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Category: Physics/Astronomy

Physics/Astronomy - Environmental sciences 03.09.2010 ATHLETE Rover Steps Up to Long Desert Trek

Physics/Astronomy - Environmental sciences 03.09.2010 NASA Invites Media To Experience Future Of Human Space Exploration

Physics/Astronomy 02.09.2010 NASA, Newseum Invite Media To Discover And Encounter Comets

Physics/Astronomy 02.09.2010 NASA Selects Investigations For First Mission To Encounter The Sun

Physics/Astronomy 02.09.2010 Computer models explain patterns in bent crystals

Physics/Astronomy - Life sciences 02.09.2010 Caltech Chemists Develop Simple Technique to Visualize Atomic-Scale Structures

Physics/Astronomy 02.09.2010 NASA Selects Investigations for First Sun Encounter Mission

Physics/Astronomy 02.09.2010 Spitzer Finds a Flavorful Mix of Asteroids

Physics/Astronomy 02.09.2010 New NASA HD App for iPad With Expanded Content Available Free

Physics/Astronomy 02.09.2010 NASA and Its Partners Announce a New Space Station Crew

Physics/Astronomy - Business/Economics 01.09.2010 Caltech Awards Distinguished International Aerospace Honor to Lockheed Visionary

Physics/Astronomy - Earth sciences 01.09.2010 Caltech Mineral Physicists Find New Scenery at Earth’s Core-Mantle Boundary

Physics/Astronomy - Business/Economics 01.09.2010 NASA Sets Media Deadlines For Next Space Shuttle Flight

Physics/Astronomy 01.09.2010 Herschel Finds Water in a Cosmic Desert

Physics/Astronomy 31.08.2010 Astronauts Linda Godwin and Scott Altman Leave NASA

Physics/Astronomy 31.08.2010 NASA Extends Contract With United Space Alliance

Physics/Astronomy 31.08.2010 Next International Space Station Crew Holds News Conference

Physics/Astronomy 31.08.2010 NASA and ATK Successfully Test Five-Segment Solid Rocket Motor

Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry 31.08.2010 Atmospheres of distant worlds probed with new technique

Physics/Astronomy 27.08.2010 U2 And NASA Create Video To Celebrate Collaboration

Physics/Astronomy 27.08.2010 NASA TV Airs Interview With Twin Astronauts; Kelly Brothers Scheduled To Be In Space Together

Physics/Astronomy 26.08.2010 NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers two Planets Transiting Same Star

Environmental sciences - Physics/Astronomy 26.08.2010 Tracing the Big Picture of Mars’ Atmosphere

Physics/Astronomy 26.08.2010 NASA Announces High School Competition for Future Engineers: Teams to Design Software for Small Satellites on the International Space Station

Physics/Astronomy 25.08.2010 WISE Captures the Unicorn’s Rose

Physics/Astronomy - Mechanical engineering/Mechanics 25.08.2010 Sunlight spawns many binary and "divorced" binary asteroids

Business/Economics - Physics/Astronomy 24.08.2010 Penn State receives more than $129 million to lead energy team

Physics/Astronomy 24.08.2010 "Avatar" Director And NASA Focus On Earth Science Exploration In Psa Campaign

Physics/Astronomy 23.08.2010 New project will use pulsars to detect gravitational waves

Physics/Astronomy 23.08.2010 NASA To Announce Latest Findings By Kepler Spacecraft

Physics/Astronomy 23.08.2010 Pulverized Planet Dust May Lie Around Double Stars

Physics/Astronomy 23.08.2010 Pulverized Planet Dust Might Lie Around Double Stars

Physics/Astronomy 23.08.2010 Vote for NASA Panels at South By Southwest

Physics/Astronomy - Medicine/Pharmacy 23.08.2010 The strange case of solar flares and radioactive elements

Physics/Astronomy 23.08.2010 Good Vibrations: new atom-scale products on horizon

Physics/Astronomy 22.08.2010 Ralph W. Kavanagh, 86

Physics/Astronomy 20.08.2010 History-Making Mars Mission Launched 35 Years Ago

Physics/Astronomy - Life sciences 20.08.2010 NASA Images Show Anatomy of Pakistan Flood Disaster

Physics/Astronomy 20.08.2010 NASA Asks Public for Final Shuttle Missions’ Wakeup Songs

Physics/Astronomy 19.08.2010 Cosmic Lens Used to Probe Dark Energy for First Time

