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‘Mount Sharp’ on Mars Links Geology’s Past and Future

By Guest PostApril 1, 2012Sciencearizona, bob sharp, curiosity, edward stolper, gale crater, geological sciences, grand canyon, john grotzinger, ken edgett, life magazine, liquid water, mars, michael malin, mount rainier, mount sharp, NASA, robert p sharp, san diego, seattle, spacecraft

One particular mountain on Mars, bigger than Colorado’s grandest, has been beckoning would-be explorers since it was first sighted from orbit in the 1970s. Scientists have ideas about how it took shape in the middle of ancient Gale Crater and hopes for what evidence it could yield about whether conditions on Mars have favored life.

No mission to Mars dared approach it, though, until NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission, which this August will attempt to place its one-ton rover, Curiosity, at the foot of the mountain. The moat of flatter ground between the mountain and the crater rim encircling it makes too small a touchdown target to have been considered safe without precision-landing innovations used by this mission. (more…)

Meet the Team That Puts ‘Amazing Power’ at People’s Fingertips

By Guest PostFebruary 15, 2012Technologyapplecharlottecooking, betsy speare, cloud division, cloud os, ebay, erin chapple, group policy, integration of information, jeffrey snover, Microsoft, microsoft news center, mnc, new england, powershell, sabrina, seattle, smartphone app, social networking site, Technology, the teenage witch, vancouver canucks, windows server, windows server 8

*Members of the Windows Server team speak with Microsoft News Center about their groundbreaking work in moving customers to the cloud—and what else they find fascinating.*

REDMOND, Wash. – Start telling most people about the importance of servers and their eyes glaze over. They would much rather talk about some cool new smartphone app or the latest social networking site. Yet without servers, the things we value most about technology—from mobile devices to online shopping—would be impossible.

“It’s servers that enable us to do everything from email to eBay,” says Betsy Speare, a principle program manager lead in the Windows Server Manageability team. “Servers are making the world a smaller place by providing the backbone for communication and the integration of information.” (more…)

Jailhouse Phone Calls Reveal Why Domestic Violence Victims Recant

By Guest PostAugust 21, 2011Culture, Generalamy bonomi, chris locke, criminal justice system, david martin, detention facility, domestic violence victims, felony assault, felony charge, felony domestic violence, group health research institute, heather katafiasz, jailhouse telephone conversations, king county prosecutors office, ohio state university, perpetrators, phone calls, rashmi gangamma, seattle, state supreme court, victims, Washington, washington state detention facility

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A new study uses – for the first time – recorded jailhouse telephone conversations between men charged with felony domestic violence and their victims to help reveal why some victims decide not to follow through on the charges.

Researchers listened to telephone conversations between 17 accused male abusers in a Washington state detention facility and their female victims, all of whom decided to withdraw their accusations of abuse. For each of the couples, the researchers analyzed up to about three hours of phone conversations. (more…)

Climate Adaptation of Rice

By Guest PostJuly 17, 2011Environmentbacteria, China, climate change, climate impacts on plants, developing countries, disease, dna of the rice plant, drought, dunegrass, endophytes, genetically unrelated plant species, geothermal, heat tolerant plants, microscopic fungi, minimum air temperature, native plants, natural and agricultural ecosystems, process of darwinian evolution, rice, rusty rodriguez, salt, salt tolerant, seattle, seawater, symbiogenics, symbiotic endophytes, temperature, the philippines, tiny fungi, U.S. Geological Survey

*Symbiogenics — a New Strategy for Reducing Climate Impacts on Plants*

Seattle – Rice – which provides nearly half the daily calories for the world’s population – could become adapted to climate change and some catastrophic events by colonizing its seeds or plants with the spores of tiny naturally occurring fungi, just-published U.S. Geological Survey-led research shows.

