NASA will host a media teleconference on Thursday, May 15, at 2 p.m. EDT, to provide an overview of progress made in the last few months and work ahead for NASA's Constellation Program.
As part of NASA's 50th anniversary celebration, the Digital Learning Network will host a series of live webcasts with students across the country May 13-21.
NASA Deputy Administrator Shana Dale will announce a significant new education initiative at a NASA Future Forum on May 14 at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, Calif.
NASA's Kennedy Space Center has awarded a contract to Hensel Phelps of Orlando, Fla., for the construction of the Ares I mobile launcher for the Constellation Program.
For the most part, these accusations are a political ploy — actually an attempt to shut down political debate. Any practical concern about the content of government sex-education curricula is labeled "anti-science." Any ethical question about the destruction of human
New York City officials plan within months to dispatch the nation's first ambulance equipped to preserve bodies of the newly dead so that families have time to consider organ donation.The controversial twist: Crews would swoop in and perform procedures on
Addressing students in a classroom at Stanford Law School, Dr. Pellegrino made a forceful claim for the inescapability of dignity - the lived experience of being human — for anyone making ethical choices in research, in the clinic and in
The question is: As new, direct-to-consumer genetic testing sites begin delivering this fresh and sometimes incomplete DNA news to customers online, how will Big Medicine and government regulators react? And how will they shape what DNA testing sites look like?
California has awarded $271 million in grants to build 12 stem cell research centers in the state, even as one of the political rationales for the building program might soon disappear. (New York Times)
Why is assisted suicide always treated as if life were lived in a vacuum? Case in point: The suicide statistics in Washington are, according to a newspaper report "terrifying," and yet, many newspapers editorially support legalizing assisted suicide-which at the
My friend and colleague has a review of the movie, Baby Mama, over here. "Overall, Baby Mama was effective to the extent of its shallow portrayal of the enterprise of surrogacy as ridiculous and innocuous.The problem is that a human
People living in the earliest known settlement in the Americas relied partly on seaweed, bolstering the theory that the New World was settled via a coastal route, a new study says.
Since payment structures, like the one just mentioned, takes quite some time before being fully consummated, there are usually instances when the customer (or the assured in terms of life insurance policies) sees the need to change the terms of
The physical significances and the pros and cons involved in the usage ofdifferent time delay formalisms are discussed. The delay time matrix introducedby Eisenbud, where only s-waves participate in a reaction, is in generalrelated to the definition of an angular
We consider a discrete-time dynamical process on graphs, firstly introducedin connection with a protocol for controlling large networks of spin 1/2quantum mechanical particles [Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 100501 (2007)]. Adescription is as follows: each vertex of an initially selected set
