Plans stall for biodefence labfor Katharine Bossart, a trip to the lab can involve a 22-hour flight.
had a successful maiden flight on 13 february. The inaugural launch, from the European space agency's spaceport in Kourou, French guiana, carried nine satellites;
five further flights are planned before 2016. See go. nature. com/srl2fb for more. LHC schedule On 13 february, operators of the world's most powerful particle accelerator announced their plan for its 2012 run,
The result from the Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) suggests that oxygen abundances throughout the Galaxy are more variable than expected.
As the Sun travels through the Galaxy the bubble stops electrically charged atoms in their tracks
IBEX found the ratio of oxygen atoms to neon atoms to be lower in the Local Cloud than the average ratios for both the Solar system and the Galaxy as a whole
George Gloeckler, a heliophysicist at the University of Michigan in Ann arbor, points out that the ratios could offer information about how the Galaxy has changed in the 4. 6 billion years
naphtha and aviation fuels from old electricity poles. Kior expects to begin producing gasoline and diesel from southern yellow pine trees at its Columbus, Mississippi facility at the end of the year.
Their flight on the Shenzhou 9 craft was the country s fourth manned space launch,
Two years ago, Peruvian engineer Carlos Villachica unveiled the ECO-100v, a US$4, 500 machine that uses water and jets of air to separate gold from sediments.
It also takes into account environmental factors such as damage caused by tornadoes a real possibility in Kansas and one that the first risk assessment overlooked.
000  endangered species. Ryder arranged for colleagues in San diego to deliver tissue-culture medium and the cryo  protectant dimethyl sulphoxide to Ecuador on the first available flight.
In 1957, the virus jumped to Portugal after pigs near Lisbon s airport were fed infected human food scraps (the virus particles can survive meat curing processes.
Chandrayaan-1. Primate transport Air china said on 31 Â July that it would stop shipments of nonhuman primates for research.
) PETA says that China Eastern is the only major airline now known to be flying primates out of China the country that last year transported more than 70%of the primates bound for US labs. See go. nature. com/ckhq93
Development boost Chinese President Hu Jintao announced a US$1. 5-million donation to TWAS, the academy of sciences of the developing world, on the opening day of the organization s 23rd
It replicated in the airways and lungs of three infected ferrets killing one and causing such severe disease in the others that they had to be euthanized.
and growing in human lung tissues and airway cells than the parental strain, and could still thrive
and take a census of local galaxies, as well as testing out technology for a larger project in which it is due to be involved:
He wears a harness attached to a helium balloon, which is anchored to a rope extending across the forest canopy.
involving the use of equipment such as night-vision goggles and helicopters.""The concern is a lot of rebel groups are actually selling ivory as a means to generate income for themselves,
Eventually, instrumented aircraft will join the effort. Once the operation is fully under way in 2013,
while balloons and lasers measure the boundary between the pollution that sits over the city and the cleaner air above.
and Shepson augmented those measurements with detailed assessments from aircraft. With further funding, the team expects eventually to encircle Indianapolis with a dozen towers to measure CO2 and methane."
a space telescope that will measure the locations and shapes of some 2 Â billion distant galaxies.
Emissions profits Airlines that fly to and from Europe may have profited by up to  1. 36  billion (US$1. 83  billion) last year by raising air fares to cover costs
The European commission had hoped to bring intercontinental flights into its 30-nation emissions-trading scheme, and had given airlines some free emissions allowances.
But it exempted intercontinental flights from the scheme for 2012, enabling the airlines to achieve windfall profits.
Coffee at risk Costa rica has declared a national coffee-growing emergency. The fungus Hemileia vastatrix which causes coffee rust,
looks set to wipe out half the nation s 2013-14 harvest in the most affected areas.
and others, ranging from synthetic biologist George Church of Harvard Medical school to environmental gadfly Steward Brand of the Long Now Foundation
Estimated numbers of people residing within two hours'travel time of destination airport calculated using gridded population-density maps and a data set of global travel times.
and THE WHO, have worked together in the past weeks to rapidly analyse airline-passenger data for China. The resulting maps and data may give an idea of where the zones of immediate highest risk worldwide might be.
that eastern China the epicentre of the current H7n9 outbreaks is one of the world's busiest hubs for airline traffic.
