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  Manchester UK (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 Jumping robot spiders and swarms of robotic bees sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but researchers at The University of Manchester are already working on such projects and aiming to lead the world in micro robotics. But what will these kinds of robots be used for and is it something we should be worried? Dr Mostafa Nabawy is the Microsystems Research Theme Leader at The University of Manchester's School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering. He is presenting some of his research, ... read more |
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CosmoQuest releases Mappers 2.0 for crater mappingSan Francisco CA (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 The CosmoQuest Citizen Science facility released a major update to its Mappers software. This software previously demonstrated that everyday people can map craters as effectively as a group of profe ... more 
NASA, ATLAS to Mature Portable Space Communications TechnologyGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 15, 2018 Portable ground antenna stations could transform NASA's space communications capabilities. With access to undeveloped regions, the mobile systems could bolster the return of spacecraft science, inst ... more  
NASA Dawn Reveals Recent Changes in Ceres' SurfacePasadena CA (JPL) Mar 15, 2018 Observations of Ceres have detected recent variations in its surface, revealing that the only dwarf planet in the inner solar system is a dynamic body that continues to evolve and change. NASA ... more  
Changed Man With 'Space Genes': Alterations in US Astronaut's Body Startled NASAWashington (Sputnik) Mar 15, 2018 After a year in space International Space Station (ISS) astronaut Scott Kelly returned home slimmer, taller and with younger cells. However, some changes were not for the better. NASA research ... more |
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'Luna City 2175' will take audience to a future community grappling with how to be civilizedTempe AZ (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 A good book can transport the reader into a faraway universe filled with rich detail. The ASU Emerge event will do the same thing this weekend, but the audience actually will be able to touch, see a ... more 
Russian physicists make toy asteroids and blast them with a laserMoscow, Russia (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 A large team of Russian researchers from Rosatom, joined by three MIPT physicists, has modeled the impact of a nuclear explosion on an Earth-threatening asteroid. They manufactured miniature asteroi ... more  
Jupiter's Great Red Spot getting taller as it shrinksGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 Though once big enough to swallow three Earths with room to spare, Jupiter's Great Red Spot has been shrinking for a century and a half. Nobody is sure how long the storm will continue to contract o ... more  
Opportunity is Halfway Down the ValleyPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 13, 2018 Opportunity is continuing the exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is positioned about halfway down the approximately 656 feet (200 meter) valley ... more 
Unveiling the depths of Jupiter's windsRehovot, Israel (SPX) Mar 12, 2018 Three papers published tomorrow in Nature answer a question that scientists have been asking ever since Galileo first observed the famous stripes of Jupiter: Are the colorful bands just a pretty sur ... more |
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 JHU performs first laboratory simulation of exoplanet atmospheric chemistry  
The search for interstellar waterBaltimore MD (SPX) Mar 12, 2018 Water is crucial for life, but how do you make water? Cooking up some H2O takes more than mixing hydrogen and oxygen. It requires the special conditions found deep within frigid molecular clouds, wh ... more  |
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Travis AFB delivers NASA InSight SpacecraftTravis AFB CA (AFNS) Mar 12, 2018 Airmen from the 21st Airlift Squadron and the 860th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron at Travis Air Force Base, California, loaded and transported the NASA InSight Spacecraft Feb. 28, 2018, from Lockhee ... more 
Researchers uncover way to restore movement sensation in upper limb amputation patientsCleveland OH (SPX) Mar 15, 2018 A team of researchers led by Cleveland Clinic has published first-of-its-kind findings in Science Translational Medicine on a new method of restoring natural movement sensation in patients with pros ... more 
Can Space Junk Help Us Find Aliens?Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 12, 2018 Astrophysicists came up with an unusual idea to detect sentient life-forms in the distant parts of the universe, with the possibility to become a major breakthrough. Humanity has left signific ... more 
Commercial Satellite Built by Maxar Technologies' SSL Successfully Begins On-Orbit Operations, Demonstrating Leadership in New Space EconomyPalo Alto CA (SPX) Mar 08, 2018 SSL reports that the advanced Hispasat 30W-6 satellite, previously called Hispasat 1F, was launched yesterday and is successfully performing post-launch maneuvers according to plan, demonstrating Ma ... more 
Study sheds light on the genetic origins of the two sexesSt Louis, MO (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 A new study published in the journal Communications Biology has shed light on the earliest stages in the evolution of male-female differentiation and sex chromosomes--and found the genetic origins o ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 13, 2018 
Opportunity is continuing the exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater.
