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  Houston TX (SPX) Apr 12, 2018 The Advanced Plant Habitat (APH), a recent addition to the International Space Station, is the largest growth chamber aboard the orbiting laboratory. Roughly the size of a mini-fridge, the habitat is designed to test which growth conditions plants prefer in space and provides specimens a larger root and shoot area. This space in turn will allow a wider variety of crops to grow aboard the station. Thus far, the habitat has been used to grow and study Arabidopsis, small flowering plants related to c ... read more |
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Growing Plants in Antarctica 'Open Way' for Distant Space Missions - AnalystPullman WA (SPX) Apr 12, 2018 Antarctica has yielded its first vegetable crops, grown without soil or daylight. Scientists grew the greens at the Neumayer-Station III inside a high-tech greenhouse. The project aims to help culti ... more  
Mars Express to get major software updateParis (ESA) Apr 12, 2018 Every so often, your smartphone or tablet receives new software to improve its functionality and extend its life. Now, ESA's Mars Express is getting a fresh install, delivered across over 150 millio ... more 
The Rock Outcrop 'Tome' Continues to Garner Interest On MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2018 Opportunity is continuing the exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned about halfway down the approximately 656 feet (200-meter) valley ... more  
Do-It-Yourself Science: Because We Are All ExplorersPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2018 In the mornings, Sylvia Beer sits at the desktop computer in her living room with a cup of coffee and looks for ridges on Mars. Her town of Wodonga, Australia, gets so hot that in summer she begins ... more |
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New math bridges holography and twistor theoryOnna, Japan (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 The modern-day theoretical physicist faces a taxing uphill climb. "As we learn more, reality becomes ever more subtle; the absolute becomes relative, the fixed becomes dynamical, the definite is lad ... more  
Start of Most Sensitive Search Yet for Dark Matter AxionBerkeley CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 Thanks to low-noise superconducting quantum amplifiers invented at the University of California, Berkeley, physicists are now embarking on the most sensitive search yet for axions, one of today's to ... more  
Twisting laser light offers the chance to probe the nano-scaleBath UK (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 A new method to sensitively measure the structure of molecules has been demonstrated by twisting laser light and aiming it at miniscule gold gratings to separate out wavelengths. The technique ... more 
What a meshLemont, IL (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 A team of scientists from across the U.S. has found a new way to create molecular interconnections that can give a certain class of materials exciting new properties, including improving their abili ... more 
Creating a 2-D platinum magnetGroningen, Netherlands (SPX) Apr 09, 2018 University of Groningen physicists have induced magnetism in platinum with an electric field created by a paramagnetic ionic liquid. As only the surface of the platinum is affected, this creates a s ... more |
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Tiny Sea Creatures Hold Secrets to Earth's ClimateHampton VA (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 Each new season brings change. Seasonal change on land is something that we're familiar with and adjust to regularly. But what happens to billions of plankton in the ocean each season? How do they a ... more  |
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Ghana is the best country to host AU Space AgencyAccra, Ghana (SPX) Apr 12, 2018 Ghana is ready to host the Africa Space Agency, an African Union initiative that will allow Africa to launch and explore the Space for improved technological advancement, the Minister of Environment ... more  
Scientists discover a link between superconductivity and the periodic tableMoscow, Russia (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 Scientists from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Skoltech have demonstrated the high-temperature superconductivity of actinium hydrides and discovered a general principle for calculati ... more  
Smaller and faster: The terahertz computer chip is now within reachJerusalem (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 Following three years of extensive research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) physicist Dr. Uriel Levy and his team have created technology that will enable our computers - and all optic communic ... more 
Take it from me: I'm not signing up to become a space tourist just yetMelbourne, Australia (The Conversation) Apr 11, 2018 Elon Musk's SpaceX reportedly has two people signed up for a trip around the Moon (although these plans have been delayed slightly), and Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has advanced plans to launc ... more 
Latest Updates from NASA on IMAGE RecoveryGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 IMAGE's signal remains too weak to achieve frame lock, which is necessary to retrieve data from the spacecraft. But important steps have been taken this week to be prepared in case of re-established ... more |
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 Melbourne, Australia (The Conversation) Apr 11, 2018 
Elon Musk's SpaceX reportedly has two people signed up for a trip around the Moon (although these plans have been delayed slightly), and Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has advanced plans to launch space tourists from 2018 for a mere US$250,000 each - hundreds of people have already registered.
Is there anyone reading this who didn't want to be an astronaut when they were a child? I was ... more |
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 Redmond WA (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
Aerojet Rocketdyne's NEXT-C ion propulsion engine has successfully cleared NASA's critical design review (CDR), confirming the technology achieved all program requirements and is ready for final production of the flight units.
