March 7th 2007 PST
LiveScience.com Wednesday, March 7, 2007 Gorillas Gave Humans 'The Crabs' Humans inherited pubic lice, aka crabs, from gorillas roughly three million years ago. But it does not mean there was any monkey business involved. Dino Bones Reveal DNA Surprise The distinction between birds and the dinosaurs from which they evolved is getting even murkier as scientists reported this week that both groups had short genomes, or complete DNA sequences. Mystery Solved? The Shipwreck that ...Continue Reading
March 7th 2007 PST
Mar. 7, 2007 David Mould/Bob Jacobs Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1898/1600 Eileen Hawley/James Rostohar Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 RELEASE: 07-26 STATEMENT REGARDING THE STATUS OF LISA NOWAK HOUSTON - U.S. Navy Capt. Lisa Nowak's detail as a NASA astronaut has been terminated, effective March 8, by mutual agreement between NASA and the U.S. Navy. Nowak, an active duty naval officer, began her detail with NASA following selection as a member of the astronaut class of 1996. She flew one m ...Continue Reading
March 7th 2007 PST
The following sections were updated since 06 March 2007. -- FLOOD (2 updated events, 3 new images) -- TORRENTIAL RAIN BRINGS FLOODS AND LANDSLIDES TO SOUTH AMERICA Torrential rain pounded Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru from December 2006 through February 2007, causing floods and landslides. Bolivia was particularly hard-hit with extensive flooding. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14156 *** ASTER(Terra) image from Mar 05 2007 (Posted on Mar 06 2007 10:50AM) FLOODING IN THE ZAMBEZI VALLEY In the wake of ...Continue Reading
March 7th 2007 PST
SPACE.com Update for March 7, 2007  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|* *Space Business News* *March 7, 2007*  *TOP STORY* *posted: March 7, 2007 01:27 pm EDT* *Deep Mission: Aquatic Robotic Diver Could Aid Europa Exploration*It?s robotic, aquatic and ramping up for a long, deep dive, all to test technology that could one day allow its autonomous de ...Continue Reading
March 7th 2007 PST
Mar. 7, 2007 Michael Mewhinney Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. 650-604-3937/9000 RELEASE: 07-27 NASA TO EXPLORE FUTURE COLLABORATIONS WITH STATE OF HAWAII MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. - NASA officials announced Wednesday they have agreed to explore future collaborations with the state of Hawaii in commercial space initiatives and programs supporting research, education and workforce development. Under the terms of a memorandum of understanding signed today in Hawaii, NASA Ames Research Center will expl ...Continue Reading
March 7th 2007 PST
Mar. 7, 2007 Tabatha Thompson Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3895 Lynn Chandler Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-2806 RELEASE: 07-59 NASA AND USGS PRODUCE MOST DETAILED SATELLITE VIEWS OF ANTARCTICA GREENBELT, Md. - Researchers from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Golden, Colo., have woven together more than a thousand images from the Landsat 7 satellite to create the most detailed, high-resolution map ever produced of Antarctica. The Landsat Image Mosaic of Antarctica (LIMA) ...Continue Reading
March 7th 2007 PST
Mar. 7, 2007 Beth Dickey/J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087/5241 Kelly Humphries/John Ira Petty Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 RELEASE: 07-58 NASA COMPLETES KEY REVIEW OF ORION SPACECRAFT WASHINGTON - NASA has established a requirements baseline for the Orion crew exploration vehicle, bringing America's next human spacecraft a step closer to construction. The Orion Project completed its system requirements review in cooperation with its prime contractor, Lockheed Martin, Marc ...Continue Reading
March 6th 2007 PST
LiveScience.com Tuesday, March 6, 2007 Male Spiders Leave Chastity 'Plug' to Ensure Paternity A male orb-web spider leaves behind a post-coital parting gift that helps to ensure that subsequent offspring are his?the tip of his genitals ? in the females' sexual orifice. Military Tracks Speeding Bullets Back to Source Sniper detection systems follow the supersonic trail of a bullet back to the gunman. The Secret Language of Whales Revealed Blue whales sing to find mates and cal ...Continue Reading
March 6th 2007 PST
SPACE.com Update for March 6, 2007  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|* *Space Business News* *March 6, 2007*  *TOP STORY* *posted: March 6, 2007 12:00 pm EDT* *The Milky Way?s Pinball Wizard*In a cosmic game of pinball, black holes fling high-energy protons into space, where they zigzag around at near light-speeds before smashing into low-energy pr ...Continue Reading
March 6th 2007 PST
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