Science
First burrowing dinosaur fossils discovered E-mail
Thursday, 22 March 2007
U.S. and Japanese palaeontologists have found the first fossil evidence of dinosaurs living in underground burrows and caring for their young.
 
NASA begins drop tests with new Orion spaceship E-mail
Thursday, 22 March 2007
A series of tests are analyzing the ability of NASA’s Orion to safety return astronauts to the Earth.
 
Chinese fossil lizard used ribs to glide E-mail
Wednesday, 21 March 2007
A 125 million year old fossil lizard had a wing-like membrane stretched over extended ribs that could have helped it to glide through the air, archaeologists say.

 
Falcon reaches space, but not orbit E-mail
Wednesday, 21 March 2007
SpaceX finally achieved a successful launch of its Falcon 1 rocket from Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands southeast of Hawaii.

 
Falcon fails to fly - again E-mail
Wednesday, 21 March 2007
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has again failed to launch its Falcon 1 rocket following a 25 hour delay caused by a communications glitch.

 
U.S. computer scientist and FORTRAN developer John W. Backus dead at 82 E-mail
Wednesday, 21 March 2007
John Warner Backus, born December 3, 1924, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, died Saturday, March 17, 2007,  at his home in Ashland, Oregon. All computer users and the public in general owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Backus’ efforts that paved the way to our modern computing systems.
 
International team solves E8: 248-dimensional math puzzle E-mail
Wednesday, 21 March 2007
E8 is a complex structure with 248 dimensions. It took 4 years of prep work by 18 mathematicians and computer scientists and 3 full days of computer time to solve a matrix with over 205 billion parts that contained 60 times more data than the Human Genome Project.
 
Can your refrigerator turn water to ice in one-billionth of a second? U.S. scientists can! E-mail
Tuesday, 20 March 2007
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico  have developed a way to turn water into ice in nanoseconds, where one nanosecond is equal to one-billionth of a second.
 
Partial solar eclipse occurred March 19 E-mail
Tuesday, 20 March 2007
The first solar eclipse of 2007 occurred on March 19, 2007 and was visible from eastern Asia and parts of northern Alaska.
 
First probe beneath Mars surface finds water ice E-mail
Monday, 19 March 2007
Using a ground-penetrating instrument for the first time, Mars Express scientists conclude nearly pure water ice, laced with dust particles, exist almost 4 kilometers under the frozen surface of Mars'  South Pole.
 
Student-named Harmony soon to become new module for Space Station E-mail
Sunday, 18 March 2007
NASA announced on Thursday, March 15, 2007, that Node 2, to be launched August 2007, will be named Harmony after six groups of schoolchildren suggested the name.
 
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