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NASA's arsenic-eating life form gets a second lookWashington (AFP) Dec 15, 2010 Soon after NASA-funded researchers announced this month they had found a new life form that thrives on arsenic, critics took to the blogosphere with skeptical views and downright insults. "I don't know whether the authors are just bad scientists or whether they're unscrupulously pushing NASA's 'There's life in outer space!' agenda," wrote Canadian microbiologist Rosie Redfield in a blog that ignited the web furor. The criticism spread with lightning speed, sparking a wide debate over what exactl ... read more |
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  India's solar mission moving ahead India's Solar Mission, aimed at generating 20,000 megawatts of solar power in the country over the next decade, has generated a positive response since it was launched in January, a government agency said. ... more | .. |
  Qatar-Led International Team Finds Its First Alien World In an exciting example of international collaboration, a Qatar astronomer teamed with scientists at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) and other institutions to discover a new ali ... more | .. |
 IBEX Makes First-Ever Images Of Magnetotail Structures Invisible to the naked eye, yet massive in structure around the Earth is the magnetosphere, the region of space around the planet that ebbs and flows in response to the million-mile-per-hour flow of ... more | .. |
 Planetary Family Portrait Reveals Another Exoplanet An international team of astronomers has discovered a fourth giant planet, HR 8799e, outside our solar system. The new planet joins the three planets that were the subjects of the first-ever images ... more |
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  Research Points To Better Understanding Of Carbon In Comets Using a comet as a far-flung laboratory, a Planetary Science Institute researcher has shown that the ionization lifetime of carbon is much shorter than what is currently used in calculations by come ... more | .. |
 Global Eruption Rocks The Sun On August 1, 2010, an entire hemisphere of the sun erupted. Filaments of magnetism snapped and exploded, shock waves raced across the stellar surface, billion-ton clouds of hot gas billowed into spa ... more | .. |
 Voyager Reaches Interstellar Space As Solar Wind Slows To Zero The 33-year odyssey of NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached a distant point at the edge of our solar system where there is no outward motion of solar wind. Now hurtling toward interstellar ... more | .. |
 Carbon-Rich Planet: A Girl's Best Friend A peculiar gas-giant planet orbiting a sun-like star 1200 light-years away is the first carbon-rich world ever observed. The implications are big for planetary chemistry, because without much oxygen ... more |
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  How Iapetus Got Its Ridge For centuries, people wondered how the leopard got its spots. The consensus is pretty solid that evolution played a major role. But it's only been five years since the arrival of high-resoluti ... more | .. |
  ThumbDrive inventor out to prove he is no one-hit wonder Henn Tan could have ruled the global market in what became the ubiquitous USB flash drive that helped consign the floppy disk to the dustbin of technological history. ... more | .. |
 New Pictures Show Fourth Planet In Giant Version Of Our Solar System Astronomers have discovered a fourth giant planet, joining three others that, in 2008, were the subject of the first-ever pictures of a planetary system orbiting another star other than our sun. ... more | .. |
  Rice Researchers Take Temperature Of Molecule You can touch a functioning light bulb and know right away that it's hot. Ouch! But you can't touch a single molecule and get the same feedback. Rice University researchers say they have the n ... more |
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  Peak viewing for 'shooting stars' meteor show The best meteor shower of the year, a display of shooting stars known as the Geminids, is set to peak early Tuesday from about 0600 to 0800 GMT, NASA said Monday. ... more | .. |
  WISE Sees An Explosion Of Infrared Light This oddly colorful nebula is the supernova remnant IC 443 as seen by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Also known as the Jellyfish nebula, IC 443 is particularly interesting beca ... more | .. |
 Huge Collision May Have Formed Saturn's Rings And Inner Moons Simulations performed at Southwest Research Institute may explain how Saturn's majestic rings and icy inner moons formed following the collision of a Titan-sized satellite with the planet, according ... more | .. |
 NASA Scientists Theorize Final Growth Spurt For Planets A team of NASA-funded researchers has unveiled a new theory that contends planets gained the final portions of their mass from a limited number of large comet or asteroid impacts more than 4.5 billi ... more |
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 Astronomers Detect First Carbon-Rich Exoplanet A team led by a former postdoctoral researcher in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics, recently measured the first-ever planeta ... more | .. |
 Fahrenheit -459: Neutron Stars And String Theory In A Lab Using lasers to contain some ultra-chilled atoms, a team of scientists has measured the viscosity or stickiness of a gas often considered to be the sixth state of matter. The measurements veri ... more | .. |
 Life Thrives In Porous Rock Deep Beneath The Seafloor Researchers have found compelling evidence for an extensive biological community living in porous rock deep beneath the seafloor. The microbes in this hidden world appear to be an important source o ... more | .. |
 Changes In Solar Activity Affect Local Climate Raimund Muscheler is a researcher at the Department of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences at Lund University in Sweden. In the latest issue of the journal Science, he and his colleagues have described how ... more |
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 Scientists Forecast New Atom Smashers To Keep Europe Leading In Nuclear Physics Europe needs new particle accelerators and major upgrades to existing facilities over the next ten years to stay at the forefront of nuclear physics, according to the European Science Foundation (ES ... more | .. |
  Intergalactic Weather Map This composite image shows an intergalactic "weather map" around the elliptical galaxy NGC 5813, the dominant central galaxy in a galaxy group located about 105 million light years away from Earth. ... more | .. |
 MegaPhase RF Cables Enable Conclusion Of Seven-Year Deep Space Program MegaPhase cables have contributed to the first and only asteroid dust capture from space. The Hayabusa space probe was equipped with MegaPhase's GrooveTube RF cable assemblies. The seven year missio ... more | .. |
 A Swarm Of Ancient Stars We know of about 150 of the rich collections of old stars called globular clusters that orbit our galaxy, the Milky Way. This sharp new image of Messier 107, captured by the Wide Field Imager on the ... more |
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