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NASA's arsenic-eating life form gets a second lookWashington (AFP) Dec 15, 2010 Soon after NASA-funded researchers announced this month they had found a new life form that thrives on arsenic, critics took to the blogosphere with skeptical views and downright insults. "I don't know whether the authors are just bad scientists or whether they're unscrupulously pushing NASA's 'There's life in outer space!' agenda," wrote Canadian microbiologist Rosie Redfield in a blog that ignited the web furor. The criticism spread with lightning speed, sparking a wide debate over what exactl ... read more |
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  NASA Names Waleed Abdalati As Agency's New Chief Scientist NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has named Waleed Abdalati the agency's chief scientist, effective Jan. 3. Abdalati will serve as the principal adviser to the NASA administrator on agency science p ... more | .. |
 Boeing Submits Proposal For Second Round Of NASA CCDev Program Boeing has submitted its proposal for the second round of NASA's Commercial Crew Development (CCDev) program. Boeing plans to advance the design of its Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft ... more | .. |
 Iran Plans To Build Second Spaceport Iran plans to construct its second spaceport, Communications and Information Technology Minister Reza Taqipour said on Sunday. "At present, there is only one space launch base in the country.. ... more | .. |
  Carbon-Rich Planet: A Girl's Best Friend A peculiar gas-giant planet orbiting a sun-like star 1200 light-years away is the first carbon-rich world ever observed. The implications are big for planetary chemistry, because without much oxygen ... more |
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  Long-Distance Ultrasound Exams Controlled By Joystick Ultrasound is an extremely useful medical technique, provided the operator has the expertise. In small clinics, however - and still more on spacecraft - trained radiologists are rare. So ESA i ... more | .. |
  How Iapetus Got Its Ridge For centuries, people wondered how the leopard got its spots. The consensus is pretty solid that evolution played a major role. But it's only been five years since the arrival of high-resoluti ... more | .. |
 New Pictures Show Fourth Planet In Giant Version Of Our Solar System Astronomers have discovered a fourth giant planet, joining three others that, in 2008, were the subject of the first-ever pictures of a planetary system orbiting another star other than our sun. ... more | .. |
  Brazil launches rocket into suborbit Brazil on Sunday successfully launched a midsized unmanned rocket into space, with hundreds of kilograms (pounds) in cargo and experiments in tow, space officials here said. ... more |
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  ISRO To Launch New Satellite On December 20 Indian Space Research Organisation has decided to launch its new communication satellite GSAT-5 Prime from the spaceport of Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh at around 4 pm on December 20. Sources ... more | .. |
  Wind And Water Have Shaped Schiaparelli On Mars The small crater embedded in the north-western rim of the Schiaparelli impact basin features prominently in this new image acquired by the High-Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) operated by the German ... more | .. |
 The Flight Of The Dragon Last Wednesday, at 18:55 GMT, a space capsule opened the typical orange-and-white landing parachutes above the Pacific, 500 miles off the coast of Mexico. But there was nothing else typical about th ... more | .. |
 NASA Scientists Theorize Final Growth Spurt For Planets A team of NASA-funded researchers has unveiled a new theory that contends planets gained the final portions of their mass from a limited number of large comet or asteroid impacts more than 4.5 billi ... more |
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  Japan's robot suit to bring hope to the disabled Japan's Cyberdyne may share its name with the company responsible for nuclear destruction and the killer robots of the "Terminator" movie series, but the similarities end there. ... more | .. |
 Huge Collision May Have Formed Saturn's Rings And Inner Moons Simulations performed at Southwest Research Institute may explain how Saturn's majestic rings and icy inner moons formed following the collision of a Titan-sized satellite with the planet, according ... more | .. |
  Non-Profit Group Establishes Fusion Center As Brevard County, FL, home to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, prepares for the end of the space shuttle program, the Aerospace Research and Engineering Systems Institute is fostering the growth of hig ... more | .. |
 Fueling error blamed in loss of satellites Russia's loss of three satellites during launch this week was caused by an off-course booster rocket that had been given too much fuel, officials said. ... more |
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 SpaceX Dragon Does Two Orbits Before Pacific Splashdown US company SpaceX on Wednesday successfully launched a space capsule into orbit and back, marking the first such attempt by a private enterprise and a major milestone in the future of space travel. ... more | .. |
 South Africa unveils space agency South Africa unveiled its national space agency on Thursday, aiming to become a leader in earth observation technology across the continent in 10 years, the minister of science and technology said. ... more | .. |
 Russia probes navigation system spending after crash Russia launched a probe Tuesday into whether the money assigned to create a satellite navigation rival to the US GPS system was being wisely spent, prosecutors said, after the latest launch ended in failure. ... more | .. |
 New JPL Workers Shed Training Wheels For Rocket Launch Less than three years after obtaining college degrees, a group of early-career employees at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., can now add "rocket launch" to their resumes. Re ... more |
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 Discovery Of The Secrets That Enable Plants Near Chernobyl To Shrug Off Radiation Scientists are reporting discovery of the biological secrets that enable plants growing near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant to adapt and flourish in highly radioactive soil - legacy of the 1986 n ... more | .. |
  ISS Tracks Months-Long Voyages Of Ships At Sea ESA's experimental ship detector on the International Space Station has pinpointed more than 60 000 ocean-going vessels so far. It has been able to follow the routes of individual ships for months a ... more | .. |
 Odyssey Orbiter Nears Martian Longevity Record By the middle of next week, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will have worked longer at Mars than any other spacecraft in history. Odyssey entered orbit around Mars on Oct. 24, 2001. On Dec. 15, the 3,34 ... more | .. |
 Astronomers Detect First Carbon-Rich Exoplanet A team led by a former postdoctoral researcher in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics, recently measured the first-ever planeta ... more |
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