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February 17, 2015

Close Encounters of a Scholz Kind
Rochester NY (SPX) Feb 17, 2015
group of astronomers from the US, Europe, Chile and South Africa have determined that 70,000 years ago a recently discovered dim star is likely to have passed through the solar system's distant cloud of comets, the Oort Cloud. No other star is known to have ever approached our solar system this close - five times closer than the current closest star, Proxima Centauri. In a paper published in Astrophysical Journal Letters, lead author Eric Mamajek from the University of Rochester and his collaborat ... read more

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Scientists fail to explain strange plumes spotted on Martian surface In 2012, dozens of amateur astronomers spotted large plumes of dust rising off the surface of Mars. More than two years later, scientists still don't have a suitable explanation for the phenomenon. ... more		NASA wants to send a submarine to Saturn's moon Titan The seas of Titan, Saturn's largest moon, are no place for astronauts. The frigid bodies of liquified natural gas are a study in inhabitability. But scientists suggest its possible some strange forms of life exist under the of icy surface of Kraken Mare, Titan's largest sea. ... more		NASA Aircraft, Spacecraft Aid Atmospheric River Study NASA is part of CalWater 2015, a massive research effort to study atmospheric rivers this month. Atmospheric rivers are flows of tropical moisture across the Pacific Ocean to the West Coast, where t ... more
				Europe destroys last space truck to ISS The European Space Agency (ESA) on Sunday said it had destroyed its last supply ship to the International Space Station, bringing a seven-year venture to a successful close. ... more		Scientists try to unravel warming's impact on jet stream A winter of strange weather and turbulent transatlantic flights has scientists asking: Has a predicted climate imbalance of the jet stream begun? ... more

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Global rainfall satellites require massive overhaul Circling hundreds of miles above Earth, weather satellites are working round-the-clock to provide rainfall data that are key to a complex system of global flood prediction. A new Cornell Unive ... more		Scientists call for international authority on climate geoengineering US scientists and legal experts are calling for a strong, international authority to regulate any man-made interventions meant to combat global warming, amid fears that the technology could be harmful to the environment. ... more		Philippine civilian convoy sails towards disputed reef US tells Ukraine 'aid on its way' as Russia claims advances N. Korea's Kim calls for 'epochal change' in war preparations		Saab producing components, sub-systems for Marine Corps radar Saab's U.S. subsidiary has been contracted to provide components and sub-systems of the U.S. Marine Corps AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task Oriented Radar system. ... more
				Better batteries inspired by lowly snail shells Scientists are using biology to improve the properties of lithium ion batteries. Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) have isolated a peptide, a type of biological mole ... more		Cesium atoms shaken, not stirred, to create elusive excitation in superfluid Scientists discovered in 1937 that liquid helium-4, when chilled to extremely low temperatures, became a superfluid that could leak through glass, overflow its containers, or eternally gush like a f ... more

AFSPC thinks outside of the box Air Force Space Command is making new waves in improvements and creativity with their cost-saving "Out of the Box Innovation" program. The purpose of the program is to collect strategically fo ... more		Russian Strategic Missile Forces Begin Wide-Range Drills in 12 Regions Russia's Strategic Missile Forces have begun wide-range exercises in 12 regions in the country, the Russian Defense Ministry said Thursday. "Russia's SMF with more than 30 missile battalions i ... more		AI Ethics in the Digital Afterlife: Safeguards Needed to Avoid Unwanted AI "Hauntings" Deep magma study enhances volcanic eruption predictions Flour and Oats Power Biohybrid Robot for Reforestation		Measurement of key molecule increases accuracy of combustion models Sandia National Laboratories researchers are the first to directly measure hydroperoxyalkyl radicals - a class of reactive molecules denoted as "QOOH" - that are key in the chain of reactions that ... more
Frontline Innovation: DARPA to put Fab Lab at Navy Ship Maintenance Center DARPA and the Navy recently agreed to locate a fabrication laboratory, or Fab Lab, at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Maintenance Center (MARMC, pronounced "mar-mack") in Norfolk, Virginia, under DARPA's ... more		Team makes stride in explaining 30-year-old 'hidden order' physics mystery A new explanation for a type of order, or symmetry, in an exotic material made with uranium may lead to enhanced computer displays and data storage systems, and more powerful superconducting magnets ... more		Switching superconductivity by light A research team led by Prof. Hiroshi M. Yamamoto of the Institute for Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Sciences has developed a novel superconducting transistor which can be switche ... more		One-atom-thin silicon transistors hold promise for super-fast computing Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering have created the first transistors made of silicene, the world's thinnest silicon material. Their research holds the ... more

	Scientists get first glimpse of a chemical bond being born Scientists have used an X-ray laser at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to get the first glimpse of the transition state where two atoms begin to form a weak bond on t ... more		Cosmic "Reionization" Is More Recent than Predicted The highly anticipated update of the analysis of data from the European Space Agency's Planck satellite starts with a first paper published in Astronomy and Astrophysics, which already holds in stor ... more

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