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NASA’s Ares I-X Rocket Completes Successful Flight Test

NASA’s Ares I-X Rocket Completes Successful Flight Test

Posted On: October 19, 2009

NASA’s Ares I-X test rocket lifted off from NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered [...]

Commerce Secretary Unveils Plan for Smart Grid Interoperability

Commerce Secretary Unveils Plan for Smart Grid Interoperability

Posted On: October 19, 2009

Commerce Secretary Gary Locke unveiled an accelerated plan for developing standards to transform the U.S. power distribution system [...]

New Biophotonics Techniques Hold Promise

Posted On: October 19, 2009

Leading-edge advances such as a revolutionary cardiology treatment and noninvasive optical techniques for studying the brain, combined with [...]

Sandia Hopping Robots to Bolster Troop Capabilities

Sandia Hopping Robots to Bolster Troop Capabilities

Posted On: October 19, 2009

Boston Dynamics, developer of advanced dynamic robots such as BigDog and PETMAN, has been awarded a contract by [...]

Argonne Leverages Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines for Biomedicine

Argonne Leverages Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines for Biomedicine

Posted On: October 19, 2009

In studies of the motion of tiny swimming bacteria, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory [...]

Navy Researchers Apply Science to Fire Fighting

Navy Researchers Apply Science to Fire Fighting

Posted On: October 19, 2009

A fire aboard a Navy ship can quickly become a deadly cauldron. Navy scientists are conducting research to [...]

USDA Issues New Food Safety Regulations

Posted On: October 19, 2009

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) fresh produce chief will join the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to [...]

Immortalized Transformed Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines

Posted On: October 19, 2009

Researchers at the National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, have made available a set of immortalized transformed [...]

Concealed Weapons Detection

Posted On: October 19, 2009

Terrorists, both domestic and foreign, are introducing new and emerging threats in the smuggling of weapons through security [...]

NASA’s Roadway Crash Barrier Makes Roads Safer

Posted On: October 19, 2009

Roadway crash barriers are designed to improve road safety by preventing vehicles from leaving the roadway after impact. [...]