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October 28, 2016

Breakthrough Listen to Search for Intelligent Life Around Tabby's Star
Berkeley CA (SPX) Oct 28, 2016
Tabby's star has provoked so much excitement over the past year, with speculation that it hosts a highly advanced civilization capable of building orbiting megastructures to capture the star's energy, that UC Berkeley's Breakthrough Listen project is devoting hours of time on the Green Bank radio telescope to see if it can detect any signals from intelligent extraterrestrials. "The Breakthrough Listen program has the most powerful SETI equipment on the planet, and access to the largest telescopes ... read more

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Last Bits of 2015 Pluto Flyby Data Received on Earth NASA's New Horizons mission reached a major milestone this week when the last bits of science data from the Pluto flyby - stored on the spacecraft's digital recorders since July 2015 - arrived safel ... more		15000 space rocks and counting The international effort to find, confirm and catalogue the multitude of asteroids that pose a threat to our planet has reached a milestone: 15 000 discovered - with many more to go. The number of c ... more		Preferentially Earth-sized Planets with Lots of Water Computer simulations by astrophysicists at the University of Bern of the formation of planets orbiting in the habitable zone of low mass stars such as Proxima Centauri show that these planets are mo ... more
				Detailed images of Schiaparelli and its descent hardware on Mars A high-resolution image taken by a NASA Mars orbiter this week reveals further details of the area where the ExoMars Schiaparelli module ended up following its descent on 19 October. The lates ... more		Spacecraft operation for the next generation When it comes to operating a spacecraft, there is just one simple rule: No spacecraft, no job! This is one of the first things that students were taught at the ESA Academy's Training and Learning Ce ... more

Research helps explain formation of ringed Lunar crater Using data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) mission, scientists have shed new light on the formation of a huge bull's-eye-shaped impact feature on the Moon. The findings, ... more		OSIRIS-REx conducts thruster test on route to asteroid Bennu NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft continues its so far flawless journey to asteroid Bennu, after successfully completing its first Trajectory Correction Maneuver (TCM-1) on Oct. 7. According to the missi ... more		AI powered SAR imagery analysis tool launched by SATIM and ICEYE Ghosts of the Deep: China's AJX-002 XLUUV and the Geopolitics of Undersea Power Global Invacom unveils XRJ transceiver for government and defense satcom		A pathogenic fungus grows in space As scientists continue to prepare for travel to deep space, they're covering all the bases, assessing all the risks - like the risk of microbial exposure in close quarters. ... more
				Cursed not, Difficult yes Hopes of another successful landing on Mars were dashed last week when the Schiaparelli probe went missing in action during its descent onto the Red Planet. Pictures released over the weekend ... more		Titan experiences dramatic seasonal changes As Titan approaches its northern summer solstice, NASA's Cassini spacecraft has revealed dramatic seasonal changes in the atmospheric temperature and composition of Saturn's largest moon. Wint ... more

6th Annual Modular Construction Summit for Oil and Gas Agenda - December 7-9 - Houston

Nuclear Plant Digitalization Conference - Nov 15-16 - Charlotte NC USA

Tatooine worlds orbiting 2 suns often survive violent escapades of aging stars Planets that revolve around two suns may surprisingly survive the violent late stages of the stars' lives, according to new research out of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Centre and York University. ... more		Feeling the Rhythm Many astronauts play instruments, and some have even made music in space. Few have danced in space, though, perhaps because crew members find it difficult to tap their toes when weightless. Or it co ... more		AI tool accelerates SAR image analysis with automated object detection Fossil energy 'significant' driver of climate-fuelled heatwaves: study Ethiopia's mega-dam ranks 15th globally		Russia plans to revive lunar rover moon exploration program The Russian Academy of Sciences' Space Council has plans to revive a moon exploration program using lunar rovers, Russian media reported, citing a laboratory head from the academy's Space Research I ... more
3D-printed organ-on-a-chip with integrated sensors Harvard University researchers have made the first entirely 3D-printed organ-on-a-chip with integrated sensing. Built by a fully automated, digital manufacturing procedure, the 3D-printed heart-on-a ... more		Scientists simplify model for human behavior in automation Human unpredictability is a problem in the increasingly automated systems people use every day. Scientists from Nanjing Institute of Technology's School of Automation in China and the University of ... more		China to enhance space capabilities with launch of Shenzhou-11 Monday's successful launch of the Shenzhou-11 spacecraft is another step forward to put China among leading players in space technology, said Alexander Zheleznyakov, a Russian expert on history of s ... more		US, China hold second meeting on advancing space cooperation Representatives from US and Chinese government agencies held the second US-China Civil Space Dialogue to advance collaboration on space activities, the US Department of State said in a press release ... more

	US warned against Chinese takeover of German firm: report The German government withdrew its approval for a Chinese firm to purchase Aixtron, which makes semiconductor equipment, after the US secret services raised security concerns, a German media report said Wednesday. ... more		Robotic tutors for primary school children The use of robotic tutors in primary school classrooms is one step closer according to research recently published in the open access journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience. Dr Imbernon Cua ... more

New fabrication method expands material options for quantum devices

Nuclearn secures $10.5 million to expand AI platform for nuclear operations

China penalises popular app Xiaohongshu over content

New bacteria groups, and stunning diversity, discovered underground		Quantum leap in the reliability of mass spectrometry-based proteomics		Deep down fracking wells, microbial communities thrive		Scientists measure how ions bombard fusion device walls		Launching fusion reactions without a central magnet, or solenoid
Bio-inspired lower-limb 'wearing robotic exoskeleton' for human gait rehab		When quantum scale affects the way atoms emit and absorb particles of light		Robotic cleaning technique could automate neuroscience research		Oldest known planet-forming disk found		Uranus may have two undiscovered moons

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2016 Ends with Three Supermoons

Germany stalls Chinese takeover of tech firm Aixtron

Astronomers find oldest known planetary disk

A graveyard of broken dreams and landers

Modeling floods that formed canyons on Earth and Mars

Did it crash or land? Search on for Europe's Mars craft

ALMA spots possible formation site of icy giant planet

Going Out in a Blaze of Glory: Cassini's Grand Finale

Microbial life on mars

Curious tilt of the Sun traced to undiscovered planet

MAVEN mission observes ups and downs of water escape from Mars

European craft crashed on Mars, possibly exploded: ESA

Rover Conducting Science Investigations at 'Spirit Mount'

Unexpected discoveries on a metal world

Citizen Scientists Seek South Pole "Spiders" on Mars

In a first, brain computer interface helps paralyzed man feel again

Brand-new cochlear implant technology born from frictional electricity

New mobile robot to support agri-tech experiments in the field

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