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August 18, 2014
TECH SPACE
The Future of CubeSats
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 18, 2014
To investigate climate change, scientists and engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center are developing the IceCube satellite, which will be no larger than a loaf of bread. In 2016, this satellite will mature technology that scientists will use to analyze cloud ice in the atmosphere. "We're using IceCube to test a radiometer that we want to fly on a big space mission," said Jeffrey Piepmeier, associate head of Goddard's Microwave Instruments and Technology Branch. "Climate scientists ha ... read more
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DEEP IMPACT

NASA, Partners Reveal California Meteorite's Rough and Tumble Journey
A meteorite that fell onto the roof of a house in Novato, California, on Oct. 17, 2012, has revealed a detailed picture of its origin and tumultuous journey through space and Earth's atmosphere. An ... more
STELLAR CHEMISTRY

New Milky Way maps help solve stubborn interstellar material mystery
An international team of sky scholars, including a key researcher from Johns Hopkins, has produced new maps of the material located between the stars in the Milky Way. The results should move astron ... more
EXO LIFE

Fossilized marine plankton tell the tale of the end Permian mass extinction
The worst mass extinction the Earth has ever seen occurred 252 million years ago. The boundary of the Permian and Triassic geological periods marked the demise of around 90 percent of marine species ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Seven tiny grains captured by Stardust likely visitors from interstellar space
Since 2006, when NASA's Stardust spacecraft delivered its aerogel and aluminum foil dust collectors to Earth, a team of scientists has combed through the collectors in search of rare, microscopic pa ... more


EARTH OBSERVATION

DigitalGlobe Announces Launch of WorldView-3
DigitalGlobe has announced the successful launch of WorldView-3, the company's sixth and most advanced super-spectral, high-resolution commercial satellite. The satellite launched on a Lockheed Mart ... more
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MARSDAILY

Curiosity Mars Rover Prepares for Fourth Rock Drilling
The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has chosen a rock that looks like a pale paving stone as the mission's fourth drilling target, if it passes engineers' evaluation. They call it "Bonanz ... more
DEEP IMPACT

Asteroid Defense - Casualty in Chilled US-Russia Relations
Space cooperation and even asteroid defense agreements between the United States and Russian governments have been sacrificed as a result of poor international relations, but according to a spokeswo ... more
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LAUNCH PAD

Aerojet Rocketdyne Supports Fifth Successful Launch in Six Weeks
Aerojet Rocketdyne supported the launch of the WorldView-3 commercial remote sensing satellite into orbit - the fifth launch in six weeks. The mission was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in ... more
IRON AND ICE

As Seen by Rosetta: Comet Surface Variations
A new image of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko shows the diversity of surface structures on the comet's nucleus. It was taken by the Rosetta spacecraft's OSIRIS narrow-angle camera on August 7, 2014 ... more
DEEP IMPACT

Study of Asteroid Holds Key To Earth's Future
Scientists have discovered the forces that keep a near-Earth asteroid, 1950 DA, from breaking apart, according to a research published in Nature. The asteroid, considered by NASA a potential threat ... more
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EARTH OBSERVATION

Watching the Winds Where Sea Meets Sky
The ocean covers 71 percent of Earth's surface and affects weather over the entire globe. Hurricanes and storms that begin far out over the ocean affect people on land and interfere with shipping at ... more
CHIP TECH

Pairing old technologies with new for next-generation electronic devices
UCL scientists have discovered a new method to efficiently generate and control currents based on the magnetic nature of electrons in semi-conducting materials, offering a radical way to develop a n ... more
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SOLAR DAILY

Solar Power, Origami-Style
As a high school student at a study program in Japan, Brian Trease would fold wrappers from fast-food cheeseburgers into cranes. He loved discovering different origami techniques in library books. ... more
ROBO SPACE

Robo-cook: android restaurant boots up in China
It's more teatime than Terminator - a restaurant in China is electrifying customers by using more than a dozen robots to cook and deliver food. ... more
CARBON WORLDS

Carbon dioxide 'sponge' could ease transition to cleaner energy
A sponge-like plastic that sops up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) might ease our transition away from polluting fossil fuels and toward new energy sources, such as hydrogen. The material - ... more
TECH SPACE

Learning from origami to design new materials
A challenge increasingly important to physicists and materials scientists in recent years has been how to design controllable new materials that exhibit desired physical properties rather than relyi ... more
CARBON WORLDS

New test reveals purity of graphene
Graphene may be tough, but those who handle it had better be tender. The environment surrounding the atom-thick carbon material can influence its electronic performance, according to researchers at ... more

CAR TECH

Electric cars fail to rev up car-mad Germans
Germans are mad about cars and Germany is ranked the most fuel-efficient country on the planet, but when it comes to electric vehicles, Europe's top economy is in the slow lane. ... more
SPACE TRAVEL

Yi So-yeon, Korea's first and only astronaut, resigns
South Korea's first and only astronaut, Yi So-yeon, has resigned her position, effectively ending the country's space program. ... more
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STATION NEWS

The ISS just dumped 3,300 lbs of space trash to burn up in Earth's atmosphere

STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Stardust grains may reveal first look at interstellar space

ROBO SPACE

'Flashmob' robots swarm themselves into shape

SHUTTLE NEWS

Shuttle replica lifted and put on top of 747 carrier

CARBON WORLDS

NASA Carbon Counter Reaches Final Orbit, Returns Data

FLORA AND FAUNA

Antarctic insect genome is smallest to date

SOLAR SCIENCE

Monitoring Solar Activity with SDO

SOLAR SCIENCE

Sun sets for a NASA solar monitoring spacecraft

CHIP TECH

Diamonds are a Quantum Computer's Best Friend

ENERGY TECH

LEDs made from 'wonder material' perovskite

New material structures bend like microscopic hair

Disney develops tool to design inflatable characters and structures

OMV puts hydrogen at front for fuel strategy

Researchers uncover novel process for creation of fuel and chemical compounds

Tiny chip mimics brain, delivers supercomputer speed

SyNAPSE Program Develops Advanced Brain-Inspired Chip

Research uncovers forces that hold gravity-defying asteroid together

From Pinpoint of Light to a Geologic World

Stardust Team Reports Discovery of First Potential Interstellar Particles

XCOR Lynx Spacecraft Lands at Monterey Jet Center

Tall Boulder Rolls Down Martian Hill, Lands Upright

Monitoring Meteor Showers from Space

Hubble Revisits a Globular Cluster's Age

Study finds physical link to strange electronic behavior

NIST ion duet offers tunable module for quantum simulator

Trapped atmospheric waves triggered more weather extremes

Sulfur signals in Antarctic snow reveal clues to climate, past and future

Megascale icebergs run aground

Water 'microhabitats' in oil show potential for extraterrestrial life, oil cleanup

Dialogue not 'displays of force' key to Korean peace: Pope

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