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November 9th 2006 PDT
LiveScience.com Wednesday, November 8, 2006 The Strangest Little Things in Nature Puffed up electrons, indecisive photons and foamy vacuums. Physics turns a little weird when small cannot get any smaller. Cell Transplants Restore Vision in Mice Scientists say they've restored the vision of blind mice by introducing light-sensitive cells into the rodents' retinas. Bird Brains Actually Brilliant In two recent studies, scientists discovered the common pigeo ...Continue Reading
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Nov. 8, 2006 Erica Hupp Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1237 Cynthia O'Carroll Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-4647 CONTRACT RELEASE: C06-060 NASA AWARDS SYSTEMS AND SERVICES CONTRACT NASA has selected Alcatel Alenia Space, Toulouse, France for award of a $50,000 Rapid Spacecraft Development Office II contract. This award under a commercial, fixed price, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract has a potential maximum value of $1.5 billion. Rapid II is a multiple award contract f ...Continue Reading
November 9th 2006 PDT
--------------------------------------------- Thursday, Nov. 9, 2006 ISS EDUCATIONAL DOWNLINK EVENT ON NASA TV Date/Time: Tuesday, Nov. 14, 9:20 a.m. EST The International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 14 crew will participate in an educational downlink highlighting International Education Week (Nov. 13 - 17). For details, visit: http://education.nasa.gov/home/index.html MANDATORY ETHICS TRAINING Date/Time/Location: Thursday, Nov. 9, 2 p.m., MIC 5 Contact: Ethics Team 358-2465 Employees who file a Public Financia ...Continue Reading
November 9th 2006 PDT
SPACE.com Update for November 8, 2006 A {color: 333366; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 8pt; font-weight: bold}  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|* *Space Business News* *November 8, 2006*  *TOP STORY* *posted: November 8, 2006 03:54 pm EDT* *Viewer's Guide: Watch Mercury Cross the Sun*On Nov. 8, more than half the world will get to ...Continue Reading
November 8th 2006 PDT
The following sections were updated since 07 November 2006. -- FIRE (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- FIRES ON BORNEO AND SUMATRA Smoke from agricultural and forest fires burning on Sumatra and Borneo since late September 2006 blanketed a wide region with smoke that interrupted air and highway travel and pushed air quality to unhealthy levels. Fires were still burning in early November. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=13960 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Nov 05 2006 (Posted on Nov 07 2006 7:52AM) F ...Continue Reading
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Nov. 8, 2006 Dean Acosta/Doc Mirelson Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1400/1600 MEDIA ADVISORY: M06-174 NASA HONORS APOLLO MOON WALKER'S MEMORY IN SEATTLE CEREMONY NASA will honor former astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad for his involvement in the U.S. space program with the presentation of the Ambassador of Exploration Award at 2 p.m. EST, Saturday, Nov. 18, in the Allen Theater, The Museum of Flight, 9404 East Marginal Way South, Seattle. The award ceremony coincides with the 37th anniversary of t ...Continue Reading
November 8th 2006 PDT
Space Weather News for Nov. 7, 2006 http://spaceweather.com Solar activity is about to increase--or so it seems. An active sunspot is hiding just behind the sun's eastern limb. For the past three days, it has been erupting, throwing clouds of magnetized gas high above the sun's surface where they can be seen from Earth. Some of these explosions have also produced strong radio bursts heard in the loudspeakers of ham-radio rigs. Soon, perhaps later today or tomorrow, the sun's rotation will turn the sunspot toward E ...Continue Reading
November 8th 2006 PDT
The following sections were updated since 06 November 2006. -- FLOOD (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- FLOODS IN EAST AFRICA Floods swept over formerly drought-striken regions of Kenya and Ethiopia when unusually heavy seasonal rains began in late October 2006. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=13958 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Nov 01 2006 (Posted on Nov 07 2006 10:09AM) FLOODS IN SOUTHERN INDIA Wide swaths of coastal southeastern India were underwater on November 5, 2006, when MODIS captured th ...Continue Reading
November 8th 2006 PDT
LiveScience.com Tuesday, November 7, 2006 Mystery Solved: Why Rhino Horns are Curved and Pointed A new study likens a rhino's horn to a sharpened pencil, with a hard core and a softer exterior that curves as it grows and wears over time. Jet-Lagged Mice More Likely to Die Aged mice subjected to changes in their daily light cycle are found to have a higher death rate, possibly due to difficulty readjusting circadian rhythms. Steroids Fuel Crime ...Continue Reading
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