Science
Double Vision: New Instrument Casts Its Eyes to the Sky
The Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer has taken its first images of the star Beta Peg in the constellation Pictor -- an encouraging start for an instrument designed to probe the cosmic neighborhoods where Earth-like planets could exist.
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Phaeton Group's Rocket Launches From New Mexico
Recent college grads who work for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., successfully launched a sounding rocket 120 kilometers (75 miles) above Earth's surface on Monday, Dec. 6, from the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
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Phaeton Group's Rocket Launches From New Mexico
Recent college grads who work for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., successfully launched a sounding rocket 120 kilometers (75 miles) above Earth's surface on Monday, Dec. 6, from the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.
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NASA Mars Rover Images Honor Apollo 12
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has visited and photographed two craters informally named for the spacecraft that carried men to the moon 41 years ago this week.
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Chinese supercomputer ranked world's fastest
A Chinese supercomputer has been ranked the world's fastest machine in a list issued by US and European researchers.
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In Brief: South African city looks to turn urine into fertilizer
South Africa's east coast city of Durban is looking at the feasibility of turning the urine it collects from 95,000 dry toilets into fertilizer.
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IT Management Slideshow: IT Professionals Wanted, But Hard to Find
Do you feel as if it's a challenge to find entry-level IT hires who can enter your workplace with the basic level of professionalism that the job requires? You're not alone.
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Modality Partners with Elsevier to Offer Imaging Atlas of Human Anatomy for Use in modalityBODY App for iPad™
Modality, Inc. today announced the release of the Imaging Atlas of Human Anatomy from Elsevier for use in the modalityBODY App for iPad. The complete atlas presents a healthy human body through a variety of modern imaging techniques, and is available for In App Purchase via the modalityBODY App. Users may also download a free sampler of the Imaging Atlas of the Human Body from the modalityBODY Store within the app, a place where registered users can access and purchase premium content.
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Italy carries out world's first robotically-assisted pancreatic transplant
Doctors from Pisa Hospital have conducted the world's first robotically-assisted pancreatic transplant on a woman in Italy.
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NASA Goddard Delivers Magnetometers for Juno Mission
Magnetometers developed at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., for the Juno mission to Jupiter were delivered recently to Lockheed Martin in Denver. Designed and built by an in-house team of Goddard scientists, engineers and technicians, these instruments will map the planet's magnetic field with great accuracy and observe its variations over time. Each of the two vector magnetometers carries with it a pair of non-magnetic star cameras to determine its orientation in space with commensurate accuracy. These were designed and built by a team led by John Jorgensen at the Danish Technical University in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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