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January 21, 2015

Upgraded Atlas ready to go wireless at next DARPA Robotics Challenge
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 21, 2015
A total of $3.5 million in prizes will now be awarded to the top three finishers in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC), the final event of which will be held June 5-6, 2015, at Fairplex in Pomona, Calif. The new prize structure was created in recognition of both the significant progress already demonstrated by teams toward development of human-supervised robot technology for disaster response and the increased number of teams planning to compete in the Finals, including those funded by the Europea ... read more

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Planetary building blocks evolved from porous to hard objects Australian Research Council, UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, Royal Society, UK Natural Environment Research Council, National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Thinking small has e ... more		Telescope To Seek Dust Where Other Earths May Lie The NASA-funded Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer, or LBTI, has completed its first study of dust in the "habitable zone" around a star, opening a new door to finding planets like Earth. Dust ... more		Students to Send Life to Mars Onboard Mars One Lander in 2018 The first step to establish a permanent colony on Mars could be taken in 2018 when a group of European students will send its project to the Red Planet. The team composed of students from Portugal, ... more
				New Horizons ready for planet's beyond beyond The mysterious, distant and yet unexplored by any probe world of Pluto and its moons, located on the edge of our solar system, is about to get visited. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft on July 14 will ... more		Dawn Delivers New Image of Ceres As NASA's Dawn spacecraft closes in on Ceres, new images show the dwarf planet at 27 pixels across, about three times better than the calibration images taken in early December. These are the first ... more

Nuclear Decommissioning Conference Europe May 2015

Tempur-Pedic Mattress Comparison & Memory Foam Mattress Review

Planets outside our solar system more hospitable to life than thought A study by astrophysicists at the University of Toronto suggests that exoplanets - planets outside our solar system - are more likely to have liquid water and be more habitable than we thought. ... more		NEOWISE: A Yearlong Look at the Sky NASA's Near-Earth Object Wide-field Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) spacecraft discovered and characterized 40 near-Earth objects (NEOs) in the first year after the mission was re-started in December 2013 ... more				Satellite telemetry tracks bearded vultures The Pyrenees are home to continental Europe's only wild population of bearded vultures, a species classified as endangered in Spain. A study compiled by Spanish researchers reveals - in a level of d ... more
				Three nearly Earth-size planets found orbiting nearby star NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, despite being hobbled by the loss of critical guidance systems, has discovered a star with three planets only slightly larger than Earth. The outermost planet orbits i ... more		Maybe two more planets in our Solar System: astronomers The Solar System has at least two more planets waiting to be discovered beyond the orbit of Pluto, Spanish and British astronomers say. ... more

Three-Planet System Holds Clues to Atmospheres of Earth-size Worlds Extrasolar planets are being discovered by the hundreds, but are any of these newfound worlds really like Earth? A planetary system recently discovered by the Kepler spacecraft will help resolve thi ... more		Two Earth-sized planets hidden at the edge of our Solar System Scientists from Britain and Spain believe there could be at least two planets the size of Earth hiding at the edge of the Solar System. ... more				New data that fundamental physics constants underlie life-enabling universe For nearly half a century, theoretical physicists have made a series of discoveries that certain constants in fundamental physics seem extraordinarily fine-tuned to allow for the emergence of a life ... more
UA-led HiRISE camera spots long-lost space probe on Mars The UK-led Beagle 2 Mars Lander, thought lost on Mars since 2003, has been found partially deployed on the surface of the planet, ending the mystery of what happened to the mission more than a decad ... more		NASA's New Horizons Spacecraft Begins First Stages of Pluto Encounter NASA's New Horizons spacecraft recently began its long-awaited, historic encounter with Pluto. The spacecraft is entering the first of several approach phases that culminate July 14 with the first c ... more		Lost and found in space: Beagle 2 seen on Mars 11 years on A British-built probe which vanished 11 years ago has been found on the surface of Mars, scientists said on Friday, solving an enduring mystery of space exploration. ... more		Meteorites weren't exactly the building blocks of young planets That meteorites and their collisions with early planetary masses played a predominant role in the formation of the early universe is a narrative popular among astronomers and the average high school science class. ... more

	NASA's New Horizons probe begins Pluto observations It's been nine years since the New Horizons probe left Earth, and now the craft is gearing up for its encounter with Pluto in July - the first-ever flyby of the icy cold dwarf planet. ... more		Musk donates $10M to keep Artificial Intelligence friendly American entrepreneur Elon Musk has announced that he would contribute $10 million to the Future of Life Institute (FLI) for a global research program aimed at ensuring that artificial intelligence ... more

Soyuz Installed at Baikonur, Expected to Launch Wednesday		Team Working on Strategy to Fix Flash Memory Issue		NameExoWorlds contest opens		Robots learn to use tools by watching YouTube videos		Crystal-Rich Rock 'Mojave' is Next Mars Drill Target
Meteorite material born in molten spray as embryo planets collided		NASA and ESA Celebrate 10 Years Since Titan Landing		A twist on planetary origins		Last Chance: Mercury Crater-Naming Contest Ends January 15		Service Module of Chinese Probe Enters Lunar Orbit

Russia-EU Mars Research Program to Be Completed

Asteroid to Fly By Earth Safely on January 26

Ground-breaking research to discover new planets

Prolonged weightlessness moves blood from bottom to top of body

Vision system for household robots

NASA releases retro-styled travel posters for newly discovered planets

Service module of China's lunar orbiter enters 127-minute orbit

New Satellite Technologies For Cleaner Low Orbits

NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Climbs to High Point on Rim

Photonic booms may help illuminate astronomical secrets

Mars is warmer than some parts of the U.S. and Canada

Dawn of a strange new world

NASA Robot Plunges Into Volcano to Explore Fissure

Space Debris Expert Warns About Dangers of Orbital Junk

Scientists Pinpoint Saturn With Exquisite Accuracy

CfA: Eight New Planets Found in "Goldilocks" Zone

Flashes from faster-than-light spots unveil astronomical secrets

More accurate Saturn positioning helps improve astro navigation

Vanishing neutron star helps measure space-time warp

Potential Signs of Ancient Life in Mars Rover Photos

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