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July 21, 2015

Hawking launches biggest-ever search for alien life
London (AFP) July 20, 2015
British cosmologist Stephen Hawking on Monday launched the biggest-ever search for intelligent extraterrestrial life in a $100-million (92-million-euro), 10-year project to scan the heavens. Russian Silicon Valley entrepreneur Yuri Milner, who is funding the Breakthrough Listen initiative, said it would be the most intensive scientific search ever undertaken for signs of alien civilisation. "In an infinite universe, there must be other occurrences of life," Hawking said at the launch event at th ... read more

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Robot lab Philae 'silent', says concerned ground control Europe's robot lab Philae has fallen "silent" on the surface of a comet zipping towards the Sun, said ground controllers Monday who fear it may have shifted out of radio contact. ... more		Mysterious icy plains glimpsed on Pluto's surface Smooth, icy plains have been spotted on the surface of Pluto, in the latest images released Friday from a NASA spacecraft that flew by the dwarf planet this week. ... more		The Planetary Sweet Spot Planet Earth is situated in what astronomers call the Goldilocks Zone - a sweet spot in a solar system where a planet's surface temperature is neither too hot nor too cold. An ideal distance from a ... more
				Preparing to build ESA's Jupiter mission Airbus Defence and Space in France has been selected as the prime industrial contractor for ESA's Juice mission to Jupiter and its icy moons. The agency's Industrial Policy Committee approved the aw ... more		Arecibo Observatory Provides The First Detailed Images Of A Rare Asteroid Scientists from the Arecibo Observatory observed asteroid (436724) 2011 UW158 on Tuesday, July 14th, providing the first detailed images of this asteroid from 6.9 million kilometers away (4.3 millio ... more

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CRS-7 Investigation Update On June 28, 2015, following a nominal liftoff, Falcon 9 experienced an overpressure event in the upper stage liquid oxygen tank approximately 139 seconds into flight, resulting in loss of mission. T ... more		RS-25 Engine Revs Up Again In auto racing parlance, NASA engineers put the "pedal to the metal" during a July 17 test of its Space Launch System (SLS) RS-25 rocket engine at Stennis Space Center. During a 535-second test, ope ... more		China emphasizes commitment to peaceful space activities ICEYE secures substantial growth investment to bolster its SAR satellite fleet Interconnected quantum system boosts long-distance secure communication		Green Bank Joins 'Breakthrough Listen' to Accelerate SETI Search The National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) will join in the most powerful, comprehensive, and intensive scientific search ever for signs of intelligent life in the Universe. The in ... more
				CSIRO strikes deal for ET search The Breakthrough Prize Foundation has signed a multi-million dollar agreement with CSIRO to use the organisation's 64-m Parkes radio telescope in eastern Australia to search for extraterrestrial int ... more		Lick Observatory Joins Massive Search for Intelligent Life in the Universe Internet investor Yuri Milner and physicist Stephen Hawking announced a $100 Million Breakthrough Prize Initiative to dramatically reinvigorate the search for intelligent life in the universe over t ... more

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Berkeley in $100 million search for extraterrestrial intelligence he Breakthrough Prize Foundation and its founder, internet investor Yuri Milner, have signed a contract with UC Berkeley to lead a major escalation in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, o ... more		NASA assists in pharmaceutical drone delivery An outdoor free clinic in Virginia was the first to receive an unmanned aerial delivery of pharmaceuticals Friday. ... more		Tracing life's origins: Cambridge team explores early Earth conditions Satellite technology from Surrey University aids Mauritius in illegal fishing detection West Antarctic ice shelf stability threatened by feedback loop		Revealed: Positronium's behavior in particle billiards Collision physics can be like a game of billiards. Yet in the microscopic world, the outcome of the game is hard to predict. Fire a particle at a group of other particles, and they may scatter, comb ... more
Density-near-zero acoustical metamaterial made in China When a sound wave hits an obstacle and is scattered, the signal may be lost or degraded. But what if you could guide the signal around that obstacle, as if the interfering barrier didn't even exist? ... more		More precise estimate of Avogadro's number to help redefine kilogram An ongoing international effort to redefine the kilogram by 2018 has been helped by recent efforts from a team researchers from Italy, Japan and Germany to correlate two of the most precise measurem ... more		Major development in the understanding of macroscopic quantum behavior For the first time, the wavelike behaviour of a room-temperature polariton condensate has been demonstrated in the laboratory on a macroscopic length scale. This significant development in the under ... more		Constant change The fundamental constants that govern the laws of nature are being determined with increasing accuracy, according to a review paper published this week in Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference ... more

	Chemotherapeutic coatings enhance tumor-frying nanoparticles In a move akin to adding chemical weapons to a firebomb, researchers at Duke University have devised a method for making a promising nanoscale cancer treatment even more deadly to tumors. The invent ... more		An elusive molecule -- finally revealed Scientists at the University of Arizona have discovered a mysterious molecule with a structure simple enough to make it into high school textbooks, yet so elusive that chemists have argued for more ... more

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