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  Seattle WA (SPX) Jan 28, 2021 For centuries, humans have blamed the moon for our moods, accidents and even natural disasters. But new research indicates that our planet's celestial companion impacts something else entirely - our sleep. In a paper published Jan. 27 in Science Advances, scientists at the University of Washington, the National University of Quilmes in Argentina and Yale University report that sleep cycles in people oscillate during the 29.5-day lunar cycle: In the days leading up to a full moon, people go to slee ... read more |
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NASA's Perseverance Rover 22 days from Mars landingPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 28, 2021 NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission is just 22 days from landing on the surface of Mars. The spacecraft has about 25.6 million miles (41.2M km) remaining in its 292.5-million-mile (470.8M km ... more 
Welding underway on Orion indended for landing astronauts on the MoonBay St, Louis MS (SPX) Jan 28, 2021 At NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans, technicians from Orion prime contractor Lockheed Martin have welded together three cone-shaped panels on Orion's crew module for the Artemis III m ... more 
NASA's Artemis Base Camp on the Moon will need light, water, elevationGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 28, 2021 American astronauts in 2024 will take their first steps near the Moon's South Pole: the land of extreme light, extreme darkness, and frozen water that could fuel NASA's Artemis lunar base and the ag ... more  
US leading race in artificial intelligence, China rising: surveyWashington (AFP) Jan 25, 2021 The United States is leading rivals in development and use of artificial intelligence while China is rising quickly and the European Union is lagging, a research report showed Monday. ... more |
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CHEOPS finds unique planetary systemBern, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 26, 2021 Musical notes that sound pleasant together can form a harmony. These notes are usually in a special relationship with each other: when expressed as frequencies, their ratios result in simple fractio ... more  
D-Orbit's ION satellite carrier rides SpaceX's Falcon 9 to orbitFino Mornasco, Italy (SPX) Jan 26, 2021 On January 24th, 2021, at 4:00 pm CET, D-Orbit, the first space logistics company on the market, launched another ION Satellite Carrier atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Space Launch Complex 40 ... more  
Astronomers estimate Titan's largest sea is 1,000 feet deepCornell NY (SPX) Jan 21, 2021 Far below the gaseous atmospheric shroud on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, lies Kraken Mare, a sea of liquid methane. Cornell astronomers have estimated that sea to be at least 1,000 feet deep near i ... more 
The 7 rocky TRAPPIST-1 planets may be made of similar stuffPasadena CA (JPL) Jan 25, 2021 The red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 is home to the largest group of roughly Earth-size planets ever found in a single stellar system. Located about 40 light-years away, these seven rocky siblings provide ... more 
New Mars rover may collect first sounds recorded on another planetWashington DC (UPI) Jan 21, 2021 When three new Mars missions reach the Red Planet in February, recording the first sounds from another planet is to be among the scientific milestones. ... more |
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AI: ensuring that humans remain in the centerKarlsruhe, Germany (SPX) Jan 25, 2021 Valuable support or job killer? Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to enhance efficiency of business processes, but also changes the environment of workers. Profitable use of AI technologies for ... more  |
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Motiv Space Systems and JPL to develop robotic arm for extreme cold environmentsPasadena CA (SPX) Jan 27, 2021 Motiv Space Systems, in partnership with JPL, has announced the development of COLDArm, the first-in-kind robotic arm that will be built to survive the extreme cold of the Moon's South Pole ushering ... more 
How will seafarers fare once automated ships take overBusan, South Korea (SPX) Jan 26, 2021 Artificial intelligence and automation are changing the world, one industry at a time! Whatever humans can do, machines are learning to also do effectively, with lower costs and fewer errors. ... more  
Record-breaking laser link could help us test whether Einstein was rightPerth, Australia (SPX) Jan 25, 2021 Scientists from the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) and The University of Western Australia (UWA) have set a world record for the most stable transmission of a laser signal ... more 
Holding the system of HR 8799 togetherWashington DC (SPX) Jan 25, 2021 All four planets orbiting the star HR 8799 were identified via direct imaging - a feat made possible only because of the planets' large sizes and their wide orbits. Planetary systems with these char ... more 
Lunar Surface Trash or Treasure?Bethesda MD (SPX) Jan 21, 2021 Now that NASA is leading the development of the Artemis lunar habitation program that will send men and women to the Moon within the next few years, this may be a good time to preview at least one a ... more |
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) Jan 27, 2021 
The Mars Perseverance Rover will fly 300 million miles over almost seven months, but the seven minutes spent waiting to receive a radio signal confirming the rover has landed will seem like an eternity for scientists and researchers back on Earth.
That wait is dubbed the "seven minutes of terror" and Briony Horgan, Purdue University associate professor of planetary science, calls it the sc ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Jan 26, 2021  A moon rock that President Joe Biden has placed in the Oval Office came from the last Apollo mission in 1972, raising hopes that he will support a new lunar landing program already underway.
