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January 30, 2015

Habitable Evaporated Cores
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I recently published a paper in Astrobiology that shows that it is possible to form Earth-mass potentially habitable planets from mini-Neptunes that migrate into the habitable zones of mid- to late M dwarf stars. Click here to see the poster I presented at the March 2014 EBI (Exoplanets, Biosignatures and Instruments) conference in Tucson, AZ. Also, check out the abstract from a talk I gave at AAS. Low mass M dwarf stars make up nearly three-quarters of the stars in our galaxy. Because they are sm ... read more

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Cassini Catches Titan Naked in the Solar Wind Researchers studying data from NASA's Cassini mission have observed that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, behaves much like Venus, Mars or a comet when exposed to the raw power of the solar wind. The o ... more		UNH Scientists Launch "CubeSats" into Radiation Belts Twin, pintsized satellites built in part at the University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center will be launched into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California at 9:20 a.m. (EST) Thursda ... more		Japan delays launch of satellite due to weather Japan on Thursday postponed the launch of an information gathering satellite with a radar reconnaissance payload for the Japanese government due to weather. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Age ... more
				Several Drives This Week Put Opportunity Near Marathon Distance Opportunity is on the west rim of Endeavour Crater heading towards "Marathon Valley," a putative location for abundant clay minerals now about 984 feet (300 meters) away. The project is operat ... more		The mouth of the beast In 1976 several elongated comet-like objects were discovered on pictures taken with the UK Schmidt Telescope in Australia. Because of their appearance, they became known as cometary globules even th ... more

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British Satellite to Be Launched by Russian Proton-M Carrier Rocket The launch, slated for 15:31 Moscow time on Sunday, will be the first in this year's program. The contract to orbit the Inmarsat 5F2 was inked by the Russian-American International Launch Services C ... more		NASA Engineer Advances New Daytime Star Tracker Scientists who use high-altitude scientific balloons have high hopes for their instruments in the future. Although the floating behemoths that carry their instruments far into the stratosphere can s ... more		Russia offers to extend nuclear arms limits with US Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defense pact Brazil, Chile sign defense agreement		NASA TV Coverage Reset for Launch of Newest Earth-Observing Mission NASA's Soil Moisture Active Passive mission (SMAP) launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, now is scheduled for 6:20 a.m. PST (9:20 a.m. EST) Friday, Jan. 30, with a three-minute launch w ... more
				NASA's New Radiometer Tunes In to Soil's Frequency Whether it's a parched field or a boggy marsh, the ground naturally emits microwave energy. Not much energy - but enough that NASA's newest, more technologically advanced radiometer instrument can d ... more		STRATCOM, Germany make arrangement to share space services, data U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM) signed a technical arrangement with Germany to share Space Situational Awareness (SSA) services and information, Jan. 9. The arrangement, signed by Maj. Gen. ... more

Maintaining INF Treaty is Russian, US Interest The United States should avoid escalating a response to Russia's alleged violation of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty and Moscow should assure Washington it will comply with treat ... more		A new instrument to study the extreme universe What are the high-energy processes in the Universe that occur in the immediate vicinity of a black hole? To study a question like this one cannot simply utilize a high-resolution telescope. Even wit ... more		Ex-US climate envoy: Trump threatening 'consensus science' worldwide How did an Indian zoo get the world's most endangered great ape? Australian scientists grapple with 'despicable' butterfly heist		Large-scale analytics system for predicting major events described EMBERS is a large-scale big data analytics system designed to use publically available data to predict population-level societal events such as civil unrest or disease outbreaks. The usefulnes ... more
Missing link in metal physics explains Earth's magnetic field Earth's magnetic field is crucial for our existence, as it shields the life on our planet's surface from deadly cosmic rays. It is generated by turbulent motions of liquid iron in Earth's core. Iron ... more		membrane will make batteries safer, thinner New battery technology from the University of Michigan should be able to prevent the kind of fires that grounded Boeing 787 Dreamliners in 2013. The innovation is an advanced barrier between the ele ... more		Researchers use sound to slow down, speed up, and block light How do you make an optical fiber transmit light only one way? Researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have experimentally demonstrated, for the first time, the phenomenon of ... more		Graphene edges can be tailor-made Theoretical physicists at Rice University are living on the edge as they study the astounding properties of graphene. In a new study, they figure out how researchers can fracture graphene nanoribbon ... more

	Eyeglasses that turn into sunglasses - at your command Imagine eyeglasses that can go quickly from clear to shaded and back again when you want them to, rather than passively in response to changes in light. Scientists report a major step toward t ... more		The laser pulse that gets shorter all by itself In a marathon, everyone starts at roughly the same place at roughly the same time. But the faster runners will gradually increase their lead, and in the end, the distribution of runners on the stree ... more

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