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  London (Sputnik) Apr 30, 2018 Britain may seek to capitalise on the market in space travel and exploration by developing its own global satellite navigation system, potentially in partnership with countries as disparate as Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The United Kingdom is considering the establishment of an independent global satellite positioning system separate from the Galileo Program run by the European Space Agency, as the sharing of information is not open to 'third countries,' which the UK will become after it ha ... read more |
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NASA seeks research proposals for space technologies to flight testWashington DC (SPX) Apr 30, 2018 NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate's Flight Opportunities program is seeking research proposals for promising space technologies that benefit future NASA space exploration missions. Selecte ... more  
NanoRacks, ALTEC, Thales announce international business development partnershipWebster TX (SPX) Apr 24, 2018 NanoRacks is pleased to announce that the Company will be pursuing International Space Station opportunities in cooperation with ALTEC and Thales Alenia Space, joint venture between Thales 67% and L ... more 
3-D printed food could change how we eatSan Diego CA (SPX) Apr 25, 2018 Imagine a home appliance that, at the push of a button, turns powdered ingredients into food that meets the individual nutrition requirements of each household member. Although it may seem like some ... more  
Results of Mars 2020 heat shield testingPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 30, 2018 A post-test inspection of the composite structure for a heat shield to be used on the Mars 2020 mission revealed that a fracture occurred during structural testing. The mission team is working to bu ... more |
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Researchers find new way of exploring the afterglow from the Big BangWaterloo, Canada (SPX) Apr 20, 2018 Researchers have developed a new way to improve our knowledge of the Big Bang by measuring radiation from its afterglow, called the cosmic microwave background radiation. The new results predict the ... more  
Stellar thief is the surviving companion to a supernovaGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 30, 2018 Seventeen years ago, astronomers witnessed a supernova go off 40 million light-years away in the galaxy called NGC 7424, located in the southern constellation Grus, the Crane. Now, in the fading aft ... more 
Window on the Sky Opened with Release of 3-D Map of a Billion StarsLondon, UK (SPX) Apr 26, 2018 British astronomers working on the international space mission Gaia have contributed to a revolution in our understanding of the Milky Way with the release of a new 3-D map of over one billion stars ... more  
Interview with a robot: AI revolution hits human resourcesParis (AFP) April 27, 2018 You have a telephone interview for your dream job, and you're feeling nervous. You make yourself a cup of tea as you wait for the phone to ring, and you count to three before picking up. ... more  
US judge orders GPS monitoring for house-bound CosbyNew York (AFP) April 27, 2018 Convicted sex offender Bill Cosby was ordered Friday to be fitted with a GPS monitor and undergo a violent sexual predators' assessment, allowed to leave home only for medical treatment or to meet his lawyers. ... more |
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How to bend and stretch a diamondBoston MA (SPX) Apr 30, 2018 Diamond is well-known as the strongest of all natural materials, and with that strength comes another tightly linked property: brittleness. But now, an international team of researchers from MIT, Ho ... more  |
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Army develops face recognition technology that works in the darkAdelphi MD (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 Army researchers have developed an artificial intelligence and machine learning technique that produces a visible face image from a thermal image of a person's face captured in low-light or nighttim ... more 
Attosecond physics: Molecules brilliantly illuminatedMunich, Germany (SPX) Apr 24, 2018 A new high-power laser system generates ultrashort pulses of light covering a large share of the mid-infrared spectrum. Molecules are the building blocks of life. Like all other organisms, we ... more 
When nuclei catch up with electronsZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 Understanding the dynamics of quantum-mechanical systems on their natural time scale is the main goal in attosecond science. Among the most interesting systems to investigate are molecules, which ha ... more 
KAIST succeeds in producing 50x more stable adsorbentSeoul, South Korea (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 A KAIST research team developed a technology to increase the stability of amine-containing adsorbents by fifty times, moving one step further toward commercializing stable adsorbents that last longe ... more 
Bernese Mars camera CaSSIS sends first colour images from MarsBern, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 27, 2018 The Mars camera CaSSIS on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has returned its first colour images of the red planet. The camera system, which was developed at the University of Bern, is now ready for the ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 25, 2018 
Any telescope that reaches the launch pad in the 2030s likely will look much different than the concepts four teams are currently studying to inform the 2020 Decadal Survey for Astrophysics, but the studies do offer a roadmap. Here's a brief overview of each:
LUVOIR, now being studied by a team at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, is conceived as a great observator ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 24, 2018 
Spaceships using conventional hydrogen-oxygen fuel will be able to take people to the moon, Mars or Venus. But human exploration of other planets in our solar system, and beyond it, will require the creation of ships harnessing the power of nuclear fission and nuclear fusion, including via the concept of nuclear pulse propulsion.
The idea for a rocket propulsion system that makes use of ex ... more |
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 Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 27, 2018 
The Mars camera CaSSIS on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has returned its first colour images of the red planet. The camera system, which was developed at the University of Bern, is now ready for the start of its prime mission on April 28, 2018.
The Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) has been designed by an international team under guidance of the University of Bern. The Mars ... more |
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 Harbin, China (XNA) Apr 26, 2018 
China is planning four deep space exploration missions before 2030, including probes to Mars, asteroids and Jupiter, says Pei Zhaoyu, deputy director of the Lunar Exploration and Space Program Center of the China National Space Administration.
China would launch its first Mars probe in 2020, and it was expected to orbit around, land and put a rover on the Red Planet, Pei told a space confe ... more |
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 London (Sputnik) Apr 30, 2018 
Britain may seek to capitalise on the market in space travel and exploration by developing its own global satellite navigation system, potentially in partnership with countries as disparate as Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
The United Kingdom is considering the establishment of an independent global satellite positioning system separate from the Galileo Program run by the European Spac ... more |
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 Seoul, South Korea (SPX) Apr 22, 2018 
A KAIST research team developed a technology to increase the stability of amine-containing adsorbents by fifty times, moving one step further toward commercializing stable adsorbents that last longer.
Professor Minkee Choi from the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and his team succeeded in developing amine-containing adsorbents that show high oxidative stability.
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 Milton Keynes UK (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
The Danakil Depression in Ethiopia is a spectacular, hostile environment that may resemble conditions encountered on Mars and Titan - as well as in sites containing nuclear waste. From 20 to 28 January 2018, five teams of researchers and more than 30 support staff visited two locations in the region to study the microbiology, geology, and chemistry at the Dallol hydrothermal outcrop and the sali ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 24, 2018 
Hydrogen sulfide, the gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive odor, permeates the upper atmosphere of the planet Uranus - as has been long debated, but never definitively proven. Based on sensitive spectroscopic observations with the Gemini North telescope, astronomers uncovered the noxious gas swirling high in the giant planet's cloud tops. This result resolves a stubborn, long-standing my ... more |
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 Bouake, Ivory Coast (AFP) April 26, 2018 
Earlier this year, Cape Town grabbed the world's headlines as it careened towards a water armageddon.
Crippled by a three-year-long drought, the South African city braced for a complete shutdown of domestic water supplies.
In the event, Cape Town dodged the immediate bullet. But thousands of kilometres (miles) away, another African city has had far less luck - and much less attention fo ... more |
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 New York (AFP) April 27, 2018 
Convicted sex offender Bill Cosby was ordered Friday to be fitted with a GPS monitor and undergo a violent sexual predators' assessment, allowed to leave home only for medical treatment or to meet his lawyers.
Judge Steven O'Neill signed the order, clarifying the terms of the disgraced icon's $1 million bail, one day after a Pennsylvania jury found Cosby guilty on three counts of sexual assa ... more |
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 Harbin (XNA) Apr 30, 2018 
China has the technological basis for a manned lunar landing, says Zhou Jianping, chief designer of China's manned space program.
Human exploration of the universe would not stop in low-Earth orbit as China was drawing up the blueprint for manned space development after the construction of its space station, Zhou told a space conference in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang ... more |
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 Providence RI (SPX) Apr 26, 2018 
Experiments using a high-powered projectile cannon show how impacts by water-rich asteroids can deliver surprising amounts of water to planetary bodies. The research, by scientists from Brown University, could shed light on how water got to the early Earth and help account for some trace water detections on the Moon and elsewhere.
"The origin and transportation of water and volatiles is on ... more |
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 Jiuquan (XNA) Apr 30, 2018 
China on Thursday sent five Zhuhai-1 remote sensing satellites into space on a single carrier rocket.
The Long March-11 carrier rocket lifted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 12:42 p.m. The launch was the 272nd flight mission for the Long March series of carrier rockets.
Zhuhai-1 is a commercial remote sensing satellite constellation invested in by Zhuha ... more |
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 Belfast UK (SPX) Apr 19, 2018 
A group of international scientists have met at Queen's University Belfast to finalise plans for a next generation telescope which will help to crack the mysteries of the Sun.
The revolutionary four-metre telescope is being designed to investigate the Sun at unprecedented resolution. It will allow scientists to identify structures as small as 30km, which is the equivalent to finding a poun ... more |
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 Miami FL (SPX) Apr 17, 2018 
University of Miami astrophysicist Nico Cappelluti studies the sky. An assistant professor in the Physics Department, Cappelluti is intrigued by the cosmic phenomena of super massive black holes, the nature of dark matter, and active galactic nuclei, which is the very bright light source found at the center of many galaxies.
Recently, Cappelluti published findings that could give insight o ... more |
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 Waterloo, Canada (SPX) Apr 20, 2018 
Researchers have developed a new way to improve our knowledge of the Big Bang by measuring radiation from its afterglow, called the cosmic microwave background radiation. The new results predict the maximum bandwidth of the universe, which is the maximum speed at which any change can occur in the universe.
The cosmic microwave background (CMB) is a reverberation or afterglow left from when ... more |
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