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  Ottawa, Canada (SPX) Mar 19, 2022 For decades, scientists have been trying to unravel an enduring mystery of structural biology: Why do two otherwise identical protein forms found in everything from plants, amphibians and human beings hang onto a slight variation across the mighty span of evolution? It's a puzzle rooted in the deepest past. But now, the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Medicine and Yale University colleagues have collaborated to provide a compelling answer to this elusive question. This new knowledge about these ... read more |
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Handheld surgical robot can help stem fatal blood lossBoston MA (SPX) Mar 18, 2022 After a traumatic accident, there is a small window of time when medical professionals can apply lifesaving treatment to victims with severe internal bleeding. Delivering this type of care is comple ... more  
NASA's Perseverance rover hightails it to Martian DeltaPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 19, 2022 The rover's self-driving capabilities will be put to the test this month as it begins a record-breaking series of sprints to its next sampling location. NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is tryin ... more  
Lunar Swirl Patterns and Topography Are Related, Study FindsTucson AZ (SPX) Mar 18, 2022 Bright and dark swirling patterns on the Moon's surface have been linked to the topography of the swirls, says a new paper by a team of scientists from the Planetary Science Institute. "This i ... more 
A View Filled With Ventifacts - Sols 3417-3418Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 18, 2022 Our Monday drive was successful, and we are now fully surrounded by the rocks that cap the Greenheugh pediment. From here we can see hundreds of ventifacts - a term that describes rocks which have b ... more |
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DoE funds $50M for fusion research at tokamak and spherical tokamak facilitiesWashington DC (SPX) Mar 18, 2022 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a plan to provide up to $50 million to support U.S. scientists conducting experimental research in fusion energy science at tokamak and spherical tokama ... more 
Lunar scientists and engineers design Moon cave explorerParis (ESA) Mar 17, 2022 Lunar caves are not only a geologically pristine record of the Moon's history, but they could also provide a safe home for future human explorers. Building upon ESA Discovery's OSIP call and SysNova ... more 
NASA's Angie Jackman works to develop rocket that will bring Mars samples to EarthHuntsville AL (SPX) Mar 18, 2022 Right now, some 182 million miles separate the red clay of Alabama from the dusty red planet Mars. But groundbreaking flight hardware developed at NASA's Marshall S ... more 
A Day in the Life of a T-DOCPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 17, 2022 It takes a team to plan Perseverance's daily activities, including people in many different roles. One of these roles is called the tactical documentarian, or T-DOC. The tactical documentarian takes ... more |
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Russian-European Mars mission suspended over Ukraine warParis (AFP) March 17, 2022 A Russian-European mission to land a rover on Mars has been suspended due to the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine, the European Space Agency announced Thursday, as Moscow said it regretted the "bitter" decision. ... more  
Fifth asteroid ever discovered before impactParis (ESA) Mar 17, 2022 At 19:24 UTC on 11 March 2022, astronomer Krisztian Sarneczky discovered a bright and fast-moving new object in the sky using the 60cm Schmidt telescope at the Piszkesteto observatory, Hungary. He c ... more 
Sols 3414-3416: Progress!Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 17, 2022 Over the weekend, we completed the planned drive with a relatively easy (by "Greenheugh Pediment" standards) traverse in the pediment. With lots of bedrock in the workspace, we quickly identified a ... more  
Launching robots into lunar cavesLausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 A hundred meters below the surface of the moon lie caves untouched by humans. They were discovered about ten years ago, but space agencies want to send robots to investigate these mysterious cavitie ... more |
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Beyond Gravity boosts its capacity for satellite dispenser systems in Linkoping and creates 60 new jobs with new production facilityZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 Beyond Gravity (formerly RUAG Space) is significantly ramping up its production of satellite dispensers in Linkoping, Sweden, with the construction of a new facility. It will be used to produce disp ... more  
Searching for Planet NineBoston MA (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 The Solar System has eight planets. In 2006, astronomers reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet, the same class as contains Eris, Sedna, Quaoar, Ceres and perhaps many more solar system small bodies. ... more 
Roman Telescope could help find other Earths by surveying space dustGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 A team of scientists found NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will be able to measure a specific kind of space dust littered throughout dozens of nearby planetary systems' habitable zones, or ... more 
Combing the cosmos: New color catalog aids hunt for life on frozen worldsIthaca NY (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 Aided by microbes found in the subarctic conditions of Canada's Hudson Bay, an international team - including researchers from Portugal's Instituto Superior de Agronomia and Tecnico, Canada's Univer ... more  
Radar studies of ice at Mercury may help Artemis ProgramColumbia MD (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 Despite being the closest planet to the Sun, some craters on Mercury's poles contain ice. The deposits, which were first detected in the early 1990s, were thought to be thick layers of nearly pure w ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 19, 2022 
The rover's self-driving capabilities will be put to the test this month as it begins a record-breaking series of sprints to its next sampling location.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover is trying to cover more distance in a single month than any rover before it - and it's doing so using artificial intelligence. On the path ahead are sandpits, craters, and fields of sharp rocks that the rover ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 18, 2022 
Bright and dark swirling patterns on the Moon's surface have been linked to the topography of the swirls, says a new paper by a team of scientists from the Planetary Science Institute.