A quarter of the global population outside of China lives within two hours of an airport with a direct flight from the outbreak regions,
successfully completed its maiden test flight on 21 april. The rocket is the first vehicle to take off from NASA s new launch pad at the Wallops Flight Facility In virginia.
The flight puts NASA one step closer to having two US cargo carriers available to resupply the International Space station."
"It looks like it performed flawlessly throughout the day, said NASA launch commentator Kyle Herring. See go. nature. com/b6oeoz for more.
Primate carriers Vietnam Airlines said on 19 april that it will no longer transport primates used in research experiments, effective from 1 may.
The airline has been under pressure from animal-rights groups. It was one of the last major carriers to transport primates for research:
only Air france and Philippine Airlines say that they still do so. Air canada, United airlines and China Eastern announced that they would stop shipments in December, January and March respectively.
Animal activism Animal-rights activists occupied an animal facility at the University of Milan in Italy on 20 april.
They also may be more lethal in people depending on how the viruses bind to receptors in the human airway.
scientists say that it seems clear from the sequence that the novel virus has acquired key mutations that permit the H protein to latch onto receptors on mammalian cells in the airways instead of onto avian receptors.
The best way to get rid of cordgrass over a large area is to spray herbicides from a helicopter as has been done successfully in the western United states, Australia and New zealand.
But the reserve s management could not get permission to fly helicopters over Chongming, says Tang,
which helps them to attach onto cells in the airways. The protein occurs in all types of flu,
says lead study author David Steward, a civil engineering professor at Kansas State university. It would take a concerted effort the researchers calculated that farmers would need to reduce their pumping of the aquifer by roughly 80 percent to withdraw water at the rate that could be replenished naturally by rainfall.
Steward and his colleagues measured the water-level change in all of its 3, 025 wells at the beginning and end of five-year periods between 1960 and 2010.
Steward hopes that the study will encourage people to find better ways to use the limited resource."
S. Wiessinger/NASA Goddard Space Flight Centerastronomers image pink exoplanet A magenta exoplanet 17.5 parsecs from Earth is the lowest-mass planet that has ever been imaged directly orbiting a Sun-like star
Garver will become general manager at the Air line Pilots Association based in WASHINGTON DC. Misconduct finding A dermatology researcher at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland,
agricultural land is responsible for about 14%of the world s greenhouse-gas emissions, slightly more than the global contribution from planes, trains and automobiles.
Kepler s drift could be minimized by keeping it pointed in the same plane in which the craft orbits the Sun. But that presents a complication.
and that star field does not lie in the plane. In one proposal offered up by Welsh and his colleagues,
Researchers have used already microlensing to reveal some 40 Â planets towards the centre of the Galaxy,
He has used Fermi to discover two galaxy-sized bubbles of ionized gas blowing from the centre of the Milky way,
'Sergey Gorshkov had to approach an erupting volcano by helicopter. When this volcano on the Kamchatka peninsula in the east of Russia started to erupt in 2012,
he took to the air in a light aeroplane. His message is that exploitation of the tar sands
The flights are part of a two-year, Â 6-million (US$8-million) project, funded by Germany,
The project will start with the laser data collected by planes flying out of Kinshasa (see Leaf by leaf.
The team will then begin operating out of more remote airports, many little more than dirt runways in the jungle.
Philippe MASCLET/Masterfilms/Airbusgiant ash cloud tests sensor for aircraft Sensors to detect volcanic ash have moved closer to widespread use on commercial airlines following flight tests involving the world s
developed by Nicarnica Aviation in Kjeller, Norway, uses infrared cameras to detect low levels of ash in the atmosphere.
) Easyjet, the UK airline carrier that helped to fund the experiment, announced on 13 Â November that it would mount the AVOID sensor on a number of its commercial jets by the end of next year.
Volcanic ash can melt in the high temperatures of jet engines, clogging the equipment. Fukushima fuel Workers in Japan have taken the first steps towards fully decommissioning the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Adam Block/Mount Lemmon Skycenter/Univ. Arizonasupernova seen in nearby galaxy Astronomers have spotted one of the closest supernovae in years in the galaxy M82, about 3. 5 Â megaparsecs
) The number of survey flights used to count bears has tripled since the mid-1990s, but, the study argues,
the model used to extrapolate population figures from the flights tallies does not account for increased observation time.
the researchers will test their solvent at pre-pilot scales producing 1 litre of sugars per day says Luterbacher,
activists posted flyers and graffiti around the neighbourhoods where the scientists live, giving their names, photographs, addresses and telephone numbers.
