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  Santa Fe NM (SPX) Apr 16, 2019 Scientists believe that time is continuous, not discrete - roughly speaking, they believe that it does not progress in "chunks," but rather "flows," smoothly and continuously. So they often model the dynamics of physical systems as continuous-time "Markov processes," named after mathematician Andrey Markov. Indeed, scientists have used these processes to investigate a range of real-world processes from folding proteins, to evolving ecosystems, to shifting financial markets, with astonishing success. ... read more |
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What is North Korea's New Weapon?Sydney, Australia (SPX) Apr 18, 2019 North Korea has made a very public statement on the test of a new form of "tactical guided" weapon, which was conducted recently under the watchful eye of leader Kim Jong-Un. Exactly how the w ... more  
NASA, Blue Origin agreement signals growth of commercial spaceWashington DC (SPX) Apr 18, 2019 Officials from NASA and the private space company Blue Origin have signed an agreement that grants the company use of a historic test stand as the agency focuses on returning to the Moon and on to M ... more  
Scientists find evidence Mercury has a solid inner coreWashington DC (SPX) Apr 18, 2019 Scientists have long known that Earth and Mercury have metallic cores. Like Earth, Mercury's outer core is composed of liquid metal, but there have only been hints that Mercury's innermost core is s ... more  
Global Challenge Launched to Build Exoplanet Data SolutionsLondon, UK (SPX) Apr 18, 2019 ARIEL, a mission to make the first large-scale survey of exoplanet atmospheres, has launched a global competition series to find innovative solutions for the interpretation and analysis of exoplanet ... more |
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Explosion on Jupiter-sized star 10 times more powerful than ever seen on our sunWarwick UK (SPX) Apr 18, 2019 A stellar flare ten times more powerful than anything seen on our sun has burst from an ultracool star almost the same size as Jupiter. The star is the coolest and smallest to give off a rare ... more 
Five Planets Revealed After 20 Years of ObservationGeneva, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 18, 2019 Over 4,000 exoplanets have been discovered since the first one in 1995, but the vast majority of them orbit their stars with relatively short periods of revolution. Indeed, to confirm the presence o ... more  
Earliest life may have arisen in ponds, not oceansBoston MA (SPX) Apr 15, 2019 Primitive ponds may have provided a suitable environment for brewing up Earth's first life forms, more so than oceans, a new MIT study finds. Researchers report that shallow bodies of water, o ... more  
Engineers tap DNA to create 'lifelike' machinesIthaca NY (SPX) Apr 15, 2019 Tapping into the unique nature of DNA, Cornell engineers have created simple machines constructed of biomaterials with properties of living things. Using what they call DASH (DNA-based Assembl ... more  
NASA Invites You to 'Picture Earth' for Earth DayPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 15, 2019 Our magnificent planet is always ready for its close-up. On Earth Day, April 22, NASA wants to see your take. NASA invites you to celebrate the planet we call home with our #PictureEarth socia ... more |
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Tesla to stop selling $35,000 Model 3 onlineNew York (AFP) April 12, 2019 Tesla has pulled the plug on Internet sales of its cheapest Model 3 sedan in the latest shift to the company's retail strategy. ... more  |
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SpaceX loses Falcon Heavy rocket center core booster in AtlanticWashington DC (Sputnik) Apr 17, 2019 After the successful landing of all three first stages of its Falcon Heavy megarocket last Thursday (April 11) during the huge launcher's first commercial mission, Elon Musk's company met with misfo ... more  
Pushing Boundaries: An out-of-this-world art projectBoulder CO (SPX) Apr 18, 2019 A large-scale campus collaboration is underway to visually pay homage to the significant contributions CU Boulder has made to space exploration. The SpaceTime Underpass project will be a permanent p ... more 
Music for spaceParis (ESA) Apr 08, 2019 Music has long been known to affect people's mood. A certain tune can lift you up or bring you to tears, make you focus, relax or even run faster. Now a study is investigating how the power of music ... more 
NASA astronaut to set record for longest spaceflight by a womanWashington (AFP) April 17, 2019 NASA astronaut Christina Koch is going to have her mission on the International Space Station (ISS) extended to nearly 11 months, which would set a record for the longest spaceflight by a woman, the US space agency said Wednesday. ... more 
US Astronauts Have 15 Minutes to Evacuate to Russian Part of ISS If NH3 LeaksMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 16, 2019 Russian Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC) Energia has developed a system to purify air at the International Space Station (ISS) in the event of ammonia (NH3) leakage due to a possible decompression ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 08, 2019 
Music has long been known to affect people's mood. A certain tune can lift you up or bring you to tears, make you focus, relax or even run faster. Now a study is investigating how the power of music may improve human performance in one of the most stressful and alien environments we know - space.
Music can help release a cocktail of hormones that have a positive effect on us: oxytocin, end ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 18, 2019 
A manned Soyuz MS spaceship will be launched to the International Space Station using a new Soyuz-2 launch vehicle in the first six months of 2020, Dmitry Baranov, the director general of Russia's Progress Rocket Space Center, told Sputnik.
