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• NASA sees a weakening Cyclone Funso's 'closed eye' January 27, 2012
  Powerful Cyclone Funso's eye has been clear in NASA satellite imagery over the last several days until NASA's Aqua satellite noticed it had "closed" and become filled with high clouds on January 27. […]
• NASA eyes cyclone Iggy's threat to western Australia January 27, 2012
  NASA satellites are providing valuable data to forecasters as Tropical Cyclone Iggy nears Western Australia. NASA's Aqua satellite provided visible and infrared data on Iggy, observing colder cloud tops and strengthening storm. Iggy has already triggered warnings and watches along coastal areas. […]
• Possible new treatment for Rett Syndrome January 27, 2012
  Researchers have discovered that a molecule critical to the development and plasticity of nerve cells – brain-derived neurotrophic factor -- is severely lacking in brainstem neurons in mutations leading to Rett syndrome, a neurological developmental disorder. The finding has implications for the treatment of neurological disorders, including Rett syndrome th […]
• Space weather center to add world's first 'ensemble forecasting' capability January 27, 2012
  Leaner, greener flying machines for the year 2025 are on the drawing boards of three industry teams under contract to the NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate's Environmentally Responsible Aviation Project. […]
• New ideas sharpen focus for greener aircraft January 27, 2012
  Leaner, greener flying machines for the year 2025 are on the drawing boards of three industry teams under contract to the NASA Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate's Environmentally Responsible Aviation Project. […]
• NASA study solves case of Earth's 'missing energy' January 27, 2012
  Two years ago, scientists released a study claiming that inconsistencies between satellite observations of Earth's heat and measurements of ocean heating amounted to evidence of "missing energy" in the planet's system. Where was it going? Or, they wondered, was something wrong with the way researchers tracked energy as it was absorbed fro […]
• Mars-bound instrument detects solar burst's effects: RAD measures radiation from solar storm January 27, 2012
  The largest solar particle event since 2005 hit Earth, Mars and the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft traveling in-between, allowing the onboard Radiation Assessment Detector to measure the radiation a human astronaut could be exposed to en route to the Red Planet. […]
• NuSTAR spacecraft arrives in California January 27, 2012
  NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, mission arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California Jan. 27 after a cross-country trip by truck from the Orbital Sciences Corporation's manufacturing plant in Dulles, Va. The mission is scheduled to launch from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Ocean on March 14. […]
• The pupils are the windows to the mind January 27, 2012
  The eyes are the window into the soul -- or at least the mind, according to a new article. […]
• The amygdala and fear are not the same thing January 27, 2012
  In a 2007 episode of the television show Boston Legal, a character claimed to have figured out that a cop was racist because his amygdala activated – displaying fear, when they showed him pictures of black people. […]