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Physicists help narrow search for elusive Higgs bosonNew York NY (SPX) Dec 14, 2011 New York University physicists are part of a research team that has narrowed the search for the Higgs boson, a sub-atomic particle that is a building block of the universe. In an announcement made in Geneva, scientists said they have found signs of its existence and narrowed the regions where the elusive particle could be. "If these first hints evolve into a conclusive observation of the Higgs boson, it will be a triumph of human intellect and ingenuity," said NYU physicist Kyle Cranmer, one of th ... read more |
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  Orbital Selects Antares as Permanent Name For New Rocket Based On Taurus II Program Orbital Sciences has announced that Antares will be the permanent operational name for the medium-class launch vehicle created by its research and development program formerly known as Taurus II. Or ... more | .. |
  Orion Drop Test Makes A Clean Splash Testing continues at NASA Langley Research Center as the 18,000-pound (8,165 kg) Orion test article took its eight and final splash of the year into the Hydro Impact Basin on Dec. 13. Orion, t ... more | .. |
  Glonass satnav system targets Latin America and India The Latin American and Indian markets will be a priority for Glonass, Russia's global satellite navigation system, Russian Space Systems Deputy General Director Grigory Stupak said on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
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  Fermi Shows That Tycho's Star Shines in Gamma Rays In early November 1572, observers on Earth witnessed the appearance of a "new star" in the constellation Cassiopeia, an event now recognized as the brightest naked-eye supernova in more than 400 yea ... more | .. |
 A Galaxy Cluster Gets Sloshed Like wine in a glass, vast clouds of hot gas are sloshing back and forth in Abell 2052, a galaxy cluster located about 480 million light years from Earth. X-ray data (blue) from NASA's Chandra X-ray ... more | .. |
 Lockheed Martin Delivers GPS 3 Pathfinder Satellite to Denver on Schedule The Lockheed Martin team developing the U.S. Air Force's next generation Global Positioning System has delivered the program's pathfinder spacecraft to the company's Denver-area facility. The pathfi ... more | .. |
  Raytheon BBN Awarded Research Contract To Enable Early Awareness Of Emerging Technology Raytheon BBN Technologies has been awarded $5.2 million by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) under the Foresight and Understanding from Scientific Exposition (FUSE) progra ... more |
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 Galileo in tune as first navigation signal transmitted to Earth Europe's Galileo system has passed its latest milestone, transmitting its very first test navigation signal back to Earth. The first two Galileo satellites, launched on 21 October, are in the midst ... more | .. |
  SES Further Increases Its Sales Focus On Emerging Markets SES has announced that it further increases the focus on emerging and growth markets and introduces four global sales regions with a dedicated management leading the strong SES teams in each region. ... more | .. |
 Launcher integration is complete for second Arianespace Soyuz launch campaign The launcher for Arianespace's no. 2 Soyuz flight from French Guiana is now complete, following the integration of its "upper composite" containing the vehicle's Fregat upper stage, the mission's si ... more | .. |
 Disaster Looms for Gas Cloud Falling into Black Hole The normally quiet neighborhood around the massive black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy is being invaded by a gas cloud that is destined in just a few years to be ripped, shredded and la ... more |
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  Aerostat system detects cruise missiles and supports engagement Raytheon recently established a test site at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., for its cruise missile defense system - the Joint Land Attack Cruise Missile Elevated Netted Sensor System (JLENS). ... more | .. |
  20th Space Control Squadron: AFSPC's premier space surveillance squadron The operators of 20th Space Control Squadron have a big job: carry out round-the-clock space surveillance operations with the world's most powerful radar. The squadron's AN/FPS-85 radar helps the Ai ... more | .. |
  Air Force and Lockheed Martin Complete Environmental Testing of Missile Warning Satellite Lockheed Martin has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing of the U.S. Air Force's second Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous (GEO-2) satellite. The milestone represents the sp ... more | .. |
