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February 8, 2010
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Good Morning,
NASA has found a way to locate organic molecules on planets
not in our solar system using a telescope that is relatively
small in size. What is exciting is that the find was made
with a small telescope, using a lager telescope and the same
method can only increase the possibilities. Check out the
first article for details.
Until Next Time,
Erin
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NASA announces 'unprecedented' achievement
PASADENA, Calif. - NASA astronomers say they have developed
a technique that can identify organic molecules on a planet
nearly 63 light years from Earth. The researchers, using a
relatively small Earth-based telescope, successfully measured
details of an exoplanet's atmospheric composition and con-
ditions -- a feat NASA calls "an unprecedented achievement
from an Earth-based observatory." The accomplishment, the
space agency said, promises to accelerate by years the search
for prebiotic, or life-related, molecules on planets orbiting
stars beyond our solar system. The scientists used NASA's
30-year-old, 10-foot-diameter (3-meter) telescope at the
space agency's Infrared Telescope Facility atop Mauna Kea
in Hawaii. "The fact that we have used a relatively small,
ground-based telescope is exciting because it implies that
the largest telescopes on the ground, using this technique,
may be able to characterize terrestrial exoplanet targets,"
said Mark Swain, an astronomer at NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory and the study's lead author. The research that
included scientists from the University of Arizona, Uni-
versity College London; UCLA, the Georgia Institute of
Technology, and Germany's Max-Planck Institute for Astro-
nomy and the SOFIA Institute is reported in the journal
Nature.
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Eastern US. forests growing faster
EDGEWATER, Md. - U.S. scientists say they've found evidence
that forests in the Eastern United States are growing faster
than they have during the past 225 years. The Smithsonian
Institute ecologists focused on the growth of 55 stands of
mixed hardwood forest plots in Maryland. Geoffrey Parker,
who has tracked the trees' growth for 20 years, said the
plots range in size, some as large as two acres. Parker's
research is based at the Smithsonian Environmental Research
Center, 26 miles east of Washington in Edgewater, Md. Parker
and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute postdoctoral
fellow Sean McMahon said the forest is growing, on average,
an additional two tons per acre annually. That's the equiv-
alent of a tree with a diameter of two feet sprouting up
over one year, the researchers said. Parker and McMahon
said their findings suggest the faster growth rate are due
to climate change and, more specifically, rising levels of
atmospheric carbon dioxide, higher temperatures and longer
growing seasons. The scientists, who said their findings
might have significant ramifications in weather patterns,
nutrient cycles, climate change and biodiversity, report
the research in the Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences.
Scientists map the soybean genome
COLUMBIA, Mo. - University of Missouri scientists say they've
mapped the soybean genome and identified 1.1 million base
pairs of DNA, including more than 90 distinct traits. The
researchers say their accomplishment could lead to extensive
crop improvements to soybeans that represent a nearly $3
billion industry in the United states alone. "The genome
sequence will be a new tool for plant breeders, industrial
engineers, geneticists, biochemists, technologists, nutri-
tionists and anyone else who uses soybeans worldwide," said
Henry Nguyen, director of the National Center for Soybean
Biotechnology at the university. "With knowledge of which
genes control which soybean traits, scientists may be able
to better adapt the plant to drought conditions, bringing a
new cash crop and food product to poor areas of the Earth."
Nguyen said he has already started collaborating with animal
science and nutrition experts to modify soybeans added to
animal feeds that could increase the health value of meat.
"Perhaps the most exciting thing that we have found for the
soybean community is the gene that confirms resistance to
the devastating Asian Soybean Rust disease," Nguyen said.
"In countries where this rust is well established, soybean
losses can range from 10 percent to 80 percent. Improved
soybean strains resistant to the disease will greatly bene-
fit production and increase foodstuffs around the world."
The genome research appears in the January issue of the
journal Nature.
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NASA, GM create new robotic technology
HOUSTON - The U.S. space agency says it has joined with the
General Motors to accelerate development of the next gener-
ation of robots and robotic technologies. NASA and GM engi-
neers and scientists, working under a Space Act Agreement at
the Johnson Space Center in Houston, say they are building a
humanoid robot capable of working side by side with people.
Joined by engineers from Oceaneering Space Systems of Hous-
ton, NASA and GM 10 years ago developed and built Robonaut,
R2, is a faster, more dexterous and more technologically
a humanoid robot designed for space travel. Robonaut 2, or
advanced robot, officials said. The new generation robot can
use its hands to do work beyond the scope of prior humanoid
machines. "This cutting-edge robotics technology holds great
promise, not only for NASA, but also for the nation," said
Doug Cooke, associate administrator for the space agency's
Exploration Systems Mission Directorate. "I'm very excited
about the new opportunities for human and robotic exploration
these versatile robots provide across a wide range of appli-
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