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  Amsterdam, The Netherlands (SPX) Mar 24, 2020 If three or more objects move around each other, history cannot be reversed. That is the conclusion of an international team of researchers based on computer simulations of three black holes orbiting each other. The researchers, led by the Dutch astronomer Tjarda Boekholt, publish their findings in the April issue of the journal The Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Most basic laws in physics have no problem with the direction in which they run. They are, as scientists call it, sy ... read more |
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Russia to create first 3D Map of the MoonMoscow (Sputnik) Mar 24, 2020 Russian scholars previously said that Russia would be launching a space vehicle to the Moon in October 2021 - for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union. Russia plans to create ... more  
Russian to study if space suits can bring microbes into ISS from exteriorMoscow (Sputnik) Mar 24, 2020 Russian scientists intend to study whether cosmonauts during a space walk could pick up microorganisms on their space suits and bring them into the International Space Station (ISS), a department he ... more 
Planetary Science Journal launches with online papersTucson AZ (SPX) Mar 24, 2020 The first papers of the Planetary Science Journal are now available online. This new open access online journal, from the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and its Division for Planetary Sciences ... more  
Photons and electrons one on oneZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 23, 2020 The photoelectric effect, whereby photons impinging on matter cause the emission of electrons, is one of the quintessential effects of quantum mechanics. Einstein famously explained the key mechanis ... more |
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NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Gets Its Sample Handling SystemPasadena CA (JPL) Mar 20, 2020 With the launch period for NASA's Mars Perseverance rover opening in a little less than four months, the six-wheeler is reaching significant pre-launch milestones almost daily at the Kennedy Space C ... more  
China's Long March-7A carrier rocket fails in maiden flightBeijing (XNA) Mar 18, 2020 The first of China's new medium-sized carrier rocket Long March-7A suffered a failure Monday. The rocket blasted off at 9:34 p.m. Beijing Time from the Wenchang Space Launch Center on the coas ... more  
Turkey using drug from China for coronavirusAnkara (AFP) March 23, 2020 Turkey's health minister said Monday that the country is using a drug sent from China on patients suffering from the novel coronavirus. ... more 
China embarks on clinical trial for virus vaccineBeijing (AFP) March 22, 2020 China has started the first phase of a clinical trial for a novel coronavirus vaccine, records show, as the world's scientists race to find a way to combat the deadly pathogen. ... more  
Thai hospitals deploy 'ninja robots' to aid virus battleBangkok (AFP) March 19, 2020 Thai hospitals are deploying "ninja robots" to measure fevers and protect the health of overburdened medical workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus outbreak. ... more |
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 Artificial intelligence helps prevent disruptions in fusion devices 
Soft robot, unpluggedSanta Barbara CA (SPX) Mar 19, 2020 It's balloon art on steroids: a pneumatic, shape-changing soft robot capable of navigating its environment without requiring a tether to a stationary power source. Developed by researchers in ... more  |
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Long-distance fiber link poised to create powerful networks of optical clocksWashington DC (SPX) Mar 18, 2020 An academic-industrial team in Japan has connected three laboratories in a 100-kilometer region with an optical telecommunications fiber network stable enough to remotely interrogate optical atomic ... more 
Heat and light create new biocompatible microparticlesDurham NC (SPX) Mar 13, 2020 Biomedical engineers at Duke University have devised a method for making small particles that are safe for living tissues that will allow them to create new shapes attractive for drug delivery, diag ... more 
Salmon parasite is world's first non-oxygen breathing animalWashington DC (UPI) Feb 26, 2020 Scientists have discovered an unusual species of parasite hiding the muscles of salmon. The tiny species, comprised of just ten cells, is unlike all other animals known to science. The species, Henneguya salminicola, doesn't breathe oxygen. ... more 
Scientists describe and emulate new quantum state of entangled photonsSaint Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Mar 19, 2020 A research team from ITMO University, with the help of their colleagues from MIPT (Russia) and Politecnico di Torino (Italy), has predicted a novel type of topological quantum state of two photons. ... more 
Stanford engineers create shape-changing, free-roaming soft robotStanford UK (SPX) Mar 19, 2020 Advances in soft robotics could someday allow robots to work alongside humans, helping them lift heavy objects or carrying them out of danger. As a step toward that future, Stanford University resea ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 23, 2020 
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover recently set a record for the steepest terrain it's ever climbed, cresting the "Greenheugh Pediment," a broad sheet of rock that sits atop a hill. And before doing that, the rover took a selfie, capturing the scene just below Greenheugh.
