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Curiosity Rover Explores Mars: Discovering the Martian Terrain

Since the beginning of August, NASA's Mars rover, Curiosity, has been roaming all over the distant planet learning as much as it can about the Martian terrain.

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B1-Mapping Breakthrough: Enhancing Unbalanced SSFP Techniques

A novel B1-mapping technique (B1-TRAP) is presented, which offers a good compromise with respect to speed, robustness and accuracy.

Power and Electrical Engineering

Intuitive Visual Control Provides Faster Robot Operation

The researchers' aim is to enhance a human operator's ability to perform precise tasks using a multi-jointed robotic device such as an articulated mechanical…

Physics & Astronomy

Physicists Use Black Hole Studies to Measure Photon Mass

The research findings appear in the September issue of Physical Review Letters. “Black hole bombs and photon mass bounds” is co-authored by Emanuele Berti, UM…

Earth Sciences

Salt Marsh Carbon May Play Role in Slowing Climate Warming

Carbon dioxide is the predominant so-called “greenhouse gas” that acts as sort of an atmospheric blanket, trapping the Earth’s heat. Over time, an abundance of…

Earth Sciences

Asteroid's troughs suggest stunted planet

Now, a new analysis supports the notion that the troughs are faults that formed when a fellow asteroid smacked into Vesta's south pole. The research reinforces…

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Tropical Flavors From French Territories at SIAL 2012

Products from 22 companies based in Guadeloupe and Martinique (two French départements in the Caribbean) and in Réunion Island (in the Indian Ocean) will be in…

Materials Sciences

Light Flight: 50% Weight Savings with 3D Laser Sintering

More than 50 percent weight savings in aircraft construction is now possible using hypermodern production techniques. A process called 3-D laser sintering of…

Life & Chemistry

New Strategy Emerges in HIV Research Breakthrough

“The process by which a retrovirus invades the host germ line appears to be quite drawn out in this case, so that the koala population has suffered the…

Life & Chemistry

New Strategy Emerges From HIV Research Breakthrough

The research will appear in the Journal of Biological Chemistry’s October edition and currently is available online.“It’s a big breakthrough for us,” says…

Agricultural & Forestry Science

Outdoor Recreation Growth Puts Pressure on Northern Forests

“Outdoor Recreation in the Northern United States,” a report recently published by the U.S. Forest Service’s Northern Research Station as GTR NRS-100,…

Life & Chemistry

New Insights into Inflammatory Cells’ Function for Future Remedies

“We've found that hundreds of new genes are involved in the function and development of these cells,” said co-author Richard Bonneau, an associate professor at…

Life & Chemistry

MBARI researchers discover what vampire squids eat (it's not what you think)

Since that time, perhaps a dozen scientific papers have been published on this mysterious animal, but no one has been able to figure out exactly what it eats.A…

Earth Sciences

Hurricane Irene’s Impact on Catskills Watershed Pollution

Bryan Yoon, the study’s co-author and a doctoral student at the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, found that last summer during Hurricane…

Earth Sciences

April’s Rare Earthquake Sparks Global Aftershocks Insights

Both studies shed light on more than a decade of debate on the origin and prevalence of remotely triggered earthquakes. Until now, distant but damaging…

Studies and Analyses

The new skinny on leptin

While the scientists expected the leptin-deficient fish would be unable metabolize fat, “we did not expect that the leptin also affects the development of…

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