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  Houston (AFP) Aug 5, 2020 SpaceX on Tuesday successfully completed a flight of less than a minute of the largest prototype ever tested of the future rocket Starship, which the company hopes to use one day to colonize Mars. "Mars is looking real," SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted in response to a fan. The current Starship prototype is fairly crude: it's a large metallic cylinder, built in a few weeks by SpaceX teams on the Texas coast, in Boca Chica - but it's still smaller than the actual rocket will be. Several pre ... read more |
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Astronauts praise 'flawless' SpaceX capsule landingWashington DC (UPI) Aug 04, 2020 Two NASA astronauts who returned from space to a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday praised the SpaceX Dragon capsule's performance in their first public comments since the mission. ... more  
Scientists find way to track space junk in daylightParis (AFP) Aug 4, 2020 Scientists said Tuesday they had discovered a way to detect space debris even in daylight hours, potentially helping satellites to avoid the ever-growing cloud of junk orbiting the planet. ... more  
Universe Is More Homogeneous Than ExpectedAmsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 New results from the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS) show that the universe is nearly 10 percent more homogeneous than the standard model of cosmology (Lambda-cold dark matter) predicts. The latest KiDS m ... more  
Scientists Find Two Meteorites in Two WeeksPerth, Australia (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 Curtin University researchers have discovered two meteorites in a two week period on the Nullarbor Plain - one freshly fallen and the other from November 2019. Both falls were captured by The ... more |
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'Quantum negativity' can power ultra-precise measurementsCambridge UK (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 Scientists have found that a physical property called 'quantum negativity' can be used to take more precise measurements of everything from molecular distances to gravitational waves. The rese ... more  
Room temperature superconductivity creeping toward possibilityUniversity Park PA (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 The possibility of achieving room temperature superconductivity took a tiny step forward with a recent discovery by a team of Penn State physicists and materials scientists. The surprising dis ... more  
Scientists discover new class of semiconducting entropy-stabilized materialsAnn Arbor MI (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 Semiconductors are important materials in numerous functional applications such as digital and analog electronics, solar cells, LEDs, and lasers. Semiconducting alloys are particularly useful for th ... more  
Physicists find misaligned carbon sheets yield unparalleled propertiesDallas TX (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 A material composed of two one-atom-thick layers of carbon has grabbed the attention of physicists worldwide for its intriguing - and potentially exploitable - conductive properties. Dr. Fan Z ... more  
Astrophysicists Observe Long-Theorized Quantum PhenomenaBaltimore MD (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 At the heart of every white dwarf star - the dense stellar object that remains after a star has burned away its fuel reserve of gases as it nears the end of its life cycle - lies a quantum conundrum ... more |
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Richard Branson space-bound in early 2021 says Virgin GalacticWashington (AFP) Aug 4, 2020 Richard Branson could shoot into space on his Virgin Galactic aircraft as its first passenger early next year, the company said, potentially blazing a path for commercial flights. ... more  |
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Simulating quantum 'time travel' disproves butterfly effect in quantum realmLos Alamos NM (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 Using a quantum computer to simulate time travel, researchers have demonstrated that, in the quantum realm, there is no "butterfly effect." In the research, information - qubits, or quantum bits - " ... more  
Ancient mountain formation and monsoons helped create a modern biodiversity hotspotChicago IL (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 One of the big questions in biology is why certain plants and animals are found in some places and not others. Figuring out how species evolve and spread, and why some places are richer in species t ... more  
Lightning strikes more than 100 million times per year in the tropicsWashington DC (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 Researchers at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) in Panama have published dramatic maps showing the locations of lightning strikes across the tropics in Global Change Biology. Based ... more  
New study shows retreat of East Antarctic ice sheet during previous warm periodsSanta Cruz CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 Questions about the stability of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet are a major source of uncertainty in estimates of how much sea level will rise as the Earth continues to warm. For decades, scientists t ... more 
First results of an upgraded device highlight lithium's value for producing fusionPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 Lithium, the silvery metal that powers smart phones and helps treat bipolar disorders, could also play a significant role in the worldwide effort to harvest on Earth the safe, clean and virtually li ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
On a cold winter day more than four years ago, representatives from the International Space Station (ISS) U.S. National Laboratory and NASA descended upon Indianapolis for a Destination Station outreach event, hoping to convince a nontraditional partner that research and technology development onboard the ISS could improve their consumer products here on Earth.
Joining the NASA and ISS Nat ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 04, 2020  Two NASA astronauts who returned from space to a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday praised the SpaceX Dragon capsule's performance in their first public comments since the mission.
"We're so proud of the SpaceX and NASA teams to get Dragon through its first crewed flight flawlessly," Doug Hurley said.
