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  Manchester UK (SPX) Sep 14, 2021 Transporting a single brick to Mars can cost more than a million British pounds - making the future construction of a Martian colony seem prohibitively expensive. Scientists at The University of Manchester have now developed a way to potentially overcome this problem, by creating a concrete-like material made of extra-terrestrial dust along with the blood, sweat and tears of astronauts. In their study, published in Materials Today Bio, a protein from human blood, combined with a compound from urin ... read more |
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Toward better space health: Understanding the effects of microgravity on P-glycoproteinBeijing, China (SPX) Sep 14, 2021 Deep space is most likely going to be humanity's final frontier, and space travel will undoubtedly become much more common in the future. However, space is a very hostile environment not only becaus ... more  
Antennas searching for ET threatened by wildfireMountain View CA (SPX) Sep 13, 2021 The Allen Telescope Array, an ensemble of 42 antennas used in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), is once again threatened by wildfires. The scientists and engineers normally on-sit ... more  
NASA's Perseverance rover collects puzzle pieces of Mars' historyPasadena CA (JPL) Sep 13, 2021 NASA's Perseverance Mars rover successfully collected its first pair of rock samples, and scientists already are gaining new insights into the region. After collecting its first sample, named "Montd ... more 
Mars rocks collected by Perseverance boost case for ancient lifeWashington (AFP) Sept 10, 2021 NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has now collected two rock samples, with signs that they were in contact with water for a long period of time boosting the case for ancient life on the Red Planet. ... more |
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ESO captures best images yet of peculiar "dog-bone" asteroidMunich, Germany (SPX) Sep 10, 2021 Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), a team of astronomers have obtained the sharpest and most detailed images yet of the asteroid Kleopatra. The observations ... more 
NASA Mars mission begins a new chapter of science with a new leaderGreenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 10, 2021 Dr. Shannon Curry, planetary scientist and the deputy assistant director of planetary science at the Space Sciences Laboratory (SSL) at the University of California, Berkeley, has assumed leadership ... more  
Moon rock class in sessionParis (ESA) Sep 10, 2021 School is also back in session for ESA astronaut Andrea Mogensen (right) and NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins. Together with European Astronaut Centre engineer Robin Eccleston (far left), the trio are ... more  
D-Orbit UK signs contract with ESA for development of debris removal technologyHarwell UK (SPX) Sep 09, 2021 The UK branch of D-Orbit signed a euro 2,197M contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) for phase 1 of the development and in-orbit demonstration of a "Deorbit Kit" as part of ESA's Space Safet ... more 
Space junk traffic dangers to be tackled by first-of-its-kind research centre in UKWarwick UK (SPX) Sep 09, 2021 New ways of tackling the threat that space junk in our skies poses are being explored by University of Warwick scientists, as they pioneer new research that could help the UK fulfil its ambition to ... more |
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Men may sleep worse on nights during the first half of the lunar cycleUppsala, Sweden (SPX) Sep 14, 2021 Men's sleep may be more powerfully influenced by the lunar cycle than women's, according to a new study from Uppsala University, now published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. ... more 
Smart T-shirt measures astronauts' vital signsCologne, Germany (SPX) Sep 10, 2021 At the end of October 2021, it will be time for German astronaut Matthias Maurer to travel to the International Space Station (ISS) on board a SpaceX Crew Dragon. His first ISS mission has been name ... more 
Mars: Perseverance rover takes a sample, Ingenuity notches 13th flightWashington DC (UPI) Sep 7, 2021 NASA's Mars rover Perseverance has drilled and encapsulated the first rock sample ever taken on another planet, while the accompanying helicopter Ingenuity has completed its 13th flight. ... more  
MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energyBoston MA (SPX) Sep 09, 2021 It was a moment three years in the making, based on intensive research and design work: On Sept. 5, for the first time, a large high-temperature superconducting electromagnet was ramped up to a fiel ... more 
York Space Systems tackled Exotrail electric propulsion system for its Cislunar missionLondon, UK (SPX) Sep 09, 2021 On 16 August, Exotrail signed a contract with US-based aerospace company YORK SPACE SYSTEMS for the delivery of one ExoMGTM - cluster2, a product configuration from Exotrail high thrust and flexible ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 13, 2021 
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover successfully collected its first pair of rock samples, and scientists already are gaining new insights into the region. After collecting its first sample, named "Montdenier," Sept. 6, the team collected a second, "Montagnac," from the same rock Sept. 8.
Analysis of the rocks from which the Montdenier and Montagnac samples were taken and from the rover's previ ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Sep 10, 2021 
School is also back in session for ESA astronaut Andrea Mogensen (right) and NASA astronaut Kathleen Rubins. Together with European Astronaut Centre engineer Robin Eccleston (far left), the trio are taking part in this year's Pangaea field training campaign to become better field scientists.
