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  Boston MA (SPX) Dec 17, 2020 Atomic clocks are the most precise timekeepers in the world. These exquisite instruments use lasers to measure the vibrations of atoms, which oscillate at a constant frequency, like many microscopic pendulums swinging in sync. The best atomic clocks in the world keep time with such precision that, if they had been running since the beginning of the universe, they would only be off by about half a second today. Still, they could be even more precise. If atomic clocks could more accurately measure a ... read more |
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Not so fast!: controlling the speed of light bulletsOsaka, Japan (SPX) Dec 15, 2020 Though it sounds like something straight out of science fiction, controlling the speed of light has in fact been a long-standing challenge for physicists. In a study recently published in Communicat ... more  
'Chaotic' way to create insectlike gaits for robotsWashington DC (SPX) Dec 16, 2020 Researchers in Japan and Italy are embracing chaos and nonlinear physics to create insectlike gaits for tiny robots - complete with a locomotion controller to provide a brain-machine interface. ... more  
NASA releases best practices handbook to help improve space safetyWashington DC (SPX) Dec 16, 2020 NASA has released the first iteration of its Spacecraft Conjunction Assessment and Collision Avoidance Best Practices Handbook to share information on best practices for coordinating in-orbit activi ... more  
NASA moves forward with campaign to return Mars samples to EarthWashington DC (SPX) Dec 18, 2020 NASA and ESA (European Space Agency) are moving to the next phase in a campaign to deepen understanding of whether life ever existed on Mars and, in turn, better understand the origins of life on Ea ... more |
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Canadian will join Moon mission for first time in 2023Montreal (AFP) Dec 16, 2020 A Canadian astronaut will take part in a lunar mission for the first time in 2023, as part of the NASA-led Artemis project, the minister for innovation, science and industry announced Wednesday. ... more 
Study of dune dynamics will help scientists understand the topography of MarsSao Paulo, Brazil (SPX) Dec 17, 2020 Barchans are crescent-shaped sand dunes whose two horns face in the direction of the fluid flow. They appear in different environments, such as inside water pipes or on river beds, where they take t ... more  
SwRI models point to a potentially diverse metabolic menu at EnceladusSan Antonio TX (SPX) Dec 17, 2020 Using data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) modeled chemical processes in the subsurface ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The studies indicate the p ... more  
Astronomers detect possible radio emission from exoplanetIthaca NY (SPX) Dec 17, 2020 By monitoring the cosmos with a radio telescope array, a Cornell University-led international team of scientists has detected radio bursts emanating from the constellation Bootes. The signal could b ... more 
Exotrail secures French government support to develop propulsion technologies for small GEO satellitesParis, France (SPX) Dec 17, 2020 The French Armament General Directorate, through the Defence Innovation Agency, is supporting Exotrail to develop technologies allowing small satellites to operate in geostationary orbit. Under the ... more |
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China prepares to launch Long March-8 Y1 rocketWenchang (XNA) Dec 17, 2020 China's Long March-8 Y1 rocket was vertically transported to the launching area of the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in South China's Hainan province on Wednesday, according to the China National ... more  |
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USAF makes history with first flight using artificial intelligenceWashington DC (UPI) Dec 16, 2020 The U.S. Air Force referred to its first military flight using artificial intelligence as a working air crew member as a major achievement on Wednesday. ... more 
'The robot made me do it': Robots encourage risk-taking behaviour in peopleSouthampton UK (SPX) Dec 14, 2020 New research has shown robots can encourage people to take greater risks in a simulated gambling scenario than they would if there was nothing to influence their behaviours. Increasing our understan ... more 
Northrop Grumman invests in Deepwave Digital's AIRedondo Beach CA (SPX) Dec 16, 2020 Northrop Grumman is set to begin collaborating and investing in Deepwave Digital, to support research, development and integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. This partnership will ... more  
Massive underground instrument finds final secret of our sun's fusionPrinceton NJ (SPX) Dec 15, 2020 A hyper-sensitive instrument, deep underground in Italy, has finally succeeded at the nearly impossible task of detecting CNO neutrinos (tiny particles pointing to the presence of carbon, nitrogen a ... more 
Research develops new theoretical approach to manipulate lightExeter UK (SPX) Dec 14, 2020 The quest to discover pioneering new ways in which to manipulate how light travels through electromagnetic materials has taken a new, unusual twist. An innovative research project, carried out ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 17, 2020 
NASA's InSight spacecraft touched down Nov. 26, 2018, on Mars to study the planet's deep interior. A little more than one Martian year later, the stationary lander has detected more than 480 quakes and collected the most comprehensive weather data of any surface mission sent to Mars. InSight's probe, which has struggled to dig underground to take the planet's temperature, has made progress, too. ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Dec 18, 2020 
China plans to use its next moon mission, Chang'e 6, to collect samples from the moon's south pole or possibly the celestial body's far side, according to a key figure in the nation's lunar exploration program.
