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LiveScience.com Monday, March 19, 2007 Playing Music Makes You Smart Scientists have uncovered the first concrete evidence that playing music can significantly enhance the brain and sharpen hearing for all kinds of sounds, including speech. Brainiacs Succeed in Mapping 248-Dimensional Object That high school math problem with a page-long solution was a cakewalk compared to a recent mathematics answer that would ink an area the size of Manhattan if written out in small print. Some ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 16 March 2007. -- STORM (2 updated events, 3 new images) -- TORNADOES IN ALABAMA AND GEORGIA A massive tornado tore through Enterprise, Alabama, on March 1, 2007, leaving a swath of devastation about 180 meters (200 yards) wide through the small city. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14170 *** ASTER(Terra) image from Mar 08 2007 (Posted on Mar 15 2007 2:06PM) CYCLONE INDLALA On March 14, 2007, storm-weary Madagascar braced for its fourth land-falling tropi ...Continue Reading

Mar. 19, 2007 Katherine Trinidad Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3749 Kyle Herring Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-30 NASA ANNOUNCES TELECONFERENCE ON SHUTTLE REPAIR WORK WASHINGTON - NASA will host a media teleconference no earlier than 5 p.m. EDT Wednesday, March 21 to discuss the status of space shuttle Atlantis' upcoming mission, STS-117. The teleconference follows a meeting to review options to repair the shuttle's external fuel tank, which was damaged Feb. 26 during a h ...Continue Reading

Mar. 19, 2007 Beth Dickey/J.D. Harrington Headquarters, Washington 202-358-2087/5241 Sallie A. Keith Glenn Research Center, Cleveland 216-433-5795 Kelly O. Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-244-5111 RELEASE: 07-69 NASA GLENN TO TEST ORION CREW EXPLORATION VEHICLE CLEVELAND - NASA's Glenn Research Center will conduct integrated environmental testing of the Orion crew exploration vehicle in the Space Power Facility at the center's Plum Brook Station in Sandusky, Ohio. The environmental tests are desi ...Continue Reading

SPACE.com Update for March 19, 2007  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *March 19, 2007*     *TOP STORY* *posted: March 19, 2007 10:46 am EDT* *Managing Hubble Science*In late January, just one day past the annual deadline for submitting proposals to use the Hubble Space Telescope, one of the venerable observatory?s key instruments, the Advanced Camera for ...Continue Reading

Mar. 16, 2007 John Yembrick Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0602 Kelly O. Humphries Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-244-5050 STATUS REPORT: SS07-13 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION STATUS REPORT: SS07-13 HOUSTON - The Expedition 14 crew was busy this week moving trash into the ISS Progress 23 cargo ship, installing a new window on the space station and preparing for upcoming missions to the station. The new window was installed on Wednesday on the port side hatch of the Unity node. It is fitted with a berthin ...Continue Reading

LiveScience.com Friday, March 16, 2007 Man-Of-Steel Mentality Helps Guys Heal Faster While many scientists have considered masculine tendencies to be barriers to health and recovery, a small study of about 50 men suggests the opposite. The body-of-steel mentality can boost a guy?s recovery. Night Vision Helps With Camouflage In Briny Deep Thanks to their keen night vision, cuttlefish can camouflage themselves against nocturnal predators in the briny deep. Laughter May Boost A ...Continue Reading

SPACE.com Update for March 16, 2007  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *March 16, 2007*     *TOP STORY* *posted: March 16, 2007 11:02 am EDT* *Orbital Outposts: A Better Bet than a Moonbase?*Getting back and forth to orbit is far easier than getting to the Moon or Mars, which is why we've had space stations circling Earth for thirty years and have yet to ...Continue Reading

March 15, 2007 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 Steve Roy Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, Ala. 256-544-0034 CONTRACT RELEASE: 07-010 NASA EXTENDS CONTRACT TO SUPPORT SCIENCE AND MISSION OPERATIONS WASHINGTON - NASA has decided to exercise a five-year option with Teledyne Brown Engineering, Inc., Huntsville, Ala., for continued systems development and operations support for the Science and Mission Systems Office at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville. The maximum ...Continue Reading