• Weight-Loss Supplement Has Teensy Potential Side Effect: You Might *Get Mad Cow Disease*! | Discoblog

    Updated: 2011-03-31 21:44:13
    : Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS NCBI ROFL : What do Republicans dream about Hint : it’s not sex . Weight-Loss Supplement Has Teensy Potential Side Effect : You Might Get Mad Cow Disease Human Chorionic Gonadotropin hGC a hormone produced during pregnancy , is isolated from the urine of pregnant women and used to treat infertility Since the 1950s however , it’s also been used as a weight-loss aid—and still is , even though there’s no solid evidence showing it . works But taking hCG could be worse than just ineffective : A new study shows that doses of the hormone can transmit prions , the misfolded proteins that cause mad cow disease and its human

  • Blastroid | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-03-31 19:30:21
    Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS The Earth’s lumpy gravity Blastroid I have a new article up on Blastr the SyFy channel’s web site for news and info and scifi-y . stuff The article is about asteroid impacts , and the lack of Hollywood accuracy thereof . I take a typical movie synopsis and destroy it plot device by plot device . It’s like taking all my movie reviews and condensing them down into one run-on snark . And yes , I know that the illustration for the article seen here is scientifically inaccurate . I know what you’re thinking it’s so obvious : no asteroid is actually flying saucer shaped At least , that’s what they want you to think So go

  • How Much Does Your Phone Company Know About Your Life? | Cosmic Variance

    Updated: 2011-03-31 16:18:47
    Let’s just round up and say “everything.” In Germany they are currently debating rules on what data companies can keep and analyze, vs. what they must throw away. To make a point, Green Party politician Malte Spitz went to court to force Deutsche Telekom to share the data they had collected about him, just from [...]

  • Watch the House Climate Science Fight Now! | The Intersection

    Updated: 2011-03-31 15:38:46
    They’re streaming live from the Science Committee right now….MIT’s Kerry Emanuel is the scientist on the panel who will be defending the mainstream scientific view that it’s warming out there, thanks to homo sapiens. Several other witnesses are far more “skeptical.” My take on the hearing is here. Short quote: This sort of thing has [...]

  • The Public is “Scientifically Illiterate.” But Do Scientists Have “Public Literacy”? | The Intersection

    Updated: 2011-03-31 14:02:15
    Sociologist Barry Glassner, the president of Lewis & Clark College in Portland, agrees with my “Do Scientists Understand the Public” paper, written for the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Writing in USA Today recently, Glassner argued that Were hard data and cold logic all that mattered, any number of common personal behaviors would be [...]

  • Carbon-Nanotube Cancer Detector Can Catch Even a Single Marauding, Malignant Cell | 80beats

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    , Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS DARPA Puts Out Call for a DNA-Embedded Genetic Surveillance Machine From White Dwarfs to Dark Matter Clouds , the Universe May Have Many Homes for Habitable Planets Carbon-Nanotube Cancer Detector Can Catch Even a Single Marauding , Malignant Cell What’s the News Scientists have developed a new carbon nanotube device pictured above that’s capable of detecting single cancer cells Once implemented in hospitals , this microfluidic device could let doctors more efficiently detect the spread of cancer , especially in developing countries that don’t have the money for more sophisticated diagnostic equipment . Any

  • From White Dwarfs to Dark Matter Clouds, the Universe May Have Many Homes for Habitable Planets | 80beats

    Updated: 2011-03-31 08:06:20
    , Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Carbon-Nanotube Cancer Detector Can Catch Even a Single Marauding , Malignant Cell From White Dwarfs to Dark Matter Clouds , the Universe May Have Many Homes for Habitable Planets What’s the News While the Kepler spacecraft is busy finding solar system-loads of new planets other astronomers are expanding our idea where planets could potentially be found . One astronomer wants to look for habitable planets around white dwarfs arguing that any water-bearing exoplanets orbiting these tiny , dim stars would be much easier to find than those around main-sequence stars like our Sun . Another team dispenses with stars

  • Kepler Spacecraft Penetrates Secrets of Red Giant Stars -Habitable Zones for Life

    Updated: 2011-03-31 07:20:00
    NASA's Kepler Planet-Hunting Mission is providing astronomers with an inside view of what's happening inside red giant stars. "No one anticipated seeing this before the mission launched," said Steve Kawaler, an Iowa State University professor of physics and astronomy and...

