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  Columbia MD (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 To train future explorers to support NASA's mission to return to the Moon's surface, scientists use similar environments found on the Earth. Last week, a group of domestic and international students traveled to Barringer Meteorite Crater (aka Meteor Crater), Arizona, to learn necessary skills that could help NASA implement its plans for human and robotic missions to the lunar surface. Dr. David Kring, a Universities Space Research Association scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI), c ... read more |
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NASA calls for instruments, technologies for delivery to the MoonWashington DC (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 NASA has announced a call for Lunar Surface Instrument and Technology Payloads that will fly to the Moon on commercial lunar landers as early as next year or 2020. The agency is working with U.S. in ... more  
NASA's OSIRIS-REx executes second asteroid approach maneuverGreenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft executed its second Asteroid Approach Maneuver (AAM-2). The spacecraft's main engine thrusters fired in a braking maneuver designed to slow the spacecraft's speed relati ... more 
China plans to launch 'moon double' into space to illuminate streetsBeijing (Sputnik) Oct 19, 2018 China is participating in another moon-related project in cooperation with Russia. The two countries are planning to develop their own lunar program with the ultimate aim of building a moon base. ... more  
Bepicolombo blasts off to investigate Mercury's mysteriesKourou, French Guiana (ESA) Oct 20, 2018 The ESA-JAXA BepiColombo mission to Mercury blasted off on an Ariane 5 from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou at 01:45:28 GMT on 20 October on its exciting mission to study the mysteries of the Solar Sys ... more |
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Orbit Logic's scheduling software selected for NASA satellite servicing missionGreenbelt, MD (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 Orbit Logic reports NASA has selected the company's STK Scheduler software for the Restore-L technology demonstration mission. During its mission, the Restore-L spacecraft will demonstrate the techn ... more  
Scientists grow functioning human neural networks in 3D from stem cellsBoston MA (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 A team of Tufts University-led researchers has developed three-dimensional (3D) human tissue culture models for the central nervous system that mimic structural and functional features of the brain ... more  
Life on the floor of the Arctic Ocean, with rigor and in detailWashington DC (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 In an extensive and rigorous study of animal life on the Central Arctic Ocean floor, researchers have shown that water depth and food availability influence the species composition, density, and bio ... more 
QuTech researchers put forward a roadmap for quantum internet developmentDelft, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 A quantum internet may very well be the first quantum information technology to become reality. Researchers at QuTech in Delft, The Netherlands, have published a comprehensive guide towards this goa ... more  
New study sets a size limit for undiscovered subatomic particlesNew Haven CT (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 A new study suggests that many theorized heavy particles, if they exist at all, do not have the properties needed to explain the predominance of matter over antimatter in the universe. If conf ... more |
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Scientists discover first high-temperature single-molecule magnetSussex UK (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 A team of scientists led by Professor Richard Layfield at the University of Sussex has published breakthrough research in molecule-based magnetic information storage materials. The group at th ... more  |
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3D-printed lithium-ion batteriesWashington DC (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 Electric vehicles and most electronic devices, such as cell phones and laptop computers, are powered by lithium-ion batteries. Until now, manufacturers have had to design their devices around the si ... more  
First proof of quantum computer advantageMunich, Germany (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 For many years, quantum computers were not much more than an idea. Today, companies, governments and intelligence agencies are investing in the development of quantum technology. Robert Konig, ... more 
Pushing the extra cold frontiers of superconducting scienceAmes IA (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 Measuring the properties of superconducting materials in magnetic fields at close to absolute zero temperatures is difficult, but necessary to understand their quantum properties. How cold? Lo ... more 
LGS Innovations' Laser Technology to Bring HD Video from the MoonHerndon, VA (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 LGS Innovations, a technology company providing specialized mission-critical communication research and solutions, has announced that it will be supporting the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis ... more 
Asteroid named after university of China's science academyBeijing (XNA) Oct 19, 2018 An asteroid has been named after the university of China's top science academy, with approval from the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Asteroid Guokeda (Univ ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 
With scarce nutrients and weak gravity, growing potatoes on the Moon or on other planets seems unimaginable. But the plant hormone strigolactone could make it possible, plant biologists from the University of Zurich have shown. The hormone supports the symbiosis between fungi and plant roots, thus encouraging plants' growth - even under the challenging conditions found in space.
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 19, 2018  NASA astronaut Nick Hague told NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine that he was impressed by the teamwork of the rescue crew that helped him and Russian cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin to get out of the rescue capsule after their recent emergency return to Earth over launch vehicle failure.
