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May 18 | News
With
the advent of the solid-state transistor and semi-conductor-based flat
panel display technology, the vacuum tube has virtually disappeared from
consumer electronics. But a team of researchers in Korea and at NASA’s
Ames Research Center have combined the best traits of both technologies
to create a vacuum channel transistor just 150 nm long.
4/7/2011 | News
In
February, NASA held a press conference to announce the 1,235 planet
candidates found by the Kepler project team using space observatory
launched in 2009. Team member Jason Rowe has won a lot of fans by using
plotting software to visualize the discoveries in a single image,
illustrating the way Kepler uses periodic brightness fluctuations in
stars to find exoplanets.
10/22/2010 | News
Researchers at Brown University have produced the first detailed description of what happened when a NASA mission slammed a rocket into the moon’s south pole last October. The collision threw debris into sunlight more than a half mile above the surface. They discovered that the soil below the surface at the moon’s poles harbors water and an assortment of other compounds, including carbon dioxide, ammonia, free sodium, and, surprisingly, silver.
9/13/2010 | News
Reflecting
the fortunes of a struggling economy, government R&D funding for
2011 is expected to slip about three-tenths of one percent from 2010
levels. The big news from the proposed package, however, is a marked
fall in defense R&D: 6.6%. As a result, non-defense R&D could rise by several percentage points.
7/13/2010 | News
NASA has recently made improvements in how missions are
developed, and how budgets are built, but the National Research Council
in a
new report says an overall strategy for staying within budget is lacking
at the
agency.
6/22/2010 | News
The ex-astronaut said he's against paying the Russians $55.8
million per person to fly U.S.
astronauts to the space station and back. He says little money will be
saved
canceling the shuttle program and relying on a single Russian launch
platform,
Soyuz, is a mistake.
5/18/2010 | RDBlog
Visit one of Florida’s
premier tourist destinations (no, not Disney) and it’s a little hard to
believe
there’s a countdown unrelated to a rocket launch. Nearly everything at Kennedy Space
Center is designed
to show visitors that not only does NASA has a rich history of space
exploration, it’s still going strong as the world’s premiere launch
facility.
5/12/2010 | RDBlog
Biotechnology has two of the most promising commercialization areas in orbital research: x-ray protein crystallography and vaccine therapeutics. But the demise of the space shuttle and the dearth of venture capital could stall some important R&D.
5/4/2010 | News
Let a bunch of fluorine atoms get together in the molecules of a chemical compound, and they're like a heavy metal band at a chamber music festival. They tend to dominate the proceedings and not always for the better. That's particularly true where the global warming potential of the chemicals is concerned, says a new study by NASA and Purdue Univ. researchers.
5/3/2010 | News
Requiring little maintenance and energy to grow, the sweet
red berries have attracted the attention of Purdue researchers looking
to
provide future astronauts with the ability to tend crops during the
mission. In
addition to spicing up space food, strawberries are rich in antioxidants
and
there is a psychological benefit to fresh fruits.
