'Superbird' stuns researchers - Eureka! Science News

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'Star Trek' Actors Star in New Mars Rover Landing Videos - Space.com

Shatner, who played the legendary Captain Kirk in the original &quot;Star Trek&quot; TV series, provides the voice-over for one video, while Wheaton, who memorably portrayed the boy genius Crusher on &quot;Star Trek: The Next Generation,&quot; narrates the other. Since their turns on the hit series, Shatner and Wheaton have become pop culture icons thanks to legions of fans around the world who affectionately nickname themselves &quot;Trekkies.&quot;
&quot;Shatner and Wheaton are mavericks in inspiring film, TV and social media audiences about space,&quot; Bert Ulrich, NASA&#39;s multimedia liaison for film and TV collaborations, said in a statement. &quot;NASA is thrilled to have them explain a difficult landing sequence in accessible terms that can be understood by many. Thanks to their generous support, Mars exploration will reach Tweeters, Trekkies and beyond!&quot;<br />http://www.space.com/16826-mars-rover-landing-star-trek-video.html

WWII German U-boat found off Massachusetts coast - TG Daily

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Stanford University researchers create first virtual organism - TG Daily

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Institutional Mission and University

University administration should generate a pool of creative ideas for faculty members. When designing an academic research project, professors know the general preferences of a university, but not necessarily specific policy of their own university.

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Russian Soyuz rocket launches American, Russian, Japanese to space station - SlashGear

Among the group&#8217;s tasks are performing space station maintenance and a whole bunch of science experiments that can only be achieved in space. During a preflight briefing, Williams said, &#8220;Unfortunately our mission is only four months â€" I wish it would be years and years and years. I&#8217;m really lucky to be flying with Yuri and Aki. I think we&#8217;re going to have a great time.&#8221;From Russia is Yuri Malenchenko and from Japan is Akihiko Hoshide. The launch today coincided with the anniversary of the very first inernational space mission. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project began on July 15, 1975. On this 37th anniversary, it is of course very refreshing to see an astronaut and a cosmonaut on the very same spacecraft serving the same purpose.<br />http://www.slashgear.com/russian-soyuz-rocket-launches-american-russian-japanese-to-space-station-15238634/

New Pluto Moon Found—"Fringe Benefit" of Search for Risky Rings - National Geographic

Finding the new moon this summer was a "fringe benefit" of a monthlong program to scan Pluto for rocky rings that could endanger NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, said planetary astronomer Mark Showalter, who's leading the Hubble scanning project. The probe is to fly by the dwarf planet in July 2015."The discovery of so many small moons indirectly tells us that there must be lots of small particles lurking unseen in the Pluto system," New Horizons team member Harold Weaver, a Johns Hopkins University planetary scientist, said in a statement.<br />http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/07/120712-pluto-moon-hubble-space-telescope-satellite-science-nasa/

Hubble Unearths New Moon Around Pluto - Wired News

While Hubble provides only a distant glimpse of Pluto and its moons, NASA&#8217;s New Horizons space probe is currently speeding out to Pluto. The spacecraft should arrive in 2015, when it will take the first detailed photos of the icy dwarf planet system. The discovery of the fifth Pluto moon will help scientists prevent a collision that might destroy New Horizons, which will be zooming by at 30,000 mph.The largest moon of Pluto, Charon, was discovered in 1978 by the United States Naval Observatory station in Flagstaff, Arizona, back when Pluto was still called a planet. The next two moons, Nix and Hydra, weren&#8217;t discovered until 2006, using Hubble. The fourth moon, given the less sexy name P4, was discovered with Hubble in 2011.<br />http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/07/new-pluto-moon/

India: Enough about Higgs, let's discuss the boson - The Associated Press

A portrait of Indian scientist Satyendranath Bose, is displayed at the Bangiya Vigyan Parishad or the Bengal Science Society founded by Bose in Kolkata, India, Tuesday, July 10, 2012. While much of the world was celebrating the international cooperation that led to last week&#39;s breakthrough in identifying the existence of the Higgs boson particle, many in India were smarting over what they saw as a slight against one of their greatest scientists. Media covering the story gave lots of credit to British physicist Peter Higgs for theorizing the elusive subatomic &quot;God particle,&quot; but little was said about Satyendranath Bose, the Indian after whom the boson is named. (AP Photo/Bikas Das)The boson is named in honor of the Kolkata-born scientist's work in the 1920s with Albert Einstein in defining one of two basic classes of subatomic particles. The work describes subatomic particles that carry force and can occupy the same space if in the same state â€" such as in a la!
ser beam. All particles that follow such behavior, including the Higgs as well as photons, gravitons and others, are called bosons.<br />http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g45TaVkiWEWQwEIUSrEuD9Rab5bw?docId%3D5d6d64f5fa734ea0bb6b0c29adac18d0

University as a Country

The structure of a university is very similar to a country, and its management system too; a smaller society but utopia, due to its sophisticated community. Factors like national benefits, patriotism, and nostalgia are all (and must be) the case in a smaller scale. Even outsiders (usually in administrative roles) are expected to behave like loyal alumni, learn the school alma mater, and become interested in in the major sport teams, and other traditional functions of the university. This practical allegory is to utilize available models. The athletic success in Olympic is of political important (not just fun) for a country, it is the same for a university fame (for attracting students). The reasons and motivations of students for attending a university are like those of immigration. Thus, university leadership should empower its own country through united national strategies. This is the reason that today’s university essential needs to implement change. The ratio of people living in developed country to those living in developing countries from one to two (in 1995) is approaching one to four (in 2010)
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