DSofM Post Astronauts Scramble for Escape Pods as Space Junk Threat gets Serious

From:  http://www.csmonitor.com


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The six earthlings – three Russians, two Americans, and a Dutchman – aboard the International Space Station were stirred from their slumber Saturday morning to jump into emergency escape pods, once again drawing into focus the growing dangers of hurtling space junk.

Link:  http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/0324/Astronauts-scramble-for-escape-pods-as-space-junk-threat-gets-serious

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DSoM Post An Elusive New Scorpion Species from California Lives Underground

March 23, 2012
From:   http://www.physorg.com

This is a scorpion glowing under ultraviolet light. This specimen is a Northern Scorpion, a broadly distributed species that was also found in the Inyo Mountains. 

Credit: Michael Webber

Even in places as seemly well-studied as the national parks of North America, new species are still being discovered.

Using ultraviolet light that cause scorpions to fluoresce a ghostly glow, researchers from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) have discovered an intriguing new scorpion in Death Valley National Park. They named the species Wernerius inyoensis, after the Inyo Mountains where it was found. The study was published in the open access journal ZooKeys.

More information: Webber MM, Graham MR, Jaeger JR (2012) Wernerius inyoensis, an elusive new scorpion from the Inyo Mountains of California (Scorpiones, Vaejovidae).

ZooKeys 177: 1-13. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.177.2562

Link:  http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-elusive-scorpion-species-california-underground.html

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Diatom Biosensor Could Shine Light 

on Future Nanomaterials

Link:  http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-diatom-biosensor-future-nanomaterials.html


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Europe Launches Third Robot Freighter 

to Space Station

March 23, 2012

There are 6 ISS crew Kononenko (L), Shkaplerov (R) and Anatoli Ivanishin Dan Burbank, Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers

In this NASA handout image from February 16, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko (L) and Anton Shkaplerov, work on the International Space Station (ISS). 

An automated craft laden with supplies for the ISS headed 

into spaceon Friday in the heaviest 

launch ever undertaken by Europe.

An automated craft laden with supplies for the International Space Station (ISS) headed into space on Friday in the

heaviest launch ever undertaken by Europe.

Link:  http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-europe-robot-freighter-space-station.html



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