Unmanned aircraft to study Southern California smog and its cons...

Unmanned Aircraft To Study Southern California Smog...
Using sophisticated unmanned aircraft, research scientists hope to assess Southern California's potential for climate change and better understand the sources of air pollution.

Life-Probing Instrument Preparing For Mission To Mars
A new life-detecting instrument is preparing for a mission to the Red Planet. The Urey: Mars Organic and Oxidant Detector instrument, developed by a scientist at Scripps Institution of...

SDSC-led team sets records in simulating seismic wave...
(University of California - San Diego) A team led by researchers at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego has successfully completed record-setting, petascale-level simulations...

Hubble Space Telescope Pocket Space Guide (Pocket...
The dazzling vistas that the Hubble Space Telescope has recorded since its launch in 1990 are presented in this book, along with explanations of what exactly Hubble has seen during it's...

The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the...
 A New Edition of the Phenomenal #1 Bestseller "One mark of a great book is that it makes you see things in a new way, and Mr. Friedman certainly succeeds in that goal," the Nobel laureate...