Springer to collaborate with 5 Japanese societies on an open access journal

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Contact: Renate Bayaz renate.bayaz@springer.com 49-622-148-78531 Springer

Springer is starting an open access publication of the journal Earth, Planets and Space (EPS) on behalf of five academic societies in Japan. EPS is the official journal of The Society of Geomagnetism and Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences; The Seismological Society of Japan; The Volcanological Society of Japan; The Geodetic Society of Japan; and The Japanese Society for Planetary Sciences. EPS is a long-running journal, formerly published by Terrapub under a traditional subscription model.

Earth, Planets and Space covers scientific articles in earth and planetary sciences, and in particular geomagnetism, aeronomy, space science, seismology, volcanology, geodesy and planetology. The journal also publishes articles in new and interdisciplinary subjects, including instrumentations. In 2012 EPS had an impact factor of 2.921.

The journal includes new and original articles with no page limit, letters limited to eight pages, frontier letters and technical reports. Frontier letters are articles which are invited by the editor-in-chief, while technical reports are presentations of software tools, experimental or computational methods, or hardware designs.

The Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Yasuo Ogawa from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, said, "It really is a great challenge to change the publication style and the publisher. We hope to have a broader readership as one of the leading international journals in these disciplines."

"We are proud to work with these five prominent societies on the open access publication of their reputed journal, which will further enhance our strong international publishing programs in the earth and planetary science fields," said Takeyuki Yonezawa, Editorial Director Physical Sciences and Engineering at Springer Japan. "We look forward to helping our new partners to achieve wider distribution and better presence of their Earth, Planets and Space."

The back issues are being transferred to SpringerOpen as open access articles under the Creative Commons Attribution license.

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UFO 2014 : Real Alien is drinking water. Caught On Video. Top NASA Secret! – Video

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UFO 2014 : Real Alien is drinking water. Caught On Video. Top NASA Secret!
Top secret on planet Earth that it is been hidden several years is reveal. On a photo you will see a black spot that is drinking a pure water. The purity of the water is out of space. The question...

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Pueblo Motorsports Park PMP NASA Time Trials May 3 2014 TTC Honda S2000 (AP1) – Video

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This the fourth (final) Time Trials session on day one of the NASA Rocky Mountain racing event held at Pueblo Motorsports Park (PMP) in Pueblo, CO, May 3rd-4th, 2014. This weekend was my first...

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NASA Highlights 2014 National Small Business Week

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NASA this week joins with President Obama, the Small Business Administration (SBA), and other federal agencies in recognizing all that our nation's small businesses have accomplished. NASA has a strong relationship with the small business community which is vital in assisting the agency in reaching its mission goals. National Small Business Week kicks off Monday.

NASA recently recognized the Fiscal Year 2013 NASA Small Business Industry Award winners at NASA Headquarters inWashington. These awards are presented to small and large businesses across the country that provide invaluable services and products to NASA while demonstrating a dedication to our nation's small businesses.

"I am especially proud of NASA's record of support for the small businesses that are essential to our achievement in space and here on Earth," NASA AdministratorCharles Boldensaid."In addition to receiving an "A" on the SBA scorecard, NASA is the only federal agency in the past four years to increase its prime awards to small business by$100 millioneach consecutive year, despite a declining procurement budget."

NASA is proud of its recent achievements with the small business community, including:

--NASA exceeded its small business goal for fiscal year 2013, while increasing small business prime awards dollars for the past four years;

--Approximately$2.7 billionin prime contracts were awarded directly to small businesses, with NASA's prime contractors awarding approximately$2.2 billionin subcontracts in Fiscal Year 2013.

NASA also has continued to push for small business outreach and development, continuing a strong Mentor-Protg program. With agreements between prime contractors and small businesses throughout the country, NASA hopes to build its competitive base of small business contractors while allowing all companies involved to strengthen and grow.