  • Image of the Day: Earth's Ghostly Light from Interplanetary Dust

    Updated: 2011-03-31 07:10:00
    One of the rarest of Earth's astronomical events is a ghostly glow called the zodiacal light that the ancient Greeks believed was caused by distant volcanic eruptions. Visible in the Northern Hemisphere for the next two weeks, the phenomenon --...

  • Giant Virus-Eating Virus Discovered in Antarctica Lake

    Updated: 2011-03-31 07:06:00
    A virus, dubbed "Organic Lake Virophage" or OLV, was discovered in Organic Lake, a 6,000-year-old body of saltwater in eastern Antarctica. Researchers found its genome hidden in sequences of local Phycodnaviruses -- giant viruses that basically live in the lake...

  • Xtranormal Inclusive Fitness Debate: Oh Frabjous Day! | The Loom

    Updated: 2011-03-31 02:14:08
    : Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS The Tangled Bank is spectacularly successful”–Quarterly Review of Biology The Human Lake Xtranormal Inclusive Fitness Debate : Oh Frabjous Day I’m a big fan of Xtranormal movies And I write , among other things , about big debates in evolutionary biology So this creation from Jon Wilkins , a biologist at the Santa Fe Institute , is the essence of . awesomesauce March 30th , 2011 9:14 PM by Carl Zimmer in Evolution 2 comments RSS feed Trackback 2 Responses to Xtranormal Inclusive Fitness Debate : Oh Frabjous Day 1. Daniel J . Andrews Says : March 31st , 2011 at 1:29 am I’ll have to reread those Nature articles and

  • NCBI ROFL: What do Republicans dream about? (Hint: it’s not sex.) | Discoblog

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  • The Tangled Bank is “spectacularly successful”–Quarterly Review of Biology | The Loom

    Updated: 2011-03-30 23:28:31
    Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Tattooed scientists are taking over Xtranormal Inclusive Fitness Debate : Oh Frabjous Day The Tangled Bank is spectacularly successful”–Quarterly Review of Biology The Quarterly Review of Biology delivers a rave for The Tangled Bank : An Introduction to Evolution Daniel McShea of Duke University : writes This is the first textbook I have seen by a professional science writer . If this is a sort of experiment in textbook publishing , it is a spectacularly successful one The result is an introduction to the field that is not only accurate and up to date , but—of course—well written . How important is the prose in a

  • DARPA Puts Out Call for a DNA-Embedded Genetic Surveillance Machine | 80beats

    Updated: 2011-03-30 22:07:55
    Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Astronomers Say Milky Way Has Around 2 Billion Earth Analog” Planets That’s the Bad News Carbon-Nanotube Cancer Detector Can Catch Even a Single Marauding , Malignant Cell DARPA Puts Out Call for a DNA-Embedded Genetic Surveillance Machine What’s the News : DARPA wants to fund research into technologies that could be built into the genome of microorganisms and keep track of any changes made to the organism’s genes , according a call for proposals the agency made earlier this month . In other words , DARPA wants to turn on Track Changes” in certain viruses and . bacteria What’s the : Context This genetic surveillance

  • OK, because I like y’all: bonus aurora timelapse video | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-03-30 21:00:05
    , : Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS More Mercury When beauty and science collide OK , because I like y’all : bonus aurora timelapse video I got a few emails about this while on vacation , and APOD just posted it too , but what the heck : a gorgeous timelapse video of aurorae northern lights over : Norway This one was done by Terje Sorgjerd , and is quite lovely . Another great timelapse aurora video can be found at Lights in the Dark too . I still have never seen a good display myself in person just a smear of red light to the north once when I lived in Maryland but one day I will . One . day March 30th , 2011 2:00 PM Tags : aurorae Norway Terje

  • More Mercury! | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-03-30 19:49:42
    Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS An ionized rose would smell as sweet OK , because I like y’all : bonus aurora timelapse video More Mercury NASA has just released more images of Mercury as seen by the MESSENGER spacecraft , and they’re pretty : cool This first one is something of a repeat , showing the same region as the picture they released yesterday , but now it’s in color Mercury is not exactly the most beautifully hued planet , but it does have some color to it . This composite was taken in the infrared shown red in the image red shown as green in the image and blue shown as blue and has a maximum resolution of about 2.7 kilometers 1.6 miles

