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October 07, 2016

Versatile Chemistry for the Red Planet
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 07, 2016
When you need tools or parts for something you're working on around the house, you head to the nearest hardware store. Space travelers don't have that luxury and may have to make their own tools and parts on long duration missions like the journey to Mars. Scientists and engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, are using data from International Space Station experiments to study liquids that may be used to help make valuable tools when exploring deep space. For a de ... read more

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Growing Interest: Students Plant Seeds to Help NASA Farm in Space NASA is seeking plant varieties that could grow best in space, providing food for astronauts to eat on their way to future deep space destinations, including Mars. Teachers and students in South Flo ... more		Science at cusp of 'transformational' grasp of life via cell modeling A paper recently published in the Journal of Molecular Biology shows how advances in molecular biology and computer science around the world soon may lead to a three-dimensional computer model of a ... more		Origin of minor planets' rings revealed A team of researchers has clarified the origin of the rings recently discovered around two minor planets known as centaurs, and their results suggest the existence of rings around other centaurs. Th ... more
				Roscosmos Sets New Date for Soyuz MS-02 Launch to Orbital Station A state commission has approved October 19 as a new date for the postponed launch of the Soyuz MS-02 manned spacecraft to the International Space Station, Russia's Roscosmos state space corporation ... more		What Swings a Star Around - Another Star or a Distant Planet? An international team of astronomers using the Subaru Telescope and led by a graduate student member of SOKENDAI (The Graduate University of Advanced Studies, Japan) has discovered companions circli ... more

NASA Offers Prize Money for Winning 3D-Printed Habitat Ideas NASA is offering $1.1 million in prize money in Phase 2 of the 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge for new ways to build houses where future space explorers can live and work. The three-part competition as ... more		Methane muted: How did early Earth stay warm For at least a billion years of the distant past, planet Earth should have been frozen over but wasn't. Scientists thought they knew why, but a new modeling study from the Alternative Earths team of ... more		Chinese defence minister tells US counterpart containing China 'futile' China chides 'economic pressure' over Trump threat of Russian oil tariffs Russian drones in Poland put NATO to the test		Hubble detects giant 'cannonballs' shooting from star Great balls of fire! NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has detected superhot blobs of gas, each twice as massive as the planet Mars, being ejected near a dying star. The plasma balls are zooming so fast ... more
				Automating sample testing thanks to space A miniaturised biotech unit developed for the International Space Station is improving medical diagnoses on Earth with affordable automation of small-scale diagnostics. In vitro diagnostics, or IVDs ... more		Gen Hyten will bring multi-domain experience to STRATCOM Gen. John Hyten, long a champion of linking space and cyberspace domains in U.S. defense planning, is expected to get a chance to further that advocacy in leading Strategic Command. President ... more

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Russia suspends US joint nuclear energy research Russia said Wednesday it was suspending joint research on nuclear energy projects with the United States, as Moscow's standoff with the West shows no sign of abating. ... more		Drone safety: User-centric control software improves pilot performance and safety A new study into the safety of drone control interfaces suggests that an overhaul of remote control methods ranging from joysticks to smartphone apps could reduce the number of drone accidents. The ... more		AI tool accelerates SAR image analysis with automated object detection Fossil energy 'significant' driver of climate-fuelled heatwaves: study Asteroid tells secrets of Earth's 'far wetter' building blocks		Scientists solve mystery of the lone wolf wave Solitary waves or solitons, sometimes called lone wolf waves, are just what they sound like. Unlike normal waves, these nonlinear waves persist without dissipating - maintaining their shape, speed and energy even after colliding with other waves. ... more
Motion-directed robots on a micro scale Phototactic behaviour directs some bacteria towards light and others into darkness: This enables them to utilize solar energy as efficiently as possible for their metabolism, or, otherwise, protects ... more		Rice University researchers say 2-D boron may be best for flexible electronics Though they're touted as ideal for electronics, two-dimensional materials like graphene may be too flat and hard to stretch to serve in flexible, wearable devices. "Wavy" borophene might be better, ... more		Electron beam microscope directly writes nanoscale features in liquid with metal ink Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are the first to harness a scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) to directly write tiny patterns in metallic "ink," ... more		Wireless 'data center on a chip' aims to cut energy use A Washington State University research team has designed a tiny, wireless data center that someday could be as small as a hand-held device and dramatically reduce the energy needed to run such cente ... more

	Large volumes of data from ITER transferred to Japan at unprecedented speeds The National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), as the implementing agency of the BA activities, in collaboration with the National Institutes of Natural Sciences ... more		Lowering the heat makes new materials possible while saving energy A new technology developed by Penn State researchers, called cold sintering process (CSP), opens a window on the ability to combine incompatible materials, such as ceramics and plastics, into new, u ... more

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Trusted Ariane 5 lays foundations for Ariane 6		Successful escape, landing for Blue Origin's rocket		NASA flight program tests Mars Lander vision system		NASA begins tests to qualify Orion parachutes for mission with crew		Orbital CRS-5 launching hot and bright science to space
Bern-made laser altimeter taking off to Mercury		Study predicts next global dust storm on Mars		Are planets setting the sun's pace?		The death of a planet nursery?		Wandering black hole spotted by pair of X-ray telescopes

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A Second Look at Plumes and the Search for life on Europa

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Students team up with NASA for space coms and navigation

Space for Shenzhou 11

ULA gets $860 million contract modification for expendable launch vehicle

Putin scraps plutonium disposal deal with 'unfriendly' US

New Zealand government open-minded on space collaboration

Welding on massive fuel tank for first flight of SLS completed

NASA's Curiosity Rover Begins Next Mars Chapter

Rocket launch site to open up New Zealand space industry: Minister

Pioneering Space Requires Living Off the Land in the Solar System

Magnetic oceans and electric Earth

Clean room helps NASA robot explore frontiers of materials science

Work underway on hardware that will do double duty on first SLS flight

Ariane 5 reaches the launch zone for Arianespace's October 4 liftoff

Ascent Trajectories and the Gravity Turn

Unusual Martian region leaves clues to planet's past

Activity at N. Korea nuclear site fuels test fears

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