As NASA beings a new era of space exploration, the agency looks forward to working closer with its small business partners and continue to prove that at NASA, small businesses make a big difference.

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NASA spots worrisome Antarctic ice sheet melt

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The huge West Antarctic ice sheet is starting a glacially slow collapse in an unstoppable way, two new studies show. Alarmed scientists say that means even more sea level rise than they figured.

The worrisome outcomes won't be seen soon. Scientists are talking hundreds of years, but over that time the melt that has started could eventually add 4 to 12 feet to current sea levels.

A NASA study looking at 40 years of ground, airplane and satellite data of what researchers call "the weak underbelly of West Antarctica" shows the melt is happening faster than scientists had predicted, crossing a critical threshold that has begun a domino-like process.

"It does seem to be happening quickly," said University of Washington glaciologist Ian Joughin, lead author of one study. "We really are witnessing the beginning stages."

It's likely because of man-made global warming and the ozone hole which have changed the Antarctic winds and warmed the water that eats away at the feet of the ice, researchers said at a NASA news conference Monday.

"The system is in sort of a chain reaction that is unstoppable," said NASA glaciologist Eric Rignot, chief author of the NASA study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. "Every process in this reaction is feeding the next one."

Curbing emissions from fossil fuels to slow climate change will probably not halt the melting but it could slow the speed of the problem, Rignot said.

Rignot, who also is a scientist at the University of California Irvine, and other scientists said the "grounding line" which could be considered a dam that stops glacier retreat has essentially been breached. The only thing that could stop the retreat in this low-altitude region is a mountain or hill and there is none. Another way to think of it is like wine flowing from a horizontal uncorked bottle, he said.

Rignot looked at six glaciers in the region with special concentration on the Thwaites glacier, about the size of New Mexico and Arizona combined. Thwaites is so connected to the other glaciers that it helps trigger loss elsewhere, said Joughin, whose study was released Monday by the journal Science.

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NASA Glenn Research Center Hosts National Lab Day

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Representatives from NASA, the U.S. Department of Education,Glenns scientists and engineers, teachers and over 300 students from schools across Northeast Ohio will celebrate National Lab Day at Glenn, Monday, May 19 at 10 a.m.

The event will take place in the Flight Research Building, also known as the hangar, located at 21000 Brookpark Road, in Cleveland.

National Lab Day is a nationwide initiative to encourage hands-on learning in schools to improve science and math education.

The celebration includes opening remarks; world-class facility tours to expose students to new career fields; and demonstrations and activities giving students memorable hands-on experiences in science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, subjects to show that learning can be fun, engaging and exciting.

Members of the media are invited to cover the event, tours and activities.

Schools participating in National Lab Day are: St. Mary School, Chardon; Bolton, Clara E. Westropp, Denison, Hannah Gibbons-STEM, Memorial, Scranton and Willson, Cleveland Metropolitan School District; Ohio College Preparatory School, Maple Heights; Highland Middle School, Medina; Richmond Heights Secondary School, Richmond Heights; and ARCHERS Homeschool Group, Westlake.

Providing the welcoming and opening remarks are Robyn N. Gordon, director for Center Operations, Glenn; Dr. Roosevelt Johnson, associate administrator for Education, NASA; and Dr. Deborah Delisle, assistant secretary, Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, U.S. Department of Education.

At 10:25 a.m. NASA astronaut Douglas Wheelock, a retired U.S. Army Colonel, will discuss his career and share a video of his spaceflight to the International Space Station. Wheelock began his long-duration stay aboard the orbiting outpost as a flight engineer for Expedition 24 and then assumed command of the station and the Expedition 25 crew. He has accumulated more than 178 days in space.

Speakers will be available for brief interviews as time permits following the remarks.

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NASA spots worrisome Antarctic ice sheet melt – NBC40.net

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WASHINGTON (AP) - The huge West Antarctic ice sheet is starting a glacially slow collapse in an unstoppable way, two new studies show. Alarmed scientists say that means even more sea level rise than they figured.

