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Science and Technology
Aug 23, 2009
--could be used in underwater exploration CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Borrowing from Mother Nature, a team of MIT researchers has built a school of swimming robo-fish that slip through the water just as gracefully as the real thing, if not quite…
Aug 13, 2009
The planets ocean surface temperature was the warmest on record for July, breaking the previous high mark established in 1998 according to an analysis by NOAAs National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. The combined average global land and ocean…
Jul 14, 2009
WASHINGTON -- Arctic sea ice thinned dramatically between the winters of 2004 and 2008, with thin seasonal ice replacing thick older ice as the dominant type for the first time on record. The new results, based on data from a…
Jun 30, 2009
Cassini imaging scientists used views like this one to help them identify the source locations for individual jets spurting ice particles, water vapor and trace organic compounds from the surface of Saturns moon Enceladus. photo courtesy: NASA/JPL/Space Science Institute PASADENA,…
Jun 30, 2009
By Marcia Wood In a wood near you, powerful microbes quicken the decay of fallen tree branches. These adroit decomposers perform that essential role by producing specialized enzymes. In the United States and abroad, biofuels researchers prize these enzymes because…
Jun 16, 2009
Knud-niks, Neewalkers, O-dats, Keepers and holographic rooms. Aliens with two heads, security drones and food that comes in pills. These are some of the characters and objects that young readers will find in The Softwire series of novels by PJ…
Jun 2, 2009
Size of Kuiper Belt Objects: This illustration of the largest known Kuiper Belt Objects shows Xena slightly larger than Pluto. Photo courtesy: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI) For the first time, NASAs Hubble Space Telescope has seen distinctly the…
Jun 2, 2009
The U.S. Gulf of Mexico contains very thick and concentrated gas-hydrate-bearing reservoir rocks which have the potential to produce gas using current technology. Recent drilling by a government and industry consortium confirm that the Gulf of Mexico is the first…
May 26, 2009
EDWARDS, Calif. -- Space shuttle Atlantis and its crew landed at 8:39 a.m. PDT Sunday, May 24 at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., completing the final servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope. Atlantis astronauts conducted five successful spacewalks during…
May 19, 2009
Work could help heal sports injuries, arthritis CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--MIT engineers and colleagues have built a new tissue scaffold that can stimulate bone and cartilage growth when transplanted into the knees and other joints. The scaffold could offer a potential new…
May 19, 2009
By Jo Gellerman, Arizona Health Sciences Center A three-member surgeon team successfully completed the first intestine transplant in the state of Arizona. Photo courtesy of the Arizona Health Sciences Center The patient who received the first intestine transplant using a…
May 10, 2009
MIT and Cambridge University scientists developed this tissue scaffold that could help repair knees and other joints. The top section, indicated by the green arrow, stimulates bone growth, while the lower half, marked by the orange arrow, stimulates cartilage growth.…