Daily Archives: May 5, 2009

NASA’s Fermi Explores High-energy ‘Space Invaders’

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

Since its launch last June, NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a new class of pulsars, probed gamma-ray bursts and watched flaring jets in galaxies billions of light-years away. At the American Physical Society meeting in Denver, Colo., Fermi … Continue reading →

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African farmers to get Geospatial info on their phones

Posted on May 5, 2009 by Rashid Faridi

Nairobi, Kenya— A pilot project that uses mobile phones to alert farmers in remote regions to where they can buy drought-tolerant beans has been launched in Kenya – just one of a set of pilot projects using mobile and geospatial … Continue reading →