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New form of carbon observedWashington DC (SPX) Aug 17, 2012 A team of scientists led by Carnegie's Lin Wang has observed a new form of very hard carbon clusters, which are unusual in their mix of crystalline and disordered structure. The material is capable of indenting diamond. This finding has potential applications for a range of mechanical, electronic, and electrochemical uses. The work is published in Science on Aug. 17. Carbon is the fourth-most-abundant element in the universe and takes on a wide variety of forms-the honeycomb-like graphene, the pen ... read more |
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  Mars rover takes 'cool' detour: NASA The US space agency NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will make a wide detour to explore a "cool" geographical hot spot on Mars, scientists said Friday. ... more | .. |
  XCOR Becomes Corporate Sponsor of Uwingu, a Space Apps Company XCOR Aerospace, a leader in commercial suborbital spaceflight, has become a corporate sponsor of Uwingu LLC's crowd-sourcing campaign to generate funds to launch its first web-based products. ... more | .. |
  The Sun's Almost Perfectly Round Shape Baffles Scientists The sun is nearly the roundest object ever measured. If scaled to the size of a beach ball, it would be so round that the difference between the widest and narrow diameters would be much less than t ... more | .. |
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  Hubble Watches Star Clusters on a Collision Course Astronomers using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have caught two clusters full of massive stars that may be in the early stages of merging. The clusters are 170,000 light-years away in the ... more | .. |
  Exoplanet hosting stars give further insights on planet formation An international team, led by EXOEarths researchers (Centro de Astrofisica da Universidade do Porto - CAUP), proposes that metals like Magnesium might have an important role in the formation of low ... more | .. |
  Space bugs for blood testing and more Thanks to ideas of putting swarms of tiny robot bugs to work on a future space station, patients being medicated for blood clots may soon get a simple, home-use testing kit, here on Earth. Fifteen y ... more | .. |
  India's GSAT-10 satellite continues its checkout for the upcoming Arianespace Ariane 5 mission Test deployments of the antenna reflectors on India's GSAT-10 telecommunications satellite have been performed as part of pre-flight preparations for this payload, which is one of two spacecraft on ... more |
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A French-UK nuclear umbrella for Europe? Not likely, say analysts
EU, India eye defence and security deal; France wants defense excluded from EU budget rules
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  NASA Selects Combined Data Services Contract For Polar Satellites NASA has selected the Norwegian Space Centre (NSC) of Oslo, Norway, for combined data support services for NOAA's Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) Program. This is a firm-fixed price contract wit ... more | .. |
  Curious dark nebula seen as never before Just as Rene Magritte wrote "This is not a pipe" on his famous painting, this is also not a pipe. It is however a picture of part of a vast dark cloud of interstellar dust called the Pipe Nebula. Th ... more | .. |
 Flight Readiness Review Complete; No Constraints to Aug. 23 Launch At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Flight Readiness Review for the agency's Radiation Belt Storm Probes spacecraft and the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is complete. There ... more | .. |
 NASA is Tracking Electron Beams from the Sun In the quest to understand how the world's weather moves around the globe, scientists have had to tease apart different kinds of atmospheric movement, such as the great jet streams that can move acr ... more |
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  Lockheed Martin Receives Contract To Produce THAAD Weapon System Equipment For The US Army Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $150 million contract from the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) to produce Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Weapon System launchers and fire control and com ... more | .. |
 Israel wraps up national SMS missile alert test Israel on Thursday wound up nationwide testing of an SMS warning system against missile attack, sending texts to mobile phones in Jerusalem and other parts of the country, a military spokeswoman said. ... more | .. |
  N.Korea could produce dozens more nukes: study North Korea could build an arsenal of up to 48 nuclear weapons, several times more than it has now, if the communist state were able to step up its program unchecked, a US think tank said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 US confident of Pakistan nuclear security The United States said Thursday it was confident of the safety of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal after heavily armed militants stormed an air force base in clashes that left 10 people dead. ... more |
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Sudan cholera outbreak kills 70 in a week: officials
Over 500,000 Afghans displaced due to climate disasters in 2024: IOM
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 Phoenix Cluster Sets Record Pace at Forming Stars Astronomers have found an extraordinary galaxy cluster, one of the largest objects in the universe, that is breaking several important cosmic records. Observations of the Phoenix cluster with NASA's ... more | .. |
 New Report Presents Research Program for Solar and Space Physics Over the Next Decade A new report from the National Research Council presents a prioritized program of basic and applied research for 2013-2022 that will advance scientific understanding of the sun, sun-Earth connection ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Reassured by Record-breaking Star Formation in Huge Galaxy Cluster Until now, evidence for what astronomers suspect happens at the cores of the largest galaxy clusters has been uncomfortably scarce. Theory predicts that cooling flows of gas should sink toward the c ... more | .. |
  Micro-thruster could move small satellites Micro-thrust engines no larger than a penny could move future small satellites in space, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology say. ... more |
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Curiosity Finds Humor on Mars Who knew that landing a rover on Mars could be so funny? But when NASA's Curiosity successfully touched down on Mars last week, the outpouring of jokes really took off. Ever since the Mars Sci ... more | .. |
  LRO Spectrometer Detects Helium in Moon's Atmosphere Scientists using the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter have made the first spectroscopic observations of the noble gas helium in the tenuous atmosphere su ... more | .. |
  ATV-3 Vehicle Fails to Adjust Space Station Orbit The European Space Agency's ATV-3 space freighter failed on Wednesday to readjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS), a space industry source said. Another attempt could be mad ... more | .. |
  Russian Space Official Resigns After Satellite Failure The head of a top Russian rocket company handed in his notice on Wednesday, a day after Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev reprimanded space officials over a failed satellite launch last month, a govern ... more |
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  NASA Selects Green Propellant Technology Demonstration Mission NASA has selected a team led by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation of Boulder, Colo., for a technology demonstration of a high performance "green" propellant alternative to the highly toxic ... more | .. |
 Space problems call for systemic solutions Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has given Russia's Roscosmos space agency and the government a month to submit proposals on how to improve the agency's work following a string of latest launch failur ... more | .. |
 Russian PM orders end to space industry problems Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday ordered the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos to sort out its problems. "You will from now on report on the current situation, including the prac ... more | .. |
 How a Mars Sample Return Mission Can Go Electric Solving the mystery of life on Mars requires robots to collect Martian samples for a return to Earth - a mission that may come with the astronomical price tag of $5 billion to $10 billion. That roun ... more |
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 Opportunity is on the Move Again Opportunity is on the move again at the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sols 3036 and 3037 (Aug. 8 and 9, 2012), the rover completed a set of Alpha Particle X-ray Spe ... more | .. |
  Gilat Announces Major Milestone in NBN Interim Satellite Service in Australia Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd has successfully completed the deployment of the first 10,000 VSATs (Very Small Aperture Terminals) with Optus as part of NBN Co's Interim Satellite Service. The j ... more | .. |
  A GPS in Your DNA While your DNA is unique, it also tells the tale of your family line. It carries the genetic history of your ancestors down through the generations. Now, says a Tel Aviv University researcher, it's ... more | .. |
 Russia: Wayward rocket no threat to ISS A Russian rocket that failed to put its payload into orbit is not a threat to the International Space Station, Russia's federal space agency Roscosmos said. ... more |
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