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  Austin TX (SPX) May 31, 2018 About 66 million years ago, an asteroid smashed into Earth, triggering a mass extinction that ended the reign of the dinosaurs and snuffed out 75 percent of life. Although the asteroid killed off species, new research led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that the crater it left behind was home to sea life less than a decade after impact, and it contained a thriving ecosystem within 30,000 years - a much quicker recovery than other sites around the globe. Scientists were surpris ... read more |
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NASA Selects Small Business Technology AwardsPasadena CA (JPL) May 31, 2018 NASA has selected 304 proposals from U.S. small businesses to advance research and technology in Phase I of its 2018 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and 44 proposals for the Small ... more  
Researchers Use Satellite Imagery to Map Economic Inequality Among IndiansNew Delhi (Sputnik) May 31, 2018 A recent study by two economists using nightime lights captured by satellites from outer space has sought to establish the measure of economic inequality in India. While the researchers argue it is ... more  
Sentinel-1 warns of refugee island flood riskParis (ESA) May 30, 2018 In what the UN describes as the world's fastest growing refugee crisis, almost 700 000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar for neighbouring Bangladesh since August 2017. With the Bangladesh governmen ... more  
Zero 2 Infinity completed another successful launch from Europe's Stratoport, this time for AirbusBarcelona, Spain (SPX) May 31, 2018 On the afternoon of April 23rd, Zero 2 Infinity (Z2I) performed another successful flight to Near Spacefrom Europe's Stratoport. The aim of the launch was to test a equiplment Europe's leading ... more |
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Embry-Riddle Student is Helping NASA Prepare for Trips to MarsDaytona Beach FL (SPX) May 31, 2018 Watching the Moon landing in 1969 on TV with her family in Trinidad and Tobago sparked Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University graduate student Karen Brun's interest in the NASA space program. Th ... more  
Black holes from an exacomputerFrankfurt, Germany (SPX) May 31, 2018 Even after the direct measurement of their gravitational waves, there are still mysteries surrounding black holes. What happens when two black holes merge, or when stars collide with a black hole? ... more  
Water is not the same as waterBasel, Switzerland (SPX) May 30, 2018 Water molecules exist in two different forms with almost identical physical properties. For the first time, researchers have succeeded in separating the two forms to show that they can exhibit diffe ... more  
Flow in the asthenosphere drags tectonic plates alongHouston TX (SPX) May 30, 2018 New simulations of Earth's asthenosphere find that convective cycling and pressure-driven flow can sometimes cause the planet's most fluid layer of mantle to move even faster than the tectonic plate ... more  
Graphene layered with magnetic materials could drive ultrathin spintronicsBerkeley CA (SPX) May 30, 2018 Researchers working at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) coupled graphene, a monolayer form of carbon, with thin layers of magnetic materials like cobal ... more |
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'Smart' material enables novel applications in autonomous driving and roboticsLuxembourg (SPX) May 30, 2018 Research led by scientists from the University of Luxembourg has shown the potential of liquid crystal shells as enabling material for a vast array of future applications, ranging from autonomous dr ... more  |
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Switched on leads to breakthrough for spintronicsSendai, Japan (SPX) May 30, 2018 Researchers at Tohoku University in Japan have discovered a switch to control the spin current, a mechanism needed for information processing with full spin-based devices. This is significant ... more  
Turning up the heat on thermoelectricsBoston MA (SPX) May 28, 2018 Imagine being able to power your car partly from the heat that its engine gives off. Or what if you could get a portion of your home's electricity from the heat that a power plant emits? Such energy ... more  
Understanding light-induced electrical current in atomically thin nanomaterialsUpton NY (SPX) May 29, 2018 Scientists at the Center for Functional Nanomaterials (CFN) - a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science User Facility at Brookhaven National Laboratory - have used an optoelectronic imagin ... more  
Beijing welcomes use of Chinese space station by all UN NationsMoscow (Sputnik) May 30, 2018 Beijing is open to other UN nations using the Chinese space station on an equal basis, Shi Zhongjun, China's ambassador to the United Nations and other international organizations in Vienna, said Mo ... more 
The case of the relativistic particles solved with NASA missionsGreenbelt MD (SPX) May 30, 2018 Encircling Earth are two enormous rings - called the Van Allen radiation belts - of highly energized ions and electrons. Various processes can accelerate these particles to relativistic speeds, whic ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) May 26, 2018 
Russian President Vladimir Putin and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Saturday spoke to astronauts on board the ISS via a live video link from the Kremlin.
Russian astronaut Anton Shklaperov and his Japanese colleague Norishige Kanai, on board the International Space Station (ISS), appeared on a giant screen in the Kremlin after the two leaders held bilateral talks.
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 29, 2018 
NASA's "melted camera" has become a social media thing. As with many photos that spread like wildfire on the Internet, only part of the camera's story has been exposed so far. Here is the rest of it.
