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  Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 03, 2019 The International Space Station has a problem with fungus and mold - and the University of Colorado Boulder is sending new research to space to find solutions. It is living and growing in secret aboard the station, hidden behind panels and inside pipes and conduit. It can live on almost any surface, and will slowly consume whatever it touches - plastic, metal, glass. It does not discriminate, and it is a real problem. BioServe Space Technologies at CU Boulder is investigating potential fixes ... read more |
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Worldwide observations confirm nearby 'lensing' exoplanetTokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 03, 2019 Researchers using telescopes around the world confirmed and characterized an exoplanet orbiting a nearby star through a rare phenomenon known as gravitational microlensing. The exoplanet has a mass ... more 
A new spin on life's origin?Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 03, 2019 A research team at The University of Tokyo has reproducibly synthesized staircase-like supramolecules of a single handedness, or chirality, using standard laboratory equipment. By gradually re ... more 
Simulations explain giant exoplanets with eccentric, close-in orbitsSanta Cruz CA (SPX) Oct 31, 2019 As planetary systems evolve, gravitational interactions between planets can fling some of them into eccentric elliptical orbits around the host star, or even out of the system altogether. Smaller pl ... more  
OMG developing new standard for interface for Software Defined RadiosNeedham MA (SPX) Oct 30, 2019 International technology standards organization Object Management Group (OMG) announced it is creating a new standard, through issuance of a request for proposal (RFP) for the Platform Space Telecom ... more |
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Even 'goldilocks' exoplanets need a well-behaved starHouston TX (SPX) Nov 01, 2019 An exoplanet may seem like the perfect spot to set up housekeeping, but before you go there, take a closer look at its star. Rice University astrophysicists are doing just that, building a computer ... more 
Cascades of gas around young star indicate early stages of planet formationWashington DC (SPX) Oct 17, 2019 What does a gestating baby planet look like? New research in Nature by a team including Carnegie's Jaehan Bae investigated the effects of three planets in the process of forming around a young star, ... more  
Discoveries from fusion to astrophysics at global gatheringPlainsboro NJ (SPX) Oct 30, 2019 More than 155 researchers and students - the largest delegation from the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in recent years - attended the 61st annual meeti ... more 
A star is born: Using lasers to study how star stuff is madeFort Lauderdale FL (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 On a typical day at the world's biggest laser, the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in Livermore, California, you can find scientists casually making star-like conditions using 192 high-powered lase ... more 
Gravity crystals: A new method for exploring the physics of white dwarf starsFort Lauderdale FL (SPX) Oct 23, 2019 Grab a mixing bowl from your kitchen, throw in a handful of aluminum balls, apply some high voltage, and watch an elegant dance unfold where particles re-arrange themselves into a distinct "crystal" ... more |
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SwRI to plan Pluto orbiter missionSan Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 31, 2019 NASA has funded Southwest Research Institute to study the important attributes, feasibility and cost of a possible future Pluto orbiter mission. This study will develop the spacecraft and payload de ... more  |
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China drawing up plan for manned lunar explorationXiamen, China (XNA) Oct 29, 2019 China is carrying out in-depth demonstration and long-term planning for its manned lunar exploration, and has formed an overall consensus and a preliminary plan, according to a senior space engineer ... more 
Breakthrough Listen to collaborate with scientists from NASA's TESS TeamNew York NY (SPX) Oct 24, 2019 Breakthrough Listen announced this week at the International Astronautical Congress in Washington, DC, a new collaboration with scientists working on NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite. ... more  
Two-legged robot mimics human balance while running and jumpingBoston MA (SPX) Oct 31, 2019 Rescuing victims from a burning building, a chemical spill, or any disaster that is inaccessible to human responders could one day be a mission for resilient, adaptable robots. Imagine, for instance ... more 
Human reflexes keep two-legged robot uprightChampaign IL (SPX) Oct 31, 2019 Imagine being trapped inside a collapsed building after a disaster, wondering if anybody will be brave enough to rescue you. Suddenly, a door bursts open, and standing in the shadows is a robot. But ... more 
Does crime increase when the moon is full?New York NY (SPX) Oct 31, 2019 Just in time for Halloween, the BetaGov team at NYU's Marron Institute of Urban Management is releasing a three-country study on the "lunar effect." Betagov, which carries out randomized contr ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 30, 2019 
Mars Express, the European Space Agency's (ESA) first planetary mission, is a true marathon runner among spacecraft. Launched on 2 June 2003, the spacecraft arrived at Mars during the night of 25 December that same year.
On 26 October 2019, this spacecraft completed its twenty-thousandth orbit around Mars. Mars Express is in good company in Martian orbit: NASA's Mars 2001 Odyssey and Mars ... more |
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 Xiamen, China (XNA) Oct 29, 2019 
China is carrying out in-depth demonstration and long-term planning for its manned lunar exploration, and has formed an overall consensus and a preliminary plan, according to a senior space engineer.
