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July 14, 2015

NASA's Three-Billion-Mile Journey to Pluto Reaches Historic Encounter
Laurel MD (SPX) Jul 15, 2015
After a decade-long journey through our solar system, New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface - roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India - making it the first-ever space mission to explore a world so far from Earth. "I'm delighted at this latest accomplishment by NASA, another first that demonstrates once again how the United States leads the world in space," said John Holdren, assistant to the President for Science and Technolog ... read more

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US spacecraft whizzes past Pluto in historic flyby An unmanned NASA spacecraft whizzed by Pluto on Tuesday, making its closest approach in the climax of a decade-long journey to explore the dwarf planet for the first time, the US space agency said. ... more		Never Get Lost on Mars Again With NASA's New Red Planet Map An application called 'Mars Trek', which was released by NASA on Friday, lets you explore the red planet from your computer or mobile phone. The volcanos and craters of Mars can now be explore ... more		China Focus: Sino-UK remote sensing satellite constellation launched Three one-meter resolution optical Earth observation satellites were successfully launched early Saturday, according to operator Twenty First Century Aerospace Technology Co. Ltd. (21AT). The satell ... more
				Russia's GLONASS Proves More Than a Match for America's GPS Russia's space-based GLONASS navigation system outmatches its US analogue GPS in a number of parameters: it works better at northern latitudes, and it covers the planet with a fewer number of satell ... more		What happens when cosmic giants meet galactic dwarfs? When two different sized galaxies smash together, the larger galaxy stops the smaller one making new stars, according to a study of more than 20,000 merging galaxies. The research also found that wh ... more

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China's Beidou navigation system to track flights China will use its homegrown Beidou satellite navigation system (BDS) to track civil flights, in an attempt to avoid disasters like the Malaysian MH 370. The Civil Aviation Administration of C ... more		Pinterest CEO sees site's future in its 'catalog of ideas' Pinterest is not a social network but a "catalog of ideas" to help people discover and try new things in their lives, founder and chief executive Ben Silbermann says. ... more		Andrei Belousov: The economist in charge of Russia's army China says Russian leader Vladimir Putin to visit this week Putin's defence shake-up: 'Preparing for a long confrontation'		Robots under test for oil and gas rig duty A robot building on ESA's ExoMars rover is bidding to win a place on oil and gas production rigs around the world, to work in remote and hazardous environments. This robot, developed by a team led b ... more
				Last Portrait of Pluto's Puzzling Spots Three billion miles from Earth and just two and a half million miles from Pluto, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has taken its best image of four dark spots that continue to captivate. The spot ... more		British military should focus on drones, spy tech: Cameron Britain's defence forces should spend more of their budget on spy planes, drones and covert forces to fight extremist militants, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Monday. ... more

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NASA data shows surfer-shaped waves in near-Earth space The universe overflows with repeating patterns. From the smallest cells to the largest galaxies, scientists are often rewarded by observing similar patterns in vastly different places. One such patt ... more		Estimating Earth's last pole reversal using radiometric dating The Earth's magnetic field periodically reverses such that the north magnetic pole becomes the south magnetic pole. The latest reversal is called by geologists the Matuyama-Brunhes boundary (MBB), a ... more		NASA chooses UF mission to monitor Earth's water and ice Researchers identify fastest rate of natural carbon dioxide rise over the last 50,000 years Brazil's flooded south paralyzed as rivers swell, again		Superconductor could be realized in a broken Lorenz invariant theory Today theoretical physicists are facing the difficulty that General Relativity is not (pertubatively) renormalizable, and find that it is very hard to construct the quantum theory of gravity with LI ... more
IBM unveils 'breakthrough' computer chip IBM on Thursday unveiled a powerful new chip which the company says could boost computing power of "everything from smartphones to spacecraft." ... more		Graphene gets competition Graphene, the only one atom thick carbon network, achieved overnight fame with the 2010 Nobel Prize. But now comes competition: Such layers can also be formed by black phosphorous. Chemists at the T ... more		New insight into the fundamentals of solid state physics A team at HZB has carried out the first detailed study of how magnetic and geometric ordering mutually influence one another in crystalline samples of spinel. To achieve this, the group synthesized ... more		Could black phosphorus be the next silicon? As scientists continue to hunt for a material that will make it possible to pack more transistors on a chip, new research from McGill University and Universite de Montreal adds to evidence that blac ... more

	Hopping towards a better soft robot Traditional industrial robots are rigid - mostly metal - and are fast, precise and powerful. Their speed and precision comes at the cost of complexity and can often pose a danger to humans who get t ... more		3-D-printed robot is hard at heart, soft on the outside Engineers at Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego, have created the first robot with a 3D-printed body that transitions from a rigid core to a soft exterior. The robot is c ... more

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