  • Astronomers Say Milky Way Has Around 2 Billion “Earth Analog” Planets (That’s the Bad News) | 80beats

    Updated: 2011-03-30 18:35:24
    Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS New Battery Produces Energy Using the Ions in Plain Old Seawater DARPA Puts Out Call for a DNA-Embedded Genetic Surveillance Machine Astronomers Say Milky Way Has Around 2 Billion Earth Analog” Planets That’s the Bad News What’s the News Based on early Kepler data , astronomers say that the Milky Way galaxy may house at least two billion Earth-like planets—one for every several dozen sun-like stars . As NASA researcher Joseph Catanzarite told Space.com With that large a number , there’s a good chance life and maybe even intelligent life might exist on some of those planets . And that’s just our galaxy alone there are

  • An ionized rose would smell as sweet | Bad Astronomy

    Updated: 2011-03-30 17:20:46
    Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS MESSENGER’s first picture from Mercury orbit More Mercury An ionized rose would smell as sweet I’m such a sucker for emission nebulae , the sites of intense star formation . Part of that is because I spent years researching other types of gaseous clouds , but also because they’re just so darn pretty , like this shot of NGC 371 Click to ennebulenate , or get the 2000 x 2000 pixel version NGC 371 is in the Small Magellanic Cloud , a companion galaxy to our Milky Way . That puts it at a distance of about 200,000 light years , or 2 quintillion 2,000,000,000,000,000,000 . kilometers In this kinda-sorta false color image

  • New Battery Produces Energy Using the Ions in Plain Old Seawater | 80beats

    Updated: 2011-03-30 15:15:42
    Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Amazon Gets the Jump on Apple and Google by Launching Cloud Music Service Astronomers Say Milky Way Has Around 2 Billion Earth Analog” Planets That’s the Bad News New Battery Produces Energy Using the Ions in Plain Old Seawater What’s the News Scientists have created the first rechargeable battery that uses seawater and freshwater to generate electricity . If installed into every ocean-discharging river in the world that’s not a realistic scenario—just a frame of reference the process could produce 2 terawatts , or about 13 of worldwide electricity use . As the researchers write this battery is simple to fabricate

  • Upcoming Talks in West Virginia and Boston | The Intersection

    Updated: 2011-03-30 15:13:32
    Next week I’m headed to West Virginia University to participate in WVU’s Festival of ideas. I’ll be talking about science literacy in the U.S. as they launch their Inaugural Science and Technology Communication Symposium. For those in the area, I begin at 7:30 on April 5 and you can follow along on twitter by using [...]

  • The Milky Way Has Two Billion Earthlike Planets: How Many Will Prove to be Twin Earths?

    Updated: 2011-03-30 08:00:00
    "Aliens could have been pointing their antennas at Earth for 4.6 billion years, without picking up a signal. Maybe the inhabitants [of a Twin Earth] are at the level of the classical Romans ... or maybe trilobites. We need to...

  • Image of the Day -The Brightest Quasar in the Observable Universe

    Updated: 2011-03-30 07:14:00
    At the center of this barred spiral galaxy lurks quasar QSO 1229+204 -- an object brighter than anything in the known universe. The distant quasar appears so bright that astronomers had to use the high resolving power of the Hubble...

  • Archaeoastronomy in Georgia Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com Online Community Forums Media Galleries

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  • U.S. Now Trails Both Germany and China in Clean Energy Investment | The Intersection

    Updated: 2011-03-30 01:02:01
    Via Joe Romm, I see that our nation’s competitive disadvantage in clean energy investment is getting even more…disadvantageous. Each year, Pew does a report to survey this booming global industry. Last year, the report (covering developments in 2009) found that we’d slipped behind China, “the world’s clean energy “superpower–but this year, the report (covering developments in [...]