The flyers described the researchers as torturers and murderers, and exhorted readers to harass the scientists by phone.
NASA/ESA/J. Lotz, M. Mountain, A. Koekemoer & the HFF Team (STSCI) Super-distant galaxies glimpsed Astronomers unveiled pictures of the deepest galaxy cluster ever imaged at the annual meeting
enhancing the visibility of more-distant galaxies. Abell  2744, which shows hundreds of galaxies as they looked 3. 5  billion years ago,
produced gravitational lensing that allowed scientists to see background galaxies from more than 12 Â billion years ago.
Some of the objects captured are 10-20 times fainter than any galaxies previously observed.
Space station stays As space-agency leaders from around the world gathered in WASHINGTON DC to discuss the future of space exploration
The department closed the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, New mexico, after an underground air-monitoring system detected radiation on 14 Â February.
and are flying along the island shore in their Super Cub plane two or three times a week,
the bees'adaptable flight might help them to escape predators elsewhere, the authors suggest.""My first reaction was Wow,
that s high, says Douglas Altshuler, who studies animal flight at the University of British columbia in Vancouver, Canada,
Dillon and Dudley analysed video footage taken from directly above the flight chamber. They observed that the bees did not alter the frequency of their wing beats.
Such changes were simulated not in the flight chamber.""My opinion is that, even if they re OK with the decreased oxygen and air density, the low temperatures could prevent them from hovering effectively up there,
Radiation leak The US Department of energy reported on 26 february that 13 employees had tested positive for low-level radiation exposure following a leak at its Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, New mexico.
We have begun to learn a little bit more about hurricane dynamics by flying planes into the eye of the storm.
) sending aircraft straight to the source to drop weather balloons and sensors to collect data on aspects like wind direction pressure water vapor can help us learn more about how storms work.
As a pilot it's something I see often. If you were to take a school globe and wrap it with a sheet of paper that's the scaled thickness of our atmosphere.
Alan Wasser the Space Settlement Institute's chairman says that a private company should build a spaceline similar to an airline between the Earth and moon.
if only one or 2 nations poseess the capability for advanced space flight and precious resources are discovered.
The acronym stands for light detection and ranging and it works on the same principle that radar and sonar do
when they made that first plane he says. They made them they went out there
What the iphone 20 and Galaxy S 23 Might Look like Together. http://www. globalnerdy. com/2012/09/24
/what-the-iphone-20-and-galaxy-s-23-might-look like-together/Coverage of a major technology event via the equivalent of a drunk twitter account.
The Galaxy S4 was smaller than the S3. Very small amount but still not bigger.@
The Galaxy S3 from more than a year ago had the same options at $200 $250 and $300.<
We're also at a 10-year low in tornado activity. But a good try nonetheless Popular Science.
when north-pointing compasses make a 180-degree turn toward Antarctica? Will the continents tear themselves apart
when north-pointing compasses make a 180-degree turn toward Antarctica? Will the continents tear themselves apart
Compasses will point the wrong way and migrating birds fish and turtles are going to be confused very.
At the magnetic poles a compass needle would stand up and point straight down into the Earth.
Anyone trying to navigate with a magnetic compass is going to have a tough time but what is going to happen to all those birds fish
and other animals that migrate vast distances using their own internal magnetic compass? Will they have time to re-draw their magnetic maps
-drchuck1you like the airplane technique don't you chuck? Around and around...vrooooommrooooooommvrooooom!..in the mouth and right out of your finger onto Popsci.
inventing an electromechanical system to trap airplane hijackers the system drops a hijacker through trap doors seals him into a package then drops the encapsulated hijacker through the airplane's specially-installed bomb bay doors
US Patent#3811643 Gustano A. Pizzo anti hijacking system for aircraft May 21 1972. Ed note:??
More than Honey a recent documentary about the death of domestic honeybee hives around the world includes the amazing bees'-eye video of this flight above.
