The University of Southampton in Australia announced the first miniature sensors for the purpose of measuring the temperature and saltiness of the earth’s oceans to be launched for use on Sunday, April 17, 2011. According to a press release issued on April 15, the mini-sensors were installed onto a boat sailing 3,100 miles from the [...]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced the selection of 80 students from 28 community colleges across the United States and Puerto Rico to participate in the National Community College Aerospace Scholars program. In a press release from NASA on April 7, 2011, the agency unveiled details about the program which is intended to [...]
The wreckage of the Air France Flight 447 that crashed into the Atlantic Ocean on June 1, 2009 has been located off the northeastern coast of Brazil around 2.5 miles beneath the surface. The flight from Rio de Jeneiro to Paris, France carried 12 crew members and 216 passengers none of whom survived. The Woods [...]
The scientific news journal Science has awarded the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education (SPORE) to PlantingScience.org, a website dedicated to introducing students to botanical studies by teaming them up with plant scientists as mentors to conduct actual research and experiments. In a press release from the American Association for the Advancement of Science [...]
The devastating earthquake in Japan which has been officially named the N Honshu earthquake may hold some valuable geologic information that can help anticipate similar earthquakes around the world. According to a press release from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) on March 11, 2011, the 8.9 magnitude earthquake that hit Japan holds especially relevant [...]
The space shuttle Discovery made its last landing from its final mission on March 9, 2011. In a press release issued on the day of Discovery’s landing an administrator in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Charles Bolden, that the “amazing spacecraft has served her country well”. Discovery’s 27 year career has included 39 [...]
On October 22, 2010, astronaut Doug Wheelock “checked in” to his Twitter account from the International Space Station 220 miles above the Earth. Wheelock posted images of Earth to his Twitter account and used his Foursquare application to register his location in space. His groundbreaking use of social media launched a partnership between Foursquare and [...]
“Dark Matter” is an invisible substance which exists throughout the universe and plays a key role in the formation of galaxies and according to a press release issued by NASA on February 16, 2011, we now know how much of it is required to create a galaxy. The Herschel Space Observatory launched in May of [...]
The NEOWISE mission is actually an extension of the WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) an unmanned mission in which a spacecraft equipped with four infrared cameras was sent into space in December 2009 to take images of the entire sky. In October, 2010 after capturing over 2.7 million images ranging from far off galaxies to [...]
