 | Scientists Find That Saturn's Rotation Period is a Puzzle
Source: NASA/JPL Posted: 6/29/2004
On approach to Saturn, data obtained by the Cassini spacecraft are already posing a puzzling question: How long is the day on Saturn?
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 | Researchers detail Bay Area landslides with powerful new space-born imaging techniques
Source: UCBerkeley Posted: 6/29/2004
A research team led by the University of California, Berkeley, has detailed the downhill movement of San Francisco Bay Area landslides using powerful new space-born imaging techniques.
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 | Carbon-doped Magnesium Diboride Superconductors Withstand Higher Magnetic Fields
Source: AMES Posted: 6/28/2004
At the U. S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory, a basic research effort to enhance the properties of magnesium diboride, MgB2, superconductors by doping them with carbon atoms has doubled the magnetic field the material can withstand.
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 | Studies on electric polarization open potential for tinier devices
Source: ANL Posted: 6/21/2004
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and Northern Illinois University have shown that very thin materials can still retain an electric polarization, opening the potential for a wide range of tiny devices.
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 | Scientists demonstrate quantum teleportation with atoms
Source: LANL Posted: 6/17/2004
Researchers at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, in collaboration with a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, announced today the first demonstration of the teleportation of a quantum state from one trapped atom to another located 8 microns away.
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 | Hottest body outside the sun: Io
Source: WUSTL Posted: 6/17/2004
The hottest spot in the solar system is neither Mercury, Venus, nor St. Louis in the summer. Io, one of the four satellites that the Italian astronomer Galileo discovered orbiting Jupiter almost 400 years ago, takes that prize.
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 | Phoebe's Surface Reveals Clues to Its Origin
Source: NASA/JPL Posted: 6/15/2004
Images collected during Cassini's close flyby of Saturn's moon, Phoebe, have yielded strong evidence that the tiny object may contain ice-rich material, overlain with a thin layer of darker material perhaps 300 to 500 meters (980 to 1,600 feet) thick.
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 | Mars Rovers Continue Unique Exploration of Mars
Source: NASA/JPL Posted: 6/9/2004
NASA's Mars Opportunity rover began its latest adventure today inside the martian crater informally called Endurance. Opportunity will roll in with all six wheels, then back out to the rim to check traction by looking at its own track marks.
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