Physics/Astronomy - History/Philosophy 19.08.2010 New images show recent faulting and shrinkage of the moon

Physics/Astronomy - Business/Economics 19.08.2010 Researchers tapped to help make rules for commercial space travel

Physics/Astronomy 18.08.2010 The U of M at the "Great Minnesota Get Together"

Physics/Astronomy 18.08.2010 National report makes for ’a good day’ for CU astronomy

Electroengineering/Microtechnics - Physics/Astronomy 18.08.2010 Ho-hum to high performance: A boring material, when ’stretched,’ could lead to electronics revolution

Physics/Astronomy 18.08.2010 Galaxies’ Glory Days Revealed

Mathematics - Physics/Astronomy 18.08.2010 NASA And Mary J. Blige Encourage Science Careers For Women

Physics/Astronomy 18.08.2010 LISA Gravitational-Wave Mission Strongly Endorsed by National Research Council

Physics/Astronomy 16.08.2010 Proposed Cornell telescope project in Chile gets key boost

Physics/Astronomy 16.08.2010 Move Over Caravaggio: Cassini’s Light and Dark Moons

Physics/Astronomy - Computer Science/Telecom 16.08.2010 You could have found a new star with your PC!

Physics/Astronomy 15.08.2010 NRC Recommends Three Astronomy/Astrophysics Projects with Potential Major Caltech Roles

Physics/Astronomy 14.08.2010 Cassini Bags Enceladus ’Tigers’

Chemistry - Physics/Astronomy 13.08.2010 Speakers urge innovation, discuss green technologies at energy conference

Physics/Astronomy - Computer Science/Telecom 13.08.2010 Penn State is partner in large telescope named top U.S. priority

Physics/Astronomy 12.08.2010 NASA Plans Next Space Station Repair Spacewalk For Monday

Physics/Astronomy 12.08.2010 Home computers from Iowa and Germany, using Arecibo data, help discover unusual pulsar

Physics/Astronomy 12.08.2010 Cassini Hunting Enceladus ’Tigers’ with Night Vision

Physics/Astronomy - Business/Economics 12.08.2010 The Materials Research Society's Von Hippel Award to L. Eric Cross

Physics/Astronomy 11.08.2010 Twin Brother NASA Astronauts Available For Satellite Interviews

Physics/Astronomy 11.08.2010 Giant Ultraviolet Rings Found in Resurrected Galaxies

Physics/Astronomy 11.08.2010 NASA and Israel Space Agency Sign Statement of Intent for Future Cooperation

Physics/Astronomy 10.08.2010 WISE Spacecraft Warming Up

Earth sciences - Physics/Astronomy 10.08.2010 Scientists Conduct Inaugural Deployment of Buoys off Shore of Taiwan to Monitor the Typhoon Season

Physics/Astronomy 10.08.2010 NASA Invites Media to Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Arrival

Physics/Astronomy 10.08.2010 Perseid meteors light up the sky this Thursday night

Physics/Astronomy 10.08.2010 NASA Announces Tweetup For Next Space Shuttle Launch

Physics/Astronomy 09.08.2010 NASA Selects Contractor For Wallops Island Protection Project

Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry 09.08.2010 Researchers demonstrate highly directional terahertz laser rays

Environmental sciences - Physics/Astronomy 09.08.2010 Send in the Clouds

Physics/Astronomy - Medicine/Pharmacy 09.08.2010 New device for patients to monitor blood glucose levels

Physics/Astronomy 07.08.2010 NASA Instrument Tracks Pollution from Russian Fires

Physics/Astronomy 06.08.2010 NASA Announces Next Opportunity for Cubesat Space Missions

Physics/Astronomy - Administration and Government 05.08.2010 NASA Moves Space Station Repair Spacewalk To Saturday

Physics/Astronomy - Mechanical engineering/Mechanics 05.08.2010 Physicists use offshoot of string theory to describe puzzling behavior of superconductors

Physics/Astronomy 05.08.2010 NASA’s Great Observatories Witness a Galactic Spectacle

Physics/Astronomy - Computer Science/Telecom 05.08.2010 Quantum networds advance with entanglement of photons, solid-state qubits

Physics/Astronomy - Earth sciences 04.08.2010 Mimicking the Moon’s surface in the basement

Physics/Astronomy 04.08.2010 Hundreds of New Views from Telescope Orbiting Mars

Chemistry - Physics/Astronomy 04.08.2010 Four University of Illinois professors elected ACS fellows

Physics/Astronomy - Computer Science/Telecom 03.08.2010 Quantum Networks Advance with Entanglement of Photons, Solid-State Qubits

Physics/Astronomy - Life sciences 03.08.2010 NASA Invites Media To View Space Station Cargo For STS-133 Mission

Physics/Astronomy - Administration and Government 03.08.2010 NASA Moves Space Station Repair Spacewalk To Friday, Sets Briefings

Chemistry - Physics/Astronomy 02.08.2010 New catalyst of platinum nanoparticles could lead to tall-free, stable fuel cells

Physics/Astronomy 02.08.2010 Aurora Alert: The Sun is Waking Up!

