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  Washington DC (SPX) Jul 01, 2019 Researchers have discovered that light can possess a new property, self-torque. This discovery could open up exciting possibilities in light-related applications, researchers explain in a related video, including as relates to the improvement of smart phones and hard drives. The utility of light is tightly connected to our ability to control light. In addition to many well-known properties like intensity and wavelength, light can be twisted, possessing what's known as angular momentum, something r ... read more |
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Guardians of Apollo: the curators preserving the Moon mission's legacyChantilly, United States (AFP) June 29, 2019 Lying on a workshop counter that is closed to the public at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's annex near Washington Dulles airport, Neil Armstrong's gloves look almost as good as new. ... more  
Santorini volcano, a new terrestrial analogue of MarsMadrid, Spain (SPX) Jun 28, 2019 One of the great attractions of the island of Santorini, in Greece, lies in its spectacular volcanic landscape, which also contains places similar to those of Mars. A team of European and U.S. scien ... more  
Cyanide Compounds Discovered in Meteorites May Hold Clues to the Origin of LifeBoise ID (SPX) Jun 28, 2019 Meteorites long have been mysterious and awe inspiring for human beings, but research conducted at Boise State University illustrates a new source of fascination: researchers have discovered organom ... more 
Space station mold survives high doses of ionizing radiationBellevue WA (SPX) Jun 28, 2019 The International Space Station, like all human habitats in space, has a nagging mold problem. Astronauts on the ISS spend hours every week cleaning the inside of the station's walls to prevent mold ... more |
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China's Chang'e-4 probe resumes work for 7th lunar dayBeijing (XNA) Jun 28, 2019 The lander and the rover of the Chang'e-4 probe have resumed work for the seventh lunar day on the far side of the moon after "sleeping" during the extreme cold night. The lander woke up at 9: ... more  
NASA Tracked Small Asteroid Before It Broke Up in AtmospherePasadena CA (JPL) Jun 28, 2019 When a lightning detector on a NOAA weather satellite detected something that wasn't lightning last Saturday, a scientist at the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laborat ... more 
NASA's TESS Mission Finds Its Smallest Planet YetGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 28, 2019 NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a world between the sizes of Mars and Earth orbiting a bright, cool, nearby star. The planet, called L 98-59b, marks the tiniest di ... more  
NASA's Dragonfly Will Fly Around Titan Looking for Origins, Signs of LifeWashington DC (SPX) Jun 28, 2019 NASA has announced that our next destination in the solar system is the unique, richly organic world Titan. Advancing our search for the building blocks of life, the Dragonfly mission will fly multi ... more 
Using a 'Cave Rover,' NASA Learns to Search for Life UndergroundMoffett Field CA (SPX) Jun 28, 2019 Imagine descending into a cave carved out by lava to work alongside a rover about the size of Spirit and Opportunity on Mars, watching the pristine wilderness of a national park transition into tall ... more |
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 Study Shows How Icy Outer Solar System Satellites May Have Formed  
Kuiper Belt Binary Orientations Support Streaming Instability HypothesisSan Antonio TX (SPX) Jun 27, 2019 A Southwest Research Institute-led team studied the orientation of distant solar system bodies to bolster the "streaming instability" theory of planet formation. "One of the least understood s ... more  |
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Planet Seeding and PanspermiaHaifa, Israel (SPX) Jun 27, 2019 The first detection of an interstellar asteroid/comet-like object visiting the solar system two years ago has sparked the ideas about the possibility of interstellar travel. New research from the Te ... more  
Half of Indian Anti-Satellite Test Debris Still Orbiting in Space - Harvard AstronomerNew Delhi (Sputnik) Jun 28, 2019 India's anti-satellite missile was a three-stage rocket, which successfully engaged an Indian orbiting target satellite on 27 March. The Indian defence ministry claims that the test was conducted to ... more 
Lightning bolt underwaterBochum, Germany (SPX) Jul 01, 2019 Electrochemical cells help recycle CO2. However, the catalytic surfaces get worn down in the process. Researchers at the Collaborative Research Centre 1316 "Transient atmospheric plasmas: from plasm ... more  
Artificial intelligence controls robotic arm to pack boxes and cut costsNew Brunswick NJ (SPX) Jul 01, 2019 Rutgers computer scientists used artificial intelligence to control a robotic arm that provides a more efficient way to pack boxes, saving businesses time and money. "We can achieve low-cost, ... more 
Safe, low-cost, modular, self-programming robotsMunich, Germany (SPX) Jul 01, 2019 Many work processes would be almost unthinkable today without robots. But robots operating in manufacturing facilities have often posed risks to workers because they are not responsive enough to the ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 28, 2019 
The cracked, uneven, jumbled landscape seen in this image from ESA's Mars Express forms an intriguing type of terrain that cannot be found on Earth: chaotic terrain. The feature visible here, Aurorae Chaos, is located in the ancient and equatorial Margaritifer Terra region of Mars. The terrain here is heavily cratered, and shows signs of myriad fascinating features - many of which are thought to ... more |
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 Chantilly, United States (AFP) June 29, 2019 
Lying on a workshop counter that is closed to the public at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum's annex near Washington Dulles airport, Neil Armstrong's gloves look almost as good as new.
