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.
Apple diehards in Asia were among the first to sample the new product.
Final results of the first research sample of the investigators' observations will be published in late March.
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It is the first US sample-return mission since the last Moon landing in 1972.
Being a jealous type, I wanted to be among the first in Hong Kong to sample the digital world at speed.
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.
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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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.
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.
Here's a sample of the first couple of years so you can see how the spreadsheet works.
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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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.
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.
To begin, the researchers collected a random sample of actual applications from entrepreneurs seeking commercial loans for the first time.
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.
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.
The first step was to figure out the dimensions of the problem, which required analyzing a sample of Examiner stories and dividing them into four categories: very good or better (20 percent of the sample), good (30 percent), acceptable (20 percent) and poor (30 percent).
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First, the bacteria is removed from the water sample and cultured.
GfK used its KnowledgePanel sample, which first chose participants for the nationwide study using randomly generated telephone numbers and home addresses.
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.
We had a sample of tough communication between first responders during the earthquake with cell phone lines being inundated.
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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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 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.
After logging on and practicing with as many non-recorded sample questions as they want, interviewees then get two questions, the first common to all applicants, and the second selected by the computer from a bank of questions pre-recorded by da Silva.
But if this small sample is in any way an accurate reflection of the truth, then the first and most straight-forward conclusion is that Notre Dame is more likely to see its football players graduate relative to other schools with high-caliber football programs.
Over the next two years, the Atom lineage will catch up with its larger brethren, first with the launch of a 32nm Atom, code named Cedar Trail, which will sample this year and ship in volume in 2012, and then with a 22nm part, which will ship in volume in 2013.
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