  • NCBI ROFL: Shocking study finds it’s hard to learn without a brain. | Discoblog

    Updated: 2011-03-30 00:00:49
    : . Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS What Every Lonely Guy Needs : A Fake Facebook Girlfriend NCBI ROFL : What do Republicans dream about Hint : it’s not sex . NCBI ROFL : Shocking study finds it’s hard to learn without a . brain Unsuccessful reinforcement of a discrete action in paramecia , P . . caudatum Previous research into the possibility of learning in paramecium in this laboratory has shown that these organisms can learn to remain in a specific location based on cathode shock reinforcement . The present experiment was designed to assess whether paramecium could learn a discrete action as opposed to remaining in a specific area , using

  • A year at Discover | Not Exactly Rocket Science

    Updated: 2011-03-29 23:57:15
    Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Why is aspirin toxic to cats The writing process A year at Discover I like noting anniversaries , even belated ones . I hopped across to Discover from ScienceBlogs a year ago last Saturday and as if to mark the occasion , it’s been a record-breaking month in terms of traffic . I’ve thoroughly enjoyed being here among illustrious company , and it’s given me a lot of impetus to up my game , and play around with new ways of talking about . science My sincere thanks to Amos Zeeberg for recruiting me , Gemma Shusterman for providing speedy and kick-ass tech support and Eliza Strickland , Andy Moseman , Joe Calamia , and

  • Tattooed scientists are taking over! | The Loom

    Updated: 2011-03-29 22:36:14
    Subscribe Give a Gift Archives Customer Service SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Parasite Rex Redux : Now with a new epilogue The Tangled Bank is spectacularly successful”–Quarterly Review of Biology Tattooed scientists are taking over Christof Koch is one of the world’s leading experts on consciousness . A longtime professor at Caltech , he’s just become the chief scientific officer at the Allen Brain Institute an innovative research center that was funded with 100 million from Microsoft’s Paul Allen . The institute has spent the past eight years building remarkably detailed , three-dimensional atlases of mouse brains . Now , as Koch explains to Nature he will use those atlases to launch an

  • How to image the sky Astronomy Magazine

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  • A review turns into an observing session Astronomy Magazine

    Updated: 2011-03-29 18:30:09
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  • A look at La Voyage dans la lune Astronomy Magazine

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    Updated: 2011-03-29 18:29:47
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  • News Flash: Japanese Robotic ISS Cargo Ship to Burn Up in Earth Atmosphere on Re-entry Today

    Updated: 2011-03-29 07:14:00
    Japan's HTV-2 robotic cargo ship above is seen just before astronauts grapple it on Jan. 27, 2011. The spacecraft, one of several robotic cargo ships that ferry supplies to the International Space Station, is carrying a device to "phone home"...

  • On the Road Tunisia in search of ancient meteorites Days 7 and 8 Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com On

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    Updated: 2011-03-28 21:02:30
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  • Asteroid Belt Yields New Evidence for Beginning of the Solar System

    Updated: 2011-03-28 08:00:00
    The first geological evidence to support previous theories based on computer models and lab experiments, about how the earliest rocks were formed, has been developed by researchers from Imperial College London and other international institutions. The study concludes that the...

  • Image of the Day: One Trillion Stars! Andromedea Galaxy in Infrared & X Ray

    Updated: 2011-03-28 07:14:00
    The detailed Spitzer Space Telescope view above features infrared light from dust (red) and old stars (blue) in Andromeda, a massive spiral galaxy a mere 2.5 million light-years away. In fact, with over twice the diameter of our own Milky...

  • EcoAlert: MIT Lab Creates Artificial Leaf that can Turn Sunlight and Water into Energy

    Updated: 2011-03-28 07:06:00
    Researchers at MIT have developed an artificial leaf that can turn sunlight and water into energy as efficiently as the real thing. The artificial leaf, which looks nothing like the natural leaf, is made of silicon, electronics, and various catalysts...

  • On the Road Tunisia in search of ancient meteorites Days 5 and 6 Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com On

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  • NASA tests Mars space suit in Argentine Antarctica

    Updated: 2011-03-24 17:52:08
    A NASA team has tested a space suit in a setting with extreme conditions akin to some of those found on Mars -- an Argentine base in Antarctica -- for possible use on a visit to the Red Planet. The NDX-1 space suit, designed by Argentine aerospace engineer Pablo de Leon, endured frigid temperatures and winds of more than 47 mph ...

