Update on Harvey from the NASA JSC Spaceflight Meterology Group
Month: August 2017
Virtex-5 CN Package Daisy Chain Evaluation Test Report
Abstract: The board-level temperature cycling reliability of Xilinx Virtex-5 (V5) CN package was investigated. V5s were…
Smelly clue to bird navigation skills
Birds rely on smell to find their bearings when land is out of sight, according to…
Walking the Filament of Feasibility: Global Optimization of Highly-Constrained, Multi-Modal Interplanetary Trajectories Using a Novel Stochastic Search Technique
Abstract: Interplanetary trajectory optimization problems are highly complex and are characterized by a large number of…
Technique gives brewers data to improve fermentation control
Brewing researchers at NC State University have developed a new technique that allows them to monitor…
Harvey brings out ‘hidden capacity in civil society’ to respond, says resilience expert
Hurricane Harvey has caused widespread damage in Houston and across Texas and Louisiana, as historic flooding…
Molecules chilled below Doppler limit
A team of researchers working at the Centre for Cold Matter, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London,…
Synthesizing pure graphene, a ‘miracle material’
Formed deep within the earth, stronger than steel, and thinner than a human hair. These comparisons…
Pathway’s power to boost, halt tumors may be promising cancer therapy target
A protein, called inositol-requiring enzyme 1 -- IRE1 -- may serve as a key driver in…
How new blood vessels sprout
Viologists discovered a key regulator of normal as well as pathological formation of new blood vessels.