CNES is conducting this week its 24th parabolic flight campaign on the Airbus A 300 zero-g based at Bordeaux-Mérignac airport, France. This latest campaign, organized by CNES subsidiary Novespace, will […]
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Researchers Find Glass-eating Microbes at the Rock Bottom of the Food Chain
A microscopic view of tubular structures in a 25-micrometer-thick, polished slice of brown volcanic "glass" (rock-like super-cooled lava). These tunnels are thought to be borings made by microbes deep inside […]
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Comments by Sen. Robert Byrd Regarding “Space War”
SPACE WARS — (Senate – September 26, 2001) Mr. BYRD. Madam President, during the August recess, The New York Times Magazine ran a cover story entitled “The Coming Space War” […]
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Research season will feature use of sophisticated technologies to map Antarctica
Researchers plan to map the surface of the vast Antarctic ice sheet with airborne radar, measure the movement of the Earth’s crust beneath the ice with Global Positioning System transceivers […]
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Listening for an ocean on Europa
Things are crackling on the giant Jovian moon, Europa, and a group of earth-bound ocean scientists funded by the Office of Naval Research are intrigued… could Jupiter’s Europa be hiding […]
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Chandra sheds light on the knotty problem of the M87 jet
NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has given astronomers their most detailed look to date at the X-ray jet blasting out of the nucleus of M87, a giant elliptical galaxy 50 million […]
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First detailed mapping of asteroid 433 Eros finds most large rocks on surface were ejected from single crater
Images of 433 Eros taken from the orbiting NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft: (a), scale bar, lower right, measures 2 kilometers (1.2 miles), crater Shoemaker as viewed from the south; (b), scale bar […]
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Extended Registration for “RNA-Based Life” Conference
Dear Colleague, The RNA-Based Life Conference will take place as scheduled on November 15-17 at Indiana University. Our conference–like our scientific community, our countries, and the civilized world–will not be […]
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Atmosphere, Not Oceans, Carries Most Heat to the Poles from the Equator
BOULDER — According to a new data analysis, the atmosphere redistributes annually as much heat from the tropics to the poles as would be produced by five million of the […]
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NSBRI Space Research Briefs – September/October 2001
Measuring bone loss in space and on Earth HOUSTON – Bone loss is a problem for astronauts spending months or years in space. National Space Biomedical Research Institute scientists are […]
