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Monday, 08 February 2010 10:24
There are three definitions of tensile strength: Yield Strength The stress at which material strain changes from elastic deformation to plastic deformation, causing it to deform permanently. Ultimate Strength The maximum stress a material can More...
Monday, 08 February 2010 10:24
“Asaria isa asaria ari masheetee sadabada vena amina gotaya menda meshela mosha nami ki toro ma…” Glossolalia, or speaking in tongues, has fascinated thinkers ever since the “tongues of angels” descended upon early believers as a gift from More...
Friday, 05 February 2010 23:45
Editor's note: The online version of this story was posted on January 7. When Nintendo’s Wii game console debuted in November 2006, its motion-sensing handheld “Wiimotes” got players off the couch and onto their feet. Now More...
Friday, 05 February 2010 23:45
Welcome the first of a series of neurological cases to be featured on Brian Blogger. We will periodically choose the most enlightening cases from the Journal of Medical Case Reports (JMCR) for which I serve as an Associate Editor. I will present the More...
Friday, 05 February 2010 23:45
This week a US federal court heard a case that may decide whether it is legal to patent human More...
Friday, 05 February 2010 23:45
Valentine's Day is approaching and many couples are making plans to celebrate. But for the 3 million Americans allergic to peanuts, tree nuts or both, a kiss may cause more than a warm More...
Friday, 05 February 2010 23:45
The Learning and Developmental Disabilities Initiative (LDDI) released the first-ever biomonitoring report identifying toxic chemical pollution in people from the learning and developmental disability More...
Friday, 05 February 2010 12:37
President Obama delivered his budget request for fiscal year 2011 to Congress on Monday, proposing sweeping changes to NASA's spaceflight program while increasing the agency's overall budget. As had been rumored for days , Obama's blueprint for More...
Friday, 05 February 2010 12:37
President Barack Obama is expected to deliver his budget request for fiscal year 2011 on February 1, but to hear many commentators tell it, the sky has already fallen on NASA. [More] {loadposition footer}Read Full Articles More...
Friday, 05 February 2010 12:37
NEW YORK--Back in May 2009 two of the most iconic entities in space science and exploration came together--literally--in the final scheduled servicing mission of the space shuttle to the Hubble Space Telescope. The astronauts of space shuttle More...
Friday, 05 February 2010 12:37
With Christmas and New Year festivities already behind us, and spring still a way ahead, February may seem a grey month for those of us living in the Northern hemisphere. I hate winter, but I find that hobbies, such as belly dancing, help me keep More...
Friday, 05 February 2010 12:37
In 1998, a landmark study was published in the medical journal The Lancet. It was the first major research that suggested a link between the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and autism. Almost immediately following publication, the rates of More...
Microsoft's Hands-Free Answer to the Nintendo Wii PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 05 February 2010 23:45

Editor's note: The online version of this story was posted on January 7.

When Nintendo’s Wii game console debuted in November 2006, its motion-sensing handheld “Wiimotes” got players off the couch and onto their feet. Now Microsoft hopes to outdo its competitor by eliminating the controller altogether: this past January it revealed details of Project Natal, which will give Xbox 360 users the ability to manipulate on-screen characters via natural body movement. The machine-learning technology will enable players to kick a digital soccer ball or swat a handball simply by mimicking the motion in their living room.

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The space shuttle's 2009 mission to Hubble: Coming soon to a theater near you PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 05 February 2010 12:37

NEW YORK--Back in May 2009 two of the most iconic entities in space science and exploration came together--literally--in the final scheduled servicing mission of the space shuttle to the Hubble Space Telescope. The astronauts of space shuttle Atlantis plucked Hubble from orbit and in the course of five spacewalks dramatically revitalized the 19-year-old observatory, which had been limping along for some time. [More]

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Phased Out: Obama's NASA Budget Would Cancel Constellation Moon Program, Privatize Manned Launches PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 05 February 2010 12:37

President Obama delivered his budget request for fiscal year 2011 to Congress on Monday, proposing sweeping changes to NASA's spaceflight program while increasing the agency's overall budget. As had been rumored for days , Obama's blueprint for NASA would cancel the Constellation program , the family of rockets and hardware now in development to replace the aging space shuttle, and would call instead on commercial vendors to fly astronauts to orbit. [More]

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Speculation about NASA's future swirls in advance of Obama's budget request PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 05 February 2010 12:37

President Barack Obama is expected to deliver his budget request for fiscal year 2011 on February 1, but to hear many commentators tell it, the sky has already fallen on NASA. [More]

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Gettin' Down: Planned Record-Breaking Skydive This Year Will Include First Supersonic Free Fall PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 27 January 2010 15:22

NEW YORK--A privately funded team will attempt this year to break a 50-year-old record for the highest-altitude parachute jump, floating a balloon well into the stratosphere before its pilot leaps out for a supersonic free fall. [More]

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