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- Salts Could Be Important Piece of Martian Organic Puzzle, NASA Scientists Find Fri, 21 May 21, 7:00pm“The fact that there’s organic matter preserved in 3-billion-year-old rocks, and we found it at the surface, is a very promising sign that we might be able to tap more information from better preserved samples below the...
- Magnetic ‘Highway’ Channels Material Out of Cigar Galaxy Mon, 18 Jan 21, 5:00pmLocated 12 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major, the Cigar galaxy is undergoing an exceptionally high rate of star formation called a starburst...
- NASA sending probe to Europa in search of ancient sub-glacial life Fri, 27 Feb 15, 3:32amWith past life on Mars already likely, NASA is making plans to venture further into the solar system by sending a probe to Europa. One of Jupiter’s many moons, about the size of Earth’s moon, Europa has been the subject...
- Nissan and NASA team up to build autonomous cars for use in space Thu, 22 Jan 15, 4:00amIts predicted that self-driving cars will be on the road by 2020 and now Nissan and NASA have inked a new partnership to further research on autonomous vehicles...
- NASA Harnessing the Power of Microbes to Create Building Bricks on Mars Sat, 6 Oct 12, 5:00amMars image from Shutterstock Engineers at NASA’s Synthetic Biology Initiative are creating the building blocks of life – or rather, using life to create building blocks...
- Nanoscale vacuum transistors – way cool, but still not as pretty as a glowing 12AU6 Fri, 25 May 12, 9:00amFrom AAAS, news of a super tiny vacuum-tube transistor hybrid that can operate up to .46 TERAHertz (thats 460,000 megahertz or 460 gigahertz): Return of the Vacuum Tube by Jon Cartwright Peer inside an antique radio and you’ll...
- NASA’s New LEED Platinum Sustainability Base is the Greenest Federal Building in the US – PHOTOS Fri, 20 Apr 12, 7:58amRead the rest of NASA’s New LEED Platinum Sustainability Base is the Greenest Federal Building in the US – PHOTOS Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: "sustainable architecture", Ames Research...
- Google Wants to House Its Own Private Jet Fleet in NASA’s Hangar One Wed, 14 Dec 11, 5:00amGoogle is no stranger to eco initiatives with their many investments in solar power and alternative energies, but unfortunately they still do have quite a few guilty carbon pleasures like their fleet of private jets...