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September 08, 2015

One small step for man as astronaut controls robot from space
Noordwijk, Netherlands (AFP) Sept 8, 2015
European experts have pulled off a major advance that might one day help build new worlds in space after an astronaut in the International Station Station remotely guided a robot on Earth by feel. Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen performed the breath-taking experiment in which he placed a peg into a very tight hole on Monday under the careful control of the European Space Agency. While orbiting some 400 kilometres (250 miles) above Earth, Mogensen took control of the Interact Centaur rover whic ... read more

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				Hubble survey unlocks clues to star birth in neighboring galaxy In a survey of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope images of 2,753 young, blue star clusters in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy (M31), astronomers have found that M31 and our own galaxy have a similar pe ... more		Cosmic Tangles Expanded Universe at a Rate of Knots Scientists have come up with a knotty theory to explain why the early universe expanded after the Big Bang. The early inflation of the Universe which took place a fraction of a second after th ... more

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Using Stellar 'Twins' to Reach the Outer Limits of the Galaxy Astronomers from the University of Cambridge have developed a new, highly accurate method of measuring the distances between stars, which could be used to measure the size of the galaxy, enabling gr ... more		Evidence of ancient life discovered in mantle rocks deep below the seafloor Ancient rocks harbored microbial life deep below the seafloor, reports a team of scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Virginia Tech, and the University of Bremen. This ne ... more		Using ultrathin sheets to discover new class of wrapped shapes Materials scientists seeking to encapsulate droplets of one fluid within another often use molecules like soap or micro- or nano-particles to do it. One distinct way of wrapping a droplet is to use ... more		What Happened to Early Mars' Atmosphere Scientists may be closer to solving the mystery of how Mars changed from a world with surface water billions of years ago to the arid Red Planet of today. A new analysis of the largest known deposit ... more

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