Filmmakers used remote-controlled mini-helicopters to capture the flight. They shot at 300 frames per second for every flight scene;
the industry standard is 24 frames per second. They shot other bee scenes in the documentary showing the insects moving around in their hives or feeding at flowers at 70 frames per second to show each bee's minute movements.
if a person is motivated to read on a water balloon JUST READ! Reading is vitamins for the brain!!!
but it is chemtrails the program of doping the earth's atmosphere with weather control chemicals from high flying jets not fossil fuels that caused it.
when jets started to be used widely worldwide. At that time the number of tornadoes in the U s. ceased being a constant 180
or so per year and started increasing so they are seven times that many or more every year now.
tornadoes occurring where they were once unknown like Brooklyn; the worst hurricane season on record;
and the radiation in the SAA is known a hazard to satellites spacecraft and high-altitude aircraft.
#The Robotic Search For Lost WORLD WAR II Airmen Click here to see the galleryon a bright morning in Mid-march Pat Scannon stands on the deck of a 40-foot catamaran looking for an airplane hidden in the waters of Palau
He has spent the past 20 years making annual wreck-hunting trips to Palau about 500 miles from the Philippines to find aircraft that had been shot down during one of WORLD WAR II's fiercest battles planes that may still be holding their pilots His organization Bentprop Project
and its rear propeller pushes it beneath the surface. Out of sight the autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) an oceanographic workhorse called a Remus begins gliding through the lagoon in a pattern that resembles the long linear passes of a mowed lawn.
From roughly 10 feet above the seafloor its side-scan sonar sends out acoustic waves that build a two-dimensional map.
while helping Bentprop locate WORLD WAR II airmen an effort they named Project Recover. The lead scientist is Eric Terrill director of the Scripps Coastal Observing Research and development Center.
Bentprop could find planes in a tricky marine environment with steep terrain fast currents and coral heads while Scripps tested circulation models and advanced imaging systems.
Scripps and the University of Delaware shipped 60 packages of equipment to Palau including underwater vehicles cameras various types of sonar
The mangroves growing along the shore around Palau are so dense that aluminum wreckage from aircraft has been found sitting on top of the tree canopy about 30 feet up.
and suddenly you're in a supersonic jet. By the 1920s Palau had grown into a thriving Japanese port for goods and services en route across the Pacific.
Recognizing the strategic location Japan established an airfield there and after WORLD WAR II broke out it began to shore up its defenses building hundreds of bunkers
And between the beginning of the air campaign and the end of the war Bentprop estimates 200 U s. aircraft were shot down inside Palau's barrier reef.
Some 40 to 50 planes and 70 to 80 airmen have never been recovered. Scannon a medical doctor and founder of a biotechnology company first visited Palau in 1993 as a recreational scuba diver.
He came with a group looking for a Japanese naval vessel that had been sunk by George h w bush who flew torpedo bombers during the war.
When he researched Palau's history at home he realized there must be many more planes in ruins around the islands.
He was gripped particularly by the thought that many airmen couldn't have survived the impact. These people died defending us he says.
Combing the jungle and surrounding waters they located debris from more than five dozen aircraft. Last year local spear fishermen diving on Palau's western barrier reef stumbled across one of the most impressive finds:
an intact plane. They alerted the owner of a dive shop who passed photos of the wreck along to Bentprop.
Scannon's team eventually identified the plane as an American Corsair. It had sustained some damage to its left forward wing root
and the canopy had been locked open suggesting that the pilot had ditched. It had been sitting there unknown for 65 years Scannon says.
It gave us great hope that there were other intact airplanes out here that no one has seen.
Bentprop calculates that eight American planes including A b-24 bomber remain hidden in Palau's western lagoon.
It carried 10 to 11 men including a pilot and copilot gunners bombers a radioman and a navigator.
the rest presumably went down with the plane. We have very very good information about
and scrolls through sonar images produced by the Remus. Grainy and reddish the sonar images look like transmissions from Mars. Some show deep scours;
We got a plane! Moline announces. Everyone springs up and huddles around the screen snapping photos with their phones.
Reuter had used an archival map of observed plane crashes to mark Google earth layers with known wreck sites;
he then added a layer with intriguing objects that had turned up in the sonar images.
and wonders if it could be the pontoon of a floatplane. If that's intact it tells me it was speed a low impact perhaps ditching says Daniel O'brien a former skydiver
My first impression is that's a Zero a long-range fighter aircraft. There are rounded edges at the tail.
