Man's Next Migration

Build your own space station

New Scientist is ready for the next step in human space exploration – we've built our own space station

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Sunday, 7 March 2010 | Hits: 0

NASA turned on by blow-up space stations

The agency is to invest in the idea of fabric spacecraft that can be folded up for launch and inflated in orbit – here is New Scientist's briefing

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Sunday, 7 March 2010 | Hits: 0

Dark matter could meet its nemesis on Earth

A spinning disc may be all that is needed to overturn Newton's second law of motion – and could call off the hunt for dark matter

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Sunday, 7 March 2010 | Hits: 0

Satelloons and lunar lasers: communicating in space

NASA is revamping how it transmits signals to spacecraft both near and far – New Scientist takes a look at the history and future of its space-communication projects

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Sunday, 7 March 2010 | Hits: 0

Webb Telescope's first primary mirror meets cold temperature specifications, sets program landmark

The James Webb Space Telescope reached a mission-readiness landmark today when its first primary mirror segment was cryo-polished to its required prescription as measured at operational cryogenic temperatures. This achievement sets the stage for a successful polishing process for the remaining 18 flight mirror segments.
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Wednesday, 3 March 2010 | Hits: 0

Salt-Seeking Satellite Shaken By Quake, But Not Stirred

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Aquarius instrument, and the Argentinian spacecraft that will carry it into space, the Satelite de Aplicaciones Cientificas (SAC-D), successfully rode out one of the largest earthquakes in recorded history Feb. 27 with no problems.
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Tuesday, 2 March 2010 | Hits: 0

Junctionless transistor makes its debut

First proposed in 1925, device could revolutionize electronics
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Monday, 1 March 2010 | Hits: 0

Both answers correct in century-old optics dilemma

Different momenta of light reflect wave-particle duality
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Monday, 1 March 2010 | Hits: 0

Hail the first sound ‘lasers’

Sound amplification by stimulated emission achieved by two groups
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Monday, 1 March 2010 | Hits: 0

Crystal control moves towards 3D displays

Doping nanocrystals changes the colours they emit
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Monday, 1 March 2010 | Hits: 0

First 'heavy-fermion' material made in 2D

Layered material could shed light on origin of high-temperature superconductivity
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Monday, 1 March 2010 | Hits: 0

Ultracold magnetic atoms bode well for quantum studies

Dysprosium can be trapped after all
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Monday, 1 March 2010 | Hits: 0

Fermi pins down a colossal accelerator

Blazar light is created light-years away from supermassive black hole
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Monday, 1 March 2010 | Hits: 0

Gravity’s effect on time confirmed

Atom interferometer makes ultra-precise measurement of gravitational redshift
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Monday, 1 March 2010 | Hits: 0

Physicists watch chemistry in slow motion

Ultracold molecules shed light on chemical reactions
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Monday, 1 March 2010 | Hits: 0

NASA sets sights on inflatable space stations

The agency reveals plans to develop advanced new technologies, including orbiting balloon-like habitats

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Sunday, 28 February 2010 | Hits: 0

World's most sensitive neutrino experiment begins

A manmade neutrino has travelled through the bedrock of Japan to hit a detector at the Super-Kamiokande – the experiment could shed light on why the universe is full of matter

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Sunday, 28 February 2010 | Hits: 0

Embattled NASA chief vows to outline path to Mars

At his first congressional hearing on NASA's new direction, agency chief Charles Bolden promised to develop a detailed plan to get astronauts to Mars

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Sunday, 28 February 2010 | Hits: 0

Scientists listen to the sun in new sonification project

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists can now listen to a set of solar wind data that's usually represented visually, as numbers or graphs. University of Michigan researchers have `sonified` the data. They've created an acoustic, or musical, representation of it.
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Saturday, 27 February 2010 | Hits: 0

The Case of the Mylar Mystery

(PhysOrg.com) -- There is a mystery afoot at Goddard - the case of the mylar mystery to be exact. On January 11, 2010, "History Detective" Tukufu Zuberi, from the PBS show "The History Detectives," came to Goddard to investigate a mystery. "The History Detectives" show asks viewers to submit unusual objects or clues with a possible historical interest and then selects one as the basis of investigating an historical mystery.
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Saturday, 27 February 2010 | Hits: 0

NASA Breaks Ground on New Deep Space Network Antennas

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA officials broke ground near Canberra, Australia on Wednesday, Feb. 24, beginning a new antenna-building campaign to improve Deep Space Network communications.
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Saturday, 27 February 2010 | Hits: 0

A CoGeNT result in the hunt for dark matter

An underground experiment may have detected a type of dark-matter particle.
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Saturday, 27 February 2010 | Hits: 0

Final frontier beckons for researchers

Cheap spaceflight set to transform science, industry claims.
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Monday, 22 February 2010 | Hits: 0

TDRS spacecraft pass system level reviews

NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) K-L program completed its Critical Design Review (CDR) and Production Readiness Review (PRR) in El Segundo, Calif. on Feb. 19.
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Monday, 22 February 2010 | Hits: 0

NIH stem cell guidelines should be modified, UCSF team reports

A UCSF team, led by bioethicist Bernard Lo, MD, recommends that the National Institutes of Health ethics guidelines for embryonic stem cell research be modified to better protect the rights of individuals donating egg or sperm to patients undergoing in vitro fertilization.
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Friday, 19 February 2010 | Hits: 0

Genes, environment, or chance?

