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1. Space race II: scientists worry that a contest to send robotic rovers to the moon will threaten lunar landmarks

Author

Milstein, Michael

Subjects
Google Lunar XPRIZE -- Innovations -- Management -- Evaluation, Space tourism -- Management -- Usage, Space flight to the moon -- Competitions -- Innovations -- Usage, Lunar photography -- Evaluation -- Usage, Robotics -- Usage, Company business management, History
Abstract

THE SECOND RACE to the moon has begun--and this time there will be a big cash payout for the winner. Four decades after Neil Armstrong took his giant leap for [...]

Published
2008

2. Sanguine science: as donor supplies remain critical, new 'pharming' technologies could create blood on demand

Author

Milstein, Michael

Subjects
Tissue engineering -- Evaluation, Erythrocytes -- Properties, Blood banks -- Management, Pharmaceutical biotechnology -- Evaluation, Automobiles, Home and garden, Company business management, Management, Evaluation, Properties
Abstract

Our bodies manufacture lots of blood--about 1.5 ounces of red blood cells daily--but the nation's hospitals remain in desperately short supply. The need for blood for soldiers in war zones [...]

Published
2009

3. Interplanetary iditarod: hardy earthlings will hitch a three year ride aboard a Mars bound spacecraft 10 determine if life can spread between planets

Author

Milstein, Michael

Subjects
Russia -- Space policy, Russia. Federal Space Agency -- Space policy, Planetary Society -- Services -- Management, Soils -- Sampling, Phobos (Satellite) -- Discovery and exploration, Automobiles, Home and garden, Company business management, Discovery and exploration, Management, Space policy, Services
Abstract

When a Russian spacecraft sets off late this year to scrape samples of the Martian moon Phobos, at least 10 of Earth's toughest life-forms will be going along for the [...]

Published
2009

4. Remedies on tap: dependent on a dwindling river, the American Southwest turns to radical engineering projects to keep the faucets running

Author

Milstein, Michael

Subjects
Water -- Management, Reservoirs -- Management -- Methods, Water-supply engineering -- Methods, Automobiles, Home and garden, Company business management, Management, Methods
Abstract

About 38 million people in California, Nevada, Arizona, four other states and Mexico depend on the Colorado River for their water supply. As increased usage and years of drought diminish [...]

Published
2008

5. Rad robots to the rescue: cleaning tanks of nuclear waste seeping into the water supply is a job best left to expendable machines

Author

Milstein, Michael

Subjects
Robots -- Usage -- Technology application, Radioactive wastes -- Management -- Technology application -- Usage, Automobiles, Home and garden, Company business management, Technology application, Robot, Management, Usage
Abstract

A brave, doomed robot is at the heart of the cleanup of Hanford Nuclear Reservation in eastern Washington state, where the United States produced weapons-grade plutonium until 1989. Now the [...]

Published
2008

6. Yellowstone managers eye profits from hot microbes

Author

Milstein, Michael

Subjects
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming -- Economic aspects, United States. National Park Service -- Management, Management, Economic aspects, Company business management, Thermophiles -- Economic aspects, Hot springs -- Economic aspects, Bacteria, Thermophilic -- Economic aspects
Abstract

CODY, WYOMING - Each year, some 3 million people visit Yellowstone National Park to see wildlife - bison, elk, moose, and bears - as well as the park's famous geysers [...]

Published
1994

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