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November 11, 2013

ISS crew returns safely to Earth with Olympic torch
Moscow (AFP) Nov 11, 2013
Three astronauts returned to Earth Monday, following a 166-day mission, bringing the Olympic torch back from the International Space Station after a historic space walk. The trip completes the most ambitious leg of Russia's unparallelled torch relay in the run-up to the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi next February. Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, NASA US astronaut Karen Nyberg and Italian colleague Luca Parmitano, descended in the Soyuz capsule to touch down at 0249 GMT on the frosty steppe ... read more

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GOCE gives in to gravity Close to 01:00 CET on Monday 11 November, ESA's GOCE satellite reentered Earth's atmosphere on a descending orbit pass that extended across Siberia, the western Pacific Ocean, the eastern Indian Oce ... more		Ozone pact helped cool the planet: study A slowdown in global warming that climate sceptics cite in favour of their cause was partly induced by one of the world's most successful environment treaties, a study said on Sunday. ... more		Solar activity playing a minimal role in global warming Changes in solar activity have contributed no more than 10 per cent to global warming in the twentieth century, a new study has found. The findings, made by Professor Terry Sloan at the University o ... more
				Satellites packed like sardines The complex task of placing all three Swarm satellites on their launch adapter is complete. This is another significant milestone in preparing ESA's latest Earth observation mission for liftoff, whi ... more		NASA's Orion Sees Flawless Fairing Separation in Second Test The three massive panels protecting a test version of NASA's Orion multipurpose crew vehicle successfully fell away from the spacecraft Wednesday in a test of a system that will protect Orion during ... more

'Freakish' asteroid discovered, resembles rotating lawn sprinkler Astronomers have discovered a "weird and freakish object" resembling a rotating lawn sprinkler in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The find, reported online in the Nov. 7 issue of the Ast ... more		Prolific NASA Mars Orbiter Passes Big Data Milestone NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has overhauled understanding of the Red Planet since 2006, has passed 200 terabits in the amount of science data returned. The data returned by the mission ... more		'Not interested': Analysts sceptical about US, Russia nuclear talks Iran says ready for nuclear talks if West is 'serious' ESA and European Commission to establish secure quantum communications network		Opportunity Maneuvering Around A Dune Field Opportunity is ascending 'Solander Point' at the rim of 'Endeavour Crater.' The rover is maintaining favorable northerly tilts for improved energy production as winter approaches. Opportunity ... more
				ExoMars Lander Module Named Schiaparelli The entry, descent and landing demonstrator module that will fly on the 2016 ExoMars mission has been named "Schiaparelli" in honour of the Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli, who famously map ... more		Dartmouth researchers shed new light on dark energy, cosmic speed-up In a new study, Dartmouth researchers rule out a controversial theory that the accelerating expansion of the universe is an illusion. While the findings don't explain the cosmic speed-up, they ... more

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X-rays reveal inner structure of the Earth's ancient magma ocean Using the world's most brilliant X-ray source, scientists have for the first time peered into molten magma at conditions of the deep Earth mantle. The analysis at DESY's light source PETRA III revea ... more		Italy assures no risk of satellite debris on its territory Italian officials assured residents Sunday the risk of debris from a defunct satellite falling on Italy overnight was now nil, scrubbing an earlier warning of "minimal" danger. ... more		Climate change increases risk of successive natural hazards in the Himalayas GMV teams up with +Atlantic CoLAB in AIR4Health project to enhance public health forecasting Groundwater in the Arctic is delivering more carbon into the ocean than was previously known		Re-using rather than emitting CO2 seen as viable commercial practice Reusing greenhouse gas carbon dioxide from industrial plants to create new products is on the verge of becoming a commercial reality, a U.S. journal reports. ... more
				Clay may have been birthplace of life Clay, a seemingly infertile blend of minerals, might have been the birthplace of life on Earth. Or at least of the complex biochemicals that make life possible, Cornell University biological enginee ... more		Wageningen UR innovates in the ultra-low temperature freezing of research material In partnership with the Dutch company B.E.R.G. Koudetechniek and Klimaatbeheersing, Wageningen UR (University and Research centre) has designed and constructed an entirely new type of facility for t ... more

Moon mission yields clues to face of 'man in the moon'

Shanghai-built lunar rover set for lunar landing

Crowdfunded Lunar Spacecraft Reaches Funding Milestone

Frugal Mars mission launchpad for India in global space market

Opportunity Maneuvering Around A Dune Field

ExoMars Lander Module Named Schiaparelli

NASA's Orion Sees Flawless Fairing Separation in Second Test

UCF Lands NASA-Funded Center, Linchpin for Future Space Missions

NASA Selects Research Teams for New Virtual Institute

China shows off moon rover model before space launch

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	Volcanic rock probe helps unlock mysteries of how Earth formed New insights gleaned from volcanic rock are helping scientists better understand how our planet evolved billions of years ago. Studies of basalt, the material that forms from cooling lava, are ... more		Georgia Tech Develops Inkjet-Based Circuits at Fraction of Time and Cost Researchers from Georgia Tech, the University of Tokyo and Microsoft Research have developed a novel method to rapidly and cheaply make electrical circuits by printing them with commodity inkjet pri ... more		Designing an acoustic diode Most people know about ultrasound through its role in prenatal imaging: those grainy, grey outlines of junior constructed from reflected sound waves. A new technology called an "acoustic diode," env ... more		York researchers discover important mechanism behind nanoparticle reactivity An international team of researchers has used pioneering electron microscopy techniques to discover an important mechanism behind the reaction of metallic nanoparticles with the environment. C ... more

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Frugal Mars mission launchpad for India in global space market		Mars probe named in honor of 19th century astronomer Schiaparelli		Russians take Olympic torch on historic spacewalk		A Single-Atom Light Switch		European science satellite to break up late Sunday
Self-correcting crystal may unleash the next generation of advanced communications		Mythbusting India's Mars Mission		Wind Tunnel Testing Used to Understand the Unsteady Side of Aerodynamics		From One Collapsing Star, Two Black Holes Form and Fuse		Theory of Earth's special place in the universe proven unfounded

Three-dimensional carbon goes metallic

President Putin ends Russia and NATO ABM cooperation

Gimball: A crash-happy flying robot

Study: Solar activity not a significant factor in global warming

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Nanomaterials database improved to help consumers, scientists track products

Stanford researchers surprised to find how neural circuits identify information needed for decisions

Defective nanotubes turned into light emitters

New chemistry: Drawing and writing in liquid with light

Making electrical contact along 1-D edge of 2-D materials

Lawrence Livermore researchers unveil carbon nanotube jungles to better detect molecules

Cat's eyes: Designing the perfect mixer

Recycling valuable materials used in TVs, car batteries, cell phones

Synaptic transistor learns while it computes

BRRISON Lifts Off To Study Comet ISON

Moon mission yields clues to face of 'man in the moon'

Six-tailed asteroid stuns scientists

NASA Technologists Embrace Laser Instrument Challenge

NASA Pursues New Geodesy Application for Emerging Atom-Optics Technology

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