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July 22, 2013

In the Zone: The Search For Habitable Planets
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 22, 2013
There is only one planet we know of, so far, that is drenched with life. That planet is Earth, as you may have guessed, and it has all the right conditions for critters to thrive on its surface. Do other planets beyond our solar system, called exoplanets, also host life forms? Astronomers still don't know the answer, but they search for potentially habitable planets using a handful of criteria. Ideally, they want to find planets just like Earth, since we know without a doubt that life took root he ... read more

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Early hardware delivery enables deployment of crucial missile defense radar The Missile Defense Agency will soon have available a deployment-ready AN/TPY-2 ballistic missile defense radar to help counter the more than 6,300 ballistic missiles outside of U.S., NATO, Russian ... more		Russian 5G fighters boast cutting-edge life support systems The Russian Sukhoi T-50 5G fighter jet is equipped with cutting-edge computerized life support systems, including an oxygen station securing unlimited breathing gas supply and advanced pilot's compe ... more		Israel deploys Iron Dome near Red Sea resort of Eilat Israel deployed its Iron Dome missile defence system near the Red Sea resort of Eilat, which is close to the border with Egypt, an army spokeswoman said. ... more
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Unusual material expands dramatically under pressure If you squeeze a normal object in all directions, it shrinks in all directions. But a few strange materials will actually grow in one dimension when compressed. A team of chemists has now discovered ... more		Milikelvins drive droplet evaporation Evaporation is so common that everybody thinks it's a well understood phenomenon. Appearances can be, however, deceptive. Recently, a new, earlier not predicted mechanism of evaporation was discover ... more		Syrian troops move into Suwayda as violence continues 32 killed near Gaza aid sites, Hamas-run Health Ministry says Ukraine's Zelensky seeks cease-fire meeting next week		Graphene 'onion rings' have delicious potential Concentric hexagons of graphene grown in a furnace at Rice University represent the first time anyone has synthesized graphene nanoribbons on metal from the bottom up - atom by atom. As seen under a ... more
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First atlas on oceanic plankton In an international collaborative project, scientists have recorded the times, places and concentrations of oceanic plankton occurrences worldwide. Their data has been collected in a global atlas th ... more		Stanford scientists break record for thinnest light-absorber Stanford University scientists have created the thinnest, most efficient absorber of visible light on record. The nanosize structure, thousands of times thinner than an ordinary sheet of paper, coul ... more		New deep sea mining rules lack consensus despite US pressure Lightning strikes kill 33 people in eastern India From Antarctica to Brussels, hunting climate clues in old ice		A snow line in an infant solar system: Astronomers take first images Like the elevation in the Rocky Mountains where the snow caps begin, a snow line in a solar system is the point where falling temperatures freeze and clump together water or other chemical compounds ... more
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