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February 22, 2013
SPACE MEDICINE
ISS plays host to innovative infectious disease research
Tempe AZ (SPX) Feb 22, 2013
Performing sensitive biological experiments is always a delicate affair. Few researchers, however, contend with the challenges faced by Cheryl Nickerson, whose working laboratory aboard the International Space Station (ISS) is located hundreds of miles above the Earth, traveling at some 17,000 miles per hour. Nickerson, a microbiologist at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute, is using the ISS platform to pursue new research into the effects of microgravity on disease-causing organisms. ... read more
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SPACE SCOPES

Webb Telescope to Have a Texas-Sized Presence at Festival
Everything is bigger in Texas and a life-sized model of the world's largest space telescope, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will be on display at the South by Southwest (SWSX) Interactive Festiva ... more
EXO WORLDS

Kepler helps astronomers find tiny exo planet
An international team of astronomers has used nearly three years of high precision data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft to make the first observations of a planet outside our solar system that's small ... more
MOON DAILY

Water On The Moon: It's Been There All Along
Traces of water have been detected within the crystalline structure of mineral samples from the lunar highland upper crust obtained during the Apollo missions, according to a University of Michigan ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

3-D Observations Of The Outflow From An Active Galactic Nucleus
A Japanese team of astronomers, led by Toru Misawa (Shinshu University), has used the Subaru Telescope to observe a distant gravitationally-lensed quasar (Note 1) and probed an active galactic nucle ... more


TIME AND SPACE

X-ray imaging on the attosecond timescale
In the blink of an eye, more attoseconds have expired than the age of Earth measured in - minutes. A lot more. To be precise, an attosecond is one billionth of a billionth of a second. The att ... more
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ROCKET SCIENCE

NASA Seeks Big Ideas for Small In-Space Propulsion Systems
NASA's Space Technology Program is calling for proposals to develop miniaturized electrospray propulsion technologies that could revolutionize small satellite propulsion systems. Electrospray ... more
SPACE TRAVEL

Kennedy Engineers Designing Plant Habitat For ISS
Some of the research on the International Space Station focuses on meeting the needs of long-term spaceflight to destinations such as asteroids or Mars. A group of engineers at NASA's Kennedy Space ... more
Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
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TECH SPACE

DARPA Seeks to Defuse the Threat of Ionizing Radiation
Ionizing radiation can be a silent killer. While scientists have made some strides in preventing immediate death from exposure, there are currently few intervention technologies to protect against l ... more
EXO WORLDS

NASA's Kepler Mission Discovers Tiny Planet System
NASA's Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star similar to our sun. The planets are located in a system call ... more
ICE WORLD

Flow of research on ice sheets helps answer climate questions
Just as ice sheets slide slowly and steadily into the ocean, researchers are returning from each trip to the Arctic and Antarctic with more data about climate change, including information that will ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Tiny CREPT Instrument to Study the Radiation Belts
A smaller version of an instrument now flying on NASA's Van Allen Probes has won a coveted spot aboard an upcoming NASA-sponsored Cubesat mission - the perfect platform for this pint-size, solid-sta ... more
ROBO SPACE

The quest for a better bionic hand
For an amputee, replacing a missing limb with a functional prosthetic can alleviate physical or emotional distress and mean a return of vocational ability or cosmetics. Studies show, however, that u ... more
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'Just staggering': UN says households waste 1 bn meals a day
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ROBO SPACE

Brain prostheses create a sense of touch
Rats can't usually see infrared light, but they have "touched" it in a Duke University lab. The rats sensed the light as a sensation of touch after Duke neurobiologist Miguel Nicolelis and his ... more
TECH SPACE

Engineers show feasibility of superfast materials
University of Utah engineers demonstrated it is feasible to build the first organic materials that conduct electricity on their edges, but act as an insulator inside. These materials, called organic ... more
TECH SPACE

Lessons from nature could lead to the creation of new materials
In a sweeping review of the field of bio-inspired engineering and biomimicry in the Feb. 15 issue of the journal Science, two engineers at the University of California, San Diego, identify three cha ... more
TECH SPACE
Water On The Moon: It's Been There All Along

Building a lunar base with 3D printing

US, Europe team up for moon fly-by


TECH SPACE
NASA Rover Confirms First Drilled Mars Rock Sample

Rover finds gray rock beneath Red Planet's surface

Bleach could hamper Mars life search


TECH SPACE
Kennedy Engineers Designing Plant Habitat For ISS

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TECH SPACE
Welcome Aboard Shenzhou 10

Reshuffle for Tiangong

China to launch 20 spacecrafts in 2013

TIME AND SPACE

The quantum coin toss
All unpredictability in the world around us, be it the outcome of a coin flip or the weather conditions a month from now, is a fundamentally quantum rather than classical phenomenon. This is t ... more
MARSDAILY

NASA Rover Confirms First Drilled Mars Rock Sample
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet. No rover has ever drilled ... more
PHYSICS NEWS

A Simple View Of Gravity Does Not Fully Explain The Distribution Of Stars In Crowded Clusters
Gravity remains the dominant force on large astronomical scales, but when it comes to stars in young star clusters the dynamics in these crowded environments cannot be simply explained by the pull o ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

A cool discovery about the Sun's next-door twin
ESA's Herschel space observatory has detected a cool layer in the atmosphere of Alpha Centauri A, the first time this has been seen in a star beyond our own Sun. The finding is not only important fo ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Comet Pan-Starrs Will Be Visible In Northern Hemisphere In March

IRON AND ICE

Space likely for rare earths search, scientists say

STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Searching for the Solar System's Chemical Recipe

EXO WORLDS

Searching for a Pale Blue SPHERE in the Universe

SOLAR SCIENCE

NASA's SDO Shows A Little Rain On the Sun

SOLAR SCIENCE

Understanding the Magnetosphere Better Than Ever

LAUNCH PAD

NASA Seeks University Participants for Summer Rocket Workshop

SATURN DAILY

Cassini Sheds Light On Cosmic Particle Accelerators

ROCKET SCIENCE

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PHYSICS NEWS

Physicists discover key to ultra-stable bearings

NASA Awards Final Space Launch System Advanced Booster Contract

India to launch seven satellites on February 25

NASA plant study headed to space station

Rover finds gray rock beneath Red Planet's surface

'Explorers' to don Google Internet glasses

Asteroid Steins' hidden gems

Russian Fireball Largest Ever Detected by CTBTO's Infrasound Sensors

Temporary Comm Loss Interrupts Crew's Day

Radar Movie of Asteroid 2012 DA14

The Asteroids are Coming

Asteroid 2012 DA14 Speeds Away From Earth

Deputy Prime Minister Backs New Space Defense System

Scientists Want To Vaporize Asteroids That Threaten Earth

Atlas: The Asteroid Terrestrial-Impact Last Alert System

The Russian Meteorite

Russia Meteor Not Linked to Asteroid Flyby

How Do We Know the Russian Meteor and 2012 DA14 Aren't Related?

Radio Telescope, GPS Use Ionosphere to Detect Nuclear Tests

Lockheed Martin's SMSS UAV Vehicle Operates Via Satellite Control

First Flight of nEUROn UAV Demonstrator Conducted

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