At the 1st China Space Science Assembly held in Xiamen, east China's Fujian Province, from Oct. 25 to Oct. 28, Chen Shanguang, deputy chief designer of China's manned space program, said the f ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 31, 2019 
NASA has funded Southwest Research Institute to study the important attributes, feasibility and cost of a possible future Pluto orbiter mission. This study will develop the spacecraft and payload design requirements and make preliminary cost and risk assessments for new technologies.
The study is one of 10 different mission studies that NASA is sponsoring to prepare for the next Planetary ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Nov 03, 2019 
A research team at The University of Tokyo has reproducibly synthesized staircase-like supramolecules of a single handedness, or chirality, using standard laboratory equipment.
By gradually removing the solvent from a rotating solution containing non-chiral precursors, they were able to produce helixes that twist preferentially in a particular direction. This research may lead to new and c ... more |
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 Seoul (AFP) Oct 31, 2019  North Korea has carried out a "successful" new test of its "super-large multiple rocket launcher" system, state media said Friday - the latest in a series of provocations by Pyongyang.
South Korea's military said Thursday that the North had launched two short-range projectiles from South Pyongan province. They each flew approximately 370 kilometres (230 miles).
It was the latest in a se ... more |
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 Xiamen (XNA) Oct 30, 2019 
China plans to launch four new science satellite missions by 2023, and scientists have completed concept research on another five to be launched in the next 10 years.
Successful Chinese science satellites launched since 2015 include the Dark Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE), the Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) and the Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT). These were under a sp ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Oct 29, 2019 
Astronomers using ESO's SPHERE instrument at the Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed that the asteroid Hygiea could be classified as a dwarf planet. The object is the fourth largest in the asteroid belt after Ceres, Vesta and Pallas.
For the first time, astronomers have observed Hygiea in sufficiently high resolution to study its surface and determine its shape and size. They found th ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Oct 22, 2019 
Raytheon Co. announced the delivery, to the U.S. Air Force, of the first high-energy laser system to counter drone threats.
The system will be tested in a year-long overseas deployment, the company said on Tuesday.
Raytheon received a $23.8 million contract in August to build two high-energy laser systems, as well as a $16 million contract for a microwave counter-drone system kno ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Oct 24, 2019 
Moscow has sent a S-400 missile system battalion and a Pantsir anti-aircraft gun and missile system to Belgrade for their first joint drills in Serbia, the defence ministry said.
The systems will be deployed at Batajnica base, outside the capital, as part of the exercises that will take place on October 23-29, a statement said.
It is the first time that the S-400 and Pantsir systems will ... more |
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 Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Oct 30, 2019 
Sanchez-Lavega's work appears under the title 'A complex storm system in Saturn's north polar atmosphere in 2018', and was produced in collaboration with Teresa del Rio-Gaztelurrutia, Jon Legarreta and Ricardo Hueso, lecturers at the Faculty of Engineering in Bilbao, and a large group of scientists of other nationalities.
It was an amateur Brazilian astronomer who on 29 March, 2018, captur ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Oct 31, 2019  Northwestern University chemists have used visible light and extremely tiny nanoparticles to quickly and simply make molecules that are of the same class as many lead compounds for drug development.
Driven by light, the nanoparticle catalysts perform chemical reactions with very specific chemical products - molecules that don't just have the right chemical formulas but also have specific a ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Oct 16, 2019 
Astronomers at MIT and elsewhere have used a massive cluster of galaxies as an X-ray magnifying glass to peer back in time, to nearly 9.4 billion years ago. In the process, they spotted a tiny dwarf galaxy in its very first, high-energy stages of star formation.
While galaxy clusters have been used to magnify objects at optical wavelengths, this is the first time scientists have leveraged ... more |
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 Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Nov 01, 2019 
Astronomers led by Eduardo Banados of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have discovered a gas cloud that contains information about an early phase of galaxy and star formation, merely 850 million years after the Big Bang. The cloud was found serendipitously during observations of a distant quasar, and it has the properties that astronomers expect from the precursors of modern-day dwarf gala ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Nov 01, 2019 
With 50 total points, Coordinated Robotics finished in first place in the DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge Virtual Tunnel Circuit event, and as the top self-funded team, earned $250,000. Eight teams developed, tested, and submitted their software-based solutions for simulation-based evaluation on the SubT Virtual Testbed.
DARPA-funded and self-funded teams compete side-by-side throughou ... more |
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 Jerusalem (AFP) Oct 31, 2019  An anti-aircraft missile was fired Thursday at an Israeli drone over Lebanon, the Israeli army said, adding that the unmanned aircraft was not hit.
"A short while ago, an anti-aircraft missile was launched over Lebanese territory towards an IDF (Israeli army) UAV. The UAV was not hit," the military said in a statement posted on Twitter. It gave no further details.
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