture the unique set of reflected wavelengths. The technique was applied to Earth during new work by ... > full story -
NASA Successfully Launches Three Smartphone Satellites
April 22, 2013 — Three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space April 21, 2013 aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.'s Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility in ... > full story
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