Category: Science
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Streetcar service begins May 20
Riders can go to a streetcar stop on Friday, May 20 and catch one of those bright green and silver streetcars. Service opens to the public and will be free for the first year. Streetcar travels on Mill and Ash avenues from Rio Salado Parkway and Marina Heights to Dorsey Lane and Apache Boulevard and…
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Recycling Greenhouse Gases with Biotechnology
Biological production of acetone and isopropanol by gas fermentation captures more carbon than it releases. The Science Acetone and isopropanol are important chemicals for industry. They are used to produce materials from jet fuel to solvents to detergents to plastics. Currently, industry produces these two chemicals from petroleum using processes that release carbon dioxide and…
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Identifying Global Poverty From Space
Newswise — Despite successes in reducing poverty globally in the last two decades, almost one billion people are still living without access to reliable and affordable electricity, which in turn negatively affects health and welfare, and impedes sustainable development. Knowing where these people are is crucial if aid and infrastructure are to reach them. A…
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NASA Goddard scientists begin studying 50-year-old frozen Apollo 17 samples
Newswise — Scientists at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, recently received samples of the lunar surface that have been curated in a freezer at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston since Apollo 17 astronauts returned them to Earth in December 1972. This research is part of the Apollo Next Generation Sample Analysis…
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Glowing glass droplets on the ISS
Space exploration Newswise — It has the color of white gold, but it is hard like quartz glass and at the same time exhibits high elasticity. The smooth surface is free of crystalline structures and makes the material resistant to salts or acids. Individual pieces – for medical implants, for example – can be produced…
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Can computers write product reviews with a human touch?
Research uses artificial intelligence to draft wine and beer reviews. Newswise — Artificial intelligence systems can be trained to write human-like product reviews that assist consumers, marketers and professional reviewers, according to a study from Dartmouth College, Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, and Indiana University. The research, published in the International Journal of Research in Marketing,…
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NASA, ESA Astronauts Safely Return to Earth
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts aboard the Dragon Endurance spacecraft safely splashed down Friday in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida, completing the agency’s third long-duration commercial crew mission to the International Space Station. The international crew of four spent 177 days in orbit. NASA astronauts Kayla Barron, Raja Chari, and Tom Marshburn, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer returned…
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NASA to Discuss Webb Telescope Alignment, Instrument Setup
NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11 a.m. EDT on Monday, May 9, to discuss progress toward preparing the James Webb Space Telescope for science operations. The agency will livestream audio of the teleconference on its website. Webb will explore every phase of cosmic history – from within the solar system to the most distant…
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NASA Invites Media to SpaceX’s 25th Cargo Launch to Space Station
Media accreditation is now open for SpaceX’s 25th cargo resupply mission for NASA to the International Space Station. Liftoff of the cargo Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket is targeted for 11:30 a.m. EDT Tuesday, June 7, from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft will deliver new…
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Water Policy Expert Mae Stevens Joins Banner Public Affairs To Help Lead Expanding Bipartisan Infrastructure Division
Stevens brings extensive public affairs and water infrastructure experience to D.C. office WASHINGTON /PRNewswire/ — Banner Public Affairs today announced that water policy expert and former key congressional staffer Mae Stevens is joining the firm as senior vice president, charged with helping to lead Banner’s expanding bipartisan infrastructure division. “The historic federal Bipartisan Infrastructure Law adopted recently…