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NASA Tracks Meteorite's Entry Into Atmosphere For First Time

NASA said Tuesday that its scientists had calculated a meteorite's trajectory and tracked its entry into Earth's atmosphere for the first time in the history of space exploration.

Star Ocean: First Departure

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Nimbuzz to Provide Social Networks With Real Time Web and Mobile Communication

LONDON, November 11 /PRNewswire/ -- - Announces First Commercial Partnership With StudiVZ Nimbuzz (http://www.nimbuzz.com), the most comprehensive mobile VoIP, presence and IM provider today announces its first key revenue sharing partnership with a social network, formalising its push to provide online communities with real time web and mobile communication. StudiVZ, the biggest German speaking social networking site, becomes the first in a series of international networking sites to integrate the Nimbuzz technology into its community, bringing real-time web and mobile communication capabilities to members for the first time. (Photo: here ) (Photo: here ) By integrating the Nimbuzz VoIP, presence and IM features, social networks can extend their offering beyond their current online networking experience.

NASA Selects Mission to Study Mars Atmosphere

WASHINGTON, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has selected a Mars robotic mission that will provide information about the Red Planet's atmosphere, climate history and potential habitability in greater detail than ever before. Called the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft, the $485 million mission is scheduled for launch in late 2013. The selection was evaluated to have the best science value and lowest implementation risk from 20 mission investigation proposals submitted in response to a NASA Announcement of Opportunity in August 2006. "This mission will provide the first direct measurements ever taken to address key scientific questions about Mars' evolution," said Doug McCuistion, director of the Mars Exploration Program at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

Nimbuzz to Provide Social Networks With Real Time Web and Mobile Communication

Nimbuzz ( http://www.nimbuzz.com ), the most comprehensive mobile VoIP, presence and IM provider today announces its first key revenue sharing partnership with a social network, formalising its push to provide online communities with real time web and mobile communication. StudiVZ, the biggest German speaking social networking site, becomes the first in a series of international networking sites to integrate the Nimbuzz technology into its community, bringing real-time web and mobile communication capabilities to members for the first time.

NASA Updates Time for Space Shuttle Atlantis' Roll from Launch Pad

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Oct. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA managers have adjusted the time for space shuttle Atlantis' rollback from Launch Pad 39A to the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Monday, Oct. 20, to 7 a.m. EDT. Atlantis is expected to be in the Vehicle Assembly Building by about 2 p.m. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO ) NASA Television will provide live coverage of Atlantis' move off the pad beginning Monday at 6:30 a.m. Video highlights of the rollback will air on NASA TV Video File. Media are invited to a photo opportunity of the shuttle's move from the pad at 7 a.m. Monday, and must arrive at Kennedy's News Center by 6 a.m. for transportation to the viewing area.

LHC Group Expands Footprint to 14 States with Initial Entry into North Carolina

LHC Group Expands Footprint to 14 States with Initial Entry into North Carolina - Prudent Press Agency (Prudent Press Agency)---FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- LHC Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: LHCG), one of the largest providers of home nursing services in the United States, announced today that it has entered into a joint venture with Cape Fear Valley Health System in Fayetteville, North Carolina, to provide home nursing and hospice services, effective October 1, 2008. This joint venture represents LHC Group’s initial entry into the certificate of need (CON) state of North Carolina and expands the Company’s geographic footprint to 14 states. The agency will operate under the name of Cape Fear Valley HomeCare and Hospice.

First Chicago Bancorp & First Chicago Bank & Trust Names J. Mikesell Thomas President and CEO, and a Director of the Company, and CEO of First Chicago Bank & Trust

First Chicago Bancorp & First Chicago Bank & Trust Names J. Mikesell Thomas President and CEO, and a Director of the Company, and CEO of First Chicago Bank & Trust

NASA successfully tests deep space 'Internet'

NASA successfully tested first deep space communications network modeled on Internet by transmitting dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft.NASA successfully tested first deep space communications network modeled on Internet by transmitting dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft.

Artificial Meteorite Shows Martian Impactors Could Carry Traces Of Life

An artificial meteorite designed by the European Space Agency has shown that traces of life in a martian meteorite could survive the violent heat and shock of entry into the Earth’s atmosphere. The experiment’s results also suggest that meteorite hunters should widen their search to include white rocks if we are to find traces of life in martian meteorites.

NASA Tests Deep-Space Network Modeled On the Internet

hcg50a writes "NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet. Working as part of a NASA-wide team, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking, or DTN, to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about 20 million miles from Earth. The store-and-forward protocol was designed by NASA in consultation with Vint Cerf. Here's a discussion from last July before the test began."

STONE-6 artificial meteorite shows martian impactors could carry traces of life

An artificial meteorite designed by the European Space Agency has shown that traces of life in a martian meteorite could survive the violent heat and shock of entry into the Earth’s atmosphere. The experiment’s results also suggest that meteorite hunters should widen their search to include white rocks if we are to find traces of life in martian meteorites.