Earth sciences - Physics/Astronomy 02.08.2010 Caltech, Canadian Space Agency Awarded NASA Project to Develop Spectrometer Headed to Mars

Physics/Astronomy 02.08.2010 Engineers’ new solar energy conversion process could revamp solar power production

Physics/Astronomy - Environmental sciences 02.08.2010 NASA and ESA’s First Joint Mission to Mars Selects Instruments

Physics/Astronomy - Business/Economics 02.08.2010 New Project Manager for Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

Environmental sciences - Physics/Astronomy 02.08.2010 NASA Holds Media Teleconference To Preview Major Hurricane Study

Physics/Astronomy 02.08.2010 NASA Sets Briefing To Preview Updated Space Station Spacewalk Plan

Physics/Astronomy - Environmental sciences 02.08.2010 NASA And ESA’s First Joint Mission To Mars Selects Instruments

Physics/Astronomy - Mechanical engineering/Mechanics 02.08.2010 Silicon can be made to melt in reverse

Physics/Astronomy 30.07.2010 NASA’s First Robotic Crew Member To Tweet From Space Station, Available For Interviews

Physics/Astronomy 30.07.2010 NASA Awards Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, Space Vehicle Mockup Facility Support Contract

Physics/Astronomy 30.07.2010 MIT OpenCourseWare recognized by the AAAS

Physics/Astronomy - Medicine/Pharmacy 29.07.2010 Zurek Awarded Albert Einstein Professorship Prize

Physics/Astronomy 29.07.2010 No rings around Saturn’s Rhea, astronomers find

Physics/Astronomy 29.07.2010 Blowing in the Wind: Cassini Helps with Dune Whodunit

Physics/Astronomy - Administration and Government 29.07.2010 Graphene exhibits bizarre new behavior well-suited to electronic devices

Physics/Astronomy 29.07.2010 World-renowned astronomer Donald C. Backer dies at age 66

Physics/Astronomy 28.07.2010 400 years, 7,500 words: A history of planetary science

Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry 28.07.2010 Spitzer discovers buckyballs in space

Physics/Astronomy 28.07.2010 Martian Dust Devil Whirls Into Opportunity’s View

Physics/Astronomy 28.07.2010 GRAIL Spacecraft Takes Shape

Physics/Astronomy 28.07.2010 Astronomer Finds Planets in Unusually Intimate Dance around Dying Star

Physics/Astronomy 27.07.2010 NASA Opens Online Voting For Next Desert RATS Exploration Site

Physics/Astronomy 27.07.2010 IceCube spies unexplained pattern of cosmic rays

Chemistry - Physics/Astronomy 27.07.2010 Fly eye paves the way for manufacturing biomimetic surfaces

Physics/Astronomy 26.07.2010 UM’s One Water to Make Cable-TV Premiere on Planet Green Channel

Physics/Astronomy - Earth sciences 26.07.2010 NASA Simulates Space Exploration At Remote Arctic Crater Site

Physics/Astronomy 23.07.2010 Curiosity Rover Grows by Leaps and Bounds

Physics/Astronomy 23.07.2010 NASA Astronaut Sends First Signed Message from Orbit

Physics/Astronomy 23.07.2010 Mars Curiosity Takes First Baby Steps

Physics/Astronomy 23.07.2010 NASA Spacecraft Camera Yields Most Accurate Mars Map Ever

Physics/Astronomy 23.07.2010 NASA Seeks Undergrads to Defy Gravity for Science and Engineering

Physics/Astronomy 22.07.2010 Researcher calls supersolid helium into question

Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry 22.07.2010 NASA Telescope Finds Elusive Buckyballs in Space for First Time

Physics/Astronomy 22.07.2010 Los Alamos National Laboratory sponsors 14th Hazmat Challenge

Physics/Astronomy 22.07.2010 NASA’s Hubble Shows Hyperfast Star Was Booted From Milky Way

