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    NASA Ames Director Named Federal Laboratory Director of 2009

    Image of Pete Worden. Photo credit: NASA

    MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – S. Pete Worden, director of NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., has been named the 2009 Federal Laboratory Consortium Laboratory Director of the Year.

    The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) is a nationwide network of federal laboratories that provides the forum to develop strategies and opportunities for linking laboratory mission technologies and expertise with the marketplace.

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    NASA Ames Scientists Discuss if Earth is the Only Habitable Planet

    Image of Earth. Photo credit: NASA

    MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – Have you ever wondered if life exists anywhere else in the universe besides Earth? Come hear two unique perspectives on both faith and science as Lynn Rothschild, astrobiologist at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., and George Coyne, director emeritus of the Vatican Observatory, discusses "Are We Alone? The Dance of the Fertile Universe."

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  • Image of Earth.

    NASA Ames Scientists Discuss if Earth is the Only Habitable Planet

    02.11.09 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. – Have you ever wondered if life exists anywhere else in the universe besides Earth? Come hear two unique perspectives on both faith and science as Lynn Rothschild, astrobiologist at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., and George Coyne, director emeritus of the Vatican Observatory, discusses "Are We Alone? The Dance of the Fertile Universe."

  • Image of Pete Worden.

    NASA Ames Director Named Federal Laboratory Director of 2009

    02.09.09 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., -- Technology experts and entrepreneurs with a passion for solving humanity's grand challenges, will soon have a new place to exchange ideas and facilitate the use of rapidly developing technologies.

  • Two undergraduate students helped defoliate pine trees (Pinus contora)for a study conducted in the Yellowstone National Park. By defoliating the trees, photosynthesis is restricted and less sugar is produced at the tip of the roots. With less sugar available, a dormant gene is stimulated in mycorrhizal fungi, which produces the enzymes needed for fungi to eat wood.

    NASA Scientists Disprove 'Lost Gene' Theory in Symbiotic Fungi

    02.03.09 - In Yellowstone National Park, east of the Virginia Cascade cutoff, NASA scientists found a site composed solely of pine trees and, for the next two years, proceeded to gently twist off one half of the pine needles at the base. By artificially defoliating the trees, the scientists wanted to examine the wood-degrading capability of a fungus that has the potential to digest toxins found in the soil.

  • Image of black hole.

    NASA Ames Becomes Home To Newly Launched Singularity University

    02.03.09 - MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., -- Technology experts and entrepreneurs with a passion for solving humanity's grand challenges, will soon have a new place to exchange ideas and facilitate the use of rapidly developing technologies.

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