But if it is a floatplane the only U S. airplane it could be would be amphibious.
Flip Colmer a former Navy pilot who now flies for Delta also with Bentprop reaches for the book Floatplanes in Action
and to rescue downed pilots. If they were in this deep it would have been on a risky endeavor.
During WORLD WAR II floatplanes in Palau often flew rescue operations. As they scooped airmen from the water another plane provided cover overhead.
Bentprop knew that two Kingfishers on reconnaissance missions had disappeared during the war and the western lagoon seemed the most likely location for them to have ended up.
The identification number painted on the plane's exterior would have degraded by now; to confirm the exact craft divers would try to recover a stamped metal plate riveted to the inside of the cockpit.
The Japanese also flew seaplanes. If there's any primer left on the interior of the cockpit
U s. airplanes used lime-green zinc chromate; the Japanese had a red primer. The team will have to get a close look.
While side-scan sonar provides a general impression of contours along the bottom it doesn't directly measure the elevations of features.
The Echoscope or multibeam volume imaging sonar does enabling oceanographers to map topography accurately and in high enough resolution to distinguish man-made objects.
Terrill describes it as the oceanographic seafloor-mapping equivalent of ultrasound sonar used to look inside the human body.
With the boat now directly over the plane the dive teams begin to suit up.
Terrill fills his scuba tank with nitrox to allow himself more time to explore the aircraft 100 feet below.
and O'brien. He carries a handheld sonar that displays acoustic images on an LCD screen allowing the divers to zero in on the floatplane even in five-foot visibility.
The front motor and propellers have broken away from the body of the plane so that it now resembles a chewed-off cigar or the burnt end of a firecracker.
The next day Bentprop compares the aircraft in the western lagoon with a hundred different vintage planes.
The high-speed reconnaissance floatplane had a single engine contra-rotating propellers and a center pontoon that could be jettisoned during an attack.
It's a very unusual aircraft one of the rarest archaeological planes you will find he says.
Of more than 60 aircraft Bentprop has identified in Palau half of which are Japanese the team has recovered just one metal plate stamped with a serial number:
that of the American Corsair discovered by the spear fishermen. That plate revealed the Corsair's story.
On November 21 1944 a young Marine captain named Carroll Mccullah set off from the American airfield to finish off a Japanese vessel that had been bombed earlier.
On the way back he and his wingman strafed four Japanese ammunition dumps; an explosion at the last one sent shrapnel into the oil cooler of his plane.
Mccullah placed a distress call and made for the island's western reef. Then he tightened his seat belt locked the canopy back and turned off the plane's engine switch.
Placing his left hand on the cockpit coaming he braced for impact. There was no shock Mccullah later wrote in a mission report.
He launched his life raft and swam across the reef where a rescue aircraft swept down to pick him up.
For the rest of his life Mccullah who after his rescue went back to the base had a brandy
Today Mccullah's plane rests intact on the seabed with its nose up against the edge of the reef like a car driven up onto a curb and abandoned.
and the reef has crept into the propellers and the engine; a large bulbous coral head has taken up occupancy in the cockpit.
-and-bar symbol the aircraft has been scoured to bare aluminum. Scripps wants to use its technology to document this chapter of the Corsair's story too before it ends altogether.
We're not only here to find and detect underwater objects but to get a snapshot of the state of those objects that may be corroding
Suzanne Finney an American archaeologist working with Palau's Bureau of Arts and Culture joins us for the 45-minute boat ride to the site of the Corsair.
With data from the robotic vehicles Palau can add downed aircraft to an inventory of the country's rich underwater sites something previously unattainable for an office that can barely afford to buy gas for a boat.
The sonar also revealed what Terrill says could be a new species of coral. When we reach the Corsair engineers lower the Remus now equipped with Gopro HERO3 HD cameras into the water
and it once again begins a methodical sweep. Back in California Terrill and his team will use the thousands of captured images plus hundreds of photos taken by human divers to build a 3-D reconstruction of the plane.
Terrill is beta-testing algorithms developed by Autodesk for the company's new cloud-based reality-capture software called Recap;
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