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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
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  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
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  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
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  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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  NASA's Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color

  April 19, 2013 — Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared ... > full story
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  Neural Activity in Bats Measured in-Flight

  April 18, 2013 — Scientists have, for the first time, measured the activity of place cells in the brains of bats as they navigated in three-dimensional ... > full story
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  SOFIA Observations Reveal a Surprise in Massive Star Formation

  April 17, 2013 — Researchers using the airborne Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) have captured the most detailed mid-infrared images yet of a massive star condensing within a dense cocoon of ... > full story
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  For the Very First Time, Two Spacecraft Will Fly in Formation With Millimeter Precision

  April 16, 2013 — A new project aims to demonstrate that two satellites can move as one single object with sub-millimeter precision. This configuration will enable the creation of enormous space telescopes with the ... > full story
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  NASA-Funded Asteroid Tracking Sensor Passes Key Test

  April 15, 2013 — An infrared sensor that could improve NASA's future detecting and tracking of asteroids and comets has passed a critical design ... > full story
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  Ice Cloud Heralds Fall at Titan's South Pole

  April 11, 2013 — An ice cloud taking shape over Titan's south pole is the latest sign that the change of seasons is setting off a cascade of radical changes in the atmosphere of Saturn's largest moon. Made from an ... > full story

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