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  • Perseid meteor shower on way for August stargazers Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 1:19PMAugust opens with Lammas, or the festival of loaves, an ancient Celtic celebration of the season's first harvest. The Aug. 1 holiday was one of four cross-quarter days falling midway between a solstice and an equinox.
  • Blowing in the Wind: Cassini Helps with Dune Whodunit Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 10:52AM(PhysOrg.com) -- The answer to the mystery of dune patterns on Saturn's moon Titan did turn out to be blowing in the wind. It just wasn't from the direction many scientists expected.
  • Reforestation projects capture more carbon than industrial plantations, reveals new research Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 9:54AMAustralian scientists researching environmental restoration projects have found that the reforestation of damaged rainforests is more efficient at capturing carbon than controversial softwood monoculture plantations. The research, published in Ecological Management & Restoration, challenges traditional views on the efficiency of industrial monoculture plantations.
  • Astronomers Find Planets in Unusually Intimate Dance around Dying Star Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 4:38AMHundreds of extrasolar planets have been found over the past decade and a half, most of them solitary worlds orbiting their parent star in seeming isolation. With further observation, however, one in three of these systems have been found to have two or more planets. Planets, it appears, come in bunches. Most of these systems contain planets that orbit too far from one another to feel each other ...
  • Hypatia - 4th Century Woman Astronomer Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 7:38PMby Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Jul 29, 2010 The new movie Agora chronicles the life, challenges and death of Hypatia, a 4th Century woman astronomer whose contribution influenced and shaped modern science and our understanding of the world and the universe.
  • Brilliant Star in a Colorful Neighborhood Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 1:27PMA spectacular new image from ESO's Wide Field Imager at the La Silla Observatory in Chile shows the brilliant and unusual star WR 22 and its colorful surroundings.
  • IceCube Finds Unexplained Pattern Of Cosmic Rays Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 11:41AMThough still under construction, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole is already delivering scientific results — including an early finding about a phenomenon the telescope was not even designed to study.IceCube captures signals of notoriously elusive but scientifically fascinating subatomic particles called neutrinos. The telescope focuses on high-energy neutrinos that travel ...
  • New Image Shows Brilliant Star In A Colorful Neighborhood Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 9:12AMA spectacular new image from ESO’s Wide Field Imager at the La Silla Observatory in Chile shows the brilliant and unusual star WR 22 and its colorful surroundings. WR 22 is a very hot and bright star that is shedding its atmosphere into space at a rate many millions of times faster than the Sun. It lies in the outer part of the dramatic Carina Nebula from which it formed.Very massive stars live ...
  • Asteroid could raze London Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 7:14AMBOFFINS warn of impending disaster as space rock 560m wide hurtles towards Earth
  • Five Insights into Innovating via Mobile Devices Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 7:08AMHey, you rock star, you. You know all about innovating through mobility, right? You do the text messaging and the digital coupons. You're even developing the app your boss wants. You're mirroring what you have on your website. All in all, you have it under control. Yep, you can check another item off your to-do list.
  • Corning Announces Second-Quarter Results Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 6:10AMCORNING, N.Y.----Corning Incorporated today announced its results for the second quarter 2010.
  • First Step Towards Electronic DNA Sequencing: Translocation Through Graphene Nanopores Wednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 5:41AMResearchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a new, carbon-based nanoscale platform to electrically detect single DNA molecules. Using electric fields, the tiny DNA strands are pushed through nanoscale-sized, atomically thin pores in a graphene nanopore platform that ultimately may be important for fast electronic sequencing of the four chemical bases of DNA based on their unique ...
  • *Bulgarian Scientist: 'Galaxy is Rich in Earth-Like Planets' Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 7:26AMIn a recent presentation, Kepler co-investigator Dimitar Sasselov preempted the official announcement that the exoplanet-hunting Kepler Space Telescope has discovered about 140 candidate worlds orbiting other stars that are "like Earth."
  • *Bulgarian Scientist: 'Galaxy is Rich in Earth-Like Planets' Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 7:26AMBulgarian-born Astronomer, Dimitar Sasselov, is the Director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. File photo
  • County board hears a report on radio upgrade mandate Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 1:53AMVERONA — Staunton, Waynesboro and Augusta County are waiting to hear whether they will receive a grant that would recommend the best option for upgrading emergency radio systems to meet a 2013 federal mandate.
  • Police agencies join forces to fight drug dealers, abuse Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 12:13AMNorthwestern Ohio police departments and prosecutors' offices have joined forces in an attempt to curb drug dealing and drug abuse.
  • Task force wants to report Aug. 18 Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 12:13AMA task force on economic development intends to present recommendations Aug. 18 on how government and GreaterFindlayInc. leaders should coordinate activities.
