PASADENA, Calif. –(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2012. NASA’s most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunday to end a 36-week flight and begin a two-year investigation. The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft that carried[Read More…]
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ESA Spacecraft Records Crucial NASA Signals from Mars
Curiosity’s first view of Mars EU–(ENEWSPF)–6 August 2012. This morning at 7:14 CEST, ESA’s Mars Express acquired signals from NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory as it delivered the car-sized Curiosity rover onto the Red planet’s surface. ESA’s New Norcia tracking station also picked up signals directly from the NASA mission,[Read More…]
MN Court Rejects Organic Farmers’ Lawsuit Charging Pesticide Drift Is Trespass
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)– August 6, 1012. The Minnesota Supreme Court reversed a ruling that gave organic farmers clear redress and decided that pesticide drift from one farm to another is not trespass, but instead must, in litigation, be found to be negligence or a nuisance. The ruling, while still giving farmers[Read More…]
NASA Investigates Proton Radiation Effects on Cells
HOUSTON–(ENEWSPF)–August 3, 2012. A team of researchers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., has found radiation from protons could further enhance a process that occurs during tumor progression. This information may help lead to better methods to protect astronauts from the[Read More…]
NASA Announces Next Steps In Effort To Launch Americans From U.S. Soil
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.–(ENEWSPF)–August 3, 2012. NASA Friday announced new agreements with three American commercial companies to design and develop the next generation of U.S. human spaceflight capabilities, enabling a launch of astronauts from U.S. soil in the next five years. Advances made by these companies under newly signed Space Act[Read More…]
State Judge Allows Legal Challenge to Kansas’ Extreme Abortion Licensing Regulations to Move Forward
NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–August 3, 2012. A legal challenge launched by the Center for Reproductive Rights against unreasonable and unnecessary licensing regulations aimed at shuttering Kansas abortion providers can continue, according an order issued today by a state district court judge. The unconstitutional licensing scheme—which imposes unnecessary and unreasonable requirements that threaten, rather[Read More…]
Scientists ‘Hear a Star Scream as It Gets Devoured’ by a Lurking Supermassive Black Hole
Researchers have identified a distinctive X-ray signal that comes from matter on the verge of falling into the black hole. Image credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center ANN ARBOR, Mich.–(ENEWSPF)–August 3, 2012. Astrophysicists have detected, for the first time, the oscillating signal that heralds the last gasps of a[Read More…]
Predatory Beetles Eavesdrop on Ants’ Chemical Conversations to Find Best Egg-laying Sites
An Azteca ant grabbing an adult lady beetle on a coffee plant in Chiapas, Mexico. Lady beetles attempt to eat the green coffee scale insects guarded by the ants. But patrolling ants will attack and kill adult beetles and will remove beetle eggs laid on ant-tended coffee plants. Photo by[Read More…]
FDA Approves First Generic Versions of Singulair to Treat Asthma, Allergies
Silver Spring, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–August 3, 2012. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the first generic versions of Singulair (montelukast sodium) for use in adults and children to control asthma symptoms and to help relieve symptoms of indoor and outdoor allergies. Montelukast is in a class of medications[Read More…]
Brain Signal ID’s Responders to Fast-acting Antidepressant
Biomarkers help pinpoint mechanisms, predict outcomes – NIH studies Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–August 3, 2012. Scientists have discovered a biological marker that may help to identify which depressed patients will respond to an experimental, rapid-acting antidepressant. The brain signal, detectable by noninvasive imaging, also holds clues to the agent’s underlying mechanism, which[Read More…]
