APL to work with NASA on probes to lunar polesNASA recently selected the Hopkins Applied Physics Lab (APL) to be one of seven teams in its newly instated Lunar Science Institute. According to the Institute's Web site, "Competitively selected team investigations will focus on one or more aspects of lunar science investigations of the Moon (including lunar samples), from the Moon and on the Moon. 21 Comments |
Hubble telescope finds racing starsHot, young and with a need for speed: Fourteen wild stars have been caught racing through space. Spotted accidentally by the Hubble Space Telescope, which is operated out of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) at Hopkins, the stars leave long glowing tails in the dense gas they pass through. Post a comment |
Mechanism drives brain cell growthFor those who fear the daily death of their brain cells - never fear! Gadd45b is here! In the genome, that is. It used to be thought that humans were born with a certain number of brain cells, and that was it. For the rest of their lives, those cells are only ever getting closer to death. Post a comment |
HIV patients can receive kidney transplantsClinical study shows that HIV status should not affect transplants, with proper precautionsIn the last decade or so in the United States, HIV infection has been transformed from a life-ending disease to a life-changing one. With the development of Highly Active Anti-Retroviral Therapy (HAART), HIV-positive patients are living longer, and in so doing, confronting the new challenge of coping with chronic conditions. Post a comment |