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  Paris (ESA) Feb 20, 2018 A start-up company from an ESA business incubator is offering affordable air-quality monitors for homes, schools and businesses using technology it developed for the International Space Station. "We realised that the problem astronauts face with limited of exchange of air inside the International Space Station is also the case for many people inside buildings that have little or no ventilation," explains Ciro Formisano from Airgloss, hosted at ESA's Business Incubation Centre in Lazio, Italy. ... read more |
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Iridium Certus broadband readies for DOD wsers with COMSATMcLean VA (SPX) Feb 20, 2018 Iridium Communications Inc. reports that COMSAT, Inc., has signed an agreement to become an Iridium Certus service provider for U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) users. This unique, long-term deal wi ... more  
Light pollution threatens Chile's dark skiesParanal, Chile (AFP) Feb 17, 2018 It seems nothing can escape the inexorable spread of light pollution - not even the giant telescopes probing the heavens above northern Chile, a region whose pristine dark skies, long considered a paradise for astronomers, are under increasing threat. ... more  
Defying US, Paris and Berlin stand firm on EU defence pactMunich, Germany (AFP) Feb 16, 2018 Europe must be able to stand on its own feet militarily, France and Germany said Friday as they made the case for a new EU defence pact that has rattled Washington. ... more  
Cyberattacks are costly, and things could get worse: US reportWashington (AFP) Feb 16, 2018 Cyberattacks cost the United States between $57 billion and $109 billion in 2016, a White House report said Friday, warning of a "spillover" effect for the broader economy if the situation worsens. ... more |
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Satellite galaxies of Centaurus A are on a coordinated danceWashington DC (SPX) Feb 20, 2018 The satellite dwarf galaxies orbiting around the much larger galaxy Centaurus A are rotating in synchrony around their host, to researchers' surprise. (Researchers expected them to orbit at random). ... more 
New study challenges popular theory about dwarf galaxiesCanberra, Australia (SPX) Feb 20, 2018 A new international study involving The Australian National University (ANU) has found a plane of dwarf galaxies orbiting around Centaurus A in a discovery that challenges a popular theory about how ... more 
News about Tabby's star, the most mysterious star of 2017Canary Islands, Spain (SPX) Feb 20, 2018 KIC 8462852, or "Tabby's Star" named after Tabetha Boyajian, the researcher at Louisiana State University (USA) who is leading its study, is a medium sized star, some 50% bigger than the Sun, and 1, ... more  
A new way of generating ultra-short bursts of lightStanford CA (SPX) Feb 20, 2018 Although critical for varied applications, such as cutting and welding, surgery and transmitting bits through optical fiber, lasers have some limitations - namely, they only produce light in limited ... more 
UMass Amherst physicists speed up droplet-wrapping processAmherst MA (SPX) Feb 16, 2018 Experimental physicists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has reported that they have developed a fast, dynamic new process for wrapping liquid droplets in ultrathin polymer sheets, so what ... more |
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All-terrain microbot moves by tumbling over complex topographyWest Lafayette, IN (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 A new type of all-terrain microbot that moves by tumbling could help usher in tiny machines for various applications. The "microscale magnetic tumbling robot," or uTUM (microTUM), is about 400 by 80 ... more  |
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Stanford scientists eavesdrop on volcanic rumblings to forecast eruptionsStanford CA (SPX) Feb 20, 2018 A new study has shown that monitoring inaudible low frequencies called infrasound produced by a type of active volcano could improve the forecasting of significant, potentially deadly eruptions. ... more  
Silicon qubits plus light add up to new quantum computing capabilityPrinceton NJ (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 A silicon-based quantum computing device could be closer than ever due to a new experimental device that demonstrates the potential to use light as a messenger to connect quantum bits of information ... more 
Mass production of new class of semiconductors closer to realityWaterloo, Canada (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 Two Waterloo chemists have made it easier for manufacturers to produce a new class of faster and cheaper semiconductors. The chemists have found a way to simultaneously control the orientation ... more  
Asteroid 'time capsules' may help explain how life started on EarthAtlanta GA (SPX) Feb 19, 2018 In popular culture, asteroids play the role of apocalyptic threat, get blamed for wiping out the dinosaurs - and offer an extraterrestrial source for mineral mining. But for researcher Nichola ... more 
Japanese, US astronauts end spacewalk to fix robotic armWashington (AFP) Feb 16, 2018 A Japanese and an American astronaut floated for hours outside the International Space Station Friday on a spacewalk to repair the orbiting outpost's robotic arm and move some equipment into storage. ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 20, 2018  A start-up company from an ESA business incubator is offering affordable air-quality monitors for homes, schools and businesses using technology it developed for the International Space Station.
"We realised that the problem astronauts face with limited of exchange of air inside the International Space Station is also the case for many people inside buildings that have little or no ventila ... more |
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 Vernon, France (SPX) Feb 16, 2018 
The re-ignitable Vinci, engine, which will power the upper stage of the Ariane 6 launcher, has now successfully completed its last two subsystems qualification campaigns (M6 and M7) with 140 engine tests conducted.
