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  Washington (AFP) Aug 29, 2018 For the first time in five decades, a NASA astronaut candidate has resigned from training, the US space agency said Tuesday. Robb Kulin resigned from NASA effective August 31 for personal reasons, spokeswoman Brandi Dean said, declining to provide further details. It's not an easy gig to get - some 18,000 people routinely seek the 12 spots that open each year. Kulin, who joined his class sounding upbeat, is the first would-be astronaut to leave training since a resignation in 1968. ... read more |
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Jupiter had growth disordersZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 29, 2018 With an equator diameter of around 143,000 kilometers, Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and has 300 times the mass of the Earth. The formation mechanism of giant planets like Jupite ... more  
Excited atoms throw light on anti-hydrogen researchSwansea UK (SPX) Aug 27, 2018 Swansea University scientists working at CERN have published a study detailing a breakthrough in antihydrogen research. The scientists were working as part of the ALPHA collaboration which is ... more  
How scientists predicted corona's appearance during total solar eclipseGreenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 29, 2018 It was Aug. 14, 2017, just one week before the Moon would cross paths with the Sun and Earth, casting its shadow across the United States. The entire country buzzed with anticipation for the fleetin ... more  
Shape-shifting material can morph, reverse itself using heat, lightBoulder CO (SPX) Aug 27, 2018 A new material developed by University of Colorado Boulder engineers can transform into complex, pre-programmed shapes via light and temperature stimuli, allowing a literal square peg to morph and f ... more |
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Geologists uncover new clues about largest mass extinction everKnoxville TN (SPX) Aug 28, 2018 A new study could help explain the driving force behind the largest mass extinction in the history of earth, known as the End-Permian Extinction. The event, also known as the Great Dying, occu ... more  
Researchers discover link between magnetic field strength and temperatureWashington DC (SPX) Aug 28, 2018 Researchers recently discovered that the strength of the magnetic field required to elicit a particular quantum mechanical process, such as photoluminescence and the ability to control spin states w ... more  
This bright blue dye is found in fabric. Could it also power batteries?Buffalo NY (SPX) Aug 28, 2018 A sapphire-colored dye called methylene blue is a common ingredient in wastewater from textile mills. But University at Buffalo scientists think it may be possible to give this industrial poll ... more  
Physicists show first proof of Dicke cooperativity in a matter-matter systemHouston TX (SPX) Aug 28, 2018 After their recent pioneering experiments to couple light and matter to an extreme degree, Rice University scientists decided to look for a similar effect in matter alone. They didn't expect to find ... more 
Artificial intelligence helps scientists track particlesWashington (UPI) Aug 23, 2018 Researchers at the University of North Carolina have deployed machine learning to boost particle-tracking software. ... more |
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Texan begins selling 3D gun plans despite judge's orderChicago (AFP) Aug 28, 2018 A Texas man on Tuesday began selling digital gun-making blueprints, including for a 3D-printed plastic handgun, despite a judge's order barring the distribution of the material. ... more  |
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US Navy marks return of Cold War-era fleetWashington (AFP) Aug 24, 2018 The US Navy on Friday marked the official resurrection of a disbanded, Cold War-era fleet that was scrapped in 2011 and is returning amid heightened tensions with Russia. ... more  
Text Text, Bang Bang? Uber, NASA, US Army Working on Flying Taxis, AI AirspaceMoscow (Sputnik) Aug 28, 2018 Uber and the US Army have taken a major step toward developing autonomous vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft that can be used for shuffling people to and from work - or to and from the bat ... more  
NASA investment in cholera forecasts helps save lives in YemenWashington DC (SPX) Aug 29, 2018 For the first time ever, measurements from NASA Earth-observing research satellites are being used to help combat a potential outbreak of life-threatening cholera. Humanitarian teams in Yemen are ta ... more 
Russia's Kalashnikov branches out from rifles to robots and e-carsMoscow (AFP) Aug 29, 2018 A recent pledge by Kalashnikov to compete with Elon Musk's Tesla with a Russian retro "electric supercar" drew chuckles, but the legendary gun producer has long been trying to branch out into products from drones to yachts. ... more  
Particles collected by Hayabusa give absolute age of asteroid ItokawaOsaka, Japan (SPX) Aug 28, 2018 Understanding the origin and time evolution of near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) is an issue of scientific interest and practical importance because they are potentially hazardous to the Earth. However, w ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Aug 29, 2018 
For the first time in five decades, a NASA astronaut candidate has resigned from training, the US space agency said Tuesday.
Robb Kulin resigned from NASA effective August 31 for personal reasons, spokeswoman Brandi Dean said, declining to provide further details.
It's not an easy gig to get - some 18,000 people routinely seek the 12 spots that open each year.
Kulin, who joined his ... more |
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 Vandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Aug 28, 2018 
The 30th Space Wing and 45th Space Wing launch training teams recently came together to gain further understanding of each other's training programs.
The main focus of the Vandenberg and Cape Canaveral Air Force Base collaboration was to discuss ways to synergize and standardize training for both coasts as well as introduce new training tools.