The worrisome outcomes won't be seen soon. Scientists are talking hundreds of years, but over that time the melt that has started could eventually add 4 to 12 feet to current sea levels.

A NASA study looking at 40 years of ground, airplane and satellite data of what researchers call "the weak underbelly of West Antarctica" shows the melt is happening faster than scientists had predicted, crossing a critical threshold that has begun a domino-like process.

"It does seem to be happening quickly," said University of Washington glaciologist Ian Joughin, lead author of one study. "We really are witnessing the beginning stages."

It's likely because of man-made global warming and the ozone hole which have changed the Antarctic winds and warmed the water that eats away at the feet of the ice, researchers said at a NASA news conference Monday.

"The system is in sort of a chain reaction that is unstoppable," said NASA glaciologist Eric Rignot, chief author of the NASA study in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. "Every process in this reaction is feeding the next one."

Curbing emissions from fossil fuels to slow climate change will probably not halt the melting but it could slow the speed of the problem, Rignot said.

Rignot, who also is a scientist at the University of California Irvine, and other scientists said the "grounding line" which could be considered a dam that stops glacier retreat has essentially been breached. The only thing that could stop the retreat in this low-altitude region is a mountain or hill and there is none. Another way to think of it is like wine flowing from a horizontal uncorked bottle, he said.

Rignot looked at six glaciers in the region with special concentration on the Thwaites glacier, about the size of New Mexico and Arizona combined. Thwaites is so connected to the other glaciers that it helps trigger loss elsewhere, said Joughin, whose study was released Monday by the journal Science.

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People Keep Spotting UFOs On Nasa's HD ISS Live Stream

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Artist's depiction of the powerful flare that erupted from the red dwarf star EV Lacertae in 2008.

Unlike Earth, Venus lacks a magnetic field to deflect powerful solar outbursts -- as can be seen in this NASA-created image, a still from the video "Dynamic Earth: Exploring Earth's Climate Engine."

This vertigo-inducing, false-color image from NASA's Cassini mission highlights the storms at Saturn's north pole. The angry eye of a hurricane-like storm appears dark red while the fast-moving hexagonal jet stream framing it is a yellowish green. Low-lying clouds circling inside the hexagonal feature appear as muted orange color. A second, smaller vortex pops out in teal at the lower right of the image. The rings of Saturn appear in vivid blue at the top right.

This Hubble photo is of a small portion of a large star-birthing region in the Carina Nebula. Towers of cool hydrogen laced with dust rise from the wall of the nebula.

This computer simulation shows gas from a tidally shredded star falling into a black hole. Some of the gas also is being ejected at high speed into space.

This image of Asia and Australia at night is a composite assembled from data acquired by the Suomi NPP satellite in April and October 2012.

In this composite image, visible-light observations by NASAs Hubble Space Telescope are combined with infrared data from the ground-based Large Binocular Telescope in Arizona to assemble a dramatic view of the well-known Ring Nebula.

A delicate ribbon of gas floats eerily in our galaxy. A contrail from an alien spaceship? A jet from a black-hole? Actually this image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, is a thin section of a supernova remnant caused by a stellar explosion that occurred more than 1,000 years ago.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope caught Jupiter's moon Ganymede playing a game of "peek-a-boo." In this crisp image, Ganymede is shown just before it ducks behind the giant planet.

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NASA Taking At Look At The Numbers As The Hubble Space Telescope Enters Its 25th Year

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Image Caption: The Hubble Telescope as seen from NASA Space Shuttle STS-125 in May 2009. The Hubble Space Telescope was reborn with Servicing Mission 4 (SM4), the fifth and final servicing of the orbiting observatory. Credit: NASA

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On April 24, 1990, the space shuttle Discovery lifted off from Earth with the Hubble Space Telescope nestled securely in its bay. The following day, Hubble was released into space, ready to peer into the vast unknown of space.