"This is the first time there has been a demonstrated correlation between the swirl albedo patterns and topography," said PSI Senior Scientist Deborah Domingue, lead author of "Topographic Correlations withi ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 
The Solar System has eight planets. In 2006, astronomers reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet, the same class as contains Eris, Sedna, Quaoar, Ceres and perhaps many more solar system small bodies. These are defined approximately as bodies that orbit the Sun but that are not massive enough (unlike regular planets) to gravitationally dominate their environments by clearing away material. Astronom ... more |
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 Ottawa, Canada (SPX) Mar 19, 2022 
For decades, scientists have been trying to unravel an enduring mystery of structural biology: Why do two otherwise identical protein forms found in everything from plants, amphibians and human beings hang onto a slight variation across the mighty span of evolution?
It's a puzzle rooted in the deepest past. But now, the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Medicine and Yale University colleag ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 15, 2021 
California-based rocket company Astra Space launched three small satellites from Alaska on Tuesday morning and said the payloads deployed successfully.
The rocket, LV0009, lifted off from Pacific Spaceport Complex on Kodiak Island as planned at 9:22 a.m. PDT.
"We have great news to report," Astra CEO Chris Kemp said on a live broadcast a little over an hour after launch. "The pay ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 19, 2022 
China plans to conduct a number of frontier scientific experiments on its Tiangong space station, with the two laboratory modules, Wentian and Mengtian, scheduled to be launched this year, according to the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization under the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The experiments include raising fish, growing vegetables, setting up the most precise clock ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Mar 17, 2022 
At 19:24 UTC on 11 March 2022, astronomer Krisztian Sarneczky discovered a bright and fast-moving new object in the sky using the 60cm Schmidt telescope at the Piszkesteto observatory, Hungary. He collected four observations in quick succession, and just 14 minutes later reported his findings to the Minor Planet Center (MPC), initially designating the object 'Sar2593'.
The results were qui ... more |
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 Kirtland AFB NM (SPX) Feb 18, 2022 
The Air Force Research Laboratory's Directed Energy Directorate hosted a collaborative wargame with its sister AFRL unit, the Munitions Directorate, at Kirtland AFB, Jan. 24-28, 2022. The Directed Energy and Kinetic Energy Directed Energy Utility Concept Experiment, or DEKE DEUCE, explored synergies between directed energy and kinetic concepts in the future battlespace.
"DEKE DEUCE require ... more |
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 Bratislava (AFP) March 17, 2022 
Slovakia said Thursday it was willing to provide its Russian-made S-300 anti-aircraft missile system to Ukraine but only on the condition that it receive a substitute to avoid a NATO security gap.
"We've been in discussion with the United States, with Ukraine and also with other allies on the possibility to deploy or to send altogether our S-300 systems to the Ukrainians," Slovak Defence Min ... more |
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 Maunakea HI (SPX) Feb 09, 2022 
Space scientists have discovered a never-before-seen mechanism fueling huge planetary aurorae at Saturn. A University of Leicester-led team has found that Saturn is unique among planets observed to date in that some of its aurorae are generated by swirling winds within its own atmosphere, and not just from the planet's surrounding magnetosphere.
The study, which is based on observations ma ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 07, 2022 
Nanoparticles (which have sizes ranging between 3-500 nm), and sub-nanoclusters (which are around 1 nm in diameter) are utilized in many fields, including medicine, robotics, materials science, and engineering. Their small size and large surface-area-to-volume ratios give them unique properties, rendering them valuable in a variety of applications, ranging from pollution control to chemical synt ... more |
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 Hamburg, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 
Quantum physical experiments exploring the motion of macroscopic or heavy bodies under gravitational forces require protection from any environmental noise and highly efficient sensing.
An ideal system is a highly reflecting mirror whose motion is sensed by monochromatic light, which is photoelectrically detected with high quantum efficiency. A quantum optomechanical experiment is achieved ... more |
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 Karlsruhe, Germany (SPX) Mar 13, 2022 
Quantum information will revolutionize not only research and industry, but also our everyday life. Among others, it promises enormous progress in the simulation of materials and processes, which will push the development of new medical substances, the improvement of batteries, transport planning, and secure information and communication. A quantum bit (qubit) can assume many different states bet ... more |
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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 
A hundred meters below the surface of the moon lie caves untouched by humans. They were discovered about ten years ago, but space agencies want to send robots to investigate these mysterious cavities before astronauts venture in.
"On the moon's surface, the temperature is 150 degrees above zero during the day and 150 degrees below zero at night," says Lucas Froissart, who recently complete ... more |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Mar 17, 2022 
Wireless sensors can monitor how temperature, humidity or other environmental conditions vary across large swaths of land, such as farms or forests.
These tools could provide unique insights for a variety of applications, including digital agriculture and monitoring climate change. One problem, however, is that it is currently time-consuming and expensive to physically place hundreds of se ... more |
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