"They had three pararescue jumpers. As soon as they had found where we were at... they jumped in to get to u ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 22, 2018 
Imagine you are on Mars and you stumble upon an interesting rock. The colours, the shape of the crystals and the place where you find it all tell you: there is more to it than meets the eye. Tool in hand, you analyse how light scatters through it. Seconds later you read the following description on the screen:
Jarosite is a potassium and iron bearing hydrated sulphate. It crystallises with ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 19, 2018 
Many new companies have entered the commercial aerospace industry in China, supported by the government. Most of the CEOs come from government aerospace agencies or national scientific institutions. These companies still have a long way to go to catch up with Elon Musk's SpaceX.
The aerospace industry used to be a battleground for superpowers. Space agencies were all sponsored by governmen ... more |
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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Oct 19, 2018  Despite the fact that only state organizations have the right to develop the space industry in Ukraine, Max Polyakov supports the sphere in the country. He and his Noosphere organize the events concerning the field's theme. ... more |
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 Delft, Netherlands (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 
A quantum internet may very well be the first quantum information technology to become reality. Researchers at QuTech in Delft, The Netherlands, have published a comprehensive guide towards this goal in Science. It describes six phases, starting with simple networks of qubits that could already enable secure quantum communications - a phase that could be reality in the near future.
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 
Magnetic forces ripple throughout the universe, from the fields surrounding planets to the gasses filling galaxies, and can be launched by a phenomenon called the Biermann battery effect.
Now scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have found that this phenomenon may not only generate magnetic fields, but can sever them to trigger magn ... more |
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 Manoa HI (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 
A recently published study led by researchers at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology reveals Ganymede, an icy moon of Jupiter, appears to have undergone complex periods of geologic activity, specifically strike-slip tectonism, as is seen in Earth's San Andreas fault. This is the first study to exhaustively consider the role of strike-slip tectonism ... more |
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 Pohang, South Korea (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 
Changes in Atlantic Ocean sea surface temperatures can be used to predict extreme climatic variations known as El Nino and La Nina more than a year in advance, according to research conducted at Korea's Pohang University of Science and Technology and published in the journal Scientific Reports.
The El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is an irregular, periodic variation in trade winds and s ... more |
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 Xichang (XNA) Oct 16, 2018 
China sent twin BeiDou-3 navigation satellites into space on a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, in Sichuan Province, at 12:23 p.m. Monday.
The satellites are the 39th and 40th of the BeiDou navigation system, and the 15th and 16th of the BeiDou-3 family.
The launch was the 287th mission of the Long March carrier rocket series.
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 Columbia MD (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 
To train future explorers to support NASA's mission to return to the Moon's surface, scientists use similar environments found on the Earth. Last week, a group of domestic and international students traveled to Barringer Meteorite Crater (aka Meteor Crater), Arizona, to learn necessary skills that could help NASA implement its plans for human and robotic missions to the lunar surface.
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 Vladivostok, Russia (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 
Evgenij Zubko of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) in collaboration with other international team members has developed a comprehensive model to explain the results of a photometric study of the Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 (29P) which was successfully accomplished recently. The findings came as a real surprise revealed that the dust environment of 29P predominantly consists of only one type ... more |
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 Cambridge, Canada (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 
exactEarth Ltd. reports the Government of Canada will make an investment of $7.2 million over three-years to support the development, management and expansion of exactView RT, the Company's real-time Satellite-AIS service.
The investment is being made through the GoC's Strategic Innovation Fund ("SIF"), a program designed to support businesses across all sectors of the economy by encouragi ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 20, 2018 
What does it sound like when solar storms collide with Earth's magnetosphere? Students in London are helping scientists find out.
Earth's magnetic field features a near-constant cacophony of low-frequency sound waves - too low-pitched to be discernible to the human ear. But by speeding up audio recordings of the magnetosphere, researchers at London's Queen Mary University made the soun ... more |
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 Lund, Sweden (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 
Astronomers from Lund University in Sweden have now found the explanation to a recent mystery at the centre of the Milky Way galaxy: the high levels of scandium discovered last spring near the galaxy's giant black hole were in fact an optical illusion.
Last spring, researchers published a study about the apparent presence of astonishing and dramatically high levels of three different eleme ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 
Many semiconductor fabricators and research labs are under increasing pressure from, of all things, vacuum. These facilities need to remove greater amounts of gas molecules and particles from their setups as new technologies and processes demand lower and lower pressures.
For example, the vacuum chambers in which microchip manufacturers lay down a series of ultrathin layers of chemicals st ... more |
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