This image from NASA's Curiosity rover shows the first sample of powdered rock extracted by the rover's drill.
Scientists are excited about that because the first sample could have been tainted by material analyzed at a different site on Mars.
In the meantime, feel free to enjoy a tour of GoPro's new diminutive hardware and check out its first sample video after the break.
My agent, the dogged Susan Lee Cohen, was still negotiating the terms of the book deal after Joe and I had delivered the incredibly detailed TOC and first sample chapter to Wiley.
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Held in a scoop on the rover's mechanical arm, the tablespoon of pulverized gray rock offers planetary scientists their first sample from the planet's interior, where it may have been sheltered from the harsh surface chemistry and ultra-violet radiation.
It is the first US sample-return mission since the last Moon landing in 1972.
Final results of the first research sample of the investigators' observations will be published in late March.
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Apple diehards in Asia were among the first to sample the new product.
The rover was taking its first soil sample that week, but she was even more excited about the arsenal of instruments that she could use to analyze it.
She first injects a sample of "wild virus"-- in this case, H1N1 virus she got from the CDC, originally culled from a child who was infected in California this spring -- and then injects a sample of another flu strain that's known for its ability to rapidly multiply in eggs.
Here's a sample of the first couple of years so you can see how the spreadsheet works.
GfK used its KnowledgePanel sample, which first chose participants for the nationwide study using randomly generated telephone numbers and home addresses.
Being a jealous type, I wanted to be among the first in Hong Kong to sample the digital world at speed.
Lawyers must first manually go through a sample set of documents and teach the program what is relevant and what is not.
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The nation risks losing its space and technological supremacy if it allows other countries to achieve feats like sample-return first, he said.
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We had a sample of tough communication between first responders during the earthquake with cell phone lines being inundated.
One of my first steps was to arrange for a sample of his tumor to be genetically sequenced by the Cambridge, Mass.
The QCA1990 will sample to customers starting in the first quarter of 2013, with commercial designs with leading OEMs expected in the third quarter of 2013.
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While this is an early study with a small sample size, it is the first time this type of anger or emotional stress testing has been shown to correlate with future arrhythmias, he said.
First, the bacteria is removed from the water sample and cultured.
Curiosity drilled a hole in Mars to collect a sample of its surface, which is the first time any rover has drilled such a hole on the Red Planet.
The result on his so-called B sample could indicate whether Landis will become the first rider in Tour de France history to have his title taken away because of doping.
He hired consumer-research firm Yankelovich, told them to give the first one-hundred pages of our manuscript to a representative sample of our potential audience and have those folks tell us what they thought.
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First, Mr Wilkinson and Ms Pickett did not exclude outliers from their sample.
To begin, the researchers collected a random sample of actual applications from entrepreneurs seeking commercial loans for the first time.
But putting aside the obvious disclaimer about sample sizes, the Mets have shown enough potential in their first 10 games that it's reasonable to wonder if this is more than just a fluke.
Still worse, it shed considerable viewership from the first half-hour to the second, an indication that those who did sample the series actively decided to tune out.
The new results are the first from an ongoing study intended to assess mental health in a representative population sample, balanced for demographics and including people who returned home and those who remain dispersed around the country.
Nearly 7 percent of all traffic in the current-year sample size is mobile, up from 3.4 percent in the first half of 2010.
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