Archive for July, 2009

Electrical engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas and the University of South Carolina were informed this week that they will receive federal economic stimulus funds via the National Science Foundation to continue and strengthen their efforts to modernize the national power grid. The award will ...

This is not the case of humans being “stupider” than ants.

In a study released online on July 22 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, researchers at Arizona State University and Princeton University show that ants can accomplish a task more rationally than ...

improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” (”organic” or “algorithmic”) search results. Typically, the earlier a site appears in the search results list, the more ...

Just a couple of days after the orbiting observatory was brought back online, Hubble aimed its prime working camera, the Wide Field Planetary Camera, at a particularly intriguing target, a pair of gravitationally interacting called Arp 147.

Hubble Space Telescope is back in business. ...

The ISS (International Space Station will fly over our heads and leave a nice trail as it did in Hawaii June 03, 2009, except it will begin July 4th for us and last many days. According to officials, it should be visable two three and possible 4 times daily. So, ISS during the day and ...