NASAs Hubble Space Telescope recently marked its 24th year in space and to celebrate its 25th year, NASA is taking a look at some of the amazing statistics generated by the world-famous telescope.

Hubble has reinvigorated and reshaped our perception of space and uncovered a universe where almost anything seems possible within the laws of physics. Hubble has revealed properties of space and time that for most of human history were only probed in the imaginations of scientists and philosophers alike. Today, Hubble continues to provide views of cosmic wonders never before seen and is at the forefront of many new discoveries.

Shortly after Hubble was deployed in 1990, the observatorys primary mirror was discovered to have a flaw that affected the clarity of the telescopes early images. Astronauts repaired Hubble in December 1993. Including that trip, there have been five astronaut servicing missions to Hubble. The first servicing mission occurred Dec. 2-13, 1993. Subsequent servicing missions occurred on Feb. 11-21, 1997; Dec.19-27, 1999; March 1-12, 2002; and May 11-24, 2009.

Here are some statistics on the Hubble as of its 24th anniversary on April 24, 2014:

The Hubble Space Telescope is a project of international cooperation between NASA and the European Space Agency. NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, manages the telescope. The Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore conducts Hubble science operations. STScI is operated for NASA by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy Inc., in Washington.

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The Blessings and Curses of Nanotechnology

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A Q&A with Barbara Harthorn, Head of UCSBs Center for Nanotechnology inSociety

As the head of UCSBs Center for Nanotechnology in Society (CNS), Barbara Harthorn has spent the past eight-plus years leading a team of researchers in studying peoples perceptions of the small-scale science with big-scale implications. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, CNS enjoys national and worldwide recognition for the social science lens it holds up to physical and lifesciences.

For some perspective, a nanometer clocks in at about one-billionth of a meter and the thickness of a piece of paper is a whopping 100,000 nanometers. As tiny as the units are, their applications are growing increasinglypopular.

Earlier this year, Harthorn attended a meeting hosted by the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. The commissions chief focus was on the intersection of ethics and brain research, but Harthorn was invited to share her thoughts on the relationship between ethics and nanotechnology. A few days after her testimony, Harthorn who also teaches anthropology at UCSB spoke with The Santa Barbara Independent about what opportunities nanotechnology pushes forward and what challenges it creates in making sure those opportunities dont cross the ethical line. Below is an edited version of ourconversation.

What are some common uses of manufactured nanomaterials? In the health industry, there is a huge array of applications, including cosmetics, skin products, and sunscreens. CNS started in January 2006; at that point, the largest number of patents in the world was held by LOreal. The nanoscale forms of metal oxides have different optical properties, making them very attractive for use incosmetics.

In what other areas are they commonly found? The automotive industry has a bunch of implications, as does the aerospace industry. Theyre using them in building materials. There are nano-additives for concrete to make concrete stronger. There is controversy about nano-silver bulk silver is an anti-microbial so people are using nano forms of silver as an anti-bacterial coating. It is being used in hospitals, offering the promise of potentially killing current drug-resistant forms of bacteria. But they are very powerful, and there is a lot of concern about the potential for generating new super-bugs, if usedhaphazardly.

At CNS, we have looked at the global chain of teddy bears that have [nano-silver particles]. They are spread onto the surface of the teddy bear that is presumably for use by an infant and conveys the whole idea of super safety but super hazard. Samsung put it in washing machines, which produced a regulatory action, and Samsung had to treat it as a pesticide. If you buy anti-microbial socks, those could have nano-silver particles. There arent a lot of reasons to think there is harm of [skin transfer] by the person wearing the socks but when you wash the socks, the particles arent bound into the textile in a chemical way and can go down the drain and enter the water treatmentsystem.

So there are some environmental concerns with nanomaterials. What are the ethical concerns? What came across at the Presidential Commission meeting? Theyre talking about treatment of Alzheimers and neurological brain disorders, where the issue of loss of self is a fairly integral part of the disease. There are complicated issues about patients decision-making. Nanomaterials could be used to grow new tissues and potentially new organs in thefuture.

