Atlantis Space Shuttle Launch Today

Today at 11:40am EST Shuttle Atlantis will be launched into space. This is the first of various flights to stock up the International Space Station.  NASA is taking advantage of Shuttle’s payload capacity to stock up the station with spares. Shuttle Atlantis is the only the US module waiting for few more flights before [...]

[ More ] November 17th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Science |

Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider And Jack Szostak: Share 2009 Nobel Medicine Prize

The 3 American Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider And Jack Szostak share Share 2009 Nobel Medicine Prize they solved the mystery of how chromosomes, the rod-like structures that carry DNA, protect themselves from degrading when cells divide.
Elizabeth Blackburn holds U.S. and Australian citizenship, is a professor of the department of molecular biology and genetics at [...]

[ More ] October 5th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in Science |