  • Astronomy magazine partners with LightBuckets for new image gallery Astronomy.com blog Astronomy.com

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  • Easy-to-find objects in the 2011 spring sky Astronomy Magazine

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  • Volume 51, Number 14, December 2003

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    Planetary and Space Science, Volume 51, Number 14, December 2003. Loaded on 2003-12-06

  • Volume 51, Number 9, August 2003

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    Planetary and Space Science, Volume 51, Number 9, August 2003. Loaded on 2003-08-02

  • Volume 51, Number 4, April 2003

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    Planetary and Space Science, Volume 51, Number 4, April 2003. Loaded on 2006-08-08

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    Planetary and Space Science, Volume 51, Number 2, February 2003. Loaded on 2006-08-08

  • Fundamental physics in space in ESA and COSPAR

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    Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7 Fundamental physics in space in ESA and COSPAR Authors : Southwood D.J . Reinhard . R : Source Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7, October 2003 pp . 1191-1196(6 Publisher : Elsevier view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article This article is hosted on another website . You may be required to register , activate a subscription or purchase the article before you can obtain the full . text Proceed : Language English Document : Type Research article : DOI 10.1016 S0273-1177(03 90317-6 Publication date : 2003-10-01 Related content In

  • Fundamental physics from space and in space

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    Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7 Fundamental physics from space and in space Author : Jacob . M : Source Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7, October 2003 pp . 1197-1202(6 Publisher : Elsevier view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article This article is hosted on another website . You may be required to register , activate a subscription or purchase the article before you can obtain the full . text Proceed : Language English Document : Type Research article : DOI 10.1016 S0273-1177(03 90318-8 Publication date : 2003-10-01 Related content In this : publication By

  • Drag-free control for fundamental physics missions

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    Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7 Drag-free control for fundamental physics missions Author : DeBra . D.B : Source Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7, October 2003 pp . 1221-1226(6 Publisher : Elsevier view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article This article is hosted on another website . You may be required to register , activate a subscription or purchase the article before you can obtain the full . text Proceed : Language English Document : Type Research article : DOI 10.1016 S0273-1177(03 90321-8 Publication date : 2003-10-01 Related content In this :

  • LISA - An ESA cornerstone mission for the detection and observation of gravitational waves

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    . Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7 LISA An ESA cornerstone mission for the detection and observation of gravitational waves Authors : Danzmann K . LISA Science Team : Source Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7, October 2003 pp . 1233-1242(10 Publisher : Elsevier view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article This article is hosted on another website . You may be required to register , activate a subscription or purchase the article before you can obtain the full . text Proceed : Language English Document : Type Research article : DOI 10.1016 S0273-1177(03 90323-1

  • Mission analysis for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission

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    . Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7 Mission analysis for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna LISA mission Authors : Hechler F . Folkner . W.M : Source Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7, October 2003 pp . 1277-1282(6 Publisher : Elsevier view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article This article is hosted on another website . You may be required to register , activate a subscription or purchase the article before you can obtain the full . text Proceed : Language English Document : Type Research article : DOI 10.1016 S0273-1177(03 90332-2 Publication date :

  • Progress in laboratory research for fundamental physics space missions using optical devices

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    . Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7 Progress in laboratory research for fundamental physics space missions using optical devices Authors : Ni W . T . Shy J . T . Tseng S . M . Yeh H . . C : Source Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7, October 2003 pp . 1283-1287(5 Publisher : Elsevier view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article This article is hosted on another website . You may be required to register , activate a subscription or purchase the article before you can obtain the full . text Proceed : Language English Document : Type Research article : DOI 10.1016

  • Theoretical motivations for Equivalence Principle tests

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    Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7 Theoretical motivations for Equivalence Principle tests Author : Fayet . P : Source Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7, October 2003 pp . 1289-1296(8 Publisher : Elsevier view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article This article is hosted on another website . You may be required to register , activate a subscription or purchase the article before you can obtain the full . text Proceed : Language English Document : Type Research article : DOI 10.1016 S0273-1177(03 90334-6 Publication date : 2003-10-01 Related content In this :

  • ESA's STEP assessment and phase a studies for M2 and M3

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    Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7 ESA's STEP assessment and phase a studies for M2 and M3 Author : Reinhard . R : Source Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7, October 2003 pp . 1321-1324(4 Publisher : Elsevier view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article This article is hosted on another website . You may be required to register , activate a subscription or purchase the article before you can obtain the full . text Proceed : Language English Document : Type Research article : DOI 10.1016 S0273-1177(03 90339-5 Publication date : 2003-10-01 Related content In this :