Wu Yanhua, deputy head of China National Space Administration, told China Daily on Thursday after a news conference in Beijing that project managers' current plans call for the Chan ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Dec 16, 2020 
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope watched a mysterious dark vortex on Neptune abruptly steer away from a likely death on the giant blue planet.
The storm, which is wider than the Atlantic Ocean, was born in the planet's northern hemisphere and discovered by Hubble in 2018. Observations a year later showed that it began drifting southward toward the equator, where such storms ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Dec 17, 2020 
By monitoring the cosmos with a radio telescope array, a Cornell University-led international team of scientists has detected radio bursts emanating from the constellation Bootes. The signal could be the first radio emission collected from a planet beyond our solar system.
The team, led by Cornell postdoctoral researcher Jake D. Turner, Philippe Zarka of the Observatoire de Paris - Paris S ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 17, 2020 
President Donald Trump has issued a new Space Policy Directive that will help propel NASA and humanity's next giant leap - creating a sustainable presence on the Moon and sending astronauts to Mars.
The president issued Space Policy Directive-6 (SPD-6), the Nation's Strategy for Space Nuclear Power and Propulsion (SNPP), Wednesday, Dec. 16. Space nuclear systems power spacecraft for missio ... more |
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 Wenchang (XNA) Dec 17, 2020 
China's Long March-8 Y1 rocket was vertically transported to the launching area of the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in South China's Hainan province on Wednesday, according to the China National Space Administration.
Next, the rocket will be filled with propellant and readied for launch in late December, according to the administration.
China's newest carrier rocket-the Long March 8-wi ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Dec 15, 2020 
Scientists in Japan said Tuesday they were left "speechless" when they saw how much asteroid dust was inside a capsule delivered by the Hayabusa-2 space probe in an unprecedented mission.
The Japanese probe collected surface dust and pristine material last year from the asteroid Ryugu, around 300 million kilometres (200 million miles) away, during two daring phases of its six-year mission. ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Nov 25, 2020 
The U.S. Navy Surface War Center announced a test in which an autonomous drone was launched and landed on a moving ship as a target for laser weapons.
The tests, held last week at the NSWC Division at Port Hueneme, Calif., involved software made for the Navy by Planck Aerosystems Inc. that allow the drone to follow the ship without people controlling it, the Navy said.
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 Washington DC (AFNS) Dec 16, 2020 
The Israel Missile Defense Organization (IMDO) of the Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR and D) of the Israel Ministry of Defense (IMOD), together with the Missile Defense Agency, successfully completed a series of flight tests of the David's Sling Weapon System (DSWS) in an advanced system configuration against current and emerging threats.
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Dec 17, 2020 
Using data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) modeled chemical processes in the subsurface ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus. The studies indicate the possibility that a varied metabolic menu could support a potentially diverse microbial community in the liquid water ocean beneath the moon's icy facade.
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 Houston TX (SPX) Dec 16, 2020 
You have to look closely, but the hills are alive with the force of van der Walls.
Rice University scientists found that nature's ubiquitous "weak" force is sufficient to indent rigid nanosheets, extending their potential for use in nanoscale optics or catalytic systems.
Changing the shape of nanoscale particles changes their electromagnetic properties, said Matt Jones, the Norman an ... more |
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 Xichang, China (XNA) Dec 10, 2020 
China sent two satellites for the detection of gravitational waves into planned orbit from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan province on Thursday morning.
The two satellites, which compose the Gravitational Wave High-energy Electromagnetic Counterpart All-sky Monitor (GECAM) mission, were launched by a Long March-11 carrier rocket at 4:14 am (Beijing Time), according to the ce ... more |
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 Los Alamos NM (SPX) Dec 18, 2020 
A combination of astrophysical measurements has allowed researchers to put new constraints on the radius of a typical neutron star and provide a novel calculation of the Hubble constant that indicates the rate at which the universe is expanding.
"We studied signals that came from various sources, for example recently observed mergers of neutron stars," said Ingo Tews, a theorist in Nuclear ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Dec 16, 2020 
Researchers in Japan and Italy are embracing chaos and nonlinear physics to create insectlike gaits for tiny robots - complete with a locomotion controller to provide a brain-machine interface.
Biology and physics are permeated by universal phenomena fundamentally grounded in nonlinear physics, and it inspired the researchers' work.
In the journal Chaos, from AIP Publishing, the grou ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Dec 17, 2020 
The Air Force's 60th Security Forces Squadron has launched the first drone-based perimeter security system at California's Travis Air Force Base.
The squadron collaborated with drone provider Easy Aerial to launch the initiative, based officials said Thursday.
The aircraft are not armed, but are designed to "enhance strategic deterrence and foster full-spectrum readiness across t ... more |
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