  NASA Gears Up for Airborne Study of Earth's Radiation Balance NASA scientists have successfully completed flight tests in preparation for deployment of a multi-year airborne science campaign to study the humidity and chemical composition of air entering the tr ... more |
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Scientists establish link between Earth's orbital shifts and ice age cycles
Study reveals how rising temperatures could lead to population crashes
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 Study Shows More Shrubbery in a Warming World Scientists have used satellite data from NASA-built Landsat missions to confirm that more than 20 years of warming temperatures in northern Quebec, Canada, have resulted in an increase in the amount ... more | .. |
 We will reverse-engineer US drone: top Iranian MP Iran will reverse-engineer the US drone it has in its possession, and is in the "final stages" of unlocking the aircraft's software secrets, the head of Iran's parliamentary national security committee said on Monday. ... more | .. |
  NASA at work on 'spearfishing' for comets The US space agency is developing a high-tech harpoon that could one day pierce a comet and grab samples for scientists on Earth to study for hints about how the universe formed. ... more | .. |
 Russian who helped put Gagarin in space dies at 99 One of the last surviving architects of the Soviet space programme that put Yuri Gagarin into orbit half a century ago died on Wednesday, officials said. He was 99. ... more |
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 Microsoft co-founder unveils space travel plans A giant airplane that can in mid-flight launch a rocket carrying cargo and humans into orbit is the future of space travel, billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen said on Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Voyager spacecraft that toured outer planets nearing solar system edge In 1977, Jimmy Carter was sworn in as president, Elvis died, Virginia park ranger Roy Sullivan was hit by lightning a record seventh time, and two NASA space probes destined to turn planetary scienc ... more | .. |
  Preparing for human exploration of Mars by measuring background radiation NASA will launch the Mars Science Laboratory on Nov. 26, 2011, to assess the past and present habitability of the Red Planet's surface. The mission will land Curiosity, a rover equipped with 10 inst ... more | .. |
 ATLAS and CMS Experiments Present Higgs Search Status In a seminar held at CERN, the ATLAS and CMS experiments presented the status of their searches for the Standard Model Higgs boson. Their results are based on the analysis of considerably more data ... more |
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 Arianespace selected to launch MEASAT-3b Asia's leading satellite operator, MEASAT Global (MEASAT), has chosen Arianespace to launch the MEASAT-3b satellite. MEASAT-3b will be boosted into geostationary transfer orbit by an Ariane 5 ... more | .. |
 Mars-Bound Rover Begins Research in Space NASA's car-sized Curiosity rover has begun monitoring space radiation during its 8-month trip from Earth to Mars. The research will aid in planning for future human missions to the Red Planet. ... more | .. |
 NASA seeking astronaut candidates NASA is accepting applications for astronaut candidates via the USAJobs website, through Jan. 12, 2012, Air Force Personnel Center officials announced. "Applicants who submit an application th ... more | .. |
 Phobos-Grunt mission now impossible says chief designer Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft, which has been stuck in the wrong orbit for more than a month, will not be able to complete its mission, the head and chief designer of the Lavochkin spacecraft con ... more |
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 Experiment to Reveal How Key Elements Were Forged Ernst K. Zinner, PhD, research professor of physics and Earth and planetary sciences in Arts and Sciences has received a three-year, $1,380,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administ ... more | .. |
  Portraits of Saturn Moons Captured by Cassini NASA's Cassini spacecraft successfully completed its closest-ever pass over Saturn's moon Dione on Monday, Dec. 12, slaloming its way through the Saturn system on its way to tomorrow's close flyby o ... more | .. |
 NASA Developing Comet Harpoon for Sample Return The best way to grab a sample of a rotating comet that is racing through the inner solar system at up to 150,000 miles per hour while spewing chunks of ice, rock and dust may be to avoid the risky b ... more | .. |
 In Search Of A Wet Warm Life Filled Mars Scientists from The Australian National University have found that extensive regions of the sub-surface of Mars could contain water and be at comfortable temperatures for terrestrial - and potential ... more |
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