The rover is positioned about halfway down the approximately 656 feet (200 meter) valley. Opportunity is continuing the imaging survey at each rover location within the valley. In addition to both Navigation Camera (Navcam) and Panoramic Camera (Pancam) panoramas, targeted Pancam multi-s ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 
A good book can transport the reader into a faraway universe filled with rich detail. The ASU Emerge event will do the same thing this weekend, but the audience actually will be able to touch, see and interact with the newly created world.
"Luna City: 2175," the title of the seventh annual ASU Emerge, will be a combined art, theater and museum experience that's based on real research about ... more |
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 Rehovot, Israel (SPX) Mar 12, 2018 
Three papers published tomorrow in Nature answer a question that scientists have been asking ever since Galileo first observed the famous stripes of Jupiter: Are the colorful bands just a pretty surface phenomenon, or are they a significant stratum of the planet?
The Weizmann Institute's Prof. Yohai Kaspi led this research in which measurements from NASA's Juno spacecraft were analyzed to ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Mar 12, 2018 
Water is crucial for life, but how do you make water? Cooking up some H2O takes more than mixing hydrogen and oxygen. It requires the special conditions found deep within frigid molecular clouds, where dust shields against destructive ultraviolet light and aids chemical reactions. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope will peer into these cosmic reservoirs to gain new insights into the origin and ev ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Mar 16, 2018 
he Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is working on a next-generation launch vehicle that would have the capacity of carrying payloads four times higher than the capacity of its operational launch vehicles. The Indian government confirmed the development on Wednesday.
"India has a Launch Vehicle system with a capability to put 4 - ton class of satellites to GTO, whereby meeting all ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 8, 2018 
China is getting closer to a finalized design for its next-generation X-ray observatory.
As reported by Science this week, scientists at China's National Space Science Center are honing in on the final iteration of their design for the X-Ray Timing and Polarimetry, eXTP, satellite.
The eXTP mission team plans to complete a prototype by 2022, with a goal to launch the satellite in ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 
A large team of Russian researchers from Rosatom, joined by three MIPT physicists, has modeled the impact of a nuclear explosion on an Earth-threatening asteroid. They manufactured miniature asteroids and blasted them with a laser.
The modeling technique developed in this study is a way of experimentally evaluating asteroid destruction criteria such as the explosion energy needed to elimin ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 8, 2018 
Northrop Grumman was awarded a contract from the U.S. Navy for services in support of the Solid State High Power Laser Weapon System Demonstrator program.
The deal, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $21.5 million under the terms of a cost-plus fixed fee contract, which is a modification to a previous award.
The modified contract brings the t ... more |
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 Schrobenhausen, Germany (SPX) Mar 12, 2018  MBDA Deutschland and Lockheed Martin have announced a new joint venture to pursue the next generation Integrated Air and Missile Defense System, "TLVS," for the German Bundeswehr. The joint venture is expected to become the prime contractor for the new system, which is currently being negotiated with Germany's procurement office for the Bundeswehr, BAAINBw.
Gregory Kee of Lockheed Martin a ... 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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 Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 
A research team led by UCLA scientists and engineers has developed a method to make new kinds of artificial "superlattices" - materials comprised of alternating layers of ultra-thin "two-dimensional" sheets, which are only one or a few atoms thick. Unlike current state-of-the art superlattices, in which alternating layers have similar atomic structures, and thus similar electronic properties, th ... more |
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 Perth, Australia (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 
Astronomers have discovered that all galaxies rotate once every billion years, no matter how big they are.
The Earth spinning around on its axis once gives us the length of a day, and a complete orbit of the Earth around the Sun gives us a year.
"It's not Swiss watch precision," said Professor Gerhardt Meurer from the UWA node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research ... more |
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 Dresden, Germany (SPX) Mar 13, 2018 
Flows of molten metal can generate magnetic fields. This so-called dynamo effect creates cosmic magnetic fields, like those found on planets, moons and even asteroids. Over the coming years, a globally unique experiment, in which a steel drum containing several tons of liquid sodium rotates around two axes, is intended to demonstrate this effect.
It will be carried out in the new DRESDYN f ... more |
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 Manchester UK (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
Jumping robot spiders and swarms of robotic bees sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but researchers at The University of Manchester are already working on such projects and aiming to lead the world in micro robotics.
But what will these kinds of robots be used for and is it something we should be worried? Dr Mostafa Nabawy is the Microsystems Research Theme Leader at The University ... more |
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 San Diego CA (SPX) Mar 15, 2018 
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions, Inc. has received U.S. State Department approval to market its Mako High Performance Jet Tactical Unmanned Aerial System to certain European and Asia Pacific region countries.
Kratos Mako provides fighter-like performance and is designed to function as a wingman to manned aircraft as a force multiplier in contested airspace, or be deployed independent ... more |
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