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NASA's arsenic life-form scientist answers criticsWashington (AFP) Dec 16, 2010 The NASA-funded scientist whose discovery of a bacterium that thrives on arsenic prompted an avalanche of criticism responded Thursday with a statement answering questions about her research. Felisa Wolfe-Simon, lead author of the study published in the journal Science earlier this month, also reflected about her experience as a young scientist thrust into the heart of a web-fueled controversy. "The speed of communication is ahead of the sheer time needed to think and get in the lab and work," s ... read more |
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  Hot Plasma Explosions Inflate Saturn's Magnetic Field A new analysis based on data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft finds a causal link between mysterious, periodic signals from Saturn's magnetic field and explosions of hot ionized gas, known as plasma, ... more | .. |
  IRIS Passes Critical Design Review The Lockheed Martin team, awarded a contract by NASA in 2009 to design and build the agency's next Small Explorer Mission (SMEX) called the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS), has met the ... more | .. |
 Cassini Spots Potential Ice Volcano On Saturn Moon NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found possible ice volcanoes on Saturn's moon Titan that are similar in shape to those on Earth that spew molten rock. Topography and surface composition data hav ... more | .. |
  ISRO Set To Launch Heaviest Satellite For Telecom And TV Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation were set to launch their heaviest satellite from near here on Monday to retire an old one sent up in 1999 and ensure continuity of telecom, TV an ... more |
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  Virgin Galactic To Join NASA Submissions For Orbital Spaceflights Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has announced that it will be supporting Sierra Nevada Space Systems' (SNC) and Orbital Sciences Corporation's (OSC) work on commercial space vehicles. Fo ... more | .. |
 Arianespace To Launch ESA's First Sentinel Satellite ESA and Arianespace have signed a contract for the launch of Sentinel-1A, the first Earth observation satellite to be built for Europe's Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme. ... more | .. |
 A2100 Commercial Satellite Fleet Achieves 300 Years In Orbit The Lockheed Martin A2100 commercial communications satellite fleet has achieved a major milestone by accumulating 300 years of successful in-orbit operations. The A2100 satellite series, desi ... more | .. |
 Paolo Nespoli Heads To ISS On MagISStra Mission ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli is on his way to the International Space Station with crewmates Dmitri Kondratyev and Catherine Coleman aboard their Soyuz spacecraft following liftoff from the Baikonur ... more |
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 Cyclone Lasting More Than Five Years Is Detected On Saturn Researchers from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) have been monitoring a cyclone on Saturn for more than five years. This makes it the longest-lasting cyclone detected to date on any o ... more | .. |
 NASA's arsenic-eating life form gets a second look 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. ... more | .. |
  Qatar-Led International Team Finds Its First Alien World In an exciting example of international collaboration, a Qatar astronomer teamed with scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and other institutions to discover a new ali ... more | .. |
  EU fusion funding proposal fails The European Parliament has rejected a last-ditch plan to rescue financing for a nuclear fusion reactor project, officials say. ... more |
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 'Out of this world' Most Successful Exhibition Of Ruhr 2010 Project The exhibition 'Out of this World - Wonders of the Solar System' will end on 30 December 2010. It has been the most successful exhibition held at the Gasometer in Oberhausen by far. The exhibi ... more | .. |
 Planetary Family Portrait Reveals Another Exoplanet An international team of astronomers has discovered a fourth giant planet, HR 8799e, outside our solar system. The new planet joins the three planets that were the subjects of the first-ever images ... more | .. |
 Europe-sized cyclone batters Saturn for five years A whirlwind the size of Europe lashed Saturn for five years, becoming the longest-lasting cyclone ever seen on the Solar System's great planets, scientists reported Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
  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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 |
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