The tests in campaigns M6 and M7, vital for qualification of the engine subsystems, were carried out on the PF52 bench at the ArianeGroup site in Vernon, France, and on the Germ ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 16, 2018 
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity keeps providing surprises about the Red Planet, most recently with observations of possible "rock stripes."
The ground texture seen in recent images from the rover resembles a smudged version of very distinctive stone stripes on some mountain slopes on Earth that result from repeated cycles of freezing and thawing of wet soil. But it might also be ... more |
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 Xichang, China (XNA) Feb 15, 2018 
The Long March-3B rocket launched Monday from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province marked the seventh successful mission of the Long March rocket series since the beginning of 2018.
The year 2018 will be an ambitious year for China's space program, with the largest number of Long March rocket launches.
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 McLean VA (SPX) Feb 20, 2018 
Iridium Communications Inc. reports that COMSAT, Inc., has signed an agreement to become an Iridium Certus service provider for U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) users. This unique, long-term deal will allow COMSAT Inc. to provide Iridium's secure global satellite broadband connectivity for mobile voice and data services to the Department of Defense (DoD) beginning in mid-2018.
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Feb 20, 2018 
Although critical for varied applications, such as cutting and welding, surgery and transmitting bits through optical fiber, lasers have some limitations - namely, they only produce light in limited wavelength ranges. Now, researchers from the Ginzton Lab at Stanford University have modified similar light sources, called optical parametric oscillators, to overcome this obstacle.
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 16, 2018 
NASA's next planet-hunting mission has arrived in Florida to begin preparations for launch. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is scheduled to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station nearby NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than April 16, pending range approval.
TESS was delivered Feb. 12 aboard a truck from Orbital ATK in Dull ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft recently turned its telescopic camera toward a field of stars, snapped an image - and made history.
The routine calibration frame of the "Wishing Well" galactic open star cluster, made by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on Dec. 5, was taken when New Horizons was 3.79 billion miles (6.12 billion kilometers, or 40.9 astronomical units) from Earth - ... more |
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 Sydney (AFP) Feb 15, 2018 
Virtually all of Australia's shellfish reefs have disappeared, making them the country's most threatened ocean ecosystem, scientists said Thursday, calling for more investment to rescue the important marine habitats.
While recent global focus has been on the destruction of coral reefs, a study led by the Nature Conservancy found that between 90 and 99 percent of shellfish reefs have vanished ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Feb 12, 2018 
The Pentagon and Israel's Defense Ministry have launched 'Urban Navigation Challenge', a startup competition to create advanced 'counter-terror' navigation systems which don't use GPS. The project makes no mention of officially designated US "rivals" like Russia or China, but according to Russian experts, it would make no difference even if it did.
The project, officially dubbed the Combat ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 
As part of an engineering test, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this image of the Earth and Moon using its NavCam1 imager on January 17 from a distance of 39.5 million miles (63.6 million km). When the camera acquired the image, the spacecraft was moving away from home at a speed of 19,000 miles per hour (8.5 kilometers per second).
Earth is the largest, brightest spot in the center ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 16, 2018 
A blinding flash, a loud sonic boom, and shattered glass everywhere. This is what the people of Chelyabinsk, Russia, experienced five years ago when an asteroid exploded over their city the morning of Feb. 15, 2013.
The house-sized asteroid entered the atmosphere over Chelyabinsk at over eleven miles per second and blew apart 14 miles above the ground. The explosion released the energy equ ... more |
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 Princeton NJ (SPX) Feb 16, 2018 
Climatologists are often asked, "Is climate change making hurricanes stronger?" but they can't give a definitive answer because the global hurricane record only goes back to the dawn of the satellite era. But now, an intersection of disciplines - seismology, atmospheric sciences, and oceanography - offers an untapped data source: the continuous seismic record, which dates back to the early 20th ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 
Just one phenomenon may underlie all solar eruptions, according to researchers from the CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, CEA and INRIA[1] in an article featured on the cover of the February 8 issue of Nature magazine. They have identified the presence of a confining 'cage' in which a magnetic rope[2] forms, causing solar eruptions.
It is the resistance of this cage to the attack of the rope that ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 
Sharing alarm voiced by other scientists, leaders of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) are expressing grave concern over the administration's proposed cuts to NASA's astrophysics budget and the abrupt cancellation of the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST).
"We cannot accept termination of WFIRST, which was the highest-priority space-astronomy mission in the most recent dec ... more |
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 Lemont IL (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 
For the first time, physicists from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and their collaborators, led by a team from the U.S. Army Research Laboratory, demonstrated a long-theorized nuclear effect. This advance tests theoretical models that describe how nuclear and atomic realms interact and may also provide new insights into how star elements are created.
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