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  Beijing (XNA) Jan 19, 2021 China published its Regulations on the Management of Lunar Samples on Monday morning, aiming to improve scientific research and international cooperation. Developed by the China National Space Administration, the document has nine chapters and 37 clauses, governing the storage, management and use of lunar samples brought back by the country's Chang'e 5 mission. According to the regulations, the samples will be divided into four categories - permanent storage, backup storage, research, and pu ... read more |
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A 'super-puff' planet like no otherMontreal, Canada (SPX) Jan 19, 2021 The core mass of the giant exoplanet WASP-107b is much lower than what was thought necessary to build up the immense gas envelope surrounding giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn, astronomers at Un ... more 
Simulating evolution to understand a hidden switchThuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Jan 19, 2021 Computer simulations of cells evolving over tens of thousands of generations reveal why some organisms retain a disused switch mechanism that turns on under severe stress, changing some of their cha ... more  
Key modules for China's next space station ready for launchBeijing (XNA) Jan 19, 2021 Three major components of China's space station program have passed technical and quality assessments and are ready for upcoming missions, the China Manned Space Agency said. Experts from the ... more  
Teams crack code, qualify for final stage of NASA Space RoboticsHuntsville AL (SPX) Jan 18, 2021 NASA, in partnership with Space Center Houston - the official visitor center of NASA's Johnson Space Center- has selected 22 qualifying teams to compete in the competition round of Phase 2 of the Sp ... more |
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InSight 'Mole' payload ends operations on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 15, 2021 The heat probe developed and built by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and deployed on Mars by NASA's InSight lander has ended its portion of the mission. Since Feb. 28, 2019, the probe, called the ... more 
Lockheed Martin-Built Orion spacecraft is ready for its Moon missionDenver CO (SPX) Jan 15, 2021 NASA's Orion spacecraft is ready for its mission to the Moon. Lockheed Martin has completed assembly and testing of the Orion Artemis I spacecraft and has transferred possession to NASA's Exploratio ... more 
With $3M NASA Grant, UArizona scientists will test Mars exploration drones in IcelandTucson AZ (SPX) Jan 15, 2021 A team of scientists led by Christopher Hamilton of the University of Arizona is gearing up to send drones on exploration missions across a vast lava field in Iceland to test a next-generation Mars ... more  
Juno mission expands into the futureWashington DC (SPX) Jan 15, 2021 NASA has authorized a mission extension for its Juno spacecraft exploring Jupiter. The agency's most distant planetary orbiter will now continue its investigation of the solar system's largest plane ... more 
Astronomers finally measure polarized light from exoplanetAmsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Jan 13, 2021 An international team led by Dutch astronomers has, after years of searching and defying the boundaries of a telescope, for the first time directly captured polarized light from an exoplanet. They c ... more |
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 NASA, Japan formalize Gateway Partnership for Artemis Program 
Curiosity Rover reaches its 3,000th day on MarsPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 13, 2021 It's been 3,000 Martian days, or sols, since Curiosity touched down on Mars on Aug. 6, 2012, and the rover keeps making new discoveries during its gradual climb up Mount Sharp, the 3-mile-tall (5-ki ... more  |
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Why do some regions on the dwarf planet Ceres appear blueBerlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2021 This month marks the 220th anniversary of the discovery of the first asteroid. During the night of 1-2 January 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi, the director of Palermo Astronomical Observatory, noticed a 'sta ... more 
China's space station core module, cargo craft pass factory reviewBeijing (XNA) Jan 18, 2021 The core module of China's planned space station has passed a factory review, along with the project's Tianzhou-2 cargo craft and the core module mission products of the space application systems, t ... more  
'Say ahh': Chinese robots take throat swabs to fight Covid outbreakBeijing (AFP) Jan 13, 2021 A Chinese city deployed robots to take Covid-19 throat swabs on Wednesday, as the country ramps up mass testing to stamp out local coronavirus outbreaks. ... more 
NASA readies Astrobee flying robots for serious space scienceWashington DC (UPI) Jan 12, 2021 NASA astronauts aboard the International Space Station are preparing new Astrobee flying robots to enhance science on the orbiting laboratory - a technology that could be vital to future deep space exploration. ... more
Pandemic's robot 'heroes' highlight their value at tech showWashington (AFP) Jan 12, 2021 Robots that helped people survive and stay safe over the past year are touting their value at the tech industry's annual extravaganza amid a pandemic which has given fresh momentum to the robotics sector. ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 15, 2021  A team of scientists led by Christopher Hamilton of the University of Arizona is gearing up to send drones on exploration missions across a vast lava field in Iceland to test a next-generation Mars exploration concept.
