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July 21, 2016

Directed Energy invites public to participate in Voices of Humanity
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2016
For the first time ever, individuals will have the opportunity to send their own personal message and/or data into space via microchip. The project entitled "Voices of Humanity" is the creation of the Santa Barbara-based team of UCSB Physics Professor Phil Lubin, Ph.D. and Travis Brashears, an engineering physics major at U.C. Berkeley. Philip Lubin, a professor in physics at the University of California Santa Barbara, is the leading scientist on the endeavor. With his student Brashears who is workin ... read more

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SpaceX cargo ship arrives at space station SpaceX's unmanned Dragon cargo ship arrived Wednesday at the International Space Station, carrying nearly 2.5 tons of gear and supplies for the astronauts living in orbit, NASA said. ... more		NASA's Viking Data Lives on, Inspires 40 Years Later Forty years ago, NASA's Viking mission made history when it became the first mission to successfully land a fully operational spacecraft on Mars. This mission gave us our first real look at the Mart ... more		Opportunity Rover wrapping up work within Marathon Valley Opportunity is exploring 'Marathon Valley' on the rim of Endeavour crater, investigating outcrops for evidence of clay minerals. The rover is nearing the completion of its exploration within M ... more
				X marks the spot at the center of the Milky Way galaxy Two astronomers - with the help of Twitter - have uncovered the strongest evidence yet that an enormous X-shaped structure made of stars lies within the central bulge of the Milky Way Galaxy. ... more		Russian and US engineers plan manned moon mission Engineers in Russia and the US are completing a plan for a collaborative space program. The initiative would preserve the multinational alliance developed when the International Space Station (ISS) ... more

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NASA to Begin Testing Next Generation of Spacecraft Heat Exchangers Crew members aboard the International Space Station (ISS) are receiving a unique hardware delivery today that can help shape NASA's human journey beyond Earth and into deep space. The Phase Ch ... more		Asteroid that formed moon's Imbrium Basin may have been protoplanet-sized Around 3.8 billion years ago, an asteroid more than 150 miles across, roughly equal to the length of New Jersey, slammed into the Moon and created the Imbrium Basin - the right eye of the fabled Man ... more		Russia says neutralised 20 drones, 2 missiles Russian missile barrage on Ukraine city kills 18 Solomons' PM contender vows to abolish China security pact		First atmospheric study of Earth-sized exoplanets reveals rocky worlds On May 2, scientists from MIT, the University of Liege, and elsewhere announced they had discovered a planetary system, a mere 40 light years from Earth, that hosts three potentially habitable, Eart ... more
				Feature: ET, when will we see you Are we alone? Scientists say they are on the cusp of answering the age-old question about extraterrestrial (ET) life. "We are lucky to be in a special era, with the next generation of giant te ... more		China's satnav industry grows 29 pct in 2015 The output value of China's satellite navigation and location-based service industry grew 29.2 percent year on year in 2015, with the country's self-developed BeiDou Navigation Satellite System maki ... more

2nd Integrated Air and Missile Defense - Securing the Complex Air Domain: Requirements for Sustainable, Global, and Reliable Solutions to Next Generation Air & Missile Threats - 28-30 September, 2016 | Washington D.C.

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Russia to deploy latest air defence systems in Crimea Russia will deploy its most advanced S-400 air defence systems to the annexed Crimea peninsula in August, a military official said Friday. ... more		N. Korea says missile tests simulated nuclear strike on South North Korea said Wednesday its latest ballistic missile tests trialled detonation devices for possible nuclear strikes on US targets in South Korea and were personally monitored by supreme leader Kim Jong-Un. ... more		Indonesia evacuating thousands after volcano erupts, causes tsunami threat Vote counting starts in Solomon Islands as China, US trade barbs 'Human-induced' climate change behind deadly Sahel heatwave: study		Raytheon, Kongsberg to produce Naval Strike Missile in U.S. Raytheon and Kongsberg are finalizing plans to assemble, integrate and test the Naval Strike Missile in the United States, Raytheon announced Wednesday. ... more
The pains and strains of a continental breakup Every now and then in Earth's history, a pair of continents draws close enough to form one. There comes a time, however, when they must inevitably part ways. Now scientists at Australia's Eart ... more		Long-awaited breakthrough in the reconstruction of warm climate phases Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) have overcome a seeming weakness of global climate models. They had previously not been able to simu ... more		Researchers design minimalist microrobots for tiny tasks For precise, straightforward tasks, unnecessary complexity is the enemy. That's why scientists at Drexel University are working to design smaller, simpler microrobots. ... more		3D printer helps scientists scale up nanostructures Nanostructures are prized for their seemingly infinite material qualities, whether mechanical, chemical, electrical or optical. ... more

	The birth of quantum holography Until quite recently, creating a hologram of a single photon was believed to be impossible due to fundamental laws of physics. However, scientists at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, ha ... more		Scientists generate first direct short-wavelength spin waves Computers and smart technologies are approaching a size limit. Components can't get much smaller than they already are without easily overheating. ... more

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