  • Kentucky group tells how it's done Tuesday, July 27, 2010 @ 12:13AMEffective communication and setting egos aside are two economic development necessities, according to the director of a regional group in Kentucky where competing interests and fleeing corporations forced officials to change their ways.
  • OWU news Saturday, July 24, 2010 @ 10:01PMOhio Wesleyan University has announced several upcoming public events.
  • Iran aims to send man into space in nine years Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 3:27PMPresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Friday that Iran plans to send a man into space by 2019 as a blow to Western powers pressing Tehran over its nuclear programme, state news agency IRNA reported.
  • Destroyed Chinese satellite close to ISS: official Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 9:57AMDebris from a satellite destroyed in 2007 by a Chinese missile is in the vicinity of the International Space Station and astronauts are ready to take cover if required, a Russian official said Friday.
  • At Wellfleet library, astronomer’s talk on Pluto is far out Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 9:01AMLaurence Marschall, author, educator and professor of astronomy and physics at Gettysburg College, gave an illustrated and intriguing talk about Pluto, the distant world that was "plutoed" in 2006 when the International Astronomical Union adopted a new definition of planet that relegated Pluto to the status of "dwarf planet."
  • Summer Meteor Shower Season in Full Swing Friday, July 23, 2010 @ 8:17AMFor skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere, late summer is usually regarded as the prime meteor-viewing season.
  • Collaboration Leads To Simpler Method For Building Varieties Of Nanocrystal Superlattices Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 2:12PMCollaboration by chemists, physicists and materials scientists at the University of Pennsylvania has created a simple and inexpensive method to rapidly grow centimeter-scale membranes of binary nanocrystal superlattices, or BNSLs, by crystallizing a mixture of nanocrystals on a liquid surface.The study demonstrates a new and spontaneous way to grow long-range-ordered BNSL membranes with rigorous ...
  • Green Bank Telescope Enables "Intensity Mapping" to Shed Light on Mysteries of Dark Energy Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 12:42PMCarnegie Mellon researcher Jeff Peterson describes new technique developed by international research team to expand understanding of the expanding universe
  • Space dreams Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 1:54AMHAVE a problem you want help with, a pet peeve or frustration you want to air, or just someone who will hear you out? Email your woes to niexter.nie@gmail.com and your niexter friends will give you their take on your problems. Please give us your full details when you write in.
  • OUTDOOR CALENDAR Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 11:20PMJULY 24-25 Lyman Bentley Open registered Skeet tournament at Grand Blanc Huntsman’s Club. Details: gbhuntsmans.com AUG. 6-7-8 2010 CANUSA Weekend Schedule at Grand read more
  • Corning Announces New Capacity Investments Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 3:15PMCORNING, N.Y.----Corning Incorporated announced today that its board of directors has approved a capital expenditure plan to expand the company’s LCD glass and Gorilla® glass manufacturing in response to strong market demand.
  • Corning to Expand Clean-Air Auto Product Manufacturing in China Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 3:00PMCORNING, N.Y.----Corning Incorporated announced today that its board of directors has approved a capital expenditure plan to increase manufacturing capacity in the company’s Environmental Technologies and Life Sciences segments in the People’s Republic of China.
  • Black Hole Gets Jerked Around -- Twice Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 2:44PM(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have found evidence that a giant black hole has been jerked around twice, causing its spin axis to point in a different direction from before. This discovery, made with new data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, might explain several mysterious-looking objects found throughout the Universe.
  • Scientists find most massive star ever discovered (w/ Video) Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 8:44AM(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a combination of instruments on ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have discovered the most massive stars to date, one weighing at birth more than 300 times the mass of the sun, or twice as much as the currently accepted limit of 150 solar masses. The existence of these monsters -- millions of times more luminous than the sun, losing weight through very powerful winds ...
  • Astrophysicists Discover A Quasar That Acts As A Cosmic Lens Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 6:47AMA quasar acting as a gravitational lens has now been observed for the first time. This discovery, made by the EPFL's Laboratory of Astrophysics in cooperation with Caltech, represents an advance in the field, since it will allow scientists to weigh and measure a galaxy that contains a quasar.
  • more news Tuesday, July 20, 2010 @ 8:11PM"Escape From Plato`s Cave: The Milky Way and the Galactic Coordinate" is the subject of this month`s Estes Valley Astronomical Society (EVAS) meeting.
  • NASA Tests Launch Abort System At Supersonic Speeds Tuesday, July 20, 2010 @ 5:44PM(PhysOrg.com) -- Aerospace engineers at NASA's Ames Research Center are conducting a series of wind tunnel tests to develop technology for future human space exploration. Using a six percent scale Orion model, featuring complex moving parts, engineers are simulating various launch abort conditions the spacecraft might encounter during ascent to characterize the effects of launch abort and ...