Physics/Astronomy 22.07.2010 Hyperfast Star Was Booted From Milky Way

Physics/Astronomy 21.07.2010 Black hole at Milky Way core powers galaxy’s fastest stars

Earth sciences - Physics/Astronomy 21.07.2010 Caltech Team Finds Evidence of Water in Moon Minerals

Physics/Astronomy 20.07.2010 NASA Awards Multi-Disciplinary Engineering And Technology Services II Contract

Physics/Astronomy - Environmental sciences 20.07.2010 NASA Astronauts -- Including Space Station Crew Member From Maryland -- Available For Interviews In Washington

Physics/Astronomy 20.07.2010 ISS Expedition 24 Crew to Talk with Middle School Students in Georgia

Physics/Astronomy - Administration and Government 20.07.2010 Orbiter Puts Itself Into Standby Safe Mode

Physics/Astronomy 20.07.2010 Cassini Sees Moon Building Giant Snowballs in Saturn Ring

Physics/Astronomy 19.07.2010 Video Camera Will Show Mars Rover’s Touchdown

Physics/Astronomy 19.07.2010 Record-breaking X-ray blast briefly blinds space observatory

Physics/Astronomy 16.07.2010 NASA’s WISE Mission Ready to Complete Extensive Sky Survey

Physics/Astronomy 16.07.2010 NASA’s WISE Mission to Complete Extensive Sky Survey

Physics/Astronomy - Earth sciences 15.07.2010 MESSENGER Spacecraft Reveals New Information About Mercury

Physics/Astronomy 15.07.2010 NASA Television Debuts Full-Time High Definition Channel

Physics/Astronomy 15.07.2010 See Beautiful Ontario Lacus: Cassini’s Guided Tour

Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry 15.07.2010 NASA Finds Super Hot Planet With Unique Comet-Like Tail

Physics/Astronomy - Environmental sciences 15.07.2010 Scientists Measure Changing Lake Depths on Titan

Physics/Astronomy 14.07.2010 Astronomers Discover an Unusual Cosmic Lens

Physics/Astronomy 14.07.2010 Meet the Titans: Dust Disk Found Around Massive Star

Physics/Astronomy 14.07.2010 Giant Antenna Propped Up, Ready for Joint Replacement

Physics/Astronomy - Medicine/Pharmacy 14.07.2010 Scientists find unusual electrons that go with the flow

Physics/Astronomy 14.07.2010 NASA Sets Briefing To Preview Space Station Spacewalk

Physics/Astronomy 13.07.2010 ’Broken symmetry’ discovery in high-temperature superconductors opens new research path

Physics/Astronomy 13.07.2010 NASA Selects Student Experiments For International Space Station

Physics/Astronomy - Earth sciences 12.07.2010 NASA and Microsoft Provide Mars 3-D Close Encounter

Physics/Astronomy - Earth sciences 12.07.2010 NASA and Microsoft Provide Mars 3-D Close Encounter

Physics/Astronomy - Electroengineering/Microtechnics 12.07.2010 Researchers create fibers that can detect and produce sound

Physics/Astronomy - Administration and Government 12.07.2010 Origin of Key Cosmic Explosions Still a Mystery

Chemistry - Physics/Astronomy 12.07.2010 Researchers use light to create rare uranium molecule

Physics/Astronomy - Social sciences 12.07.2010 U of M project digitizes immigrant love letters

Physics/Astronomy 11.07.2010 NASA Successfully Launches a New Eye on the Sun

Physics/Astronomy - Administration and Government 09.07.2010 Heavy Metal Rock Set to Take the Stage

Physics/Astronomy 09.07.2010 First NASA Astronaut To Send Live Tweet From Space Hosts Tweetup

Physics/Astronomy 08.07.2010 NASA And Partners Assign Crews For Upcoming Space Station Missions

Physics/Astronomy - Business/Economics 08.07.2010 Lab captures five R&D100 awards for 2010

Architecture - Physics/Astronomy 08.07.2010 Coral tests show fast construction pace for Polynesian temples

Physics/Astronomy 08.07.2010 Saturn Propellers Reflect Solar System Origins

Physics/Astronomy 08.07.2010 Researchers track ’propeller moons’ around Saturn for insight into solar system formation

Physics/Astronomy - Official Event 08.07.2010 NASA Ceremony Honors Shuttle External Tank Workforce

Earth sciences - Physics/Astronomy 08.07.2010 Geologists study Sumatran tsunami

Physics/Astronomy - Business/Economics 07.07.2010 NASA, Georgetown Invite Public to Astronauts’ Discussion of Recent Space Shuttle Mission

Environmental sciences - Physics/Astronomy 07.07.2010 Stanford study: Heat waves could be common in U.S. by 2039

Physics/Astronomy - Administration and Government 07.07.2010 NASA Awards Crew Robotics And Vehicle Equipment Contracts

Physics/Astronomy - Earth sciences 07.07.2010 NASA To Fly Into Hurricane Research This Summer

Physics/Astronomy 07.07.2010 Puff, the Magic Dragon?

