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November 20, 2015

Gravity, who needs it
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 20, 2015
What happens to your body in space? NASA's Human Research Program has been unfolding answers for over a decade. Space is a dangerous, unfriendly place. Isolated from family and friends, exposed to radiation that could increase your lifetime risk for cancer, a diet high in freeze-dried food, required daily exercise to keep your muscles and bones from deteriorating, a carefully scripted high-tempo work schedule, and confinement with three co-workers picked to travel with you by your boss. Scott Kell ... read more

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Satellite Sensors Would Deliver Global Fire Coverage Wildfires can wreak havoc on human health, property and communities, so it's imperative to detect them as early as possible. That's why NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, is dev ... more		ISS EarthKAM ready for student imaging request This week saw the return of an investigation on the International Space Station inspired by the first American woman in space, connecting students on Earth with a camera in space. The orbiting labor ... more		2015 and 1997 El Ninos: Deja vu, or Something New If you live anywhere El Nino has important impacts, you've heard forecasters say this year's event looks just like the monster El Nino of 1997-98. NASA satellite images of the Pacific Ocean in Novem ... more
				Tyson weighs in on New Horizons' Pluto discoveries The New Horizons spacecraft completed its 3 billion mile journey to Pluto in July and the discoveries continue to pour in every week as NASA scientists receive and analyze data and images from the f ... more		UA researchers capture first photo of planet in making There are 450 light-years between Earth and LkCa15, a young star with a transition disk around it, a cosmic whirling dervish, a birthplace for planets. Despite the disk's considerable distance from ... more

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A witness to a wet early Mars Vast volumes of water once flooded through this deep chasm on Mars that connects the 'Grand Canyon' of the Solar System - Valles Marineris - to the planet's northern lowlands. The image, taken by ES ... more		Iran Interested in Purchase of Russian Satellites Iran intends to cooperate with Russia in the area of aerospace after economic sanctions are lifted, to include satellites, weather satellites, and remote sensing devices, Russian Deputy Prime Minist ... more		Faraday Effect Reveals Magnetic Role of Light in New Study Frontgrade unveils SADA-10 drive to increase efficiency for LEO and MEO satellites Orbital cloud project to combine solar powered AI compute and satellite network in low Earth orbit		Stormy space weather puts equatorial regions' power at risk Dr Brett Carter of the RMIT SPACE Research Centre and his team from RMIT, Boston College and Dartmouth College, found that these equatorial electrical disruptions threaten power grids in Southeast A ... more
				SES empowers Africa with launch of high-speed customisable broadband service SES has announced plans at AfricaCom to launch SES Broadband, a flexible and customised high-speed broadband service, in five African countries - South Africa, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria. ... more		Raytheon completes GPS III launch readiness exercise Raytheon reports it successfully completed three launch readiness exercises in preparation for the launch of the modernized Global Positioning System. ... more

Northrop Grumman tests Battle Command System against cruise missiles Northrop Grumman and the U.S. Army tested the company's integrated air and missile defense Battle Command System against cruise missiles in a demonstration. ... more		U.S. tests new unarmed nuclear gravity bomb A third development flight test of the B61-12 nuclear gravity bomb has been conducted by the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration and the Air Force. ... more		Copernicus Sentinel-6B enters operational phase as EUMETSAT takes command NASA, Aerospace Corporation Study Sharpens Focus on Ammonia Emissions Iran president says capital move needed due to overcrowding, water crisis		Saft delivers innovative cold weather energy storage system in Arctic Alaska Saft has delivered its Intensium Max+ 20M containerized Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) with innovative "Cold Temperature Package" on schedule during Q3 2015, to Kotzebue Electric Association I ... more
Researchers find way to make metals stronger without sacrificing ductility Researchers at North Carolina State University and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a technique to make titanium stronger without sacrificing any of the metal's ductility - a combinati ... more		Researchers discover a new form of crystalline matter Dust is everywhere: under the bed, on the stairs and even inside of plasmas. A team of researchers from Auburn University, the University of Iowa and the University of California, San Diego, using t ... more		Simple errors limit scientific scrutiny Researchers have found more than half of the public datasets provided with scientific papers are incomplete, which prevents reproducibility tests and follow-up studies. However, slight improvements ... more		Clay makes better high-temp batteries A unique combination of materials developed at Rice University, including a clay-based electrolyte, may solve a problem for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries destined for harsh environments. ... more

	The social and legal complexities of augmented reality Augmented reality is the enhancement of human perception through overlaying technologies that can expand, annotate and even record the user's moment-to-moment experience. Those designing coming augm ... more		Quantum dots made from fool's gold boost battery performance If you add quantum dots - nanocrystals 10,000 times smaller than the width of a human hair - to a smartphone battery it will charge in 30 seconds, but the effect only lasts for a few recharge cycles ... more

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Astronomers discover a distant galaxy with a pulse

Hubble Views a Lonely Galaxy

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James Webb Space Telescope 'Wings' Successfully Deployed

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