A Year After Maiden Voyage, Orion Progress Continues
Dec. 5 marks a year since the successful first deep-space flight of NASA's Orion on Exploration Flight Test-1, a test that took the uncrewed spacecraft 3,600 miles into space and safely returned it ... more
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Radio Shadow Reveals Tenuous Cosmic Gas Cloud
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered the most tenuous molecular gas ever observed. They detected the absorption of radio waves by gas clouds in f ... more
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New U.S.-European Sea Level Satellite Will Help Safeguard Ships at Sea
Planet captures first light from Pelican-3 satellite as constellation expands
Trump signs memorandum to deploy U.S. National Guard troops to Memphis
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To Jupiter with JunoCam
When NASA's Juno mission arrives at Jupiter on July 4, 2016, new views of the giant planet's swirling clouds will be sent back to Earth, courtesy of its color camera, called JunoCam.
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Whisper gallery modes in Silicon nanocones intensify luminescence
Silicon is a conventional material for computer chips and solar cells. However, even though the properties of silicon are well known, nanostructures still offer up surprises. A team headed by Prof. ... more
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Tiny octopods catalyze bright ideas
Nanoscale octopods that do double duty as catalysts and plasmonic sensors are lighting a path toward more efficient industrial processes, according to a Rice University scientist. Catalysts are subs ... more
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A new form of real gold, almost as light as air
A nugget of real 20 carats gold, so light that it does not sink in a cappuccino, floating instead on the milk foam - what sounds unbelievable has actually been accomplished by researchers from ETH Z ... more
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System boosts resolution of commercial depth sensors 1,000-fold
MIT researchers have shown that by exploiting the polarization of light - the physical phenomenon behind polarized sunglasses and most 3-D movie systems - they can increase the resolution of convent ... more
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