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April 19, 2016

In these microbes, iron works like oxygen
Madison WI (SPX) Apr 19, 2016
A pair of papers from a UW-Madison geoscience lab shed light on a curious group of bacteria that use iron in much the same way that animals use oxygen: to soak up electrons during biochemical reactions. When organisms - whether bacteria or animal - oxidize carbohydrates, electrons must go somewhere. The studies can shed some light on the perennial question of how life arose, but they also have slightly more practical applications in the search for life in space, says senior author Eric Roden, a pr ... read more

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				NASA's Fermi telescope poised to pin down gravitational wave sources Last year on Sept. 14, waves of energy traveling for more than a billion years gently rattled space-time in the vicinity of Earth. The disturbance, produced by a pair of merging black holes, was cap ... more		Re-entry capsule of SJ-10 lands in Northern China The re-entry capsule of China's first retrievable microgravity satellite, SJ-10, returned safely to Earth on Monday, marking a solid step forward in space science research and application. The recov ... more

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Kepler remains stable as health check continues The Kepler spacecraft remains stable as the process of returning it to science continues. The cause of the anomaly, first reported on April 8, remains under investigation. Since Sunday morning ... more		Y Marks the Spot A sinuous feature snakes northward from Enceladus' south pole like a giant tentacle. This feature, which stretches from the terminator near center, toward upper left, is actually tectonic in nature, ... more		Japan, US sign agreement to develop hypersonic missile interceptor Xi, Putin hail ties as 'stabilising' force in chaotic world US forces lose strategic African position in Niger		DigitalGlobe delivers first phase of continent-scale mapping initiative for PSMA Australia DigitalGlobe reports its has completed the first phase of a continent-scale mapping initiative that will enable Geoscape, a new information product from PSMA Australia to support Australia's digital ... more
				Comets in the "X"-treme For millennia, people on Earth have watched comets in the sky. Many ancient cultures saw comets as the harbingers of doom, but today scientists know that comets are really frozen balls of dust, gas, ... more		Sentinel-1 sees rice paddy drop in the Mekong Delta Europe's Sentinel-1A satellite has shown that the Mekong River Delta - one of the world's major rice-growing areas - saw a significant drop in productivity over the past year, illustrating the effec ... more

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Meteorites arrive at NASA's Johnson Space Center Nearly 570 meteorite samples collected during a two-month Antarctic expedition arrived at NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) on April 14 to be curated for distribution to scientists around the world, ... more		AFSPC Commander announces Space Enterprise Vision General John Hyten, commander of Air Force Space Command, announced the command's Space Enterprise Vision last week. The SEV is the result of an AFSPC-commissioned study that looked at how to make t ... more		US experimenting with new military space systems The US Missile Defense Agency will obtain 22 sensor systems in orbit to monitor whether incoming missiles have been destroyed by interceptors. By the end of 2017, the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) ... more		Dinosaurs struggled to survive long before asteroid hit Dinosaurs struggled to survive for tens of millions of years before they finally went extinct, an event widely blamed on the environmental fallout from an asteroid strike, researchers said Monday. ... more

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Saturn Spacecraft Samples Interstellar Dust

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Supernova iron found on the moon

China begins testing Tiangong-2 space lab

EU, Russia explore future joint space projects

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