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The German ROSAT Satellite had entered the earth’s atmosphere, but there is no confirmation yet as to where it hit earth. The German Aerospace Center said the satellite entered the atmosphere between 0145 and 0215 GMT Sunday (9:45 p.m. and…
Dr. Mike Wimberly, from the South Dakota State University (SDSU) Geographic Information Science Center of Excellence (GIScCE) served on the USFWS red tree vole endangered species listing advisory panel as a subject matter expert on habitat trends in the Oregon…
Earthquake Prediction: Could We Ever Forecast the Next Big One? Hundreds of cities on the U.S. West Coast took part in the 2011 Great California ShakeOut earthquake drill on Thursday, just hours before a small tremor hit the San Francisco…
NASA NPP’s launch is coming up in just 3 weeks. The spacecraft is set to lift off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on a Delta II rocket. The launch window is 5:48:01 – 5:57:11 a.m. EDT (2:48:01 –…
A new study, called the Dominantly Inherited Alzheimer Network (DIAN) study, is following multiple generations of family members across the globe with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease. CBS News contributor Priya David Clemens reports on a Seattle family that is providing never-before…
Winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011 has been announced today. The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided that The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2011 shall be divided, with one half jointly to…
This is the latest news from NASA about the space junk UARS that is about to hit Earth. Where will it hit Earth? Fri, 23 Sep 2011 06:30:46 PM CDT: As of 7 p.m. EDT on Sept. 23, 2011, the…
The existence of a world with a double sunset, as portrayed in the film Star Wars more than 30 years ago, is now scientific fact. NASA’s Kepler mission has made the first unambiguous detection of a circumbinary planet — a…
According to a TV feature Wednesday called “Terror in the Dust” by CNN Dr. Sanjay Gupta, firefighters responding to 9/11 are at increased cancer risk. Firefighters exposed to toxic dust and fumes clogging the air after the World Trade Center…
NASA Atlas V rocket lofted the Juno spacecraft toward Jupiter from Space Launch Complex-41. The 4-ton Juno spacecraft will take five years to reach Jupiter on a mission to study its structure and decipher its history. Video: