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STAMFORD, Conn., Jan. 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Cengage Learning, a leading educational content, software and services company, announced today that one billion answer pages have been submitted through Aplia, the premier digital homework solution for Higher Education, marking a significant milestone in the digital evolution of homework. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20070724/NYTU125 ) "The way students learn and teachers teach is constantly changing, however, what...

Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online NASA’s Curiosity rover is preparing to use its drill to bore into a Martian rock in the coming days. The rover carried out “pre-load” testing on January 27, placing the drill tip on a series of four locations on the rock and pressing down to test whether the amount of force applied to the hardware matches predictions formulated by NASA engineers. The team next planned to have Curiosity conduct an overnight pre-load test,...

PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 15, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet. If the rock meets rover engineers' approval when Curiosity rolls up to it in coming days, it will become the first to be drilled for a sample during the Mars Science Laboratory mission. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) The size of a car, Curiosity is inside Mars' Gale...

FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich., Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, today announced the launch of National Geographic: People, Animals, and the World, a new multimedia resource in its National Geographic Virtual Library (NGVL) product line. This new resource joins National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1888-1994 and National Geographic Magazine Archive, 1995-Current...

NASA Mission status report After imaging during the holidays, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity resumed driving Jan. 3 and pulled within arm's reach of a sinuous rock feature called "Snake River." Snake River is a thin curving line of darker rock cutting through flatter rocks and jutting above sand. Curiosity's science team plans to get a closer look at it before proceeding to other nearby rocks. "It's one piece of the puzzle," said the mission's project scientist, John Grotzinger of...

FT. MYERS, Fla., Dec. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Yippy, Inc., a Nevada corporation ("Yippy" or the "Company") (OTCQX: YIPI) (www.yippy.com), announced today that the Company executed an asset purchase agreement with The Gale Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation, pursuant to which the Company has agreed to purchase all of the assets related to the HighBeam® Research and HighBeam® Business products (collectively, "HighBeam"), subject to a closing on a future date. About...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online NASA's Curiosity rover began exploring "Yellowknife Bay" on Mars this week, helping to provide information to researchers about which rock to drill. Researchers will use Curiosity's percussive drill to collect a sample from the interior of a rock, which is another new feat for the Martian rover. After the powdered-rock sample is sieved and portioned by a sample processing mechanism on the rover's arm, it will be analyzed by...

STAMFORD, Conn., Dec. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cengage Learning, a leading educational content, software and services company, today announced the appointment of Kevin Stone as Executive Vice President and Chief Sales and Marketing Officer. He will be based in Boston, MA, and will serve on the company's executive team, reporting to Michael Hansen, Chief Executive Officer. Stone will be responsible for all aspects of Sales and Marketing across the company, which will be integrated...

[ Watch the Video: Curiosity Rover's Arm Movements for Taking a Self-Portrait ] Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online NASA has released an image that the talented Mars Curiosity rover has taken, featuring itself with a Martian background. The self-portrait was taken with Curiosity's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), which captured dozens of high-resolution images to create the picture. The image shows the rover at "Rocknest," which is the spot in Gale Crater where...

NEW YORK, Nov. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Global strategic branding firm Siegel+Gale (www.siegelgale.com) today announced it has delivered branding and customer experience consulting for two social entrepreneurs selected for the company's inaugural Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program. Siegel+Gale launched the initiative to help promising social entrepreneurs boost their businesses' impact--which leverage the power of simplicity to address the world's most complex social...