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May 05, 2015

Did dinosaur-killing asteroid trigger largest lava flows on Earth?
Berkeley CA (SPX) May 05, 2015
The asteroid that slammed into the ocean off Mexico 66 million years ago and killed off the dinosaurs probably rang the Earth like a bell, triggering volcanic eruptions around the globe that may have contributed to the devastation, according to a team of University of California, Berkeley, geophysicists. Specifically, the researchers argue that the impact likely triggered most of the immense eruptions of lava in India known as the Deccan Traps, explaining the "uncomfortably close" coincidence betw ... read more

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PSI Researchers Look Back at Mercury MESSENGER Accomplishments As NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft ends its scientific operations by crashing into Mercury today, Planetary Science Institute researchers looked back at a mission that provided new discoveries on the pl ... more		Towards the realization of a global neutrino infrastructure The agency1 representatives and laboratory directors2 gathered at the 2nd International Meeting on Large Neutrino Infrastructures3 hosted at Fermilab on 20-21 April 2015, reiterated their firm belie ... more		NASA Confirms Electromagnetic Drive Produces Thrust in Vacuum An electromagnetic drive being developed by NASA to operate without rocket fuel, in a vacuum, is seemingly defying the laws of physics, and raising hopes for the future of space travel. Scient ... more
				The Dark Matter 'conspiracy' Surprising gravitational similarities between spiral and elliptical galaxies have been discovered by an international team, including astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology, implying th ... more		NASA's Chandra Suggests Black Holes Gorging at Excessive Rates A group of unusual giant black holes may be consuming excessive amounts of matter, according to a new study using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory. This finding may help astronomers understand how t ... more

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UH-led team observes the solar eclipse over the Arctic The international Solar Wind Sherpas team, led by Dr. Shadia Habbal of the University of Hawaii at Manoa Institute for Astronomy, braved Arctic weather to successfully observe the total solar eclips ... more		NASA completes MESSENGER mission with surface impact Mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Md., confirmed today that NASA's MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSEN ... more		U.S. defense in free fall Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defense pact Brazil, Chile sign defense agreement		Rock Spire in 'Spirit of St. Louis Crater' on Mars An elongated crater called "Spirit of St. Louis," with a rock spire in it, dominates a recent scene from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. Opportunity compl ... more
				How a New Telescope Will Measure the Expansion of the Universe For the past several years, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Lab (Berkeley Lab) have been planning the construction of and developing technologies for a very ... more		Gravity data show that Antarctic ice sheet is melting increasingly faster During the past decade, Antarctica's massive ice sheet lost twice the amount of ice in its western portion compared with what it accumulated in the east, according to Princeton University researcher ... more

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French-Italian military communications satellite launched A military communications satellite for Italy and France has been launched into geostationary orbit by the Space Alliance of Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio. ... more		Russia Conducts Simulated Launches of Iskander-M Missiles An Iskander-M missile unit of Russia's Eastern Military District performed a computer-simulated launch of one of Russia's most advanced rockets during a snap drill, the RMD's press spokesman Alexand ... more		GUARDIAN Tsunami Detection Tech Catches Wave in Real Time Galileo daughter mission named Celeste to strengthen navigation resilience How quantum computers can be validated when solving unsolvable problems		Lockheed Martin opens center for interceptor missile technology A laboratory has been opened in California by Lockheed Martin to develop next-generation target seekers for interceptor missiles. ... more
Russia Set to Deploy Tactical Drones in the Arctic Russian drones will be deployed in the Arctic and along the Northern Sea Route starting May 1 to monitor the climate situation and the deterioration of Arctic ice, as well as to aid in navigation an ... more		India Test-Fires Dhanush Missile From Ship The launch was carried out at 11:02 local time off the Odisha state coast. Dhanush is a maneuvering missile and is a naval variant of the Prithvi-II missile. It is capable of carrying a 500-kilogram ... more		Making robots more human Most people are naturally adept at reading facial expressions - from smiling and frowning to brow-furrowing and eye-rolling - to tell what others are feeling. Now scientists have developed ultra-sen ... more		Scientists discover salty aquifer and microbial habitat under Antarctica Using an airborne imaging system for the first time in Antarctica, scientists have discovered a vast network of unfrozen salty groundwater that may support previously unknown microbial life deep und ... more

	Chemists strike nano-gold with 4 new atomic structures Arranging gold, atomic staples and electron volts, chemists have drafted new nanoscale blueprints for low-energy structure capable of housing pharmaceuticals and oxygen atoms. Led by University of N ... more		New technique for exploring structural dynamics of nanoworld A new technique for visualizing the rapidly changing electronic structures of atomic-scale materials as they twist, tumble and traipse across the nanoworld is taking shape at the California Institut ... more

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Li-ion battery's inner workings revealed

Ultra-sensitive sensor detects individual electrons

Researchers develop acoustically driven controls for smartphones

Printing silicon on paper, with lasers

Heat makes electrons' spin in magnetic superconductors

Strong Evidence for Coronal Heating by Nanoflares

Telenor satellite begins post-launch maneuvers according to plan

Seeing Stars Through The Cloud

Arianespace to launch HellaSat-4/SGS-1 for Arabsat and KACST

First proton collisions should start in early June

Turkish firm joins NATO BMD support effort

Tidal tugs on Teflon faults drive slow-slipping earthquakes

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Aerospace Defense Force detects recon sats spying on Russia

Rapid Innovation Fund Award to the Remote Sensing Systems Directorate

MIPT researchers grow cardiac tissue on 'spider silk' substrate

N. Korea's Kim vows more satellite launches

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