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June 13, 2014

Radio Signals from Jupiter Could Aid Search for Life
Moffet Field CA (SPX) Jun 13, 2014
Powerful radio signals that Jupiter generates could be used to help researchers scan its giant moons for oceans that could be home to extraterrestrial life, according to a recent study submitted to the journal Icarus. Jupiter, the largest planet in the Solar System, possesses 67 known moons, including three giant icy moons that might possess liquid oceans underneath their frozen surfaces. Astrobiologists want to investigate Europa, Ganymede and Callisto for extraterrestrial life, as there is life ... read more

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New NASA Space Observatory to Study Carbon Conundrums NASA's first spacecraft dedicated to measuring carbon dioxide levels in Earth's atmosphere is in final preparations for a July 1 launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California. The Orbiting ... more		Herschel Sees Budding Stars and a Giant, Strange Ring The Herschel Space Observatory has uncovered a weird ring of dusty material while obtaining one of the sharpest scans to date of a huge cloud of gas and dust, called NGC 7538. The observations have ... more		Giant Telescopes Pair Up to Image Near-Earth Asteroid NASA scientists using Earth-based radar have produced sharp views of a recently discovered asteroid as it slid silently past our planet. Captured on June 8, 2014, the new views of the object designa ... more
				Massive solar flares threaten GPS The Sun has recently emitted two enormous and potentially harmful X-class flares during an active stage of its weather cycle, the Space Reporter wrote. On Tuesday, the Sun emitted he so-called ... more		Proton Accident Investigation Complete - Roscosmos The investigation into the crash of the Proton-M carrier rocket with communications satellite Express ??4R is complete, and all of the documents have been transferred to the Russian Government, a re ... more

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NOAA retires NOAA-16 polar satellite After more than 13 years of helping predict weather and climate patterns and save lives in search and rescue operations, NOAA has announced it has turned off the NOAA-16 Polar-Orbiting Environmental ... more		Boeing reveals prototype spacecraft for human transport Boeing has revealed its CST-100 capsule, the spacecraft it hopes will taxi NASA astronauts back and forth from the International Space Station come mid-2017. ... more		Trump to U.N.: 'Your countries are going to hell' Taiwan running out of time for satellite communications, space chief tells AFP US lawmaker warns of military 'misunderstanding' risk with China		NASA's warp-speed mission leads to Star Trek-like spacecraft concept Since 2012, physicist Harold White has been working with engineers at NASA to determine whether a spacecraft could be designed to reach "warp speed" - to travel faster than the speed of light. ... more
				New paper amplifies hypothesis on human language's deep origins On the island of Java, in Indonesia, the silvery gibbon, an endangered primate, lives in the rainforests. In a behavior that's unusual for a primate, the silvery gibbon sings: It can vocalize long, ... more		How Earth avoided global warming, last time around Geochemists have calculated a huge rise in atmospheric CO2 was only avoided by the formation of a vast mountain range in the middle of the ancient supercontinent, Pangea. This work is being presente ... more

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Snowballs to soot: The clumping density of many things seems to be a standard Particles of soot floating through the air and comets hurtling through space have at least one thing in common: 0.36. That, reports a research group at the National Institute of Standards and Techno ... more		Geologists Confirm Oxygen Levels of Ancient Oceans Zunli Lu and Xiaoli Zhou, an assistant professor and Ph.D. student, respectively, in the Department of Earth Sciences, are part of an international team of researchers whose findings have been publi ... more		Toxic homes a lasting legacy of Los Angeles fires 'Greatest con job ever': Trump trashes climate science at UN Turkey facing worst drought in over 50 years		500-million-year-old fossils reveal creature on the way to evolving jaws For more than a century, scientists have searched for fossils that offer new clues as to when and how our earliest ancestors split off from their invertebrate brethren and began developing bones. But finding intact early vertebrates, much less well-preserved invertebrates, is exceedingly difficult - their soft bodies easily malformed by the pressures shifting rocks and weather. ... more
Mutualink Connects Soldiers with Disparate Tactical Networks and C2 Mutualink has announced the development of a new Data Gateway providing a secure and easy way for soldiers to exchange tactical and positional information in real time. The technology enables milita ... more		Drones for fun, games and more It may be a while before drones start patrolling American skies or delivering packages, but kids and adults will be able to command their own personal flying devices very soon. ... more		No Limits to Human Effects on Clouds Understanding how clouds affect the climate has been a difficult proposition. What controls the makeup of the low clouds that cool the atmosphere or the high ones that trap heat underneath? How does ... more		Making artificial vision look more natural In laboratory tests, researchers have used electrical stimulation of retinal cells to produce the same patterns of activity that occur when the retina sees a moving object. Although more work remain ... more

	Has solar activity influence on the Earth's global warming? A recent study demonstrates the existence of significant resonance cycles and high correlations between solar activity and the Earth's averaged surface temperature during centuries. This provides a ... more		Russian Soyuz-2.1b rocket to undergo final testing Russia's Aerospace Defense Forces proceeded to the final cycle of prelaunch tests of Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket, installed onto the Plesetsk State Testing Cosmodrome, spokesman for Russiaa's Aerospac ... more

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NASA again delays flying saucer test

Maggie Aderin-Pocock goes boldly into space exploration

Nearby satellite galaxies challenge standard model of galaxy formation

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Exotic Particle Confirmed

Researchers find major West Antarctic glacier melting from geothermal sources

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