Biologists attribute variations among individual organisms to differences in genes or environment, or both. But a new study of nematode worms with identical genes, raised in identical environments, has revealed another factor: chance.
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Friday, 19 February 2010 | Hits: 0

Hairy secret of foraging plants discovered

(PhysOrg.com) -- The genes that control the hairy 'mining machine' that makes some plants better at finding nutrients in poor soils than others have been discovered by scientists from Oxford University and the John Innes Centre.
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Friday, 19 February 2010 | Hits: 0

Southern African genomes sequenced

Human genomes from Southern African Bushmen and Bantu individuals have been sequenced by a team of scientists seeking a greater understanding of human genetic variation and its effect on human health.
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Friday, 19 February 2010 | Hits: 0

Enhanced 3D Model of Mars Crater Edge Shows Ups and Downs

A dramatic 3D Mars view based on terrain modeling from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter data shows "highs and lows" of Mojave Crater.
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Thursday, 18 February 2010 | Hits: 0

3D Sun for the iPhone

Imagine holding the entire sun in the palm of your hand. Now you can. A new iPhone app developed by NASA-supported programmers delivers a live global view of the sun directly to your cell phone. Users can fly around the star, zoom in on active regions, and monitor solar activity.
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Thursday, 18 February 2010 | Hits: 0

Dark matter detective arrives at ESTEC

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the most exciting scientific instruments ever built, the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), arrived at ESA's Test Centre in the Netherlands for testing before being launched on the Space Shuttle to the ISS this July.
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Thursday, 18 February 2010 | Hits: 0

Astronauts unveil phenomenal new window on world

(AP) -- In a highly anticipated grand finale to their mission, astronauts opened the shutters on the International Space Station's new observation deck Wednesday and were humbled by "absolutely spectacular" views of Earth from inside the elaborate atrium of windows.
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Thursday, 18 February 2010 | Hits: 0

Space Station's big bay window installed

(PhysOrg.com) -- The biggest window ever launched to space has been installed in its final position on the Earth-facing port of Node-3. The latches and 16 electrically driven bolts were engaged today at 07:31 CET (06:31 GMT). Opening of the window shutters is foreseen for Wednesday.
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Thursday, 18 February 2010 | Hits: 0

Shifting cellular energy metabolism may help treat cardiovascular disease

Drugs that target the way cells convert nutrients into energy could offer new approaches to treating a range of conditions including heart attack and stroke. Using a new way to screen for potential drugs, a team led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers has identified several FDA-approved agents, including an over-the-counter anti-nausea drug, that can shift cellular energy metabolism processes in animals. Their findings, being published online in Nature Biotechnology, may open the door to new therapeutic strategies for several serious health problems.
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010 | Hits: 0

Gene discovery to increase biomass needed for green fuel

(PhysOrg.com) -- Manchester scientists have identified the genes that make plants grow fatter and plan to use their research to increase plant biomass in trees and other species - thus helping meet the need for renewable resources.
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010 | Hits: 0

Scientists sequence genome of grass that can be a biofuel model crop

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists and their colleagues at the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute today announced that they have completed sequencing the genome of a kind of wild grass that will enable researchers to shed light on the genetics behind hardier varieties of wheat and improved varieties of biofuel crops. The research is published today in the journal Nature.
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010 | Hits: 0

Mescal worm test shows DNA leaks into preservative liquids

Just because you don't swallow the worm at the bottom of a bottle of mescal doesn't mean you have avoided the essential worminess of the potent Mexican liquor, according to scientists from the Biodiversity Institute of Ontario (BIO) at the University of Guelph.
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010 | Hits: 0

Gene that improves quality of reprogrammed stem cells identified by Singapore scientists

In the 7 Feb. 2010 issue of the journal Nature, scientists at the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), report that a genetic molecule, called Tbx3, which is crucial for many aspects of early developmental processes in mammals, significantly improves the quality of stem cells that have been reprogrammed from differentiated cells.
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010 | Hits: 0

Virus-free technique enables scientists to easily make stem cells pluripotent

Tiny circles of DNA are the key to a new and easier way to transform stem cells from human fat into induced pluripotent stem cells for use in regenerative medicine, say scientists at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Unlike other commonly used techniques, the method, which is based on standard molecular biology practices, does not use viruses to introduce genes into the cells or permanently alter a cell's genome.
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010 | Hits: 0

MicroRNA: A glimpse into the past

The last ancestor we shared with worms, which roamed the seas around 600 million years ago, may already have had a sophisticated brain that released hormones into the blood and was connected to various sensory organs. The evidence comes not from a newly found fossil but from the study of microRNAs - small RNA molecules that regulate gene expression - in animals alive today.
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Tuesday, 16 February 2010 | Hits: 0