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Mary Ellen Harte: Climate Change This Week: Arctic Carbon Bomb, California Cleaning, and More!

NASA: The Arctic Methane Bomb Fuse Is Burning, reports Alan Buis at NASA (Natl Atmospheric & Space Admin). Field data show permafrost, vast frozen polar...

NASA finds spikes of methane & CO2 above Arctic

The P-T and other extinction events in context. Click for more at the Wiki Carbon dioxide gets most of the climate change press. But methane is a far more potent greenhouse gas. Climate scientists have long studied it as an indicator...Show More Summary

NASA’s Mars Opportunity Rover moving to a new spot

WASHINGTON — And the Opportunity rover continues to move along in its trek across the surface of the Red Planet of Mars. The Associated Press reports that the Opportunity rover is moving around and will be moving south to avoid a harsh Martian winter. Its sister rover, Spirit, has ceased operation since it got stuck [...]

Researchers solve mystery of X-ray light from black holes

It is a mystery that has stymied astrophysicists for decades: how do black holes produce so many high-power X-rays? In a new study, astrophysicists from The Johns Hopkins University, NASA and the Rochester Institute of Technology bridged the gap between theory and observation by demonstrating that gas spiraling toward a black hole inevitably results in X-ray emissions. read more

NASA-led study explains decades of black hole observations

A new study by astronomers at NASA, Johns Hopkins University and Rochester Institute of Technology confirms long-held suspicions about how stellar-mass black holes produce their highest-energy light. read more

NASA Puts Up Cash To Create Pizza-Making 3D Printer

In an attempt to not only expand the menu for Earth orbiters, but to also bring us one step closer to every Trekkie’s dream of a food replicator, NASA is funding a project that is aimed at creating a 3D printer to serve astronauts up some pizza.

Report: Warm ocean causing most Antarctic ice shelf mass loss

Ocean waters melting the undersides of Antarctic ice shelves are responsible for most of the continent's ice shelf mass loss, a new study by NASA and university researchers has found. read more

House hearing next week on new NASA authorization bill

The House Science Committee’s space subcommittee has scheduled a hearing for the morning of Wednesday, June 19, titled “NASA Authorization Act of 2013.” The two scheduled witnesses are familiar faces for the committee: retired Lockheed Martin executive Tom Young and Cornell University planetary scientist Steve Squyres, who also chairs the NASA Advisory Council. The House [...]

Reducing Health Risks To Humans On Future Missions Into Deep Space

Space scientists from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) and the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) report that data gathered by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) show lighter materials like plastics provide effective shielding against the radiation hazards faced by astronauts during extended space travel. Show More Summary

Xbox One Developers Work With NASA In Simulation

Xbox One developers and NASA are working together to simulate 35,000 light years of space. Like It, +1, Tweet It, Pin It Original content from Ubergizmo.

NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Stars In New Qantas Frequent Flyer Ad

The Curiosity Rover is pretty busy up there on Mars, so how did it get time to star in this adorable new Qantas frequent flyer ad? Who cares, just watch it because cute robots. More »      

NASA Finds ‘Amazing’ Levels Of Arctic Methane And CO2, Asks ‘Is a Sleeping Climate Giant Stirring in the Arctic?’

A NASA science team has observed “amazing and potentially troubling” levels of methane and CO2 from the rapidly warming Arctic. Given the staggering amount of carbon trapped in the permafrost — and the fact that methane is a very potent heat-trapping gas — the space agency is now asking: “Is a Sleeping Climate Giant Stirring [...]

EHR and HIT News for June 13th

  Today’s EHR and HIT News includes  news from iPatientCare that they’ve been selected by Wyle  to supply an Ambulatory EHR to the Exploration Medical System Demonstration Project for NASA, as well as partnership news between to HIT training vendores, Train For E.H.R. Enterprises and Florida based Codesmart University.  There is also a product announcement [...]

NASA Releases Online Library on Risk Mitigation

NASA has produced a library of “knowledge bundles” describing how various technical problems that arose in the course of its space technology programs were successfully resolved. Last week, the library was posted online. If you want to know how a solar array was repaired in orbit, or how an astronaut dealt with a punctured glove, [...]Show More Summary

Evidence for extrasolar planet under construction

The keen vision of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected a mysterious gap in a vast protoplanetary disk of gas and dust swirling around the nearby star TW Hydrae, located 176 light-years away in the constellation Hydra (the Sea Serpent). Show More Summary

Shenzhou-10 docks with space station, closing the gap between China and NASA

Today the Shenzhou-10 capsule docked successfully with Tiangong-1, and since it is the last planned to do so marked the completion of both its own mission and that of the station.

CosmoQuest 24-Hour Hangout-a-thon.

Most people will be somewhat aware that the US budget sequester has had a wide range of impacts, amongst which are the education and outreach services of NASA. Faced with suspension or closing down, the educators are trying to do something to keep going. Show More Summary

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