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Almost nine months after it was launched, Curiosity, NASA's latest rover, landed safely in the Gale Crater of Mars in the wee hours of August 6 CDT. The last seven minutes were particularly dramatic as the mission executed several complicated maneuvers to deliver the car-sized rover through the thin Martian atmosphere and gently place it in a very specific location. "Although it was nerve-wracking, everyone was confident, and Curiosity landed with amazing precision, right on time!" said...
A team of researchers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., has found radiation from protons could further enhance a process that occurs during tumor progression. This information may help lead to better methods to protect astronauts from the harmful effects of radiation in space, as well as help cancer researchers on Earth better understand the effects of radiation treatment on the human body. NASA is particularly...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Adding strawberry extract to skin cell cultures can help protect the cells against ultraviolet radiation while also reducing the damage done to DNA, a team of Spanish and Italian researchers claim in a new study. The study, which was announced on August 3 by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) and published in the Journal of Agricultural Food Chemistry, could lead the way to the formulation of photoprotective...
HOUSTON, Aug. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A team of researchers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, Calif., has found radiation from protons could further enhance a process that occurs during tumor progression. This information may help lead to better methods to protect astronauts from the harmful effects of radiation in space, as well as help cancer researchers on Earth better understand the effects of radiation...
[ Watch The Video ] When Curiosity enters the Martian atmosphere on August 6th, setting in motion "the seven minutes of terror" that people around the world have anticipated since launch a year ago, the intrepid rover will actually be performing the mission's second daredevil stunt. The first was completed in July. For the past nine months, Curiosity has been acting as a stunt double for astronauts, exposing itself to the same cosmic radiation humans would experience following the...
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online In August, physicists will gather to celebrate a century of research since the discovery of cosmic rays. It is widely accepted that cosmic rays are the nuclei of atoms, from the full array of naturally occurring elements that travel at near-light-speeds for millions of years before reaching Earth. What isn't known yet is where these cosmic rays originate. Alan Watson, emeritus professor of physics at the University of Leeds, provides...
Patent-granted author Randall Dale Chipkar won multiple awards for The Motorcycle Cancer Book. Chipkar discovered a motorcycle-melatonin link generating worldwide attention for rider health safety. Motorcycle seat ELF EMF magnetic field radiation is flooding millions of motorcyclists. Concern includes prostate cancer, colon cancer, breast cancer, colitis, diabetes, pregnancy issues, etc. Mississauga (PRWEB) August 01, 2012 Canadian motorcyclist Randall Dale Chipkar won international...
NEWPORT NEWS, Va., July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Burlington Medical Supplies has announced the latest development in its campaign to provide the highest level of value to its customers. The radiation protection and X-ray medical supply company now offers enhancements in its table pad line. Mega Grip coatings and Tri-Foam interiors are now available in its custom-made table pads, which are manufactured at its Newport News, Virginia facility. The Mega Grip brand of coatings helps to...
ROCKVILLE, Md., July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Radiation Control Technologies, Inc. (RCTI), a private development stage biopharmaceutical company developing RCT1938, a novel radiosensitizer that sensitizes tumor cells to killing by radiation while protecting healthy cells from radiation damage by inhibiting the synthesis of the novel target protein CD47, announced today that it has been granted an exclusive license to two patents from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The...
Patients with plantar fasciitis (painful bone heel spur) experience significantly less pain and improved quality of life following a standard dose of external beam radiation therapy, a common cancer treatment similar to receiving an X-ray, according to a randomized, cooperative group study that was published online July 25, 2012, in the International Journal of Radiation Oncology • Biology • Physics (Red Journal), the official scientific journal of the American Society for Radiation...
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The above image looks at the month of March for the three cycles known as Normal Phase, El-Nino, and La-Nina. The data was recorded for the city of Honolulu Hawaii, during the month of March. Remember this is just data for one month during these cycles. Normal: During this cycle incoming solar activity was upwards to 48% efficient for the month, producing less than 50% of the month which is due to the large amount of daily cloud cover that is seen on the island during the early morning and...
The above image looks at the month of March for the three cycles known as Normal Phase, El-Nino, and La-Nina. The data was recorded for the city of Austin Texas. Remember this is just data for one month during these cycles. Normal: During this cycle incoming solar activity was upwards to 60% efficient for the month, producing enough solar energy that only 40% of the month would have not had strong incoming radiation. EL-Nino: This phase provided the area with an extended number of...
Electromagnetic Spectrum -- The electromagnetic spectrum describes the various types of electromagnetic radiation based on their wavelengths. Radio, representing wavelengths from a few feet to well over a mile, is at one end of the spectrum. Gamma ray radiation is at the other end: the wavelength of the harder types is so short, in the subatomic range, that we do not have instruments capable of directly measuring it. While the above classification scheme is generally accurate, in...
Electromagnetic Radiation -- Electromagnetic radiation is a combination of oscillating electric and magnetic fields propagating through space and carrying energy from one place to another. Light is a form of electromagnetic radiation. The theoretical study of electromagnetic radiation is called electrodynamics, a subfield of electromagnetism. When any wire (or other conducting object such as an antenna) conducts alternating current, electromagnetic radiation is propagated at the same...
Solar Radiation -- Solar radiation is radiant energy emitted by the sun due to nuclear fusion reactions. Fusion is the process whereby stars produce huge quantities of energy from the fusion of hydrogen or helium, in one of the most efficient processes of energy generation. The radiation referred to is usually electromagnetic energy, particularly infrared radiation, visible light, and ultraviolet. Some stars are known to emit radiation of other wavelengths. Solar neutrinos are a...
