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NSF/NASA Scientific Balloon Launches From Antarctica

By Guest PostDecember 24, 2010Scienceantarctic summer, balloon array, dartmouth college, NASA, new mexico state university, sandwich wrap, scientific balloon, university of maryland, university of pennsylvania

This season’s annual scientific balloon campaign, which is held by NSF and NASA, will conduct varied experiments using ultra-sophisticated instrumentation.

NASA and the National Science Foundation launched a scientific balloon on Monday, December 20, Eastern Standard time, to study the effects of cosmic rays on Earth. It was the first of five scientific balloons scheduled to launch from Antarctica in December.

The Cosmic Ray Energetics And Mass (CREAM VI) experiment was designed and built at the University of Maryland. CREAM is investigating high-energy cosmic-ray particles that originated from distant supernovae explosions in the Milky Way and reached Earth. Currently, CREAM VI is floating 126,000 ft above Antarctica with nominal science operations. (more…)

Computer Modeling of Swimming Fish Could Lead To New Robots and Prosthetics

By Guest PostOctober 23, 2010Scienceavis cohen, barracuda, body, body stiffness, chia yu hsu, computational model, eric d tytell, lamprey, lisa fauci, locomotion, medical prosthetics, muscles contract, natural mechanics, simulation, swimming fish, tulane university, turbulent water, university of maryland

Image credit: University of Maryland

COLLEGE PARK, Md — Scientists at the University of Maryland and Tulane University have developed a computational model of a swimming fish that is the first to address the interaction of both internal and external forces on locomotion. The interdisciplinary research team simulated how the fish’s flexible body bends, depending on both the forces from the fluid moving around it as well as the muscles inside. Understanding these interactions, even in fish, will help design medical prosthetics for humans that work with the body’s natural mechanics, rather than against them. This research is published in the October 18, 2010 online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. (more…)

International Scientific Conference Examines the Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life

By Guest PostAugust 13, 20101 commentEnvironmentaquatic bioacoustics, arthur popper, biology professor, professor tony hawkins, seismic exploration, underwater explosions, university of maryland

COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A conference in Cork, Ireland co-organized by University of Maryland Biology Professor Arthur Popper (College of Chemical and Life Sciences) and Professor Tony Hawkins, former Director of Fisheries Research for Scotland and now an independent scientist, will look at the impact all kinds of noise has on life underwater.

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UM Advanced Bio-Filtration System Promises Less Chesapeake Pollution

By Guest PostAugust 9, 2010Environmentallen p davis, anacostia watershed, bio-filtration system, bioretention, bioretention projects, chesapeake bay, comcast center, denitrification, nitrogen, nitrogen removal, office of sustainability, phosphorous, rain gardens, runoff, scott lupin, stormwater, university of maryland, urban pollutants, urban runoff pollution

COLLEGE PARK – Technological advances developed by University of Maryland researchers promise significant reductions in urban runoff polluting the Anacostia watershed and the Chesapeake Bay. The researchers say their work represents the next generation of “low impact development” technologies.

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‘Bing’ still far behind Google

By ShamsJuly 9, 20093 commentsTechnologybing, dzantor e. kudjo, Google, king, maryland cooperative extension, metals, phytoremediation, search engine, soil, toxins, university of maryland, Yahoo

Microsoft’s new search engine ‘Bing’ is by far standing robustly against Omnipresent Google.

But, still there’s a ‘but’.

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NSF/NASA Scientific Balloon Launches From Antarctica

Computer Modeling of Swimming Fish Could Lead To New Robots and Prosthetics

International Scientific Conference Examines the Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life

UM Advanced Bio-Filtration System Promises Less Chesapeake Pollution

‘Bing’ still far behind Google