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Aug 12, 2012 12:34 PM EDT

NASA Begins New Mission to Study Earthâ€™s Radiation Belt

NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) mission is set to send two spacecraft into harsh environment of our planet's radiation belt. They are set to launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket Aug. 23. The 20-minute launch window for the twin probes at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's ...

Aug 12, 2012 05:49 AM EDT

Autonomous Robotic Plane Flies Indoors

But the team of talented MIT's Robust Robotics Group has modulated themselves for an even tougher challenge of developing autonomous-control algorithms for the indoor flight of GPS-denied airplanes. At the 2011 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), a team of researchers from th...

Aug 11, 2012 06:13 AM EDT

Mars Curiosity to Receive Brain Transplant

After successful landing on Mars the Curiosity rover has been capturing images of regions we have never explored. The Curiosity will spend first weekend on Mars transitioning to software that is better suited for the task rover will venture for its mission. A few transitions it will undergo are driv...

Aug 10, 2012 06:58 AM EDT

Engineers Develop Flexible Robot with Earthworm like Movement

Taking inspiration from nature once again, the researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a earthworm like robot called 'Meshworm' that is developed from soft materials into a meshlike tube that crawls across surfaces by contracting segments of its body, much like an ear...

Aug 10, 2012 06:28 AM EDT

NASA Moon Lander Prototype Explodes During Test Flight

After the successful landing of Mars rover about 150 million miles away, NASA is faces a failure when it's experimental 'green' lander crashed during its first free-flight test on August 9.

Aug 10, 2012 06:01 AM EDT

Mars Curiosity Sends Images with 360 Degree Color View

NASA's Curiosity rover vehicle has sent the first images captured from the color mast camera, or Mastacm. These images were received by the scientists at the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

Aug 10, 2012 05:44 AM EDT

Less Sleep in Sandpipers Leads to More Offspring: Study

You might not be able to do without sufficient sleep but male pectoral sandpipers can go more than a fortnight with hardly any sleep, the most extreme case of uninduced sleep deprivation known in any animal.

Aug 09, 2012 06:16 AM EDT

Penn Scientists Create 3D map of Dark Matter and Dark Energy

The largest ever three dimensional map of massive galaxies and distant black holes produced by Sloan digital Sky Survey III (SDSS III), helps in investigating the mysterious "dark matter" and "dark energy" that make up 96 percent of the universe.

Aug 07, 2012 07:26 AM EDT

Solar Storms to Peak in Next Two Years and Cause Havoc

The scientists warn that by the next two years the world might have to face a major power failure due to the intense solar storm. Even the communication systems and the satellites would face a major setback due to this unexpected threat from the outer space that brings destruction along with it.

Aug 06, 2012 07:37 AM EDT

Advanced Mars Rover Curiosity Lands on Red Planet

It was a big day for NASA when the most advanced Mars rover curiosity made a flawless landing on the Red planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars at 1:31 a.m. EDT Monday on August 6 after a 36-week flight and commencing into a new two years of invest...

Aug 06, 2012 06:14 AM EDT

Sexual Orientation Determined By Pupil Dilation

A new study done by Cornell University researchers has found that sexual orientation can be distinguished based on an individual's pupil dilation. The way the pupils react when they see other people is an effective way to detect whether the person is straight, gay or bisexual.

Aug 04, 2012 07:34 AM EDT

Three Private Firms in NASA's Next Generation of Spaceflights

NASA announced a new agreement in which it declares the list of three American commercial companies that has been selected to develop the next generation of U.S human spaceflight capabilities, enabling a launch of astronauts from U.S in the next 5 years.