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54 min ago | Official Wire News

UN: 22 deaths worldwide from coronavirus

The World Health Organization says there are now 22 deaths worldwide out of 44 lab-confirmed cases of the new coronavirus.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology

54 min ago | Examiner.com

Beware The False AGW Beliefs Of Some In NASA

It is known NASA does not have everyone believing earth will perish due to global warming.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Global Warming, Activism, Space, Natural Disasters, Solar Flare

54 min ago | Sys-Con Media

Chief Engineer of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to Keynote Day Two of Black Hat USA 2013

Black Hat A recipient of two of NASA's Outstanding Leadership Medals, Brian Muirhead has unique experience in solving the challenges of both robotic and human exploration of space.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, Inventions

5 hrs ago | Science, Industry and Business

NASA's Landsat Satellite Looks for a Cloud-Free View

Clouds are hard to spot in this natural-color image of the Aral Sea in Central Asia, taken March 24, 2013.

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Related Topix: US Geological Survey, Technical Services, Sioux Falls, SD

5 hrs ago | Domestic Fuel

EMCORE Wins NASA Solar Contract

EMCORE Corporation has been awarded a contract by ATK to design and manufacture solar panels for NASA's Green Propellant Infusion Mission planned for launch in 2015.

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Related Topix: Semiconductors, Electronics, EMCORE, Science / Technology, Space, US Military, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, US Air Force, Kirtland Air Force Base

6 hrs ago | Houston Chronicle

Buzz Aldrin: Why NASA is - wrong,' why English-speaking nations must...

I recently had the chance to speak with Aldrin, 83, as part of a promotion for his new book, Mission to Mars .

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Drama Movies, Apollo 11, Buzz Aldrin, Space

8 hrs ago | KurzweilAI.net

NASA experiment to examine the beginnings of the universe

Numerical simulation of the density of matter when the universe was one billion years old.

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9 hrs ago | Clarksville Online

NASA's Cassini Spacecraft data suggests Wild Weather for Saturn's Moon Titan this Summer

Saturn's moon Titan might be in for some wild weather as it heads into its spring and summer, if two new models are correct.

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Related Topix: Weather, Science / Technology, Ithaca, NY

12 hrs ago | KNEB-AM Scottsbluff

Cleared of Charges in School Explosion, Fla. Honor Student Heads to Space Camp

Kiera Wilmot is going to space camp. In late April, the 16-year-old central Florida honor student was accused of igniting a chemical explosion on school grounds, leading to her arrest and suspension from school, but authorities dropped criminal charges last week.

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Related Topix: Family, Adolescents and Pre-Teens, Science / Technology, Space, Education Etc., Kids, Prison

Wed May 22, 2013

KLAS-TV Las Vegas

I-Team: Nurse Gets Max Sentence in Child Sex Assault Case

After more than eight years of delays, a sex offender who worked as a nurse is going to prison for sexually assaulting a 10-year-old patient.

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Related Topix: Las Vegas, NV, Medicine, University Medical Center, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Criminal Defense Law, Law, Science / Technology, Clark County, NV

Clarksville Online

NASA Satellite Obervations helps determine how Glacier Mass reductions effect Sea Level Rise

A new study of glaciers worldwide using observations from two NASA satellites has helped resolve differences in estimates of how fast glaciers are disappearing and contributing to sea level rise.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Worcester, MA

Space Ref

NASA Hosts Google+ Hangout with Recently Returned Space Station Astronauts

NASA will host a Google+ Hangout with the three recently returned International Space Station astronauts from 3-4 p.m. EDT on Thursday, May 23.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Google, Startups, Space, Twitter

NBC Los Angeles

Top NASA Official to Inspect "Dream Chaser" Spacecraft

What might be the next vehicle to carry astronauts to space and back will be inspected by top NASA officials Wednesday at Dryden Flight Research Center north of Los Angeles.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, Manufacturing, Sierra Nevada, Aerospace-Defense, US Military, Edwards Air Force Base, US Air Force

MSNBC

NASA builds menu for Mars mission

Through a labyrinth of hallways deep inside a 1950s-era building that has housed research that dates back to the origins of U.S. space travel, a group of scientists in white coats is stirring, mixing, measuring, brushing and, most important, tasting the end result of their cooking.

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Related Topix: Dining, Science / Technology, United Space Alliance, Aerospace-Defense, Life, Food, Vegetarian, Vegan, Pizza

KIII

Pizza on Mars: NASA funds development of 3D printer that can knock out pizza

NASA has awarded a mechanical engineer a grant worth $125,000 to help him create a 3D printer for food.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Startups, Facebook, AirBnB, Space

Alabama Live

NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot defends asteroid mission in Alabama visit

The multi-axis milling machine works while NASA Associate Administrator Robert Lightfoot visits Marshall Building 4705, as master machinists show off what NASA says is one of the world's largest multi-axis milling machines in a key job for the space agency Wednesday, May 22, 2013 in Huntsville, Ala.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, Huntsville, AL

Home

Deep-space pizza parties? NASA mulls 3-D printers for food

NASA can send robots to Mars, no problem. But if it's ever going to put humans on the Red Planet, it has to figure out how to feed them over the course of a years-long mission.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, Space, Robots, Life, Food, Recipes

Science Daily

NASA's IRIS mission readies for a new challenge

In late June 2013, the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, will launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif.

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Related Topix: Science / Technology, US Military, Vandenberg Air Force Base, US Air Force, Space

New Hampshire Public Radio -

Quantum Or Not, New Supercomputer Is Certainly Something Else

The D-Wave processor must be shielded from outside interference inside an ultra-cold refrigerator in order to enter a quantum state.

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Related Topix: CPU, Science / Technology, Computers, Science, Computer Science

Tue May 21, 2013

Christian Science Monitor

NASA funds 3-D pizza (and chocolate) printer

A 3-D printer generates the Nestle logo in Orbe, March 25. NASA is funding a 3-D printer that can produce edible food, from chocolate to pizza and more.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Science / Technology, Pizza, Austin, TX

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