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Private space industry can't get to Mars without NASA
While the Mars rover Curiosity is discovering the building blocks of life on the Red Planet, many are equally excited about another development: Commercial companies have finally discovered profit in space. This is no small feat, considering the...Tags: Business Enterprises, John F. Kennedy, Satellite Technology, Space Programs, Science and Technology
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Want a sculpture? A new jaw? Pizza? Just print it
Thanks to 3D printing, American society may be about to boldly go where no one has gone before. A Johns Hopkins scientist is seeking to adapt the technology to grow human jaw bones — potentially revolutionizing implant procedures. A Halethorpe...
Tags: Fiction, Barack Obama, Chemical Industry, Halethorpe, Timonium
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Moore shows that as cities grow, tornado damage grows with them
ReutersBy Ben Berkowitz and Julie Steenhuysen May 21 (Reuters) - Moore, Oklahoma, has had the bad luck of being hit by two highly destructive tornadoes, both in the month of May, 14 years apart. But the Moore that got struck on Monday is not the same as in...Tags: United States Census Bureau, Insurance, Hurricane Andrew (1992), Population and Census, Demographics
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3-D food 'printer' aims to end world hunger, starting with pizza
A 3-D "printer" that can create an entire pizza using nothing more than various powders? Sounds like something from a Star Trek film, but it's actually a lot closer to reality. Anjan Contractor, a senior mechanical engineer at Systems and Materials...
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Images from space, radar show Oklahoma tornadoes
Images showing the massive tornadoes spawned by "super cell" thunderstorms over Oklahoma, and the scars they left behind, have been released by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The images show the sudden outbreak of super-...
Tags: Weather, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Weather Reports
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NASA Curiosity drills second Mars rock to check John Klein surprise
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has already met its mission goals, discovering that parts of the Red Planet could have been friendly to microbial life. But not one to rest on its scientific laurels, the robot has drilled a second sample of rock to...
Tags: NASA Mars Exploration Program, Science and Technology
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Immigration: A wider better welcome mat
As an immigrant and an engineer, I know the magnetic pull that the United States exerts on anyone who dreams of a career in science. From the time I watched NASA technicians on television during the first lunar landing in 1969, I resolved to get the...
Tags: University of California, Berkeley, Business, Interior Policy, U.S. Congress, Financial Aid
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First Kauffman Scholars prepare to graduate
The Kansas City StarThe middle of Cristina Ortiz's sophomore year, it hit her. Despair? Or maybe fear? Certainly a crisis of confidence. I can't be an engineer. "I reached a point where I stopped believing in myself," she said. Many other students like her in the...Tags: University of California, Los Angeles, University of California, Irvine, Personal Income, Students, Social Issues
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READER SUBMITTED: Connecticut Students Earn International Science Fair Awards
StatewideFour Connecticut students captured Grand Awards, Friday, May 17, at the 2013 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF), the world's largest pre-college science fair. The students traveled to the ISEF, in Phoenix, Ariz., to compete with...Tags: Intel Corp., Glastonbury, Science and Technology, Students, Culture
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NASA rover Curiosity drills into second Martian rock; prepares to study it in detail
PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — NASA's Curiosity rover drills again. The space agency said Monday that Curiosity has bored a hole in a second rock and will transfer a pinch of powder to its onboard laboratories later this week for analysis. Sunday's drill... -
RNA was a key ingredient in primordial soup that led to life
How did we go from a lifeless Earth with no oxygen to a planet teeming with life and that essential element? Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found one crucial clue: iron and RNA. The team managed to re-create conditions of life on...
Tags: Biotechnology Industry, Chemical Industry, Science and Technology, Biology
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EDITORIAL: CO2 overdose
The Free Lance-Star, Fredericksburg, Va.THE NEWS about 400 parts per million -- the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere -- it's just a symbolic figure that gives environmental doomsayers something to whine about, right? Well, sure, if you don't care about rising temperatures,...Tags: Weather, Science and Technology, Bodies of Water, Oceans, Global Warming
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