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June 10, 2014

Could Exomoons Give False Positives In Search For Life?
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 10, 2014
Oxygen and methane should destroy each other when they are in the same atmosphere, breaking down into carbon monoxide and water. On Earth, however, these elements co-exist. That's because they're continually being replenished at a faster rate than they are destroyed. Oxygen is coming mainly from plants, while methane can be emitted by animals and volcanoes. Seeing this co-existence from afar could be a "bio signature," an indication that our planet has life on it. Finding such bio signatures ... read more

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Asteroid Discovered by NASA to Pass Earth Safely A newfound asteroid will safely pass Earth on June 8 from a distance of about 777,000 miles (1.25 million kilometers), more than three times farther away than our moon. Designated 2014 HQ124, the as ... more		Assessing Pluto from Afar CAPTION with LINK a href="http://guinan.space.swri.edu/nhcs/files/young_pluto_v3.pdf">What observations can the New Horizons team expect from Earth? /a> When New Horizons speeds past Pluto in July ... more		SpaceX sues USAF, citing unfair contractor monopoly Elon Musk, the inventor and technology billionaire who recently debuted a rocket that he hopes will travel to Mars, has filed suit against the US Air Force claiming the military currently relies on ... more
				Submarine for Saturn's moon Titan picked for NASA's 'dream fund' NASA has granted seed money to 12 zany ideas as part of its Innovative Advanced Concepts Program (NIAC). Each concept will be granted $100,000 for a nine-month study. If scientists prove their project's worth, they can request another $500,000 for a more in-depth follow-up study. ... more		Supercomputer emulates teenager to pass 'Turing Test' A Russian supercomputer posing as a 13-year-old boy has convinced judges that it is human, becoming the first to pass the "Turing Test" in a historic moment in artificial intelligence, British scientists said. ... more

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Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison & Memory Foam Mattress Review

Here come the 'brobots' A team of researchers at the University of Twente (Netherlands) and German University in Cairo (Egypt) has developed sp*rm-inspired microrobots, which can be controlled by oscillating weak magnetic ... more		New evidence supporting moon formation via collision of 2 planets A new series of measurements of oxygen isotopes provides increasing evidence that the Moon formed from the collision of the Earth with another large, planet-sized astronomical body, around 4.5 billi ... more		Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firm Top Chinese gaming companies continue to challenge		Chatty Japan robot makes friends on first day at work A chatty humanoid robot whose makers claim it can understand people's emotions made its first friends Friday as it struck up conversations with shoppers in Tokyo. ... more
				NASA's human spaceflight program doomed to fail: study The US space agency NASA has been warned that its mission to send humans to Mars will fail unless its revamps its methods and draws up a clear, well-planned strategy to conquer the red planet. ... more		Massive Beast asteroid to have close call with Earth The so-called Beast asteroid is expected to miss Earth by about 777,000 miles, which is a good thing because the 1,100-foot wide behemoth could do serious damage. ... more

Startup in the Land of the Rising Sun; A Japanese Solar Venture - by Bradley L. Bartz

Big Brother creators to document Mars One mission The Dutch-based nonprofit Mars One, which aims to establish a human settlement on the Red Planet, has announced that it has signed a deal with Darlow Smithson Productions, an Endemol-owned company, ... more		NASA could not deliver humans to Mars Landing humans on Mars is unattainable for NASA if the space agency's current strategy and level of funding are not modified in the near future, according to a new congressionally-mandated report. T ... more		Solar-driven ionosphere charges may nudge stressed faults toward rupture Stable black carbon in mangrove soils boosts coastal climate role Low crystallinity iron minerals show promise for chromium cleanup and carbon storage		Two planets orbit nearby ancient star An international team of astronomers, including five Carnegie scientists, reports the discovery of two new planets orbiting a very old star that is near to our own Sun. One of these planets orbits t ... more
First light for SPHERE exoplanet imager SPHERE passed its acceptance tests in Europe in December 2013 and was then shipped to Paranal. The delicate reassembly was completed in May 2014 and the instrument is now mounted on VLT Unit Telesco ... more		DARPA Z-Man Program Demonstrates Human Climbing Like Geckos DARPA's Z-Man program has demonstrated the first known human climbing of a glass wall using climbing devices inspired by geckos. The historic ascent involved a 218-pound climber ascending and descen ... more		Next ATV transferred to Final Assembly Building at Kourou Arianespace has taken delivery of the Ariane 5 for its launch of Europe's fifth Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) following the heavy-lift workhorse's roll-out from the Spaceport's Launcher Integrati ... more		Orion Ready To Feel The Heat NASA and Lockheed Martin engineers have installed the largest heat shield ever constructed on the crew module of the agency's Orion spacecraft. The work marks a major milestone on the path toward th ... more

	Japan's SoftBank unveils 'family member' robot Japan's SoftBank on Thursday unveiled what it billed as an "emotional" humanoid robot that will entertain customers at the mobile carrier's phone outlets - and maybe become a member of their family. ... more		Lockheed system to help track orbiting space objects Advanced S-Band phased array radars are to be provided to the U.S. Air Force by Lockheed Martin for the Space Fence program, the company announced. ... more

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NASA Invites Universities to Submit Innovative Technology Proposals		Rover Corrects its Spacecraft Clock		Russia, US resume talks on new joint projects for ISS		CU-Boulder payload selected for launch on Virgin Galactic spaceship		One docking ring to rule them all
Astronomers Confounded By Massive Rocky World		Airbus's SpacePlane demonstrator tested in South China Sea		NASA Should Maintain Long-Term Focus on Mars as "Horizon Goal"		NASA And Virgin Galactic Select Payloads For First Research Flight		US may lose 'star wars' to Russia

Galaxy possibly teeming with 100 million life-sustaining planets

Harsh space weather may doom potential life on red-dwarf planets

Rush a light wave and you'll break its data

SpaceX founder unveils his 'future of space travel' capsule

First Phase To Certify New US Space Transport System Completed

'Neapolitan' exoplanets come in three flavors

LDSD Testing for Large Payloads to Mars

Astronomers find a new type of planet: The 'mega-Earth'

Because you can't eat just one: Star will swallow two planets

Combat robots to become Russian army new recruits

Smart lifestyle takes centre stage at Asia tech show

German village takes digital fate into own hands

Velociraptor robot almost as fast as robotic rival Cheetah

Private Space Race Heats Up

Russia preparing to launch Okno space surveillance system at full capacity

Citizen Scientists Contact Vintage Spacecraft

'Godzilla' of Earths circles distant star

New printable robots could self-assemble when heated

Proton Rocket Failure Probe Finds No Evidence of Deliberate Misconduct

Roscosmos Scolded for 'Pestering Society' with Proton Crash Theories

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