Earth sciences - Physics/Astronomy 07.07.2010 NASA to Fly Into Hurricane Research this Summer

Physics/Astronomy - Literature/linguistic 07.07.2010 Ransom gets Denis Johnson's papers

Physics/Astronomy 07.07.2010 Newborn stars discovered in dark cosmic cloud

Physics/Astronomy 06.07.2010 NASA Art And Design Contestants Create Multi-Media Visions Of Lunar Life

Physics/Astronomy 06.07.2010 Planck Takes It All In

Physics/Astronomy 06.07.2010 Cassini to Dive Low through Titan Atmosphere

Physics/Astronomy 06.07.2010 A Closer Look at Daphnis

Chemistry - Physics/Astronomy 02.07.2010 Gregor named Searle scholar

Physics/Astronomy - Business/Economics 01.07.2010 Recovery Act milestone: Excavation begins at Manhattan Project landfill

Physics/Astronomy - Mechanical engineering/Mechanics 01.07.2010 Next Mars Rover Sports a Set of New Wheels

Physics/Astronomy 01.07.2010 Man in the Moon has ’Graphite Whiskers’

Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry 01.07.2010 Researchers Shed Light on Birth of the First Stars

Physics/Astronomy 01.07.2010 NASA Updates Shuttle Target Launch Dates For Final Two Flights

Medicine/Pharmacy - Physics/Astronomy 01.07.2010 McGill congratulates Order of Canada honorees

Physics/Astronomy 30.06.2010 Next International Space Station Residents Hold News Conference

Physics/Astronomy 29.06.2010 Engineers Assess Dawn’s Reaction Wheel

Chemistry - Physics/Astronomy 29.06.2010 New molecular framework could lead to flexible solar cells

Physics/Astronomy 28.06.2010 Voyager 2 at 12,000 Days: The Super-Marathon Continues

Business/Economics - Physics/Astronomy 28.06.2010 NASA Plays Key Exploration Role In New Administration Space Policy

Chemistry - Physics/Astronomy 28.06.2010 NASA Instrument Will Identify Clues to Martian Past

Law/forensics - Physics/Astronomy 28.06.2010 Teaching law in developing nations, Stanford Law School makes legal education a global goal

Physics/Astronomy 28.06.2010 ’Hitchhiker’ EPOXI: Next Stop, Comet Hartley 2

Chemistry - Physics/Astronomy 28.06.2010 Perspective on: Imagination and optimism in scientific discovery

Physics/Astronomy - Chemistry 27.06.2010 Pop goes the plasma: Extreme conditions inside imploding bubbles

Physics/Astronomy - Administration and Government 25.06.2010 NASA Awards Space Station Mission Integration Contract

Administration and Government - Physics/Astronomy 25.06.2010 NASA Retires First Data Relay Satellite After Stellar Career

Physics/Astronomy 25.06.2010 Space Station Crew Vehicle Will Move June 28 for Cargo Ship Arrival

Physics/Astronomy 25.06.2010 Earth to Lend Helping Hand to Comet Craft

Physics/Astronomy 24.06.2010 Stanford physicist awarded Europhysics Prize

Physics/Astronomy - History/Philosophy 24.06.2010 New Clues Suggest Wet Era on Early Mars Was Global

Physics/Astronomy 24.06.2010 The Coolest Stars Come Out of the Dark

Physics/Astronomy - Mathematics 23.06.2010 Experiment tests underpinnings of quantum field theory, Bose-Einstein statistics of photons

Physics/Astronomy 23.06.2010 NASA Astronaut T.J. Creamer Available for TV Interviews on Challenges of Living and Working Aboard the Space Station

Physics/Astronomy - Mechanical engineering/Mechanics 23.06.2010 World first for quantum memory storage

Physics/Astronomy 23.06.2010 Earth-like Planets May Be Ready for Their Close-Up