Science News
Hurricane research team stays busy
Sept. 18, 1998
Science@NASA Headline News — 1998
Team flies 4 missions in 5 days, collecting humidity information in clear air, and oceanic convection data.
Nature's "electronic ink"
Sept. 17, 1998
Science@NASA Headline News — 1998
A bacterium which thrives in high-salt conditions produces a fascinating protein which changes color extremely efficiently. Crystals grown by Spacelab make scientists hopeful that they can understand the biological function and apply it to, for example, artificial retinas for people.
Great Bugs of Fire
Sept. 16, 1998
Science@NASA Headline News — 1998
Spacelab crystallizes a protein from a very weird, and surprisingly common, volcano-loving bug. Scientists hope to discover how these bugs can survive in such extreme conditions.
Hurricane Season passes its prime
Sept. 15, 1998
Science@NASA Headline News — 1998
Thunderstorm studies continue as a new hurricane candidate wends its way from Africa.
Nature's sugar high
Sept. 14, 1998
Science@NASA Headline News — 1998
Spacelab successfully crystallizes an intensely sweet protein that has 3000 times the kick of table sugar - and no calories.
NASA team awaits next hurricane
Sept. 10, 1998
Science@NASA Headline News — 1998
With 3 hurricanes so far, the CAMEX team gathers valuable data on thunderstorms while waiting for the next big one.
Hurricane teams probe ahead of Earl
Sept. 4, 1998
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NASA team studies rain intensity before landfall; NOAA team studies storm surge and wind field at landfall.
Bonnie cuts a towering figure
Sept. 2, 1998
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Satellite radar shows a mountainous cloud chimney during the hurricane - twice as tall as Mt. Everest.
The heavy metal hit parade of cosmic rays
Sept. 2, 1998
Science@NASA Headline News — 1998
A powerful new instrument could point scientists to the source of mysterious, cosmological, gamma-ray bursts.
Earth microbes on the moon
Sept. 1, 1998
Science@NASA Headline News — 1998
Three decades after Apollo 12, a remarkable colony of lunar survivors, who hitchhiked a trip to The Moonon Surveyor 3 - unprotected - are reexamined.