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July 01, 2014

Ancient Worlds Could Be Kept 'Alive' by Gravitational Nudges
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For more than three billion years now, Earth's ability to support life has been a delicate balancing act. Climatic periods of severe cold or hot have brought life to its knees. Glaciers covered the planet in the "snowball Earth" epoch, which ended some 650 million years ago. During the extremeheat of the early Triassic period around 250 million years ago, tropical sea temperatures exceeded 100 degrees Fahrenheit. But the temperature pendulum has always swung back from these extremes, thanks in lar ... read more

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Distant comet 'sweats' two glasses of water per second Unprecedented measurement of a deep-space comet has found the icy body to be losing about two small glasses of water every second, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Monday. ... more		Aerojet Rocketdyne Completes J-2X Testing Aerojet Rocketdyne recently completed its final J-2X test series at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. Over a period of three years, Aerojet Rocketdyne teams manufactured, assembled and tested fou ... more		Astronaut health check with single drop of blood ESA is building a prototype tester for crews on the International Space Station to provide diagnoses within a few minutes from a pinprick of blood. The ultimate device will offer rapid health checks ... more
				New Type of Dust in Martian Atmosphere Discovered A group of French and Russian scientists, including three MIPT specialists, has discovered a new peculiarity of the Martian atmosphere. The scientists had analyzed satellite-acquired data and conclu ... more		New NASA Images Highlight US Air Quality Improvement Anyone living in a major U.S. city for the past decade may have noticed a change in the air. The change is apparent in new NASA satellite images unveiled this week that demonstrate the reduction of ... more

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Curiosity travels through ancient glaciers on Mars 3,500 million years ago the Martian crater Gale, through which the NASA rover Curiosity is currently traversing, was covered with glaciers, mainly over its central mound. Very cold liquid water also ... more		NASA plans to colonize Mars NASA may not be planning to put a human on Mars until the 2030s, but the agency's top scientist said colonizing the planet is a key part of its agenda - as well as its search for extraterrestrial li ... more		US Ukraine proposals 'not a real plan': Germany Russian says key city falls;. Missiles kill 10; Zelensky tries to revive peace efforts UK and MBDA announce major anti-drone laser contract		Chinese scientists prepare for lunar base life support system Beijing (XNA) Jul 01, 2014 China is a step closer to setting up a lunar base after a 105-day manned airtight test, in which the bio-regenerative life support systems of Lunar Palace 1 sustained the ... more
				Webb Telescope Microshutters Journey into NASA Clean Room NASA's James Webb Space Telescope microshutters have taken a short jaunt in preparation of its million mile journey in four years. The microshutters were moved into a NASA Goddard cleanroom for test ... more		China plans to land rover on Mars by 2020 China is planning to land a rover on Mars by 2020 and bring back samples from the Red Planet a decade later, according to a top scientist with the country's Lunar Exploration Program. The Mars ... more

Closing the recycling circle The International Space Station welcomes up to eight supply vessels a year bringing oxygen, water and food for the six astronauts continuously circling our planet. Building, launching, docking and u ... more		USC scientists create new battery that's cheap, clean, rechargeable...and organic Scientists at USC have developed a water-based organic battery that is long lasting, built from cheap, eco-friendly components. The new battery - which uses no metals or toxic materials - is intende ... more		Study reveals why mysterious structures within Earth's mantle hold clues to life here Advanced air filter could enable building vents to capture carbon and reduce energy use Boos, blowups and last-minute pause as a chaotic COP30 closes out		Study links Greenland ice sheet collapse, sea level rise 400,000 years ago A new study suggests that a warming period more than 400,000 years ago pushed the Greenland ice sheet past its stability threshold, resulting in a nearly complete deglaciation of southern Greenland ... more
World's first magnetic hose created The magnetic hose designed by the researchers consists of a ferromagnetic cylinder covered by a superconductor material, a surprisingly simple design given the complicated theoretical calculations a ... more		How repeatable is evolutionary history? Writing about the weird soft-bodied fossils found in the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies, paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould noted that of 25 initial body plans exhibited by the fossils, all but ... more		Light-emitting diode treatments outperform traditional lighting methods In Canada, where outdoor growing seasons are limited, sales from greenhouse fruit and vegetable production operations still surpass $1.1 billion annually. Finding more efficient methods for providin ... more		NASA's 'flying saucer' tests new Mars-landing technology NASA sent a saucer-like vehicle high into the sky Saturday to test technology for a future Mars landing, but its parachute tangled when deployed and the spacecraft splashed into the Pacific Ocean. ... more

	Space station astronauts wager friendly bet on USA vs. Germany match Millions of people around the globe will tune in today to watch the Americans take on Germany in each team's final group stage match at the World Cup in Brazil. But only three of those millions will be watching from space. ... more		Orion's parachutes help it land safely after 10-second free fall NASA's Orion capsule is one step closer to the real deal after the spacecraft's parachute system was successfully deployed yesterday. ... more

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