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Army Researchers Strive to Mitigate Injuries

Researchers are developing improved tactics, techniques, and procedures to prevent or mitigate traumatic injuries.

Army News Service ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, Md. -- Joint Trauma Analysis and Prevention of Injury in Combat program -- the name itself implies vast scale. Formed in July 2006, the program is a partnership among Defense Department intelligence, operational, medical, and materiel-development communities that collect, integrate and analyze injury and operational data from theater. The goal is to improve DOD's understanding of vulnerabilities to threats and enable the development of improved tactics, techniques, and procedures, known as TTPs, and materiel solutions to prevent or mitigate traumatic injuries. Paul Tanenbaum, Ph.D., director of the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command's Army Research Laboratory Survivability and…

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Poll: Will Discovery of the ‘God Particle’ Lead to Changes in Our Lives?

CERN lab in Switzerland, where the Web was born, finds signs of a new subatomic particle.

The Geneva lab where the Web was born has produced another revelation—signs of the so-called “God Particle.”  Scientists at CERN loudly applauded the news. “We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature,” said lab director general Rolf Heuer. “The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the way to more detailed studies, requiring larger statistics, which will pin down the new particle’s properties, and is likely to shed light on other mysteries of our universe.” It took a while for the Web to take hold.  Will the God Particle change the way we live as well? Subscribe to the Fort Stewart Patch newsletter and get news, Patch deals and breaking news alerts delivered straight to your inbox. Follow Fort …

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Galactic Event: Rare Planetary Alignment Next Week

June 5 and 6, Venus will cross the face of the sun for the last time this century.

Although astronomers and scientists don’t expect earthquakes and such as predicted by doomsday theorists, they do say that next week’s planetary alignment will be a rare sight. In fact, it will be the last time it will happen this century. According to NASA, the passage of Venus across the sun only happens twice in a century. It happened in 2004 and is scheduled again for June 5 and 6, 2012. Although the entire eclipse will be visible from certain countries, in the US it will only be visible as it begins on June 5. The sun will set before the event ends. According to www.transitofvenus.org, when this transit happens, Venus will be seen as a small dot gliding slowly across the face of the sun. Since this is a twice in a lifetime event, …

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Top Army Scientist: Army Shouldn't Trim Science Budget

Senior Army official warns that a shortage of skilled scientists and engineers should make the Army wary of cutting labs and researchers.

STARBASE Academy opens on Hunter AAF

Local 5th-graders will gain experience in science, technology, engineering and math.

By Jennifer Hartwig Army News Service SAVANNAH - The 3rd Infantry Division and Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield partnered with the Savannah-Chatham County School System, the STARBASE Savannah Foundation and Gulfstream to open the first-ever STARBASE Academy on an active-Army installation when STARBASE Savannah officially opened on Hunter Army Airfield, March 20. At the STARBASE Savannah, local fifth graders will experience 20-25 hours of "hands-on, mind-on" activities in science, technology, engineering and math, using a common core curriculum that meets or exceeds national standards. They will interact with military personnel to explore careers and observe the subject applications in the real world. "We found that they influence in the …

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Army Outreach Goes High-Tech

The Army has fielded an interactive exhibit aimed at attracting candidates to hard-to-fill science, technology, engineering and mathematics career fields.

Space Researchers Test Equipment at Fort Irwin

NASA scientists came to the California base to test equipment that could one day be used on trips to the moon or Mars.

Diet Patch: News From the Rest of the World

Today on Diet Patch: Foreign nationals are arrested breaking into a San Antonio courthouse, a financial giant pays out a $285 million settlement, and scientists build computer components out of bacteria.

Nation: Foreign nationals arrested in courthouse break-in Five foreign nationals were arrested Wednesday in San Antonio after breaking into a county courthouse, according to a Politico report. The FBI is investigating the incident. The five men had parked a rented RV outside the courthouse, according to the report. The RV was allegedly filled with visas, cell phones, maps and computers. Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff told the Associated Press that he saw a surveillance tape of the incident, and that a few of the men were wearing sombreros and waving gavels. Bexar told the AP that the incident could be "just some guys on a prank."   Business: Citi agrees to pay $285 million to settle deception charges Citigroup has agreed to pay $285 …

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