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Model Predicts Plant Gene Function

Image Caption: Each line of this AraNet network represents a functional link between two genes. The colors indicate the strength of the link using a red-blue heat map scheme.The image includes about 100,000 functional links made among about 10,000 Arab…

[ More ] January 31st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Science |

2 Satellites See TD11S Going Extra-Tropical

Image Caption: On Jan. 29 the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite noticed light showers (green/yellow) continue to wrap into TD11S’s low-level center from the southwest quadrant of the storm. Note the area devoid of rainfall is the ope…

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Science |
 

Tropical Storm Olga: Three Time A Lady

Image Caption: NASA’s Aqua satellite passed over Olga at 11:29 p.m. EST Jan. 28 and the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer-E (AMSR-E) instrument measured the winds on Olga’s eastern side to be around 34 mph or 30 knots (in red), just before she str…

[ More ] January 30th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Science |

Optical Refrigeration Expected To Enhance Airborne, Spaceborne Applications

Image Caption: Under an AFOSR, MURI grant, a team led by University of New Mexico professor, Dr. Mansoor Sheik-Bahae and graduate student, Dr. Denis Seletskiy created the first-ever cryo (temperatures that can only be obtained by liquefying gases) cool…

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Space |
 

Cool Stars Found In Nearby Space

Image Caption: An international team led by astronomers at the University of Hertfordshire have discovered what may be the coolest sub-stellar body (a brown dwarf) ever found outside our own solar system. The team’s findings have been accepted for publ…

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Space |

Depression 10P Strengthens Into Tropical Storm Nisha

Image Caption: At 6:35 a.m. ET Jan. 28, the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite captured Tropical Storm Nisha’s rainfall. The storm has strengthened quickly and there are many areas within the storm that have rainfall rates of over 2 i…

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Science |
 

Olga’s Track Puzzles Forecasters

Image Caption:  This is an image of Olga’s (red tropical storm symbol) rainfall on Jan. 27, still inland from the coast of the Gulf of Carpentaria. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite determined that Olga was dropping light to moderate r…

[ More ] January 29th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Science |

Mapping Change In Science

Image Caption: This set of scientific fields show the major shifts in the last decade of science. Each significance clustering for the citation networks in years 2001, 2003, 2005 and 2007 occupies a column in the diagram and is horizontally connected t…

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Science |

Deadly Fish Virus Found In All Great Lakes

Image Caption: This walleye was infected with the viral hemorrhagic septicemia virus. Cornell researchers report that fish from Lake Superior have been found to be infected with the virus, which means that it has now spread to all of the Great Lakes.

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Science |

Debris Poses Great Risk To Spacecraft

Image Caption: A Beehive of Satellites – The launch of the first artificial satellite by the then Soviet Union in 1957 marked the beginning of the utilization of space for science and commercial activity. During the Cold War, space was a prime area of …

[ More ] January 28th, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Space |