  • Scientists receive first CryoSat-2 data Tuesday, July 20, 2010 @ 3:15PM(PhysOrg.com) -- A better understanding of how Earth's ice fields are changing has come another step closer as the first data from ESA's ice mission are released to selected scientists around the world for fine-tuning.
  • Astrophysicists discover a quasar that acts as a cosmic lens (w/ Video) Tuesday, July 20, 2010 @ 2:44PMA quasar acting as a gravitational lens has now been observed for the first time. This discovery, made by the EPFL's Laboratory of Astrophysics in cooperation with Caltech, represents an advance in the field, since it will allow scientists to weigh and measure a galaxy that contains a quasar. The news is published today in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
  • Muslims facing the wrong way to Mecca Tuesday, July 20, 2010 @ 12:21PMIndonesian Muslims have been praying in the wrong direction for months, facing Somalia when they should have been facing Saudi Arabia, the country's highest religious authority says.
  • American Chemical Society symposium on Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Aug. 24 Tuesday, July 20, 2010 @ 12:17PM( American Chemical Society ) The American Chemical Society will hold a special day-long symposium on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on Tuesday, Aug. 24, during its National Meeting & Exposition in Boston. The symposium, which includes a dozen experts, will examine topics ranging from the spill's effects on marine life to its effects on the safety of seafood.
  • Nobel climate scientist dies Tuesday, July 20, 2010 @ 10:46AMA scientist who shared the 2007 Nobel Prize with former Vice President Al Gore has died.
  • Author pens tribute to grandmother Sunday, July 18, 2010 @ 11:20PMThe pink and yellow roses at the farm west of Oakwood bloom in tribute to Mary Cranston Green, who planted some of them many years ago.
  • NASA Telescope "Blinded" by Record-Breaking Gamma Ray Burst Sunday, July 18, 2010 @ 9:48PMThe NASA telescope known as Swift was “blinded” by a giant gamma ray burst that was believed to be from a dying star.
  • Special Issue Of Astronomy And Astrophysics Dedicated To Herschel's First Results Sunday, July 18, 2010 @ 7:53PMby Staff Writers Paris, France (ESA) Jul 19, 2010 The first scientific results obtained with Herschel are appearing, this week, in a special issue of the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
  • 3 Questions: Richard Binzel On Astronomers' Powerful New Tool Sunday, July 18, 2010 @ 7:53PMby Staff Writers Boston MA (SPX) Jul 19, 2010 Last month, it was announced that the first Pan-STARRS (Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System) telescope, PS1, is fully operational.
  • Report Selangor MB Not Aware About Small-time Sand Operators Not Accurate - MB's Office Sunday, July 18, 2010 @ 8:10AMSHAH ALAM, July 18 (Bernama) -- The Selangor Menteri Besar's press secretariat today issued a statement that media reports saying Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim was not aware of small-time sand contractors in the state were not accurate.
  • In Brief - Big Island Saturday, July 17, 2010 @ 10:15PMBig Island landowners fight illegal hunting
  • 'Climategate' debate: less meltdown, more well-mannered argument Saturday, July 17, 2010 @ 4:31PMPolemical and partisan characterises the climate debate online - but at last night's Guardian debate there was courteousness and a distinct warmth in the air Something remarkable happened last night in the polarised world of "warmists" versus "sceptics": a candid but not rancorous public debate. I'm sure you'll correct me if I'm wrong but, to my knowledge, never before have all sides of this ...
  • Williams prof sees eclipse Saturday, July 17, 2010 @ 10:45AMSaturday July 17, 2010 North Adams Transcript WILLIAMSTOWN -- A Williams College astronomy professor was among thousands of people gathered on Easter Island on July 11 to watch the total solar eclipse that temporarily darkened skies over the South Pacific. Jay Pasachoff, chair of the astronomy department and Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy, and students Muzhou Lu and Craig Malamut
  • Selangor MB Says Not Aware Of Small-time Sand Contractors Saturday, July 17, 2010 @ 6:25AMSHAH ALAM, July 17 (Bernama) -- Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim said today that he was not aware of the existence of small-time sand contractors in the state.
  • Night sky's Great Globular Cluster visible Friday, July 16, 2010 @ 1:11PMA fascinating deep sky object called the Great Globular Cluster can currently be found in telescopes looking nearly overhead on clear summer nights, and there's good story behind how it and other objects are classified.
  • Lunchtime Links: Just when you thought it was safe to go outside, NASA finds 25,000 new asteroids Friday, July 16, 2010 @ 11:25AMView full sizeThe Associated PressThis image provided by the NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE Team shows the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) view of the nearby galaxy Messier 83. It is sometimes referred to as the southern Pinwheel galaxy. What's special about WISE is...