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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
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Imagine a world where all construction material is renewable, natural and green. A World where there are no harmful emissions from adhesives, paints and coatings. Imagine an photonic energy source you paint right onto your house, and lights that emit from the paint on your walls and ceiling. Think these things are [...]

Snowbound on the Dunes

Thursday, December 6th, 2007

Icy Martian dunes contain mysterious dark streaks in this south polar image taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO).

High resolution picture of Mar’s “Home Plate”

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

Wandering Spirit

The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera onboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted fellow Martian explorer, the Mars Exploration Rover “Spirit,” inside the feature dubbed “Home Plate” in Gusev Crater.

The intrepid, long-lived rover shows up as a tiny black speck at about the 5:30 position of the lighter-colored, roughly circular [...]

Modified microscope views atoms at the edge of uncertainty

Saturday, November 10th, 2007
By Matt Ford | Published: November 08, 2007 – 06:30PM CT

When you want to see something small, you use an optical microscope; when you want to see something really small, you can use some form of electron microscope; when you want to “see” individual atoms or molecules, you break out the scanning probe microscopes. [...]

Green Chemistry Leaps Forward

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

Imagine a world where all construction material is renewable, natural and green. A World where there are no harmful emissions from adhesives, paints and coatings.

Endeavour’s Triumphant Return

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

US shuttle Endeavour returned safely to Earth Tuesday, despite damage to its underside, after a 13-day mission in which the first teacher in space gave lessons to children back home.

“You have given a new meaning to higher education,” joked astronaut Chris Ferguson, as he welcomed back the five-man, two-woman crew including Endeavour astronaut Barbara Morgan, [...]

What NASA Can (and Can’t) Do to Take Care of the Gouge on the Shuttle’s Belly

Tuesday, August 14th, 2007

The Space Shuttle Endeavour was damaged last week during liftoff when a piece of foam smacked the shuttle. Now NASA has a few choices and none of them are ideal. NASA has 3 options…..

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