NASA's Evolutionary Xenon Thruster-Commercial (NEXT-C) was developed by NASA and is being commercialized by Aerojet Rocketdyne. NEXT-C has 7kW of maximum power and g ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2018 
Opportunity is continuing the exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater.
The rover is positioned about halfway down the approximately 656 feet (200-meter) valley near an apparent flow stream island.
A set of outcrops is garnering great interest and discussion among the science team. The rover is position on a surface target called "Tome."
The Alph ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 2, 2018 
The plunge back to Earth of a defunct Chinese space laboratory will not slow down Beijing's ambitious plans to send humans to the moon.
The Tiangong-1 space module, which crashed Monday, was intended to serve as a stepping stone to a manned station, but its problems highlight the difficulties of exploring outer space.
But China has come a long way in its race to catch up with the United ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 03, 2018 
ESA's observatory to monitor electrical discharges in the upper atmosphere is on its way to the International Space Station. The Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor is riding in the Dragon cargo vehicle that lifted off at 20:30 GMT (16:40 local time) from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA.
A suite of instruments will search for high-altitude electrical discharges associated with storm ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
IMAGE's signal remains too weak to achieve frame lock, which is necessary to retrieve data from the spacecraft. But important steps have been taken this week to be prepared in case of re-established contact.
Last week, the engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, successfully established network connections with both the antennas at NASA's Wallops Flight Faci ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 12, 2018 
New images from the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope are revealing the dusty discs surrounding nearby young stars in greater detail than previously achieved. They show a bizarre variety of shapes, sizes and structures, including the likely effects of planets still in the process of forming.
The SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile allows astronomers ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2018 
Scientists working on NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter shared a 3-D infrared movie depicting densely packed cyclones and anticyclones that permeate the planet's polar regions, and the first detailed view of a dynamo, or engine, powering the magnetic field for any planet beyond Earth. Those are among the items unveiled during the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, on We ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) April 12, 2018 
Ocean heatwaves which can have "devastating and long-term impacts" on ecosystems have become longer and more frequent over the past century, according to an international study published Tuesday.
From 1925 to 2016, the number of annual marine heatwave days globally jumped by 54 percent, with a noticeable acceleration over the last three decades, a paper in the journal Nature Communications s ... more |
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 San Jose CA (SPX) Apr 09, 2018 
DT Research, the leading designer and manufacturer of purpose-built computing solutions for vertical markets, has announced the DT301T Rugged RTK Tablet, a lightweight military-grade tablet that is purpose-built for GIS mapping applications with Real Time Kinematic (RTK) satellite navigation used to enhance the precision of position data derived from satellite-based positioning systems. This uni ... more |
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 Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 
NAU assistant professor of planetary science Christopher Edwards co-authored a paper recently published in Nature Geoscience that has generated interest among scientists in the field as well as in mainstream science news, such as Science Daily and Outer Places.
The researchers analyzed remote-sensing data from two lunar missions and concluded that water appears to be evenly spread across t ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 5, 2018 
After years of searching, scientists are confident they're finally closing in on the location of the crater left by a meteorite that struck Australasia 800,000 years ago.
When the 12-mile-wide meteor struck Earth, debris was exploded in the sky and deposited across the region. The fragments have not been hard to come by, and yet, scientists have failed to locate the crater.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2018 
In the mornings, Sylvia Beer sits at the desktop computer in her living room with a cup of coffee and looks for ridges on Mars. Her town of Wodonga, Australia, gets so hot that in summer she begins scanning Mars images at 4 a.m., when she takes medication for Parkinson's disease. The condition sometimes affects her memory and movement - she uses a cane or walker to get around, and can't walk as ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has arrived in Florida to begin final preparations for its launch to the Sun, scheduled for July 31, 2018.
In the middle of the night on April 2, the spacecraft was driven from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to nearby Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. From there, it was flown by the United States Air Force's 436th Airlift Wing to Space Co ... more |
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 Tubingen, Germany (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 
The H.E.S.S. telescopes have surveyed the Milky Way for the past 15 years searching for sources of gamma radiation. The H.E.S.S. collaboration includes scientists of the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the University of Tubingen led by Professor Andrea Santangelo and Dr. Gerd Puhlhofer.
They are interested in sources of very high energy gamma radiation in the TeV energy range, i ... more |
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 Berkeley CA (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
Scientists have decoded faint distortions in the patterns of the universe's earliest light to map huge tubelike structures invisible to our eyes - known as filaments - that serve as superhighways for delivering matter to dense hubs such as galaxy clusters.
The international science team, which included researchers from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berke ... more |
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