In an effort to explore ways to increase the adaptability of rice to climatic scourges such as tsunamis and tidal surges that have already led to rice shortages, USGS researchers and their colleagues colonized two commercial varieties of rice with the spores of fungi that exist naturally within native coastal (salt-tolerant) and geothermal (heat-tolerant) plants. (more…)

NASA Mission Will Observe Earth’s Salty Seas

By Guest PostMay 18, 2011Scienceaquarius, aquarius sac d observatory, Argentina, atmosphere, california, climate, comision nacional de actividades espaciales, conae, conveyor belt, deep ocean, delta ii rocket, earth climate, gary lagerloef, melting of sea ice, NASA, ocean circulation, ocean surface salinity, polar regions, radiometer, river runoff, salinity, salinity variations, seattle, space agency, vandenberg air force base, water cycle

PASADENA, Calif. – Final preparations are under way for the June 9 launch of the international Aquarius/SAC-D observatory. The mission’s primary instrument, Aquarius, will study interactions between ocean circulation, the water cycle and climate by measuring ocean surface salinity.

Engineers at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California are performing final tests before mating Aquarius/SAC-D to its Delta II rocket. The mission is a collaboration between NASA and Argentina’s space agency, Comision Nacional de Actividades Espaciales (CONAE), with participation from Brazil, Canada, France and Italy. SAC stands for Satelite de Applicaciones Cientificas. Aquarius was built by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and the agency’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. (more…)

Spacecraft Catches Thunderstorms Hurling Antimatter into Space

By Guest PostJanuary 14, 2011Scienceantimatter, antimatter particles, beams, earth, egypt, electric fields, energy, fermi gamma ray space telescope, fermi spacecraft, gamma ray, joseph dwyer, light, michael briggs, NASA, phenomenon, scientists, seattle, spacecraft, steven cummer, storm, terrestrial gamma ray flash, tgf, thunderstorms, zambia

WASHINGTON — Scientists using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have detected beams of antimatter produced above thunderstorms on Earth, a phenomenon never seen before.

Scientists think the antimatter particles were formed in a terrestrial gamma-ray flash (TGF), a brief burst produced inside thunderstorms and shown to be associated with lightning. It is estimated that about 500 such flashes occur daily worldwide, but most go undetected. (more…)

Picture Perfect: Windows Live Photo Gallery and Foursquare

By Guest PostOctober 30, 2010Technologybest photo spots, city, foursquare, fourth and mission streets, Microsoft, mobile application, new york city, san francisco, seattle, windows live photo gallery, yerba buena gardens

*Announcing a new Windows Live Photo Gallery experience on foursquare that helps users discover some of the best photo spots in their city.*

About the image: Yerba Buena Gardens. Located at Fourth and Mission Streets in San Francisco, Yerba Buena Gardens features public art and five acres of gardens. Image credit: Microsoft (more…)

New Kindle Exclusive: Edward Burns–Actor, Writer, Director and Film Producer–Makes Electronic Edition of Screenplay “Nice Guy Johnny” Available Exclusively in the Kindle Store

By Guest PostOctober 26, 20102 commentsTechnologyamazon's whispersync technology, createspace, edward burns, kindle content, russ grandinetti, seattle

*The screenplay of Burns’ “Nice Guy Johnny,” the film version of which is releasing today on DVD, is available for Kindle and Kindle app customers in less than 60 seconds*

SEATTLE, Oct 26, 2010 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Amazon.com today announced that actor, writer, director and film producer Edward Burns has made the screenplay of his just-released film “Nice Guy Johnny” available in electronic format exclusively in the Kindle Store (www.amazon.com/kindlestore). Kindle customers can purchase this book for $7.99 and read it on their Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle DX, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, Mac, PC, BlackBerry and Android-based devices. Amazon’s Whispersync technology syncs your place across devices, so you can pick up where you left off. With Kindle Worry-Free Archive, books you purchase from the Kindle Store are automatically backed up online in your Kindle library on Amazon, where they can be re-downloaded wirelessly for free, anytime. The e-book edition of “Nice Guy Johnny” will be exclusive to the Kindle Store for one year. (more…)

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