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Combining refurbished machinery and modern day technology, NASA was able to take a restore photographs of the Earth rising above the lunar surface in 1966. This time with better resolution.
“The Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project, located at NASA’s Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., is taking analog data from original recorders used to […]
“She has been seen by every junior doctor and nurse in paediatrics at St Mary’s Hospital, London.
She has had breathing difficulties, meningitis, malaria, head trauma and asthma.
Thankfully baby Gertrude is not real, but a simulated nine-month-old baby used to train medical staff how to deal with a seriously ill baby.
The clever simulation can run a […]
A French team has invented a prosthetic heart that may be able to replace the real thing in patients in need of heart transplants. The new device is not the first of its kind, but it may be the first with limited drawbacks. Further tests are required, but if all goes well this device could […]
San Francisco’s Morrison Planetarium, the new $20 million dollar facility that’s a part of the recently reopened California Academy of Sciences, is a technological marvel.
The Morrison Planetarium allows “astronomers not only to show traditional star charts, but to guide visitors through an immersive fly-through of our universe – realistically rendered in real-time. ”
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It’s new and clever, ScienceStage.com is a new-style online portal for science, academic teaching and practice, bridging significant gaps in scientific learning and a great research tool for students just returning to school or for people who are just eager to learn more.
“ScienceStage.com is a virtual conference room, lecture hall, laboratory, library and meeting venue […]
An image of Titan’s surface shows what scientists believe are bodies of liquid, shown in blue.
PASADENA, California (AP) — At least one of many large, lake-like features on Saturn’s moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons, making it the only body in the solar system besides Earth known to have liquid on its surface, NASA said Wednesday.
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Virgin Galactic’s Sir Richard Branson and Scaled Composites’ Steve Rutan walk past EVE, the newly christened WhiteKnightTwo carrier aircraft.
The commercial plane—unveiled on July 28, 2008, in California—will carry a six-passenger SpaceShipTwo craft up to 50,000 feet (15,240 meters) before releasing it to continue the journey into space under its own power.
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On the 100th anniversary of the devastating Tunguska event in Siberia, scientists and an Orange County congressman urge the government to take further defensive measures against near-Earth objects.
A group of scientists, joined by a member of Congress, used the 100th anniversary of the Tunguska asteroid event this week to draw attention to their belief that […]
The first high-resolution map of wiring in the cerebral cortex reveals a dense and highly interconnected structural core that seems to play a vital role in communication within and between the brain’s two hemispheres, new research says.
The work is an early step in connectomics, an emerging field of science that seeks to create detailed computer […]