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April 17, 2016

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Physicists from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich report that temperature gradients within pores in rock could have separated primitive biopolymers on the basis of their sequences - a vital precondition for the formation of self-replicating systems in the primordial ocean. The earliest phase in the process that gave rise to living organisms on our planet is thought to have involved selective interactions between simple prebiotic molecules that enabled them to form progressively more ... read more

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UCF gets grant to plan for space mining on NASA mission UCF physics professor Dan Britt has been named to the New Horizons mission team as the spacecraft heads to the Kuiper Belt. He's also just landed a grant to help create fake asteroid material, which ... more		University of Sussex research brings 'smart hands' closer to reality Using your skin as a touchscreen has been brought a step closer after UK scientists successfully created tactile sensations on the palm using ultrasound sent through the hand. The University of Suss ... more		Russia to shift all Lunar launches to Vostochny Cosmodrome Russia will stop using the Soviet-era Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for lunar launches, according to Russian-based Rocket and Space Corporation (RSC Energia). Moscow made the decision to s ... more
				Saturn Spacecraft Samples Interstellar Dust NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected the faint but distinct signature of dust coming from beyond our solar system. The research, led by a team of Cassini scientists primarily from Europe, is publi ... more		First light for ExoMars The ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars spacecraft are in excellent health following launch last month, with the orbiter sending back its first test image of a starry view taken en route to the Red Planet. ... more

Supernova iron found on the moon A dying star ends its life in a cataclysmic explosion, shooting the majority of the star's material, primarily new chemical elements created during the explosion, out into space. One or more such su ... more		China begins testing Tiangong-2 space lab China has completed the assembly and started testing its Tiangong-2 space laboratory, local media said on Tuesday. With assembly complete on Monday, experts began adjusting mechanisms and test ... more		Romania says Russian drone breached its airspace MSBAI wins DoD contract to accelerate OrbitGuard for space situational awarenes Next-Gen Automotive Innovation: Smarter, Safer, More Connected		Russia, Italy plan first bid to explore beneath mars surface in 2018 The Russian and Italian space agencies have joined forces on the first mission to drill deep beneath the surface of Mars in 2018 and explore the geological composition of the planet's crust, Italian ... more
				Cooling down the hot side of space hardware In a world of micro-this and nano-that, space exploration also benefits from utilizing smaller, more efficient and more powerful devices. But such advances in technology typically entail higher heat ... more		1917 astronomical plate has first-ever evidence of exoplanetary system You can never predict what treasure might be hiding in your own basement. We didn't know it a year ago, but it turns out that a 1917 image on an astronomical glass plate from our Carnegie Observator ... more

Human 2 Mars Conference May 17-19 2016 - Washington DC

Military Network Modernization 2016 - Washington DC - April 25-27

Space Tech Expo - Design - Build - Test - Pasadena CA - May 24-26, 2016

The World's Largest Commercial Drone Conference and Expo - Sept 7-9 - Las Vegas

Directed Energy And Next Generation Munitions - 20-22 June - Washington DC

PPPL scientists help test innovative device to improve efficiency of tokamaks Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have helped design and test a component that could improve the performance of doughnut-shaped fusion faciliti ... more		First joint EU-Russian ExoMars mission to reach Mars orbit Oct 16 The first ever joint project between the European Union and Russia on the search for life on Mars - the ExoMars spacecraft- will reach Mars' orbit on October 16, the head of Roscosmos State Corporat ... more		Ash improves methane yield and fertilizer value in biogas systems Bio-oil from agricultural and forest waste could help seal abandoned oil wells and store carbon Rice researchers turn wasted data center heat into clean power		How to reach Alpha Centauri in just 20 years Billionaire Russian investor Yuri Milner and British cosmologist Stephen Hawking on Tuesday announced an ambitious new space initiative for a mission to Alpha Centauri, the nearest star system to Earth. ... more
Airbus wins contract for solid state recorder on NASA-ISRO SAR Mission Airbus Defence and Space will supply its latest generation Solid State Recorder for the NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) mission, slated for launch in 2020. The contract was recently signe ... more		Venezuela moves clocks forward 30 min to save power Venezuela announced Friday it is shifting its time zone forward 30 minutes to save power and alleviate a severe electricity crisis the government blames on the El Nino weather phenomenon. ... more		Scientists invent robotic 'artist' that spray paints giant murals Robots do many things formerly done only by humans - from bartending and farming to driving cars - but a Dartmouth researcher and his colleagues have invented a "smart" paint spray can that robotica ... more		Humanoid robotics and computer avatars could help treat social disorders A collaborative research team has found humanoid robotics and computer avatars could help rehabilitate people suffering from social disorders such as schizophrenia or social phobia. It is thanks to ... more

	Stars strip away atmospheres of nearby super-Earths Even a super-Earth can fly too close to the sun, according to a new study. An international team of astronomers has found a new category of planets beyond our solar system whose atmosphere has been ... more		Artificial comet holds clues to the origin of life Researchers have for the first time shown that ribose, a sugar that is one of the building blocks of genetic material in living organisms, may have formed in cometary ices. To obtain this result, sc ... more

Manipulating light to advance quantum entanglement research

Top Japan start-up Sakana AI touts nature-inspired tech

Galileo daughter mission named Celeste to strengthen navigation resilience

Icy 'Spider' on Pluto		New tool refines exoplanet search		Lessons learned from Tiangong 1		Cooked planets shrink due to radiation		Lunar lava tubes could help pave way for human colony
More accurately measuring distances between planetary nebulae and Earth		Glass beads, meteorite fragments hold secret to working on asteroids		Saturn spacecraft not affected by hypothetical Planet 9		New plasma source favorable for hydrogen negative ion beam is developed		Touching a robot can elicit physiological arousal in humans

Planet X takes shape

Young, unattached Jupiter analog found in solar neighborhood

GenDyn completes Space Fence radar array structure

The 'R' in RNA is likely abundant in space, scientists say

Searching for Far Out and Wandering Worlds

ALMA's most detailed image of a protoplanetary disc

Multitasking New Horizons observed solar wind changes on journey to Pluto

Private equity firm acquires iRobot defense business

China launches SJ-10 retrievable space science probe

Record-breaking steel could be used for body armor, shields for satellites

How deep does life go?

Gestures improve communication - even with robots

Mars Longevity Champion Launched 15 Years Ago

New Horizons fills gap in space environment observations

Opportunity's Devilish View from on High

Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft Delivers a Second Year of Data

Planet formation in Earth-like orbit around a young star

Help keep heat on Mars Express through data mining

Ancient Mars bombardment likely enhanced life-supporting habitat

Scientists study gypsum to better understand water on Mars

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