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  Dubai (XNA) Feb 14, 2018 Could humans ever live on Mars? Award-winning architect gave a positive answer and even a timescale to this question: in 100 years. Bjarke Ingels, named by Time magazine in 2016 as among the "100 Most Influential People in the World," said he had already been working at the first step of human's occupation of the planet - a project called Mars Science City. The 140-million-U.S.-dollar research city is a "viable and realistic model to simulate living on the surface of Mars," according to the ... read more |
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A Piece of Mars is Going HomePasadena CA (JPL) Feb 14, 2018 A chunk of Mars will soon be returning home. A piece of a meteorite called Sayh al Uhaymir 008 (SaU008) will be carried on board NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission, now being built at the agency's Jet P ... more  
'Oumuamua has been tumbling about the universe for a billion yearsWashington (UPI) Feb 12, 2018 The first intergalactic object observed by scientists, a massive orb named 'Oumuamua, has been tumbling about the universe for at least a billion years, new research suggests. ... more  
Self-Driving Servicer Now Baselined for NASA's Restore-L Satellite-Servicing DemonstrationGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 14, 2018 One test changed the fortunes of an advanced 3-D imaging lidar system now baselined for NASA's Restore-L project that will demonstrate an autonomous satellite-servicing capability. Officials w ... more  
The robots will see you nowBrooklyn NY (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 For more than a decade, biomimetic robots have been deployed alongside live animals to better understand the drivers of animal behavior, including social cues, fear, leadership, and even courtship. ... more |
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UChicago astrophysicists settle cosmic debate on magnetism of planets and starsChicago IL (SPX) Feb 12, 2018 The universe is highly magnetic, with everything from stars to planets to galaxies producing their own magnetic fields. Astrophysicists have long puzzled over these surprisingly strong and long-live ... more  
New Horizons captures record-breaking images in the Kuiper BeltWashington DC (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 NASA's New Horizons spacecraft recently turned its telescopic camera toward a field of stars, snapped an image - and made history. The routine calibration frame of the "Wishing Well" galactic ... more 
NASA leverages proven technologies to build agency's first planetary wind lidarGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 NASA scientists have found a way to adapt a handful of recently developed technologies to build a new instrument that could give them what they have yet to obtain: never-before-revealed details abou ... more 
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter capatures images of splitting slope streaksPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 09, 2018 This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) shows streaks forming on slopes when dust cascades downhill. The dark streak is an area of less dust compared to the brighter and reddish sur ... more 
Tiny Crystal Shapes Get Close Look From Mars RoverPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 09, 2018 Star-shaped and swallowtail-shaped tiny, dark bumps in fine-layered bright bedrock of a Martian ridge are drawing close inspection by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. This set of shapes looks fami ... more |
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Integration of AI and robotics with materials sciences will lead to new clean energy technologyToronto, Canada (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 Materials are the foundation of essentially all clean energy technologies including advanced batteries, solar cells, low-energy semiconductors, catalysts for capturing and storing CO2, and more. But ... more  |
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Chinese taikonauts maintain indomitable spirit in space exploration: senior officerBeijing (XNA) Feb 09, 2018 Chinese taikonauts have "maintained an indomitable spirit while carrying out space exploration," said Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, Wednesday. Zhang made the ... more 
A Detailed Timeline of The IMAGE Mission RecoveryGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 The Imager for Magnetopause-to-Aurora Global Exploration, or IMAGE, spacecraft was re-discovered in January 2018 after more than twelve years of silence. A powerhouse of magnetosphere and aurora res ... more  
Self-sealing miniature 'wound' created by engineersAtlanta GA (SPX) Feb 14, 2018 Biomedical engineers have developed a miniature self-sealing model system for studying bleeding and the clotting of wounds. The researchers envision the device as a drug discovery platform and poten ... more 
Viruses are falling from the skyVancouver, Canada (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 An astonishing number of viruses are circulating around the Earth's atmosphere - and falling from it - according to new research from scientists in Canada, Spain and the U.S. The study marks t ... more 
Can a cockroach teach a robot how to scurry across rugged terrain?Baltimore MD (SPX) Feb 14, 2018 When they turn up in family pantries or restaurant kitchens, cockroaches are commonly despised as ugly, unhealthy pests and are quickly killed. But in the name of science, Johns Hopkins researchers ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 13, 2018 
Opportunity is continuing her exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater.
The rover has moved along the north fork of a local flow channel about half way down the valley. Greatly improved energy levels from dust cleaning of the solar arrays has allowed the rover to be active longer each day and occasionally overnight.