"I'm almost kind of speechless, as far as how well the vehicle did and ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Aug 03, 2020 
European scientists will help select rocks and soil from Mars in the search for life on our planetary neighbour. Five European researchers are part of NASA's Mars 2020 science team to select the most promising martian samples bound for Earth. The mission to Mars launched last week for its seven-month journey to the Red Planet. Once there, the team will guide the Perseverance rover as it hunts fo ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jul 24, 2020 
With the carrier rocket Long March-5 lifting off from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site on Thursday, China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has embarked on its maiden voyage to brave the challenge of orbiting, landing and deploying a rover on the red planet in one single mission.
"Tianwen," the name of China's Martian exploration project, comes from the long poem "Tianwen," meaning Heavenly Questi ... more |
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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Jul 29, 2020 
The 2020 State of the Space Industrial Base Workshop held in May brought together more than 120 space leaders from across the federal government, industry, and academia to assess the current health of the space industry and to provide recommendations for strengthening that industrial base.
The State of the Space Industrial Base 2020 report was prepared by space leaders from the U.S. Space ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Aug 4, 2020 
Scientists said Tuesday they had discovered a way to detect space debris even in daylight hours, potentially helping satellites to avoid the ever-growing cloud of junk orbiting the planet.
Defunct rockets, satellites and spacecraft parts continue to orbit Earth after they are discarded.
The estimated 500,000 objects circling the globe range in size from a single screw to an entire rocke ... more |
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 Kingston RI (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
For decades, scientists have gathered ancient sediment samples from below the seafloor to better understand past climates, plate tectonics and the deep marine ecosystem. In a new study published in Nature Communications, researchers reveal that given the right food in the right laboratory conditions, microbes collected from sediment as old as 100 million years can revive and multiply, even after ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
Jupiter, named for the king of the ancient Roman gods, commands its own mini-version of our solar system of circling satellites; their movements convinced Galileo Galilei that Earth is not the center of the universe in the early 17th century. More than 400 years later, astronomers will use NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to observe these famous subjects, pushing the observatory's instruments t ... more |
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 Cairo (AFP) Aug 3, 2020 
The African Union mediated a round of talks Monday between ministers from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on Addis Ababa's controversial Nile dam project, an Egyptian ministry said.
The irrigation ministry said another virtual meeting would be held on Thursday following two days of talks between technical and judicial committees.
The US and the EU took part as observers in the latest meeting, ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 03, 2020 
Although launched more than one month ago, the official operation of the 55th and last satellite of the Beidou-3 Navigation Satellite System was formally announced by President Xi Jinping at a ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Friday.
Which makes the BDS system one of the four global navigation systems providing global navigation and positioning services; the other thr ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Jul 27, 2020 
Russian space industry giant Energia is involved in the production of everything from rockets and satellites to space stations and ballistic missiles, and is the prime mover behind the current Russian manned spaceflight programs.
Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia has created and patented a means to fly cosmonauts to the Moon and back without an expensive new heavy-launch rocket. ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jul 30, 2020 
Meteorites give us insight into the early development of the solar system. Using the SAPHiR instrument at the Research Neutron Source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (FRM II) at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), a scientific team has for the first time simulated the formation of a class of stony-iron meteorites, so-called pallasites, on a purely experimental basis.
"Pallasites are the optical ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
A majority of the world population lives on low lying lands near the sea, some of which are predicted to submerge by the end of the 21st century due to rising sea levels.
The most relevant quantity for assessing the impacts of sea-level change on these communities is the relative sea-level rise - the elevation change between the Earth's surface height and sea surface height. For an observe ... more |
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 Lund, Sweden (SPX) Jul 30, 2020 
Extensive power outages and satellite blackouts that affect air travel and the internet are some of the potential consequences of massive solar storms. These storms are believed to be caused by the release of enormous amounts of stored magnetic energy due to changes in the magnetic field of the sun's outer atmosphere - something that until now has eluded scientists' direct measurement. Researche ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
New results achieved by combining big data captured by the Subaru Telescope and the power of machine learning have discovered a galaxy with an extremely low oxygen abundance of 1.6% solar abundance, breaking the previous record of the lowest oxygen abundance. The measured oxygen abundance suggests that most of the stars in this galaxy formed very recently.
To understand galaxy evolution, a ... more |
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 Los Alamos NM (SPX) Aug 03, 2020 
Using a quantum computer to simulate time travel, researchers have demonstrated that, in the quantum realm, there is no "butterfly effect." In the research, information - qubits, or quantum bits - "time travel" into the simulated past. One of them is then strongly damaged, like stepping on a butterfly, metaphorically speaking. Surprisingly, when all qubits return to the "present," they appear la ... more |
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