Posted on March 24th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
A 40,000-year-old child’s pinky bone found in a Siberian cave probably belonged to a previously unknown human species living near modern humans of the era, a gene study reports today.
In the Nature journal study, the pinky bone discovered in the Denisova cave archaeological site in southern Siberia yielded mitochondrial DNA - maternal genes inherited outside [...]
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Posted on March 4th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
An oblong iceberg roughly as big as Rhode Island called B-09B (center right in this image) collided with the edge of the Mertz Glacier in eastern Antarctica this month breaking away a new iceberg (top left) that is nearly as large at B-09B. This image from Feb. 20, 2010, is one of a series of [...]
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Posted on March 4th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
NASA, in cooperation with local technology firms and sponsors, launches a nationwide series of high school robotics competitions that begin March 5 and 6 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place N.W., in Washington. The two-day event runs daily from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. EST. It is free and open [...]
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Posted on January 21st, 2010 by ElectroGeek
Dunes of sand-sized materials have been trapped on the floors of many Martian craters. This is one example, from a crater in Noachis Terra, west of the giant Hellas impact basin. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this view on Dec. 28, 2009. The dunes here are [...]
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Posted on January 6th, 2010 by ElectroGeek
Astronomers have long known that the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, known as Sagittarius A* (or Sgr A* for short), is a particularly poor eater. The fuel for this black hole comes from powerful winds blown off dozens of massive young stars that are concentrated nearby. These stars are [...]
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Posted on October 6th, 2009 by ElectroGeek
Reporters are invited to cover space shuttle Atlantis’ move to the launch pad on Oct. 13 and the STS-129 mission crew’s dress rehearsal activities Oct. 19 to Oct. 21 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Posted on September 21st, 2009 by ElectroGeek
Space shuttle Discovery sits atop the Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft as it touched down at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:05 p.m. EDT. The two-day return flight from Edwards Air Force Base in California began at 9:20 a.m. EDT Sept. 20. After three fueling stops that included an overnight stay in Louisiana, [...]
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Posted on July 18th, 2009 by ElectroGeek
Using Intel Claytronics (Programmable Matter) it may soon be a reality to have your chair transform into a couch and your cell phone transform into a laptop on demand! This is some incredible technology under development. Imagine having your own Transformers just like in the movie but for useful every day objects. If Intel can [...]
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Posted on July 1st, 2009 by ElectroGeek
A U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor executes a supersonic flyby over the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) in the Gulf of Alaska, in this handout photo taken on June 22, 2009. The John C. Stennis is participating in Northern Edge 2009, a joint exercise focusing on detecting and [...]
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