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Noran Engineering, Inc., a global developer of engineering analysis and simulation software, announced that NASA Tech Briefs magazine selected its finite element analysis (FEA) software, NEi Nastran, as a finalist for its "Product of the Year" award.

From the southern tip of Lake Malawi, the Shire River curves across the narrow African country of Malawi into Mozambique where it meets the Zambeze River. The lower stretches of the Shire flow over a marshy plain which provides rich agricultural land, but is prone to flooding during the wet season.

NASA`s Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, Aviation Safety Program, Washington, has awarded approximately $252,000 to the University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, for work described in their two NASA research announcement proposals entitled "Operator State Sensor Investigations" and "Operator State Classification and Feedback Algorithms."

HOUSTON - The crew aboard the International Space Station will receive a new shipment of food, fuel and supplies from a Russian Progress spacecraft due to dock with the station on Friday, Jan. 19. NASA Television will broadcast the arrival live.

HOUSTON - NASA astronaut and Steamboat Springs, Colo., native Steven R. Swanson, a crew member of the Space Shuttle Atlantis` STS-117 mission, is available for interviews by satellite Jan. 17. The STS-117 mission is targeted for launch in March.

One of the first Rhode Island communities to get cable television has become the first to lose it.

Digital TV viewers in parts of northeast Indiana – including the east side of Fort Wayne – can program a new channel into their remote controls, and owners of those old-time analog sets have another reason to embrace the future.

Maxim Integrated Products has introduced the MAX8640Y/MAX8640Z, said to be the industry`s smallest 500mA, high-efficiency step-down DC/DC converters in a tiny SC70 package.

ADS have unveiled a usb-memory-stick-style gadget that contains a hardware-accelerated video converter for Windows which it claims creates MP4 (H.264) video footage up to 15 times faster than a computer - and be the first of its kind available.

VALENCIA - A group of thieves has a yen for certain kinds of metal, those found in the catalytic converters on the underbellies of Toyotas. In a crime that often leaves victims scratching their heads, a rash of catalytic converter thefts has hit the Santa Clarita Valley.