In front of the rover is a hole it drilled while sampling a bedrock target called "Hutton." The entire selfie is a 360-degree ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 24, 2020 
Russian scholars previously said that Russia would be launching a space vehicle to the Moon in October 2021 - for the first time since the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Russia plans to create the first topographic 3D map of the Moon and will determine a site where the country's cosmonauts to land, head of the Russian Space Research Institute Anatoly Petrukovich announced on Sunday.
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 Paris, France (SPX) Mar 17, 2020 
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is mainly made up of liquids and gases. Its clouds are shaped by jet streams, winds and vortices into numerous parallel bands, as well as coloured patches, one of which clearly stands out: the Great Red Spot. This is an Earth-sized anticyclone that has been observed for over 350 years, but has suddenly decreased in size in recent years.
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Mar 24, 2020 
The first papers of the Planetary Science Journal are now available online. This new open access online journal, from the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and its Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS), showcases significant developments, discoveries, and theories about planets, moons, small bodies, and the interactions among them - not only in our own solar system but also in planetary system ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) March 19, 2020 
Elon Musk's SpaceX will send astronauts to the International Space Station for the first time in May, NASA said, announcing the first crewed launch from the United States to the platform since 2011.
The tech entrepreneur's company will launch a Falcon 9 rocket to transport NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley in a first for the space agency as it looks to cut costs.
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 18, 2020 
The first of China's new medium-sized carrier rocket Long March-7A suffered a failure Monday.
The rocket blasted off at 9:34 p.m. Beijing Time from the Wenchang Space Launch Center on the coast of south China's Hainan Province, but a malfunction occurred later.
Chinese space engineers will investigate the cause of the failure.
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Mar 19, 2020 
SpaceX, the largest commercial satellite constellation operator in the world, has ambitious plans of installing 12,000 satellites in low-orbit over a span of several years, as part of its Starlink project to provide low-cost broadband internet service.
A well-known astronomer and satellite tracker has voiced concerns that efforts to scan the skies for potentially dangerous near-Earth aster ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 10, 2020  Lockheed Martin was awarded a $22.4 million contract for work on the Layered Laser Defense system prototype onboard a Navy littoral combat ship, the Department of Defense announced.
The deal, announced Monday by the Pentagon, funds integration, demonstration, testing and operation of the LLD weapon system on board a vessel while the ship is underway.
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 Clear AK (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 
The Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) Long Range Discrimination Radar (LRDR) program has completed delivery of the first ten antenna panels to Clear, Alaska, that will make up the first of the system's two radar antenna arrays.
Lockheed Martin continues to successfully achieve all program milestones as it works towards delivering the radar to MDA in 2020. The system will serve as a critical s ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 
Titan, with its methane seas and orange smog, is in some ways the most similar world to Earth that we have found. Though it's merely a moon tethered by gravity to its cosmic ruler, Saturn, Titan has all the trappings of a planet, including clouds, rain, lakes and rivers, and even a subsurface ocean of salty water.
Dutch astronomer Christiaan Huygens discovered Titan in 1655, calling it sim ... more |
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 Atlanta GA (SPX) Mar 04, 2020 
Through a technique known as DNA origami, scientists have created the fastest, most persistent DNA nano motor yet. Angewandte Chemie published the findings, which provide a blueprint for how to optimize the design of motors at the nanoscale - hundreds of times smaller than the typical human cell.
"Nanoscale motors have tremendous potential for applications in biosensing, in building synthe ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 19, 2020 
Researchers have developed a new type of deformable mirror that could increase the sensitivity of ground-based gravitational wave detectors such as the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Advanced LIGO measures faint ripples in space time called gravitational waves, which are caused by distant events such as collisions between black holes or neutron stars.
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 Trieste, Italy (SPX) Mar 24, 2020 
They are billions of times larger than our Sun: how is it possible that, as recently observed, supermassive black holes were already present when the Universe, now 14 billion years old, was "just" 800 million years old? For astrophysicists, the formation of these cosmic monsters in such a short time is a real scientific headache, which raises important questions on the current knowledge of the d ... more |
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 Bangkok (AFP) March 19, 2020 
Thai hospitals are deploying "ninja robots" to measure fevers and protect the health of overburdened medical workers on the frontlines of the coronavirus outbreak.
First built to monitor recovering stroke patients, the machines have been quickly repurposed to help fight the disease, which has so far killed nearly 9,000 people around the world.
They have helped staff at four hospitals in ... more |
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 Espoo, Finland (SPX) Mar 19, 2020 
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), commonly known as drones, are widely used in mapping, aerial photography, rescue operations, shipping, law enforcement, agriculture, among other things. Despite great potential for improving public safety, use of drones can also lead to very undesirable situations, such as privacy and safety violations, or property damage. There is also the highly concerning matte ... more |
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