A localized dust storm on Mars may have played a key role in driving water into the planet’s upper atmosphere, offering fresh clues to how the Red Planet lost much of its water over billions…
Cubesats offered deep- space ride on ESA asteroid…
[caption id="attachment_2954" align="alignright" width="700"] AIM at binary asteroid system[/caption] Think of it as the ultimate hitchhiking opportunity: ESA is offering CubeSats a ride to a pair of asteroids in deep space. CubeSats are among the…
New NASA Earth Science Missions Expand View of…
[caption id="attachment_2949" align="alignright" width="300"] The Global Precipitation Measurement mission produced its first global map of rainfall and snowfall, from April to September 2014. The data map combines measurements from 12 satellites and the GPM Core…
Newly identified protein expected to help with spinal…
[caption id="attachment_2945" align="alignright" width="300"] Jun Nagai explains the latest research developmentCopyright : Waseda University[/caption] A research group from Waseda University, Japan, has discovered that by controlling CRMP4, a protein that regulates the body’s cytoskeleton, it…
Social circles
MIT study details the degree to which urban movement is linked to social activity. [caption id="attachment_2942" align="alignright" width="639"] MIT researchers have created a new model of how much urban travel is based on social activity,…