You can hardly tell they made a trip to the Moon and back 50 years ago.
To their side is the slightly yellowed "Snoopy Cap" (formally known as a "communications carrier") worn by crewmate Buzz Aldrin. ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Jun 27, 2019 
A Southwest Research Institute-led team studied the orientation of distant solar system bodies to bolster the "streaming instability" theory of planet formation.
"One of the least understood steps in planet growth is the formation of planetesimals, bodies more than a kilometer across, which are just large enough to be held together by gravity," said SwRI scientist Dr. David Nesvorny, the l ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jun 28, 2019 
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a world between the sizes of Mars and Earth orbiting a bright, cool, nearby star. The planet, called L 98-59b, marks the tiniest discovered by TESS to date.
Two other worlds orbit the same star. While all three planets' sizes are known, further study with other telescopes will be needed to determine if they have atmospheres ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Jun 28, 2019 
Portugal is developing the infrastructure for a national spaceport on one of the islands of the Azores archipelago, Santa Maria, a European launch and landing location for small satellites.
As an ESA Member State, Portugal has requested ESA's tailored expertise and technical assistance in an agreement signed on 21 June by ESA Director General Jan Worner and Manuel Heitor, Minister for Scie ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Jun 03, 2019 
Luokung Technology Corp. has announced a strategic partnership with Land Space Technology Corporation Ltd. ("Land Space"). The two parties will work together and take advantage of respective strength on commercial space cooperation with satellite remote sensing data applications as the main target market.
They will jointly develop domestic and foreign markets of products and services which ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 28, 2019 
When a lightning detector on a NOAA weather satellite detected something that wasn't lightning last Saturday, a scientist at the Center for Near Earth Object Studies at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, did some detective work.
Could a tiny, harmless object that broke up in the atmosphere in a bright flash be connected to a just-received automated alert of a potenti ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Jun 25, 2019  Colonel Richard Haggerty and Dr. Boris Zhdanov share insights into how the FY18 budget appropriations affected directed energy (DE) programs, where DE acquisition and force integration is heading in FY19, their priorities for research and development, and more. Colonel Haggerty is the ninth Project Manager for Instrumentation, Targets, Threat Simulators and SOF Training Systems (PM ITTS) at PEO STRI, U.S. Army. Dr. Zhdanov is a Senior Scientist at the Laser and Optics Research Center (LORC) at the US Air Force Academy (USAFA). ... more |
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 Dubai (AFP) June 25, 2019  The shooting down last week of a sophisticated US drone by an Iranian missile demonstrates that Tehran's air defence capabilities can pose a challenge to US air superiority, experts say.
The Global Hawk, an advanced US navy surveillance drone, was flying at high altitude - it can reach 60,000 feet (18 kilometres) - early Friday local time when it was struck by a ground-to-air missile by Ir ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jun 28, 2019 
NASA has announced that our next destination in the solar system is the unique, richly organic world Titan. Advancing our search for the building blocks of life, the Dragonfly mission will fly multiple sorties to sample and examine sites around Saturn's icy moon.
Dragonfly will launch in 2026 and arrive in 2034. The rotorcraft will fly to dozens of promising locations on Titan looking for ... more |
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 Bochum, Germany (SPX) May 07, 2019 
Nanoparticles can be used in many ways as catalysts. To be able to tailor them in such a way that they can catalyse certain reactions selectively and efficiently, researchers need to determine the properties of single particles as precisely as possible. So far, an ensemble of many nanoparticles is analysed. However, the problem of these investigations is that the contributions of different parti ... more |
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 Kashiwa, Japan (SPX) Jun 21, 2019 
A new study by a pair of researchers in the US and Japan has found that, when gravity is combined with quantum mechanics, symmetry is not possible.
"Many physicists believe that there must a beautiful set of laws in Nature and that one way to quantify the beauty is by symmetry. Some of the symmetries may be hidden in our world, but they should manifest themselves if we look at Nature at a ... more |
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 New York NY (SPX) Jun 28, 2019 
For the first time, astrophysicists have used artificial intelligence techniques to generate complex 3D simulations of the universe. The results are so fast, accurate and robust that even the creators aren't sure how it all works.
"We can run these simulations in a few milliseconds, while other 'fast' simulations take a couple of minutes," says study co-author Shirley Ho, a group leader at ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Jul 01, 2019 
Many work processes would be almost unthinkable today without robots. But robots operating in manufacturing facilities have often posed risks to workers because they are not responsive enough to their surroundings. To make it easier for people and robots to work in close proximity in the future, Prof. Matthias Althoff of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed a new system: IMPROV ... more |
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 Amsterdam, Holland (SPX) Jun 28, 2019 
RAI Amsterdam, Johan Cruijff ArenA and the municipality of Amsterdam will jointly explore the added value and feasibility of a drone hub corridor. Places in the city where electrically powered unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) can take off and land. The reason for this is a European project on Urban Air Mobility (UAM) and the fact that the European Commission and EASA have announced the new rules for ... more |
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