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WUSTL's Genin Named Global Scholars Fellow at Tsinghua University

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Newswise Guy Genin, PhD, has been named a 2014 Global Scholars Fellow at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

The award will allow Genin, professor of mechanical engineering in the School of Engineering & Applied Science, to conduct research with Changqing Chen, PhD, professor of engineering and director of Tsinghuas Institute for Solid Mechanics. The team will study how engineers can help older adults make decisions about orthopedic surgeries involving rotator cuff repair.

Rotator cuff tears are among the most common orthopedic injuries among adults in the United States, due to wear and tear or the effects of age. With a 94 percent failure rate for surgical repairs of large tears in older patients, the injury is a major cause of pain and disability. Genin and Stavros Thomopoulos, PhD, associate professor of orthopaedic surgery at Washington University School of Medicine, are studying this issue with a five-year, $3.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. Results of their research could lead to the engineering of new tissues that could enhance cuff repair.

A question that has perplexed Stavros and me for years is why so many elderly patients elect to have a surgery that has such a high failure rate, Genin says. Would information that engineers could provide affect these decisions, and could we identify metrics that would help predict outcomes?

At the core of the question is how aspects of aging tissue that can be measured in the clinic relate to toughness, Genin says.

Changqing Chen is recognized internationally for his work in relating the structure of a tissue to its toughness, and, with the growing effects of the one-child policy, the problem of decisions about surgeries for the elderly is even more pressing in China than it is the U.S., Genin says. This collaboration was a perfect fit.

Chen is known globally for pioneering work in micro- and nano-mechanics, mechanics of electromagnetic solids, and mechanical behavior of cellular materials and structures ranging from metallic foams to bone. He was recipient of the Chinese National Science Foundations National Outstanding Young Investigator Award for this work.

The collaboration led Genin and Chen to Nancy Morrow-Howell, PhD, the Bettie Bofinger Brown Distinguished Professor of Social Policy at the Brown School and director of the Harvey A. Friedman Center for Aging, a center in the Washington University Institute for Public Health. The Friedman Center partially funded their pilot project through the Global Aging Initiative, a university effort to promote cross-national aging research in partnership with the McDonnell International Scholars Academy. The Tsinghua Global Scholars program funded the remainder.

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United States Molecular Diagnostics Market 2018: Industry Shares, Size, Trend, Analysis, and Forecasts to 2018 Report …

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Molecular diagnostics is a rapidlyadvancing area of research and medicine, with new technologies and applications being added continuously. Molecular diagnostics is the promising area which can transform disease diagnosis, as diagnosis based on symptoms and use of surrogate markers is replaced by genomic and proteomic analysis. This fundamental shift offers the promise for early disease detection, potentially before symptoms have even occurred.

United States molecular diagnostic market for 2018 is anticipated to more than double from its current value in 2013. In United States molecular diagnostic market, infectious disease controls the highest market share in 2013.

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But in terms of test volume food pathogen testing takes the lead pushing infectious disease at number two position.

Molecular oncology tests have emerged as a significant rapidly growing market segment. In the current medical diagnostics market, molecular diagnostics for cancer testing offers one of the brightest areas for growth and innovation. United States constitutes the largest regional market for blood screening and blood products. Molecular diagnostics is also starting to emerge as an important tool for HLA Testing, Food Pathogen Detection Testing and other disease areas.

United States Molecular Diagnostics Market & Test Volume Application Segment Analysis (2010 2018)

1. Oncology Testing Breast Cancer Colorectal Cancer Prostate Cancer Others 2. Infectious Diseases Virology Testing HPV Testing HAI Testing Critical Care Testing 3. Genetic Testing 4. Blood Screening 5. Food Pathogen Testing 6. Tissue Typing (HLA Testing)

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