WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–May 24, 2011. NASA has reached an important milestone for the next U.S. transportation system that will carry humans into deep space. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced today that the system will be based on designs originally planned for the Orion Crew Exploration Vehicle. Those plans now will be used[Read More…]
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Secretaries Chu and Duncan, NSTA Announce New Energy Education Initiative to Promote Energy Awareness and Efficiency
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 24, 2011. U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu joined with U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan and Dr. Francis Eberle, Executive Director of the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA), today to announce the launch of a new energy education initiative: America’s Home Energy Education Challenge. This[Read More…]
NIH Study Finds Increased Death Risk for Early Term Births; Risk Highest for African-American Infants
Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–May 24, 2011. Infants born in the 37th or 38th week of pregnancy have a higher risk of dying before age 1 than do infants born between 39 and 40 weeks, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and the March[Read More…]
Safe Swimming – Avoiding Injury and Illness
SPRINGFIELD, Ill.–(ENEWSPF)–May 23, 2011. As swimming pools, water parks and beaches get ready to open this upcoming Memorial Day weekend, Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Damon T. Arnold is encouraging people to learn how to protect themselves from injury and illness. The focus of this year’s National Recreational[Read More…]
Buying ‘Legal Highs’ From The Internet Is A Risky Business
Many drugs sold as ‘legal highs’ on the internet do not contain the ingredients they claim, reports the journal Drug Testing and Analysis University of Lincoln, UK-(ENEWSPF)- Many drugs sold as ‘legal highs’ on the internet do not contain the ingredients they claim. Some instead contain controlled substances and are[Read More…]
2-Year Results: Artificial Disc A Viable Alternative To Fusion For 2-Level Disc Disease
LOS ANGELES-(ENEWSPF)- When two adjacent discs in the low back wear out, become compressed and cause unmanageable pain, numbness or other symptoms, replacement with artificial discs can be a viable alternative to standard fusion surgery, based on two-year post-surgery data from a randomized, multicenter trial recently published in the Journal[Read More…]
NASA Sees Tropical Storm 04W’s Thunderstorms Grow Quickly
This TRMM satellite 3-D image shows that some thunderstorm towers near TSO4W’s center of circulation were punching up to heights of over 16 km (~9.9 miles) above the ocean’s surface. (Photo: NASA/SSAI, Hal Pierce) NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center-(ENEWSPF)- Tropical Storm 04W formed from the low pressure System 98W this morning[Read More…]
DPS 2011 Planetary Science Prize Winners Announced
DPS-(ENEWSPF)- The Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) is pleased to announce its 2011 prize winners: Gerard P. Kuiper Prize for outstanding contributions to the field of planetary science: William Ward, Southwest Research Institute. Many dynamical processes that are now cornerstones of current theories of[Read More…]
Dark Energy Is Real, Galaxy Survey Shows
Sydney, Australia-(ENEWSPF)- A survey of more than 200,000 galaxies made with the Anglo-Australian Telescope in eastern Australia has shown that “dark energy” is real and not a mistake in Einstein’s conception of gravity. The result is conveyed in two papers written by Dr. Chris Blake (Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne,[Read More…]
NASA Telescope Helps Confirm Nature of Dark Energy
New results from NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the Anglo-Australian Telescope atop Siding Spring Mountain in Australia confirm that dark energy (represented by purple grid) is a smooth, uniform force that now dominates over the effects of gravity (green grid). The observations follow from careful measurements of the separations between[Read More…]
