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April 05, 2013

Power behind primordial soup discovered
Leeds UK (SPX) Apr 05, 2013
Researchers at the University of Leeds may have solved a key puzzle about how objects from space could have kindled life on Earth. While it is generally accepted that some important ingredients for life came from meteorites bombarding the early Earth, scientists have not been able to explain how that inanimate rock transformed into the building blocks of life. This new study shows how a chemical, similar to one now found in all living cells and vital for generating the energy that makes something ... read more

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Mapping the Chemistry Needed for Life at Europa A new paper led by a NASA researcher shows that hydrogen peroxide is abundant across much of the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa. The authors argue that if the peroxide on the surface of Europa mix ... more		Scientists to Io: Your Volcanoes Are in the Wrong Place Jupiter's moon Io is the most volcanically active world in the Solar System, with hundreds of volcanoes, some erupting lava fountains up to 250 miles high. However, concentrations of volcanic activi ... more		First data released from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer The first published results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), a major physics experiment operating on the International Space Station, were announced by the AMS collaboration spokesman, No ... more
				NASA Sounding Rocket Observes the Seeds of Noctilucent Clouds A constant stream of space debris flows toward Earth from the rest of the solar system. Large meteors can sometimes survive the intense friction and heat upon entering Earth's atmosphere, but by and ... more		Gravity-Bending Find Leads to Kepler Meeting Einstein NASA's Kepler space telescope has witnessed the effects of a dead star bending the light of its companion star. The findings are among the first detections of this phenomenon - a result of Einstein ... more

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NASA Flies Radar South on Wide-Ranging Scientific Expedition A versatile NASA airborne imaging radar system is showcasing its broad scientific prowess for studying our home planet during a month-long expedition over the Americas. A NASA C-20A piloted ai ... more		Stars in NGC 602a The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) is one of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbors. Even though it is a small, or so-called dwarf galaxy, the SMC is so bright that it is visible to the unaided ey ... more		Trump announces replacement of top US military officer with 3 Star General Trump fires top-ranked US military officer as shake-ups spread U.S. officials reportedly push back on G7 language labeling Russia an 'aggressor'		Protecting history with satellites Looking down from orbit is an attractive way of monitoring historical sites in remote or politically unstable regions - and can even help archaeologists to make new discoveries. The ancient ci ... more
				Final MAVEN Instrument Integrated to Spacecraft An instrument that will measure the composition of Mars' upper atmosphere has been integrated into NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft. MAVEN has a scheduled launch date ... more		NASA Invests in Small Business Innovative Research and Technology Proposals to Enable Future Missions NASA has selected 295 research and technology proposals from 216 American small businesses for negotiations that may lead to contract awards worth a combined $38.7 million. The proposals are part of ... more

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Shining light on elusive dark matter The antimatter hunter AMS-02 on the International Space Station is searching for the missing pieces of our Universe. The project's first results published are hinting at a new phenomenon and reveali ... more		KVH More Than Doubles mini-VSAT Broadband Network Capacity in Brazil and Africa In the latest stage of its ongoing expansion of the global mini-VSAT Broadband network, KVH Industries has more than doubled the network's capacity in the Brazilian and African regions. The ongoing ... more		US National Park workers reckon with fear, anger after layoffs Glacial Fracking Identified as Undetected Arctic Methane Source Morocco overturns deportation Uyghur man wanted in China		SDSC's Gordon Supercomputer Assists in Crunching Large Hadron Collider Data Gordon, the unique supercomputer launched last year by the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego, recently completed its most data-intensive task so far: r ... more
				Hubble breaks record for furthest supernova The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has broken the record in the quest to find the furthest supernova of the type used to measure cosmic distances. This supernova exploded more than 10 billion years ... more		Dartmouth researchers say a comet killed the dinosaurs In a geological moment about 66 million years ago, something killed off almost all the dinosaurs and some 70 percent of all other species living on Earth. Only those dinosaurs related to birds appea ... more

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	ALMA Detects Signs of Star Formation Surprisingly Close to Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have discovered signs of star formation perilously close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galax ... more		Collision Course? A Comet Heads for Mars Over the years, the spacefaring nations of Earth have sent dozens of probes and rovers to explore Mars. Today there are three active satellites circling the red planet while two rovers, Opportunity ... more		What Is Behind Einstein's Turbulences? The American Nobel Prize Laureate for Physics Richard Feynman once described turbulence as "the most important unsolved problem of classical physics", because a description of the phenomenon from fi ... more		NASA Mission Will Track Earth's Ozone Ozone stinks. People who breathe it gag as their lungs burn. The EPA classifies ground-level ozone as air pollution. Yet without it, life on Earth would be impossible. A fragile layer of ozone 25 km ... more

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