  • The NASA/ESA MiniSTEP project

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    Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7 The NASA ESA MiniSTEP project Authors : Swanson P.N . Everitt C.W.F . Lee . M.C : Source Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7, October 2003 pp . 1373-1377(5 Publisher : Elsevier view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article This article is hosted on another website . You may be required to register , activate a subscription or purchase the article before you can obtain the full . text Proceed : Language English Document : Type Research article : DOI 10.1016 S0273-1177(03 90348-6 Publication date : 2003-10-01 Related content In this

  • Development of the Gravity Probe B flight mission

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    Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7 Development of the Gravity Probe B flight mission Authors : Turneaure J.P . Everitt C.W.F . Parkinson B.W . Bardas D . Buchman S . DeBra D.B . Dougherty H . Gill D . Grammer J . Green G.B . Gutt G.M . Gwo D . H . Heifetz M . Kasdin N.J . Keiser G.M . Lipa J.A . Lockhart J.M . Mester J.C . Muhlfelder B . Parmley R . Silbergleit A.S . Sullivan M.T . Taber M.A . Van Patten R.A . Vassar R . Wang S . Xiao Y.M . Zhou . P : Source Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7, October 2003 pp . 1387-1396(10 Publisher : Elsevier view table of contents next article Buy

  • The Gravity Probe B gyroscope readout system

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    Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7 The Gravity Probe B gyroscope readout system Authors : Muhlfelder B . Lockhart J.M . Gutt . G.M : Source Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7, October 2003 pp . 1397-1400(4 Publisher : Elsevier view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article This article is hosted on another website . You may be required to register , activate a subscription or purchase the article before you can obtain the full . text Proceed : Language English Document : Type Research article : DOI 10.1016 S0273-1177(03 90352-8 Publication date : 2003-10-01 Related

  • Gravity Probe B payload verification and test program

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    Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7 Gravity Probe B payload verification and test program Authors : Taber M.A . Bardas D . Buchman S . DeBra D.B . Everitt C.W.F . Gutt G.M . Keiser G.M . Lockhart J.M . Mester J.C . Muhlfelder B . Murray D.O . Parkinson B.W . Van Patten R.A . Turneaure J.P . Xiao . Y.M : Source Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7, October 2003 pp . 1417-1420(4 Publisher : Elsevier view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article This article is hosted on another website . You may be required to register , activate a subscription or purchase the article

  • Covariance study of radar ranging data for measuring the Sun's gravitational to inertial mass ratio

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    . Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7 Covariance study of radar ranging data for measuring the Sun's gravitational to inertial mass ratio Author : Nordtvedt . K : Source Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7, October 2003 pp . 1429-1432(4 Publisher : Elsevier view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article This article is hosted on another website . You may be required to register , activate a subscription or purchase the article before you can obtain the full . text Proceed : Language English Document : Type Research article : DOI 10.1016 S0273-1177(03 90357-7

  • Gravitational modelling of the proof mass for ASTROD mission

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    Contact us Help Shopping cart Home About us Article title , keywords or abstract Article title Publication title Author Advanced search Subject Publisher Publication Browse : by Home Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7 Gravitational modelling of the proof mass for ASTROD mission Authors : Xu X . Ni W . . T : Source Advances in Space Research Volume 32, Number 7, October 2003 pp . 1443-1446(4 Publisher : Elsevier view table of contents next article Buy download fulltext : article This article is hosted on another website . You may be required to register , activate a subscription or purchase the article before you can obtain the full . text Proceed : Language English Document : Type Research article : DOI 10.1016 S0273-1177(03 90360-7 Publication date : 2003-10-01 Related content

  • Israeli Security Firm in Charge at Japanese Nuke Facilities Prior to Disaster

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    Israeli firm which secured Japan nuclear plant says workers there ‘putting their lives on the line’ Magna CEO says Japanese workers at nuclear plant ‘projecting business as usual’ but says it is ‘unclear if they are healthy due to the high level of radiation at the reactor, which is life-threatening.’ The CEO of the Israeli company that installed the security ...

  • When astronomy gets awkward Astronomy Magazine

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