“The oven is working very well and living up to our expectations,” said Phoenix co-investigator Bill Boynton of the University of Arizona, Tucson. Boynton…
In the past two days, two instruments on the lander deck — a microscope and a bake-and-sniff analyzer — have begun inspecting soil samples delivered by the…
The International Mineralogical Association has named a new mineral, the first to be discovered in a particle from a comet, in honor of Donald Brownlee, a…
The long-term future of European ground-based and spaced-based astronomy will be debated at the ASTRONET Symposium in Liverpool between 16 and 19 June 2008.The…
Organic semiconductors are the technological basis for a multitude of innovative products, such as organic light emitting diodes, solar cells, and many other…
Today, at an international conference, a team of European astronomers announced a remarkable breakthrough in the field of extra-solar planets. Using the HARPS…
It is becoming clear that cars of the future will have to move from using the combination of petrol and a combustion engine in order to combat global warming…
The briefing will take place at the Phoenix Mission Science Operations Center at the UA, will be carried live on NASA TV's Media and Public Channels and will…
In addition to promising better detection of faint objects and improved amplification and positioning of light beams, the researchers’ technique for producing…
Just about everyone knows what happens when you drop Mentos mints into a Diet Coke. Students at Appalachian State University have documented why the reaction…
The research, ‘Acoustic cloaking in two dimensions: a feasible approach’, published today, Friday, 13 June, 2008, in the New Journal of Physics (NJP), builds…
Anderson's hypothesis had been proved indirectly, but the phenomenon had never been directly observed with particles such as atoms or electrons until recently,…
Ulysses has forever changed the way scientists view the Sun and its effect on the surrounding space. The mission’s major results and the legacy it leaves…
A team from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has created a device for use on the European ExoMars rover mission scheduled for launch in…
Boynton leads the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer instrument, or TEGA, for Phoenix. The instrument has eight separate tiny ovens to bake and sniff the soil to…
The name plutoid was proposed by the members of the IAU Committee on Small Body Nomenclature (CSBN), accepted by the Board of Division III, by the IAU Working…
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