SYS-CON AJAX World Webcast - Enterprise Comet: Real-Time, Real-Time, or Real-Time Web 2.0?

As much as we like the term real-time, it has over time become too saturated to lend itself any use to Web 2.0 technologies that really mean it. Question is; what do we actual mean with "real-time"? In what context is it used? And what impact will it have on your business?

SYS-CON AJAX World Webcast - Enterprise Comet: Real-Time, Real-Time, or Real-Time Web 2.0?

As much as we like the term real-time, it has over time become too saturated to lend itself any use to Web 2.0 technologies that really mean it. Question is; what do we actual mean with "real-time"? In what context is it used? And what impact will it have on your business?

Digital Zebrafish Embryo Provides the First Complete Developmental Blueprint of a Vertebrate

With a newly developed microscope scientists could for the first time track all cells for the first 24 hours in the life of a zebrafish. The data was reconstructed into a three-dimensional, digital representation of the embryo. The study, published in the current online issue of Science, grants many new insights into embryonic development. Movies of the digital embryo and the underlying database of millions of cell positions, divisions and tracks will be made publicly available to provide a novel resource for research and scientific training.

First Picture of Jules Verne Spacecraft Re-Entry Destruction

This is the first picture of the spectacular re-entry of Jules Verne, the Automated Transport Vehicle that fell from orbit today at 9:31AM Eastern time. Taken from a DC-8, it shows the moment in which it starts to break at 9:43AM, just before falling into the Pacific Ocean. Apparently, the show was amazing because this thing was gigantic. Check its scale compared to the Apollo and a Progress capsule. Update: More pictures coming in now.

NASA-TV Streams HD Film to Celebrate 50 Years in Space

50 years ago this month NASA rocketed into existence, and to celebrate this fact NASA-TV is streaming its special retrospective show "50 Years of Exploration: The Golden Anniversary of NASA" in HD format today at 1pm and 8pm EDT (and again tomorrow at 10am and 2pm). Check it out: it's presented by none other than Neil Armstrong, and it'll remind you how frickin' astonishing the achievements of the Agency are, despite its recent rockety woes. [NASA-TV]

NASA's Swift Catches Farthest-Ever Gamma-Ray Burst

WASHINGTON, Sept. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Swift satellite has found the most distant gamma-ray burst ever detected. The blast, designated GRB 080913, arose from an exploding star 12.8 billion light-years away. "This is the most amazing burst Swift has seen," said the mission's lead scientist Neil Gehrels at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. "It's coming to us from near the edge of the visible universe." Because light moves at finite speed, looking farther into the universe means looking back in time. GRB 080913's "lookback time" reveals that the burst occurred less than 825 million years after the universe began. The star that caused this "shot seen across the cosmos" died when the universe was less than one-seventh its present age.

NASA Nearly Bombs Australia With 1400lb Ammonia Tank

Jettisoned over a year ago and expected to reenter the Earth's atmosphere on its own time somewhere in the beginning of November, one of the ISS's retired coolant tanks has careened through the Earth's atmosphere in the skies off the coast of Australia. Two lucky things happened here: the reentry took place — and this was completely up to chance — over water, and the atmosphere broke the 1400lb tank into lots of small pieces.

Artificial meteorite shows Martian impactors may carry traces of life

Berlin, September 25 : An artificial meteorite designed by the European Space Agency (ESA) has shown that traces of life in a Martian meteorite could survive the violent heat and shock of entry into the Earth's atmosphere.

NASA tests deep space Internet' successfully

New York, Nov 19 (PTI) The US space agency NASA has successfully tested the first deep space communications network modeled on the Internet. Working as part of a NASA-wide team, engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, used software called Disruption-Tolerant Networking (DTN) to transmit dozens of space images to and from a NASA science spacecraft located about 20 million miles from Earth.

50 Consumer Technologies Developed by NASA in the Last 50 Years

Every year NASA publishes a new edition of their Spinoff magazine, a periodical that outlines NASA-based technologies that have disseminated into everyday devices, improving our lives beyond giving us some nifty new desktop wallpapers. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Spinoff, and to celebrate, NASA has created a "best of" list (that we pasted after the jump). From the aerodynamic principles applied to tractor trailers to advanced imaging techniques that allow 360-degree Real Estate photo tours, NASA demonstrates that their technological breakthroughs are about more than just sticking an American flag on the moon.

Researchers describe for first time how some bacteria kill males: They first invade the mother

Many groups of bacteria are known as "male killers" - they target and kill just the males of a host species. Now, a Cornell scientist has helped describe for the first time just how certain male-killing bacteria manage to specifically kill off males of a parasitic wasp. The bacteria Arsenophonus nasoniae infect both sexes of the parasitic wasp Nasonia vitripennis but target the males, killing more than 70 percent, said Patrick Ferree, Cornell postdoctoral fellow in molecular biology and genetics. Ferree and his University of Rochester collaborator John Werren report on this mechanism in Current Biology.

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