Hamilton is the principal investigator on a project that has been awarded a $3.1 million NASA grant to develop a new concept combining rovers and unmanned aerial systems, co ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Jan 15, 2021  The Orion spacecraft for NASA's Artemis I mission is taking one more step closer to its flight to the Moon. On Jan. 14, the spacecraft was lifted out of the stand in the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida where engineers have meticulously outfitted it with thousands of components and tested its systems and subsystems to ensure it can a ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 15, 2021 
NASA has authorized a mission extension for its Juno spacecraft exploring Jupiter. The agency's most distant planetary orbiter will now continue its investigation of the solar system's largest planet through September 2025, or until the spacecraft's end of life. This expansion tasks Juno with becoming an explorer of the full Jovian system - Jupiter and its rings and moons - with multiple rendezv ... more |
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 Thuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Jan 19, 2021  Computer simulations of cells evolving over tens of thousands of generations reveal why some organisms retain a disused switch mechanism that turns on under severe stress, changing some of their characteristics. Maintaining this "hidden" switch is one means for organisms to maintain a high degree of gene expression stability under normal conditions.
Tomato hornworm larvae are green in warm ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Jan 13, 2021  With NASA astronaut Victor Glover monitoring aboard the International Space Station, an upgraded SpaceX cargo Dragon spacecraft undocked from the International Docking Adapter on the station's space-facing port of the Harmony module at 9:05 a.m. EST.
It is the first undocking of a U.S. commercial cargo craft from the complex. Previous cargo Dragon spacecraft were attached and removed from ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 19, 2021  Three major components of China's space station program have passed technical and quality assessments and are ready for upcoming missions, the China Manned Space Agency said.
Experts from the agency, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp reviewed the design, construction and test reports on the space station's Tianhe core module, the Tianzhou 2 car ... more |
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 Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 13, 2021  This month marks the 220th anniversary of the discovery of the first asteroid. During the night of 1-2 January 1801, Giuseppe Piazzi, the director of Palermo Astronomical Observatory, noticed a 'star' on the shoulder of the bull-shaped constellation, Taurus. But the position of the star was changing each night. Piazzi had discovered Ceres, the largest body in the vast space between the planets M ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 12, 2021 
Linear accelerators, LINACs for short, are devices that accelerate electrons or other sub-atomic particles along a straight line to generate a beam of high energy. LINACs have a variety of commercial uses such as generating X-rays for cargo inspection, medical diagnostics, food sterilization, and even enabling precise external radiation treatments to destroy cancer cells without damaging surroun ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 15, 2021 
Northrop Grumman began outfitting six portable buildings to be used as command posts for Poland's air and missile defense program, it announced.
The company took delivery of shelters at its Huntsville, Ala., facility that will be fitted with equipment making them engagement operations centers for the Integrated Battle Command System designed by the U.S. Army.
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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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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 6, 2021 
For the first time, scientists have observed competition between magnetic orders from coupled sheets of atoms. The observations, described Wednesday in the journal Nature, promise new insights into the quantum qualities of two-dimensional materials.
Ever since a pair of British researchers were awarded the Nobel Prize in 2010 for the discovery of graphene, material scientists, electrica ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 12, 2021 
Scientists have used a "galaxy-sized" space observatory to find possible hints of a unique signal from gravitational waves, or the powerful ripples that course through the universe and warp the fabric of space and time itself.
The new findings, which appeared recently in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, hail from a U.S. and Canadian project called the North American Nanohertz Observatory ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Jan 15, 2021  A remarkable prediction of Einstein's theory of general relativity - the theory that connects space, time, and gravity - is that rotating black holes have enormous amounts of energy available to be tapped.
For the last 50 years, scientists have tried to come up with methods to unleash this power. Nobel physicist Roger Penrose theorized that a particle disintegration could draw energy from ... more |
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 Quebec City, Canada (SPX) Jan 12, 2021 
An international team of researchers, including Professor Roberto Morandotti of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), just introduced a new photonic processor that could revolutionize artificial intelligence, as reported by the prestigious journal Nature.
Artificial neural networks, layers of interconnected artificial neurons, are of great interest for machine learning ... more |
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 White Salmon WA (SPX) Jan 18, 2021 
Sagetech Avionics, an innovative technology company providing industry-leading situational awareness solutions for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), has received a U.S. Air Force Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contract for the initial development phase of components for a type-certifiable detect-and-avoid (DAA) system.
The resulting system will enable UAS to safety operate beyond v ... more |
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