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Mercury Flyby Sets Stage for New Discoveries

"Discoveries are at hand!" That's what members of the MESSENGER science team are saying after their spacecraft flew past Mercury on Jan. 14th at a distance of only 124 miles. The historic flyby netted 500 megabytes of data (now safely downloaded to Earth) and more than 1200 photos covering nearly six million square miles of previously unseen terrain.
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Ice clouds put Mars in the shade

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Space news // 20 January, 2008 03:01:01
 Until now, Mars has generally been regarded as a desert world, where a visiting astronaut would be surprised to see clouds scudding across the orange sky. However, new results show that the arid planet possesses high-level clouds that are sufficiently dense to cast a shadow on the surface.

Brain Connections Strongest During Waking Hours

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Life sciences news // 19 January, 2008 03:01:14
 Most people know it from experience: After so many hours of being awake, your brain feels unable to absorb any more-and several hours of sleep will refresh it.

Wine Study Shows Price Influences Perception

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Science news // 17 January, 2008 09:01:48
 A rose by any other name might smell as sweet, but slap on a hefty price tag, and our opinion of it might go through the roof. At least that's the case with the taste of wine, say scientists from the California Institute of Technology and Stanford University.

Ames Laboratory Is "Beefing" Up Magnets For Electric-Drive Cars

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Technology news // 15 January, 2008 09:01:23
 Ask Iver Anderson at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory about consumer interest in and desire for "ultragreen" electric-drive vehicles, and he'll reply without a moment's hesitation that the trend is unstoppable and growing fast.

Ulysses Flyby of the Sun's North Pole

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Space news // 14 January, 2008 08:01:14
 Consider it a case of exquisite timing. Just last week, solar physicists announced the beginning of a new solar cycle and now, Jan. 14th, the Ulysses spacecraft is flying over a key region of solar activity--the sun's North Pole.

Scientists measure flux of Antarctica's ice

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Science news // 13 January, 2008 11:01:26
 Increasing amounts of ice mass have been lost from West Antarctica and the Antarctic peninsula over the past ten years, according to research from the University of Bristol and published online this week in Nature Geoscience. Meanwhile the ice mass in East Antarctica has been roughly stable, with neither loss nor accumulation over the past decade.

Hubble Finds Double Einstein Ring

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Astronomy news // 09 January, 2008 05:01:18
 NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye pattern. The double-ring pattern is caused by the complex bending of light from two distant galaxies strung directly behind a foreground massive galaxy, like three beads on a string.

Integral discovers the galaxy's antimatter cloud is lopsided

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Astronomy news // 09 January, 2008 08:01:16
 The shape of the mysterious cloud of antimatter in the central regions of the Milky Way has been revealed by ESA's orbiting gamma-ray observatory Integral. The unexpectedly lopsided shape is a new clue to the origin of the antimatter.

An "attractive" man-machine interface

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Technology news // 08 January, 2008 08:01:15
 Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have developed a new "nanobiotechnology" that enables magnetic control of events at the cellular level. They describe the technology, which could lead to finely-tuned but noninvasive treatments for disease, in the January issue of Nature Nanotechnology (published online January 3).

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