With all eyes set on the Moon, the three-week campaign has increasingly focussed on lunar geology. ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 06, 2021 
The hardware that makes up NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft is rapidly taking shape, as engineering components and instruments are prepared for delivery to the main clean room at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. In workshops and labs across the country and in Europe, teams are crafting the complex pieces that make up the whole as mission leaders direct the elaborate ... more |
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 Urbana IL (SPX) Sep 10, 2021 
Finding an exact copy of the Earth somewhere in the universe sounds like a far-fetched notion, but scientists believe that because Earth happened in our solar system, something similar is bound to exist someplace else. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researcher Siegfried Eggl and his colleagues say orbiting moons may play a key role in keeping planets habitable over long periods and iden ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 13, 2021 
NASA has selected Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, to provide launch services for the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-U (GOES-U) mission. GOES-U will provide advanced imagery and atmospheric measurements of Earth's weather, oceans, and environment, as well as real-time mapping of total lightning activity and improved monitoring of solar activity ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Aug 31, 2021 
President emphasizes cooperation on making bigger contributions to well-being of mankind
China is working on several huge space programs that aim to push forward the frontiers of its science, technology, engineering and exploration.
Once these programs are completed, the nation will have a massive space station, an unmanned outpost and more robots on the moon, and it is attempting to ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Sep 10, 2021 
Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), a team of astronomers have obtained the sharpest and most detailed images yet of the asteroid Kleopatra. The observations have allowed the team to constrain the 3D shape and mass of this peculiar asteroid, which resembles a dog bone, to a higher accuracy than ever before. Their research provides clues as to how this aste ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Aug 12, 2021 
The U.S. Army says it's developed a combat-capable prototype of a high-energy laser weapon.
The laser, which has been 24 months in the making, can be mounted on a Stryker military vehicle and used to defend troops against drones as well as rockets, artillery and mortars, according to an Army press release this week.
Over the summer, the new weapon was successfully tested in Fort ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Sep 13, 2021 
On August 26, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and U.S. Navy Aegis Technical Representative (TECHREP) witnessed a successful Mid-Release 2 Demonstration of the software release for the Japanese J7.B Aegis Weapon System equipped with SPY-7 radar, in Moorestown, New Jersey. Japan will field J7.B onboard an afloat Aegis System-Equipped Vessel (ASEV) to provide ballistic missile defense (BMD).
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 Atlanta GA (SPX) Aug 27, 2021 
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a natural laboratory to study the origins of life. Like Earth, Titan has a dense atmosphere and seasonal weather cycles, but the chemical and mineralogical makeup are significantly different. Now, earthbound researchers have recreated the moon's conditions in small glass cylinders, revealing fundamental properties of two organic molecules that are believed to exi ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Aug 16, 2021 
Precise metal nanoclusters (NCs) are ideal for developing practical catalysts for chemical reactions. However, their catalytic activity is reduced either due to protective molecules called "ligands" surrounding them or aggregation resulting from ligand removal. In a new study, scientists from Japan elucidate the ligand removal mechanism for gold NCs and irradiate them with UV light to prevent ag ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Sep 02, 2021 
ESA and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs are opening the second round of their HyperGES fellowship, part of the Access to Space For All Initiative, offering student teams around the globe the chance to perform hypergravity experiments using the Large Diameter Centrifuge at ESA's ESTEC technical centre in the Netherlands, with a particular focus on developing nations.
The L ... more |
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 Chestnut Hill MA (SPX) Sep 07, 2021 
A team of researchers from Boston College has created a new metallic specimen where the motion of electrons flows in the same way water flows in a pipe - fundamentally changing from particle-like to fluid-like dynamics, the team reports in Nature Communications.
Working with colleagues from the University of Texas at Dallas and Florida State University, Boston College Assistant Professor o ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Sep 08, 2021 
Elon Musk announced a humanoid robot designed to help with those repetitive, boring tasks people hate doing. Musk suggested it could run to the grocery store for you, but presumably it would handle any number of tasks involving manual labor.
Predictably, social media filled with references to a string of dystopian sci-fi movies about robots where everything goes horribly wrong.
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 Dubai (AFP) Sept 9, 2021 
The US Navy's Fifth Fleet said Thursday it launched a new task force in the Gulf incorporating drones and artificial intelligence following maritime attacks blamed on Iran.
A statement by the US Naval Forces Central Command, or NAVCENT, said the task force would rely on regional and coalition partnerships.
"The bottom line on why we're doing this is so that we can develop and integrate u ... more |
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