On Sol 4986 (Feb. 1, 2018), the robo ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 
A study led by University of Colorado Boulder researchers provides new insight into the Moon's excessive equatorial bulge, a feature that solidified in place over four billion years ago as the Moon gradually distanced itself from the Earth.
The research sets parameters on how quickly the Moon could have receded from the Earth and suggests that the nascent planet's hydrosphere was either no ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft recently turned its telescopic camera toward a field of stars, snapped an image - and made history.
The routine calibration frame of the "Wishing Well" galactic open star cluster, made by the Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on Dec. 5, was taken when New Horizons was 3.79 billion miles (6.12 billion kilometers, or 40.9 astronomical units) from Earth - ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 12, 2018 
The first intergalactic object observed by scientists, a massive orb named 'Oumuamua, has been tumbling about the universe for at least a billion years, new research suggests.
'Oumuamua first appeared last fall. Scientists originally thought it was a comet, but when the orb swung around the sun without melting, researchers determined it was most likely an asteroid.
One study show ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) Feb 13, 2018 
Russia on Tuesday launched an unmanned Progress cargo ship to the International Space Station after a glitch led officials to postpone the planned liftoff two days earlier.
The Soyuz rocket carrying the Progress ship took off from the snow-covered Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:15 am Moscow time (0815 GMT) and reached its designated orbit several minutes later, the Russian space a ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 09, 2018 
Chinese taikonauts have "maintained an indomitable spirit while carrying out space exploration," said Zhang Youxia, vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, Wednesday.
Zhang made the remarks at a seminar while listening to reports delivered by Chinese taikonauts Jing Haipeng, Liu Yang and Deng Qingming about their work over the years.
The Taikonaut Corps of the People's Libe ... more |
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 Eugene OR (SPX) Feb 12, 2018  A record of volcanism preserved along ancient mid-ocean ridges provides evidence for heightened worldwide magmatic activity 66 million years ago just after the Chicxulub meteor struck Earth, according to University of Oregon scientists.
The research, published in Science Advances, points to changes in the strength of gravity above the seafloor, which indicate a transient period of increase ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Jan 29, 2018  Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract for the Surface Navy Laser Weapon System.
The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $150 million under the terms of a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract.
The contract taps Lockheed Martin's Aculight Corp. to develop, manufacture and deliver two test units in fiscal 2020 - one uni ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Feb 09, 2018 
China is planning to develop a sea-based missile defense launcher after completing a successful intercept of a ballistic missile in space from a ground-based system earlier this week, according to the South China Morning Post.
"China's sea-based anti-missile system aims to defend both its territory and overseas interests, because sea-based defense systems will be set up wherever its warshi ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 
Using the now-complete Cassini data set, Cornell University astronomers have created a new global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan that has opened new windows into understanding its liquid flows and terrain. Two papers, recently published in Geophysical Review Letters, describe the map and discoveries arising from it.
Creating the map took about a year, according to doctoral student ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Feb 12, 2018  Scientists have developed a new, gold-tipped nanowire that is 100 times more sensitive than previous versions of the technology. The nanowires could be used to more precisely measure multiple biological processes at the same time.
All previous iterations of the unique sensor have been two-dimensional, but scientists at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Stockholm University developed ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Feb 13, 2018  Watching a bubble float effortlessly through the International Space Station may be mesmerizing and beautiful to witness, but that same bubble is also teaching researchers about how fluids behave differently in microgravity than they do on Earth. The near-weightless conditions aboard the station allow researchers to observe and control a wide variety of fluids in ways that are not possible on Ea ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Feb 12, 2018 
CU Boulder researchers have discovered a mechanism that explains the persistence of asymmetrical stellar clusters surrounding supermassive black holes in some galaxies and suggests that during post-galactic merger periods, orbiting stars could be flung into the black hole and destroyed at a rate of one per year.
The research, which was recently published in The Astrophysical Journal, als ... more |
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 Brooklyn NY (SPX) Feb 08, 2018  For more than a decade, biomimetic robots have been deployed alongside live animals to better understand the drivers of animal behavior, including social cues, fear, leadership, and even courtship. The encounters have always been unidirectional; the animals observe and respond to the robots. But in the lab of Maurizio Porfiri, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the NYU Tandon ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 
Companies like Amazon have big ideas for drones that can deliver packages right to your door. But, even putting aside the policy issues, programming drones to fly through cluttered spaces like cities is difficult. Being able to avoid obstacles while traveling at high speeds is computationally complex, especially for small drones that are limited in how much they can carry on-board for real-time ... more |
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