The White House said the moon rock was part of Biden's goal to have the office reflect the best of American accomplishments.
Astronauts chipped the rock from a large boulder at the base of th ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 22, 2021 
This composite image shows a hot spot in Jupiter's atmosphere. In the image on the left, taken on Sept. 16, 2020 by the Gemini North Telescope, the hot spot appears bright in the infrared at a wavelength of 5 microns.
The inset image on the right was taken by the JunoCam visible-light imager aboard NASA's Juno spacecraft, also on Sept. 16, during Juno's 29th close pass by Jupiter. Here, th ... more |
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 Bern, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 26, 2021 
Musical notes that sound pleasant together can form a harmony. These notes are usually in a special relationship with each other: when expressed as frequencies, their ratios result in simple fractions, such as four-thirds or three-halves. Similarly, a planetary system can also form a kind of harmony when planets, whose orbital period ratios form simple fractions, regularly attract each other wit ... more |
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 Long Beach CA (SPX) Jan 27, 2021 
Virgin Orbit has been selected by the Dutch space engineering company Innovative Solutions in Space (ISIS) to launch the Royal Netherlands Air Force's (RNLAF) first ever satellite, a 6U CubeSat called BRIK-II.
Designed and integrated by ISIS, BRIK-II will serve as a testbed for various communications experiments and demonstrate how nanosatellites can provide a meaningful contribution to mi ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 18, 2021 
The core module of China's planned space station has passed a factory review, along with the project's Tianzhou-2 cargo craft and the core module mission products of the space application systems, the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) said Thursday.
The completion of the factory review, conducted by experts at China's manned space program, means the construction project of the ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 27, 2021 
On May 10, NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft will say farewell to asteroid Bennu and begin its journey back to Earth.
During its Oct. 20, 2020, sample collection event, the spacecraft collected a substantial amount of material from Bennu's surface, likely exceeding the mission's requirement of 2 ounces (60 ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 12, 2021 
Linear accelerators, LINACs for short, are devices that accelerate electrons or other sub-atomic particles along a straight line to generate a beam of high energy. LINACs have a variety of commercial uses such as generating X-rays for cargo inspection, medical diagnostics, food sterilization, and even enabling precise external radiation treatments to destroy cancer cells without damaging surroun ... more |
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 Washington DC (AFNS) Jan 25, 2021 
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is pleased to announce award of Other Transaction Agreements (OTA) with L3Harris Technologies, Inc and Northrop Grumman Systems Cooporation for the Hypersonic and Ballistic Tracking Space Sensor (HBTSS) program's Phase IIb On-orbit Prototype Demonstration. Phase IIb will continue developing the capability to support Warfighter fire-control quality data requiremen ... more |
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 Cornell NY (SPX) Jan 21, 2021 
Far below the gaseous atmospheric shroud on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, lies Kraken Mare, a sea of liquid methane. Cornell astronomers have estimated that sea to be at least 1,000 feet deep near its center - enough room for a potential robotic submarine to explore.
After sifting through data from one of the final Titan flybys of the Cassini mission, the researchers detailed their finding ... more |
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 Providence RI (SPX) Jan 25, 2021  Metallurgists have all kinds of ways to make a chunk of metal harder. They can bend it, twist it, run it between two rollers or pound it with a hammer. These methods work by breaking up the metal's grain structure - the microscopic crystalline domains that form a bulk piece of metal. Smaller grains make for harder metals.
Now, a group of Brown University researchers has found a way to cust ... more |
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 Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Jan 28, 2021 
German-British instrument mitigates quantum noise effects better than any gravitational-wave detector before. Gravitational waves cause tiny length changes in the kilometer-size detectors of the international network (GEO600, KAGRA, LIGO, Virgo). The instruments use laser light to detect these effects and are so sensitive that they are fundamentally limited by quantum mechanics. This limit manif ... more |
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 La Jolla CA (SPX) Jan 27, 2021  Black holes are considered amongst the most mysterious objects in the universe. Part of their intrigue arises from the fact that they are actually amongst the simplest solutions to Einstein's field equations of general relativity.
In fact, black holes can be fully characterized by only three physical quantities: their mass, spin and charge. Since they have no additional "hairy" attributes ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 25, 2021 
The United States is leading rivals in development and use of artificial intelligence while China is rising quickly and the European Union is lagging, a research report showed Monday.
The study by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation assessed AI using 30 separate metrics including human talent, research activity, commercial development and investment in hardware and software. ... more |
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 Austin TX (SPX) Jan 26, 2021 
NASA is funding a major project on the future of autonomous air cargo transportation, and The University of Texas at Austin will be playing a lead role. The COVID-19 vaccine rollout - the largest global logistics effort since World War II - has underscored the importance of increasing efficiencies in the global supply chain infrastructure. Autonomous aerial vehicles have the potential to revolut ... more |
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