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Officials with the European Space Agency (ESA) are proud to announce the their efforts to start using the Vega rocket are progressing smoothly. Over the past few weeks, the organization managed to achieve a number of significant milestones for the project.
The most important of them was ESA's decision to start ... |
28 October 2011
10:26 GMT |
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According to officials managing the NASA National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP), the spacecraft has recently successfully completed all of its assessments, and is now readty to advance to the next stage. Both the actual satellite and the five-piece scient... |
9 August 2011
05:41 GMT |
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The next rover to launch for the Red Planet is currently being put through its paces at a California facility, as its designers and constructors want to ensure that it can successfully withstand the harsh conditions of the Martian environment.There are numerous new technologies that went into the robot, now called Cu... |
15 June 2011
04:48 GMT |
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In a new research, experts have discovered that parents are very likely to apply genetic testing to their children as well, if the opportunity becomes available. Nearly all of those who said that they would take the tests added that they would also apply it to their kids. This is very worrying because these tests are... |
18 April 2011
07:14 GMT |
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The first of the next generation of space telescopes has just underwent a new series of extreme tests, meant to assess whether or not it's ready to endure the bumpy road to space. The chassis of the new instrument passed the assessments with flying colors.The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a joint endeavor o... |
9 March 2011
04:46 GMT |
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A new study carried out by researchers from the University College London, concluded that the brains of fighter pilots are significantly different from those of normal individuals, with a similar IQ.The scientists used cognitive tests and MRI scans to compare the cognitive performance of 11 front-line RAF (Royal Air ... |
15 December 2010
04:38 GMT |
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A group of engineers in the United Kingdom, at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), have begun subjecting one of the instruments that will go on the JWST to space-like conditions. The Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) is one of the critical components of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), which is touted as th... |
4 October 2010
10:09 GMT |
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According to experts, a novel instrument that can detect whether a person has consumed cannabis or cocaine may be made available to police officers and concerned moms around the world within 2 years. The disposable test would be very cheap and affordable, with initial cost estimates placing it at as little as $2. It ... |
22 September 2010
07:00 GMT |
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Thanks to a new battery of tests created by researchers in the United States, analyzing the congruity abilities of people suffering from Down Syndrome is now easier and more accurate than ever. The innovative new analysis tool was produced by neuroscience experts at the University of Arizona Down Syndrome Research Gr... |
30 August 2010
06:45 GMT |
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Many parents today use league tables when selecting secondary schools for their children, but even more don't do so. A new research shows that taking this into account results in higher incomes for the kids later on in life.According to the new research paper, parents can ensure that their children score better ... |
24 August 2010
09:26 GMT |
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Children who learn more in kindergarten are very likely to end up earning more money than their peers who study less. The conclusion belongs to a new scientific study, which shows that kids who learn a lot tend to cash in higher salaries when they become adults. Research into this correlation is only beginning. Scien... |
11 August 2010
05:15 GMT |
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Experts at the American space agency say that the launch date for the new James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) could be pushed back a few months. The officials support engineers handling the complex machine, who say that the delay will be caused by the fact that they need to run additional tests on the complex observato... |
18 May 2010
04:02 GMT |
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Officials at NASA announce the successful completion of the first test firing of the Launch Abort System (LAS) that will go on the new Orion space capsule. Though the spacecraft has been stripped down to an unmanned escape pod for the International Space Station (ISS), the emergency system is still very important, an... |
7 May 2010
04:49 GMT |
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Scientists speaking on Tuesday, at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), have demonstrated that, while the last rocket tests North Korea did were failures, the country is making important progress in building increasingly bigger and better delivery systems. While Pyongyang continues to argue tha... |
16 December 2009
18:01 GMT |
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Yesterday morning, NASA finally tested its alternate launch abort system, at the Wallops Flight Facility, in Wallops Island, Virginia. The Max Launch Abort System, or MLAS, simulated flight took place at 6:26 am local time, and ran smoothly, officials confirm. The device offers more security and survivability to astr... |
9 July 2009
03:04 GMT |
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According to officials at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, the Martian rovers' twin test brother is finally located in its sandbox at the laboratory, ready to begin its investigations into how to extract Spirit from its sandy trap. Since May 6th, the most battered rover of the MER mi... |
1 July 2009
04:51 GMT |
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According to a press release published recently on NASA's official website, the agency will perform a full external tank loading test tomorrow (July 1st), in order to accurately assess if the repairs made on the space shuttle Endeavor's external hydrogen tank were successful. The importance of these tests c... |
30 June 2009
02:39 GMT |
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In two new, large and randomized clinical trials, experts Otis W. Brawley, MD, from the American Cancer Society, Donna Ankerst, PhD, and Ian M. Thompson, MD, from the University of Texas Health Science Center, in San Antonio, have discovered that the efficiency of prostate cancer (PC) tests is limited at best, and no... |
29 June 2009
06:09 GMT |
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With NASA's Spirit rover stuck in loose Martian soil since May 6th, its mission control team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, is working around the clock to recreate the exact conditions on the Red Planet inside a test sandbox, using an exact replica of the MER rover. Because engineers ... |
27 June 2009
04:12 GMT |
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According to a new scientific study, it may be that longer, high-pressure aptitude tests do not necessarily imply people will get lower grades than in shorter ones. If any, chances are that the people taking the test will actually score better, as the brain finds its working rhythm, and starts tackling the issues at ... |
1 June 2009
06:57 GMT |
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On May 25th, seismographs in Japan picked up shock waves traveling through the Earth's crust, similar to those created by a nuclear explosion. Mounting pieces of evidence pointed at the fact that North Korea again tested such a device on its own territory, suspicions that were confirmed when Pyongyang substantia... |
27 May 2009
18:31 GMT |
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The successful completion of the Orion spacecraft is paramount for NASA, on account of the fact that, as soon as it has a working prototype, the shorter the time span it will have to wait until it can resume spaceflights. With the three-shuttle fleet due to be retired at the end of 2010, the Americans find themselves... |
10 April 2009
03:17 GMT |
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The most recent parachute test that NASA conducted in the Arizona desert, near Yuma, was meant to test the parachute system on a 50,000-pound booster. Although the payload was a dummy, the heft it carried was not, and officials at the space agency and the US Air Force were anxious to see whether the lifting devices w... |
14 March 2009
04:27 GMT |
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Australian researchers from the University of Queensland have just recently released a new study, which seems to point out the fact that children whose fathers are older tend to score less in IQ tests than their peers, who were parented at an earlier age. The findings have been immediately contradicted by numerous p... |
12 March 2009
09:00 GMT |
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All new potential drugs or therapies for cancer, and for a lot of other diseases too, actually, go through three stages of testing, ranging from in vitro simulations, to testing the product on animals and, finally moving up to clinical tests. The results that science teams get from their studies on mice are crucial f... |
29 October 2008
05:15 GMT |
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