A self-guided robotic submarine, designed to look for alien life on an icy moon of Jupiter, completed 6 months of tests in an Antarctic lake here on Earth.
Pendleton, the new director of NASA's Lunar Science Institute, says that moon is our nearest laboratory off-planet where we can go and explore and test.
Post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, affects up to 30% of soldiers returning from Iraq, according to a June 2010 study by Army medical researchers.
Hurricane Alex ushered in what some scientists say might be a busy 2010 Atlantic hurricane season. EarthSky spoke with research climatologist Bill Patzert.
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