Washington, D.C.–The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission Thursday signed an historic Memorandum of Cooperation for both agencies to increase regulatory effectiveness through collaborative work on the technical reviews of advanced reactor and small modular reactor technologies. The memorandum represents a uniquely important step in both countries’ strong commitment to a […]
San Diego Wins International Award For Use Of GIS Technology
SAN DIEGO–The City of San Diego is joining the ranks of other high-profile organizations in winning an international award for its use of geographic information systems (GIS). The Environmental Systems Research Institute (Esri) presented the city with its 2019 President’s Award at its annual User Conference. “We’re using technology in new and innovative ways to […]
Astronomers Discover Third Planet In The Kepler-47 Circumbinary System
(Newswise)–Astronomers have discovered a third planet in the Kepler-47 system, securing the system’s title as the most interesting of the binary-star worlds. Using data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope, a team of researchers, led by astronomers at San Diego State University, detected the new Neptune-to-Saturn-size planet orbiting between two previously known planets. With its three […]
2019: A Space Organoid
(Newswise)–From the science fiction of Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke to the cinematic worlds of Star Wars and galaxies far, far away, humans have imagined life in space. But among the myriad challenges to colonizing other worlds lie fundamental questions of biology: Can a human embryo grow naturally outside the nurturing embrace of Earth? […]
San Diego Successfully Completes First Half Of Drone Pilot Program
SAN DIEGO–The City of San Diego has reached the half-way mark of a pilot program that aims to safely and successfully integrate drones into the national airspace. Selected by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the U.S. Department of Transportation, San Diego was among 10 agencies nationwide chosen to participate in the Unmanned Aircraft System […]
NASA Selects Flying Mission To Study Titan For Origins, Signs Of Life
NASA has announced that their next destination in the solar system is the unique, richly organic world Titan. Advancing their search for the building blocks of life, the Dragonfly mission will fly multiple sorties to sample and examine sites around Saturn’s icy moon. Dragonfly will launch in 2026 and arrive in 2034. The rotorcraft will […]
Borrowing From Astronomy To Rob The Twinkle From Brain Imagery
Video courtesy of David Kleinfeld, UC San Diego LA JOLLA–For decades, astronomers have solved the problem of removing the “twinkle” from images of stars in the night sky. They use a process called “adaptive optics” (AO) to correct for changes in the density and moisture of air in the atmosphere that scatters the incoming star […]
Running May Have Made Dinosaurs’ Wings Flap Before They Evolved To Fly
(Newswise)–Before they evolved the ability to fly, two-legged dinosaurs may have begun to flap their wings as a passive effect of running along the ground, according to new research by Jing-Shan Zhao of Tsinghua University, Beijing, and his colleagues. The findings, published in PLOS Computational Biology, provide new insights into the origin of avian flight, which […]
A New Filter To Better Map The Dark Universe
(Newswise)–The earliest known light in our universe, known as the cosmic microwave background, was emitted about 380,000 years after the Big Bang. The patterning of this relic light holds many important clues to the development and distribution of large-scale structures such as galaxies and galaxy clusters. Distortions in the cosmic microwave background (CMB), caused by […]
NASA’s InSight Lander Captures Audio Of First Likely ‘Quake’ On Mars
NASA’s Mars InSight lander has measured and recorded for the first time ever a likely “marsquake.” The faint seismic signal, detected by the lander’s Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS) instrument, was recorded on April 6, the lander’s 128th Martian day, or sol. This is the first recorded trembling that appears to have come from […]
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