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Pentagon-backed 'time cloak' stops the clockParis (AFP) Jan 4, 2012 Pentagon-supported physicists on Wednesday said they had devised a "time cloak" that briefly makes an event undetectable. The laboratory device manipulates the flow of light in such a way that for the merest fraction of a second an event cannot be seen, according to a paper published in the science journal Nature. It adds to experimental work in creating next-generation camouflage - a so-called invisibility cloak in which specific colours cannot be perceived by the human eye. "Our results r ... read more |
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  Reality Check for Indian Astronauts India's decision to stretch out its plans for an indigenous astronaut launch to 2020 or beyond will probably disappoint some. It's a long way in the future, but the decision is an unavoidable realit ... more | .. |
  Ecliptic Shoots for Moon at End of a Record Year The year 2011 was a record year of launch activity for Ecliptic Enterprises Corporation and its RocketCam product family, with a total of 17 RocketCam systems successfully launched-12 onboard variou ... more | .. |
  China's space ambitions ally glory with pragmatism As China pushes to become a global space power, experts say its ambitions go well beyond a symbolic moon landing, to satellite observation and a global positioning system to rival that of the United States. ... more | .. |
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  The smoky pink core of the Omega Nebula A new image of the Omega Nebula, captured by ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT), is one of the sharpest of this object ever taken from the ground. It shows the dusty, rose-coloured central parts of th ... more | .. |
 Through hardship to the stars "Humanity's adventurous, stubborn, mad and glorious aspiration to reach the stars" is the subject of Physics World's lead feature in January. Sidney Perkowitz, Candler Professor of Physics Emeritus ... more | .. |
  New computer model explains lakes and storms on Titan Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is an intriguing, alien world that's covered in a thick atmosphere with abundant methane. With an average surface temperature of a brisk -297 degrees Fahrenheit (about ... more | .. |
  Ice data at your fingertips Discover ESA's ice mission, track it in real time and obtain the latest measurements with the new CryoSat application. CryoSat is measuring the thickness of polar sea ice and monitoring changes in t ... more |
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Germany's Merz open to France extending nuclear deterrent
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 Magnetically-levitated flies offer clues to future of life in space Using powerful magnets to levitate fruit flies can provide vital clues to how biological organisms are affected by weightless conditions in space, researchers at The University of Nottingham say. ... more | .. |
  Stranded Mars probe could fall to Earth in 11 days: report Fragments of Russia's stranded Mars probe Phobos-Grunt could fall to Earth on January 15, the spokesman of Russia's military space forces told Russian news agencies on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Association of Old Crows Recognizes the Dangers of Persistent GPS Interference The November 2011 testing of LightSquared's wireless broadband service proposal found no significant interference to cellular phone text and voice capabilities but did find significant disruption of ... more | .. |
  Leaping lizards tip tails for soft landing Jumping lizards adjust the position of their tails in mid-air to ensure a smooth landing, and certain agile dinosaurs probably did likewise. ... more |
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  Strange crystals said from outer space It turns out unusual crystals found in Russia weren't formed on Earth, researchers say, but rather came from outer space. ... more | .. |
  Globalstar Europe Satellite Services Signs Agreement With TS2 Satellite Technologies Globalstar Europe Satellite Services has announced that it has signed an authorized distribution agreement with TS2 Satellite Technologies, a leading provider of satellite communication products and ... more | .. |
 Smoke Particles Are Not All the 'SAME' Where there's smoke, you need a functioning smoke detector that can tell the difference between, say, smoke particles and dust. Yet in the microgravity environment of the International Space Station ... more | .. |
 Navy Researchers Investigate Small-Scale Autonomous Planetary Explorers Robotic exploration to remote regions, to include distant planetary bodies, is often limited by energy requirements to perform, in repetition, even the simplest tasks. With this in mind, researchers ... more |
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FARMing with Data OpenET Introduces FARMS Tool to Aid Water Management
Heat from the Sun Linked to Seismic Activity on Earth
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 Gilat Announces Extension of Service Agreements with Colombian Ministry Gilat Satellite Networks has announced that the Colombian Ministry of Information Technology and Communications, through the "Fondo de Tecnologias de la Informacion y las Communicaciones", has exten ... more | .. |
  Subaru's Sharp Eye Confirms Signs of Unseen Planets in the Dust Ring of HR 4796 A The SEEDS (Strategic Exploration of Exoplanets and Disks with Subaru Telescope/HiCIAO) project, a five-year international collaboration launched in 2009 and led by Motohide Tamura of NAOJ (National ... more | .. |
 ITT Exelis Wins Satellite Communications Contract ITT Exelis has been awarded a $121 million U.S. Army contract to provide mission support to wideband satellite operations centers and management sites around the world. The Wideband Satellite ... more | .. |
 India lags China in research, complains PM India's prime minister on Tuesday said the country was not spending enough on scientific research, meaning it lagged badly behind regional rival China. ... more |
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  Russia says Iran has no long-range missiles Iran has no long-range missiles, a Russian defence official said Tuesday in Moscow's first response to a series of tests conducted by Tehran near the vital Strait of Hormuz oil supply route. ... more | .. |
  Boeing and Northrop Grumman GMD Team Receives Contract From US MDA Boeing and industry partner Northrop Grumman have received the development and sustainment contract (DSC) from the U.S. Missile Defense Agency for future work on the Ground-based Midcourse Defense ( ... more | .. |
 Raytheon Receives contract for Radars and Services in THAAD Deal to UAE Raytheon will provide AN/TPY-2 radars, associated spares, training and other services through 2018 to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) as the radar component to the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense ... more | .. |
 China sets up state-level aerospace research institute A research institute focusing on the development of the country's aerospace engineering technologies was jointly founded by the Chinese Academy of Engineering and the China Aerospace Science and Tec ... more |
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  SSC supports simultaneous launch of Elisa, Pleiades 1A and SSOT SSC has successfully finalized its launch support to the European space industry leader Astrium and the French space agency CNES for the six satellites that were simultaneously launched 17 December ... more | .. |
 Moon mission on the horizon Preliminary research on a "giant leap" to the moon has been included in the government's plans for the next five years, according to a white paper issued on Thursday. The white paper, China's Space ... more | .. |
 New Insight into the Bar in the Center of the Milky Way It sounds like the start of a bad joke: do you know about the bar in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy? Astronomers first recognized almost 80 years ago that the Milky Way Galaxy, around which the ... more | .. |
 Aristarchus Spectacular! The Aristarchus plateau is one of the most geologically diverse places on the Moon: a mysterious raised flat plateau, a giant rille carved by enormous outpourings of lava, fields of explosive volcan ... more |
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  Space Mountain Produces Terrestrial Meteorites When NASA's Dawn spacecraft entered orbit around giant asteroid Vesta in July, scientists fully expected the probe to reveal some surprising sights. But no one expected a 13-mile high mountain, two ... more | .. |
 Voyager Goes Where No Human-Made Vehicle Has Gone Before No human-made object is further out in space than NASA's Voyager I, which is currently near the edge of our Solar System, more than 33 lighthours - the distance traveled by light in a vacuum in one ... more | .. |
 Getting ready for challenges of space With the successful completion of the Tiangong-1, or Heavenly Palace mission, China showed the world that it had accomplished a major milestone in space technology by mastering the sophisticated int ... more | .. |
 How to See the Best Meteor Showers of the Year Whether you're watching from a downtown area or the dark countryside, here are some tips to help you enjoy these celestial shows of shooting stars. Those streaks of light are really caused by tiny s ... more |
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