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NASA's Shuttle Atlantis Moves to Launch Pad, Practice Liftoff Set

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Reporters are invited to cover space shuttle Atlantis' move to the launch pad on Oct. 13 and the STS-129 mission crew's dress rehearsal activities Oct. 19 to Oct. 21 at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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NASA Selects Small Business Research and Technology Projects

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NASA selected 152 proposals for negotiation of Phase 2 contract awards in the Small Business Innovation Research program, or SBIR.

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NASA Invites Reporters to Events for LCROSS Lunar Impact

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NASA is inviting journalists to events this week in Washington and California to observe the twin impacts of the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, and its rocket's upper stage as they impact the moon.

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NASA Honors JFK with Moon Rock to be Displayed at Rice University

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On the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing on the moon, NASA honored President John F. Kennedy with an Ambassador of Exploration Award for his vision and leadership in landing a man on the moon.

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NASA Updates Tuesday Space Station News Conference Time

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The nine residents of the International Space Station will hold a news conference Tuesday at 8:55 a.m. CDT, 15 minutes earlier than previously announced.

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NASA Media Briefing to Preview Major Antarctic Research Campaign

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NASA will hold a media teleconference at 11:30 a.m. EDT on Thursday, Oct. 8, to preview the agency's largest airborne research effort ever to study Antarctic ice sheets, ice shelves and sea ice.

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Augustine Space Flight Committee Announces Additional Meeting

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The Review of U.S. Human Space Flight Plans Committee will hold a public teleconference on Thursday, Oct. 8, from approximately 1 to 2 p.m. EDT.

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First NASA Astronaut on Twitter Tops a Million Followers

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The first astronaut to tweet from space has passed another social media milestone. NASA's Mike Massimino, known as @Astro_Mike on Twitter, now shares his daily experiences with more than a million followers on the micro-blogging service.

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NASA Extends Engineering, Science and Technical Services Contract

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NASA has signed a contract modification with Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tenn., to exercise the final option of the Engineering, Science and Technical Services Contract at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.

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NASA Successfully Launches a New Eye on the Sun

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NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, lifted off Thursday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 41 on a first-of-a-kind mission to reveal the sun's inner workings in unprecedented detail. The launch aboard an Atlas V rocket occurred at 10:23 a.m. EST.

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Orbiting Space Shuttle Astronauts Answer Questions from Students Nationwide

story submitted by bloggerbite 209 days ago (via nasa.gov)

Students in elementary and middle schools nationwide will have their questions about space answered live on Feb. 14 by space shuttle astronauts orbiting 220 miles above Earth.

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[Report] Metabolic Syndrome and Altered Gut Microbiota in Mice Lacking Toll-Like Receptor 5

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The innate immune system may promote metabolic health through effects on gut microbes.Authors: Matam Vijay-Kumar, Jesse D. Aitken, Frederic A. Carvalho, Tyler C. Cullender, Simon Mwangi, Shanthi Srinivasan, Shanthi V. Sitaraman, Rob Knight, Ruth E. Ley, Andrew T. Gewirtz

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[Report] Iron-Clad Fibers: A Metal-Based Biological Strategy for Hard Flexible Coatings

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Marine mussel byssal threads have an outer coating in which proteins are linked to metal ions.Authors: Matthew J. Harrington, Admir Masic, Niels Holten-Andersen, J. Herbert Waite, Peter Fratzl

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[Research Article] Observation of an Antimatter Hypernucleus

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Nuclei composed of antimatter are found to form in the high-energy collisions of gold ions.Author: The STAR Collaboration

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[Report] Solvent-Mediated Electron Hopping: Long-Range Charge Transfer In IBr−(CO2) Photodissociation

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The presence of an intervening CO2 molecule dramatically changes the electron transfer probability between two halogen atoms.Authors: Leonid Sheps, Elisa M. Miller, Samantha Horvath, Matthew A. Thompson, Robert Parson, Anne B. McCoy, W. Carl Lineberger

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[Report] Cryptic Sex-Ratio Bias Provides Indirect Genetic Benefits Despite Sexual Conflict

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Female lizards improve their fitness by biasing the sex ratio of their progeny on the basis of sire body size.Authors: Robert M. Cox, Ryan Calsbeek

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NASA Invites News Media to Ames for LCROSS Impact Events

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NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite mission, known as LCROSS, will culminate with two lunar impacts at approximately 4:30 a.m. PDT on Oct. 9.

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NASA Assigns Crew for Final Scheduled Space Shuttle Mission

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NASA has assigned the crew for the last scheduled space shuttle mission, targeted to launch in September 2010.

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U.S. and France Sign Agreements for Civil Space Cooperation

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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and French Space Agency President Yannick d'Escatha signed four agreements in support of U.S. and French space cooperation during a ceremony Thursday at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

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[Report] Sfrp5 Is an Anti-Inflammatory Adipokine That Modulates Metabolic Dysfunction in Obesity

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Fat cells secrete an anti-inflammatory factor that has beneficial effects on metabolic health.Authors: Noriyuki Ouchi, Akiko Higuchi, Koji Ohashi, Yuichi Oshima, Noyan Gokce, Rei Shibata, Yuichi Akasaki, Akihiko Shimono, Kenneth Walsh

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