Under the microscope

To find out more about these research projects, you can listen to research podcasts here: Dr John Lees: Using space technology to treat cancer: http://soundcloud.com/university-of-leicester/dr-john-lees Dr Roland Leigh: Using space technology to ...

Signs of life beyond Earth could be found within 10 years, astrobiologists told House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on Wednesday. Sara Seager, a physics and planetary science professor at MIT and recipient of a 2013 MacArthur Genius Grant, said ...

Stanford scientists may have solved the mystery of what drives a type of earthquake that occurs deep within the Earth and accounts for one in four quakes worldwide. Known as intermediate depth earthquakes, these temblors originate farther down ...

Hyderabad:India could reap a windfall of technologically important metals as the Ministry of Earth Sciences is planning to lay claim to the rich mineral deposits discovered in the central Indian Ocean. Though rare earth elements have been noticed on seamounts ...

NASA's Earth Science Technology Office recently funded a CubeSat mission to demonstrate technology needed to measure the absolute imbalance in the Earth's radiation budget for the first time. This imbalance of less than 1 percent in the incoming and ...

Amabel Esinam Kluste Amabel Esinam Kluste, a Building Technology student at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, will on Saturday December 7, represent Ghana at the Miss Earth World Finals at Versailles Palace, Muntinlupa City ...

1 NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va.; 2 Space Dynamics Laboratory, Logan, Utah; 3 Science Systems and Applications Inc., Hampton, Va. Figure 1. Calculated top-of-atmosphere clear sky Earth infrared spectra, illustrating the far-IR and ...

NASA is teaming with the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association to cultivate agricultural innovations for space, and tapping classrooms across the country to help. The culmination of the project will be a coffee-can-sized ...

(Mechanical Engineering Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Communication technology is critical to science and engineering in the developing world. The United Nations has been concentrating on achieving its ambitious Millennium Development Goals, ...