A room with a view for the International Space Station: Completion of the cupola observation module
...robotic arm - for attaching and assembling various station elements - and to communicate with other crewmembers in other parts of the station or outside during spacewalk activities. The cupola will also be used for observational applications ...New hypoxic event found off Oregon coast
... "One recent measurement taken at a 30 meter depth station just 1.2 miles off Newport found dissolved oxygen at 0.8 milliliters per liter. Further offshore and to the south, we've found oxygen levels in deeper areas of the shelf to be as low as anything we saw in 2002." In the current event, Chan said, the ...Design competition for new Antarctic Research Station
...al competition to design a new scientific research station at one of the Earth's most extreme environments A...n sits could break off in the next decade. The new station will allow long-running research on global change to continue at the site where the ozone hole was d...Stanford researchers go from heaven to Earth in 'lifeguard' test
...straps on just above the wearer's waist and a base station that can run on a tablet, laptop, desktop or pocket PC. The wearable computer, called the CPOD, takes in 2-lead ECG and respiration information from stick-on sensors. In addition, it detects temperature, body orientation and acceleration, pulse rate ...Clemson University researcher reaches for the stars to prevent osteoporosis
...r bone mass on a typical six- to nine-month space station mission. This accelerated rate of loss is an obstacle to long-term space missions, such as moon exploration and a two-and-a-half-year roundtrip to Mars. In order to maintain health, astronauts need a treatment that will prevent bone loss in space ...Envisat concludes a busy second year in orbit
...l as bottlenecking at the overworked Kiruna ground station in Sweden - even after a back-up downlink capability was added to a neighbouring ground station at Svalbard in the Norwegian Arctic. By last summer Envisat could relay data via Artemis to ESRIN i...Bacteria lingering in body may pose future food poisoning risks, Stanford study finds
...ls. But in the gall bladder, which serves as a way station for bile in between meals, the bacteria go it alone, reproducing in long extracellular chains that can cram the organ without causing symptoms in the animal. "The most striking thing about all of this research is that we get tremendous amounts of gro......ow." During the past four years, the team's sensor station has recorded only one rainfall, which shed a paltry 1/10 of an inch of moisture. The team hypothesizes that it rains in the arid core of the Atacama on average of only once every 10 years. The Atacama research was funded by NASA's Astrobiology Scien...... birds arrive at the university's biological field station north of Kingston, Ontario in the spring. Since the turnover time of the blood cells is from six to eight weeks, they provide a good indicator of the quality of the birds' previous habitat on the wintering ground. The carbon signature of each redstar...British Antarctic Survey wins environment award
...ean up took place near the remote BAS summer field station at Fossil Bluff, Alexander Island on the Antarctic Peninsula. The 500k clean up was part of a partnering agreement between BAS and British Construction Company AWG Construction Services. In total over 50 tonnes of waste including hundreds of fuel dr...Return to space for Spanish ESA astronaut
...Foale, the ISS Expedition 8 crew, will stay on the station for approximately six months. Two days after launch the Soyuz TMA-3 will approach and dock with the orbiting complex some 400 km above the Earth. On the return flight, on 28 October, Duque will be Flight Engineer on the Soyuz TMA-2 spacecraft. He wil...Scientific equipment including the first European student experiment reaches the ISS
...spacecraft, the ISS lifeboat which has been at the station since April. This coincides with the ISS crew change. Duque will be flight engineer on the Soyuz TMA-3, which will take him and the ISS Expedition 8 crew (US astronaut Michael Foale and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri) to the ISS. He will return ......too happy when calicivirus escaped from a research station on Wardang Island in 1995. For them, the arrival of the Spanish virus would be a disaster, allowing rabbit populations to boom. If the potential for international conflict is obvious, the means of preventing it is not. None of the researchers contact...In tropics, forests are cool but croplands are hotter
...ed with historical records acquired from a weather station in Santa Cruz over the same time period. The paper, appearing in the current issue of the Journal of Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, used NASA's Landsat images acquired between 1975 and 1999 to provide data of the steady conversion of forest an...Worm farmers wriggle into US market
...ge and using 'waste' hot water from a nearby power station to keep sand beds at the perfect breeding temperature. Several commercially important steps have been protected by patent. This year, Seabait won two of Britain's top business awards, the Queen's Awards for Enterprise, in the international trade an...New marine protected area to safeguard world's largest fish
...ern coast. The island will house a marine research station and ranger headquarters, and will serve as the management base for surrounding marine protected areas, including the nearby Gladden Spit Marine Reserve and the Laughing Bird Caye World Heritage Site. "In terms of biodiversity, this area is one of t...Burning forests speedily space-mapped for fire fighters
...ta it was downlinked to ESA's Villafranca tracking station near Madrid, then transferred to the German Aerospace Centre DLR for calibration and passed on to Spanish prime contractor INSA to be processed for products, delivered to users and validated with GPS readings taken on the ground. Before BIRD had com...European experiment hardware reaches the International Space Station
...pacecraft, the ISS lifeboat, which has been at the station since April. This coincides with the ISS crew exchange. Duque will be flight engineer on the Soyuz TMA-3 spacecraft, which will take him and the ISS Expedition 8 crew to the ISS. He will return in the Soyuz TMA-2 spacecraft with the Expedition 7 cre...Greenhouse gas might green up the desert
...carbon dioxide in the process. The Negev research station is the most arid site in a worldwide network (FluxNet) established by scientists to investigate carbon dioxide absorption by plants. The Weizmann team found, to its surprise, that the Yatir forest is a substantial sink (CO2-absorbing site): its abso...Researchers discover strategy that shields HIV from destruction
...tope, of the viral envelope that acts as a docking station for antibodies. This variation alters the docking region on the virus and prevents antibodies from grabbing hold and targeting the virus for destruction. HIV-1, in contrast, continuously changes the arrangement of large sugar molecules studded across...