"The first launch of the manned transport spacecraft Soyuz MS using the Soyuz-2 launch vehicle with a crew on board will take place in the first half o ... more |
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 Jinchang, China (AFP) April 17, 2019 
In the middle of China's Gobi desert sits a Mars base simulator, but instead of housing astronauts training to live on the Red Planet, the facility is full of teenagers on a school trip.
Surrounded by barren hills in northwestern Gansu province, "Mars Base 1" opened on Wednesday with the aim of exposing teens - and soon tourists - to what life could be like on the planet.
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 18, 2019 
China will promote aerospace development, strengthen international cooperation and contribute Chinese wisdom, plans and strength in man's peaceful utilization of outer space, said an official with China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Wednesday.
Zhao Jian, deputy director of the Department of System Engineering of CNSA, said at a press conference that the "Forum on Space Solutions: ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 15, 2019 
ESA aims to harness a new resource for future space activities: ideas from European researchers, businesses and the general public. Through its new Open Space Innovation Platform (OSIP), anyone is welcome to respond to space-related challenges.
The Agency's new Open Space Innovation Platform website is a streamlined entry point for novel ideas, both in response to specific problems and ope ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 17, 2019 
US Strategic Command chief General John E. Hyten defended India before members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, saying that the country had tested the anti-satellite missile because it needed the capability to defend itself in space. The general called for international norms of behaviour in space to curtail the dangerous debris issue.
According to Indian daily The Hindu, the Pentag ... more |
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 San Diego CA (SPX) Apr 17, 2019 
Astronomers have discovered a third planet in the Kepler-47 system, securing the system's title as the most interesting of the binary-star worlds. Using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, a team of researchers, led by astronomers at San Diego State University, detected the new Neptune-to-Saturn-size planet orbiting between two previously known planets.
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 
More than 10 years since its discovery, (225088) 2007 OR10 is the largest minor planet in our solar system without a name, and the 3 astronomers who discovered it want the public's help to change that. In an article published by The Planetary Society today, Meg Schwamb, a planetary scientist who helped discover 2007 OR10, announced a campaign inviting the public to pick the best name to submit t ... more |
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 Tallinn, Estonia (SPX) Apr 17, 2019 
The environment around us is becoming increasingly polluted. This includes one of our most precious natural resources - water. Clean water is essential to human survival. Due to increased pollution, water treatment methods are becoming increasingly important as well.
As regards scientifically proven methods, the plasma water treatment by electrical discharge method patented from 2013 is ou ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 
The GAINS project has moved one step closer to demonstrating that general aviation (GA) is able to fly instrument procedures with radius-to-fix (RF) legs, thanks to a strong collaboration with EASA and the manufacturing industry, who worked together to clear the way for existing avionics to be used.
GAINS - General Aviation Improved Navigation and Surveillance, is a project co-funded by th ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 17, 2019 
The president directed NASA to land American astronauts on the Moon by 2024, and the agency is working to accelerate humanity's return to the lunar surface by all means necessary.
"We've been given an ambitious and exciting goal. History has proven when we're given a task by the president, along with the resources and the tools, we can deliver," said NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine. "We ... more |
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 Gottingen, Germany (SPX) Apr 18, 2019 
Between 2014 and 2016, the scientific camera system OSIRIS onboard ESA's Rosetta spacecraft captured almost 70,000 images of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. They not only document the most extensive and demanding comet mission to date, but also show the duck-shaped body in all its facets.
In a joint project with the Department of Information and Communication at Flensburg University of Ap ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 15, 2019 
Our magnificent planet is always ready for its close-up. On Earth Day, April 22, NASA wants to see your take.
NASA invites you to celebrate the planet we call home with our #PictureEarth social media event. Post a close-up photo on social media of your favorite natural features, such as crashing waves, ancient trees, blooming flowers or stunning sunsets. Use the hashtag #PictureEarth and u ... more |
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 Pune, India (SPX) Apr 16, 2019 
The Sun is the brightest object in the sky which is probably the most studied object. Surprisingly, it still hosts mysteries which scientists have been trying to unravel for decades, for example, the origin of coronal mass ejections which can potentially affect the Earth. Led by Dr. Divya Oberoi and his Ph.D. students, Atul Mohan and Surajit Mondal, a team of scientists at the National Centre fo ... more |
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 Las Vegas NV (SPX) Apr 17, 2019 
An international team of astronomers, including faculty and alumni from UNLV, has discovered a new way to spot when collisions occur in distant galaxies between two neutron stars - incredibly dense, city-sized celestial bodies that possess the most powerful magnetic fields in the universe.
A bright burst of X-rays captured by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory in a galaxy located 6.6 billion ... more |
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 La Palma, Spain (SPX) Apr 18, 2019 
Researchers from the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (Spain) and the University of Cambridge (UK) have detected lithium (Li) in the ancient star J0023+0307, a main-sequence extremely iron-poor dwarf star about 9,450 light-years away in the galactic halo.
The study of the most ancient stars in the Milky Way allows us to infer the early properties of the galaxy, its chemical composition ... more |
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