"One of these new tools included a Virtu ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 21, 2018 
NASA's InSight spacecraft, en route to a Nov. 26 landing on Mars, passed the halfway mark on Aug. 6. All of its instruments have been tested and are working well.
As of Aug. 20, the spacecraft had covered 172 million miles (277 million kilometers) since its launch 107 days ago. In another 98 days, it will travel another 129 million miles (208 million kilometers) and touch down in Mars' Ely ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 17, 2018 
China's moon lander and rover for the Chang'e-4 lunar probe, which is expected to land on the far side of the moon this year, was unveiled Wednesday.
Images displayed at Wednesday's press conference showed the rover was a rectangular box with two foldable solar panels and six wheels. It is 1.5 meters long, 1 meter wide and 1.1 meters high.
Wu Weiren, the chief designer of China's lun ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (ESA) Aug 28, 2018 
Two plaques etched with thousands of miniaturised drawings made by children have been unveiled in a dedicated ceremony held in Switzerland.
Three years ago, thousands of children were inspired by the study of planets beyond our Solar System and translated their imagination into beautiful drawings, which feature a variety of planets and other cosmic settings. Out of the many excellent entri ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 28, 2018 
Researchers recently discovered that the strength of the magnetic field required to elicit a particular quantum mechanical process, such as photoluminescence and the ability to control spin states with electromagnetic (EM) fields, corresponds to the temperature of the material.
Based on this finding, scientists can determine a sample's temperature to a resolution of one cubic micron by mea ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 24, 2018 
The mass of a very young exoplanet has been revealed for the first time using data from ESA's star mapping spacecraft Gaia and its predecessor, the quarter-century retired Hipparcos satellite.
Astronomers Ignas Snellen and Anthony Brown from Leiden University, the Netherlands, deduced the mass of the planet Beta Pictoris b from the motion of its host star over a long period of time as capt ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 29, 2018 
With an equator diameter of around 143,000 kilometers, Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system and has 300 times the mass of the Earth. The formation mechanism of giant planets like Jupiter has been a hotly debated topic for several decades. Now, astrophysicists of the Swiss National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS of the Universities of Bern and Zurich and ETH Zurich h ... more |
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 Bago, Myanmar (AFP) Aug 29, 2018 
Monsoon rains caused a central Myanmar dam to overflow early Wednesday, inundating about 100 villages and blocking the country's biggest highway, a government official said.
No casualties have been reported but thousands were displaced and took shelter in temporary camps.
Swar Chaung dam's spillway structure, which regulates the release of water from the levee, broke due to heavy seaso ... more |
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 Cape Canaveral FL (spx) Aug 28, 2018 
The first of the U.S. Air Force's advanced new, higher-power, harder-to-jam GPS III satellites is making its way to the launch pad.
On August 20, Lockheed Martin shipped the U.S. Air Force's first GPS III space vehicle (GPS III SV01) to Cape Canaveral for its expected launch in December. Designed and built at Lockheed Martin's GPS III Processing Facility near Denver, the satellite was ship ... more |
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 Manoa HI (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 
A team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology (SOEST) found the first direct evidence of surface-exposed water ice in permanently shaded regions (PSRs) on the Moon.
"We found that the distribution of ice on the lunar surface is very patchy, which is very different from other planetary bodies such as Mercury a ... more |
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 Andalusia, Spain (SPX) Aug 28, 2018 
There is just over two months to go until asteroid 2015 TB145 approaches Earth once again, just as it did in 2015 around the night of Halloween, an occasion which astronomers did not pass up to study its characteristics. This dark object measures between 625 and 700 metres, its rotation period is around three hours and, in certain lighting conditions, it resembles a human skull.
An asteroi ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Aug 23, 2018 
Next month, NASA will launch into space the most advanced laser instrument of its kind, beginning a mission to measure - in unprecedented detail - changes in the heights of Earth's polar ice.
NASA's Ice, Cloud and land Elevation Satellite-2 (ICESat-2) will measure the average annual elevation change of land ice covering Greenland and Antarctica to within the width of a pencil, capturing 60 ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 29, 2018 
It was Aug. 14, 2017, just one week before the Moon would cross paths with the Sun and Earth, casting its shadow across the United States. The entire country buzzed with anticipation for the fleeting chance to see the corona, the Sun's tenuous outer atmosphere.
But the wait was uniquely nerve-wracking for a group of scientists at Predictive Science Inc., a private research company in San D ... more |
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 Taipei, Taiwan (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 
Babies grow up fast in the blink of an eye and thus their parents wish to record their growth without missing any moment. This is true not only for human babies but also for baby stars, called protostars, although the recorders are not parents but astronomers in this case.
Protostars' ages, or evolutionary stages, have been determined from observations at near- and mid-infrared wavelengths ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Aug 24, 2018 
Last year, physicists at MIT, the University of Vienna, and elsewhere provided strong support for quantum entanglement, the seemingly far-out idea that two particles, no matter how distant from each other in space and time, can be inextricably linked, in a way that defies the rules of classical physics.
Take, for instance, two particles sitting on opposite edges of the universe. If they ar ... more |
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