NASA photographer Bill Ingalls has been shooting for the agency for 30 years. His creativity and efforts to get unique images are well known within the agency and to those who follow it. He kn ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) May 31, 2018 
Opportunity is halfway down in "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater, pursuing hypotheses as to the origin of the valley.
The rover is still positioned near some tabular rocks that are the subject of an in-situ (contact) investigation. On Sol 5087 (May 16, 2018), the robotic arm (IDD) performed a "salute" to move it out of the way of the cameras so the Panoramic Camera ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) May 30, 2018 
Beijing is open to other UN nations using the Chinese space station on an equal basis, Shi Zhongjun, China's ambassador to the United Nations and other international organizations in Vienna, said Monday.
"CSS belongs not only to China, but also to the world ... All [UN] countries, regardless of their size and level of development, can participate in the cooperation on an equal footing," Sh ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) May 31, 2018 
NASA has selected 304 proposals from U.S. small businesses to advance research and technology in Phase I of its 2018 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and 44 proposals for the Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) program, totaling $43.5 million in awards. These selections support NASA's future space exploration missions, while also benefiting the U.S. economy.
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 Washington (UPI) May 30, 2018 
Raytheon was awarded a contract by the Department of Defense on Tuesday for digital radar warning systems that will benefit Japan.
The contract, from the U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, is valued $90 million under the terms of an indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract, which is part of a foreign military sale of digital radar warning receiver systems to the gover ... more |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) May 31, 2018 
Off the coast of Hawaii's Big Island and more than 3,000 feet beneath the ocean surface lie the warm, bubbling springs of a volcano - a deep-sea location that may hold lessons for the search for extraterrestrial life.
Here, NASA and its partners are blending ocean and space exploration, with a project called SUBSEA, short for Systematic Underwater Biogeochemical Science and Exploration Ana ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) May 29, 2018 
After studying data from two interplanetary probes, researchers think Pluto may have formed from a mass of a billion comets, according to a new study.
Scientists at the Southwest Research Institute investigated two theories about the formation of what was previously known as the farthest-out planet in the solar system - the comet theory, and a solar theory that the dwarf planet formed ... more |
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 Basel, Switzerland (SPX) May 30, 2018 
Water molecules exist in two different forms with almost identical physical properties. For the first time, researchers have succeeded in separating the two forms to show that they can exhibit different chemical reactivities. These results were reported by researchers from the University of Basel and their colleagues in Hamburg in the scientific journal Nature Communications.
From a chemic ... more |
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 Harbin (XNA) May 28, 2018 
China will launch two backup satellites for BeiDou-2 in next two years to improve its performance.
Backup satellites ensure the continuous stable operations of the system, said Ran Chengqi of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, at the Ninth China Satellite Navigation Conference in Harbin, capital of northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.
BeiDou-2 has been in use for five and a half ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) May 26, 2018 
US astronaut Alan Bean, the fourth person to walk on the moon, has died, his family announced in a statement released by NASA. He was 86 years old.
The moonwalker who went on to become a painter died Saturday in Houston after suddenly falling ill weeks before, the statement said.
He was among the elite group NASA chose for its third group of astronauts in 1963, having served as a test pi ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) May 31, 2018 
About 66 million years ago, an asteroid smashed into Earth, triggering a mass extinction that ended the reign of the dinosaurs and snuffed out 75 percent of life.
Although the asteroid killed off species, new research led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that the crater it left behind was home to sea life less than a decade after impact, and it contained a thriving ecosystem ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 30, 2018 
Encircling Earth are two enormous rings - called the Van Allen radiation belts - of highly energized ions and electrons. Various processes can accelerate these particles to relativistic speeds, which endanger spacecraft unlucky enough to enter these giant bands of damaging radiation. Scientists had previously identified certain factors that might cause particles in the belts to become highly ene ... more |
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 Newark NJ (SPX) May 30, 2018 
Last September, a massive new region of magnetic field erupted on the Sun's surface next to an existing sunspot. The powerful collision of magnetic fields produced a series of potent solar flares, causing turbulent space weather conditions at Earth. These were the first flares to be captured, in their moment-by-moment progression, by NJIT's recently expanded Owens Valley Solar Array (EOVSA).
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 Bonn, Germany (SPX) May 29, 2018 
The 12 m radio telescope APEX in Chile has been outfitted with special equipment including broad bandwidth recorders and a stable hydrogen maser clock for performing joint interferometric observations with other telescopes at wavelengths as short as 1.3 mm and the goal to obtain the ultimate picture of the black hole shadow.
The addition of APEX to the so-called Event Horizon Telescope (EH ... more |
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 Warsaw, Poland (SPX) May 29, 2018 
From the data collected by the LHCb detector at the Large Hadron Collider, it appears that the particles known as charm mesons and their antimatter counterparts are not produced in perfectly equal proportions. Physicists from Cracow have proposed their own explanation of this phenomenon and presented predictions related to it, about consequences that are particularly interesting for high-energy ... more |
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