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NASA's arsenic life-form scientist answers criticsWashington (AFP) Dec 16, 2010 The NASA-funded scientist whose discovery of a bacterium that thrives on arsenic prompted an avalanche of criticism responded Thursday with a statement answering questions about her research. Felisa Wolfe-Simon, lead author of the study published in the journal Science earlier this month, also reflected about her experience as a young scientist thrust into the heart of a web-fueled controversy. "The speed of communication is ahead of the sheer time needed to think and get in the lab and work," s ... read more |
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China advances crewed lunar mission with lander landing and takeoff trial
Hera spacecraft tests asteroid tracking with distant Otero and Kellyday observations
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  Cassini Spots Potential Ice Volcano On Saturn Moon NASA's Cassini spacecraft has found possible ice volcanoes on Saturn's moon Titan that are similar in shape to those on Earth that spew molten rock. Topography and surface composition data hav ... more | .. |
  Light Dawns On Dark Gamma-ray Bursts Gamma-ray bursts are among the most energetic events in the Universe, but some appear curiously faint in visible light. The biggest study to date of these so-called dark gamma-ray bursts, using the ... more | .. |
  Meteorite Just One Piece Of An Unknown Celestial Body Scientists from all over the world are taking a second, more expansive, look at the car-sized asteroid that exploded over Sudan's Nubian Desert in 2008. Initial research was focused on classifying t ... more | .. |
 Cyclone Lasting More Than Five Years Is Detected On Saturn Researchers from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) have been monitoring a cyclone on Saturn for more than five years. This makes it the longest-lasting cyclone detected to date on any o ... more |
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 Building Blocks of Life Created In "Impossible" Place NASA-funded scientists have discovered amino acids, a fundamental building block of life, in a meteorite where none were expected. "This meteorite formed when two asteroids collided," said Dr. ... more | .. |
  Solar Scientists Discover Physical Mechanism Behind Sympathetic Flares A serendipitous alignment of high-powered spaceborne solar instruments has finally provided the data allowing scientists to uncover the physical mechanism behind so-called "sympathetic flares" on th ... more | .. |
 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 | .. |
 Voyager spacecraft nears exit of solar system The US space agency's Voyager 1 spacecraft has reached the outer edge of the solar system where wind from the Sun is no longer blowing outward, but sideways, NASA said. ... more |
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 NASA's arsenic-eating life form gets a second look 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. ... 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 ESA Makes The Sun Available To Everyone New software developed by ESA makes available online to everyone, everywhere at anytime, the entire library of images from the SOHO solar and heliospheric observatory. Just download the viewer and b ... more |
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 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 | .. |
 Europe-sized cyclone batters Saturn for five years A whirlwind the size of Europe lashed Saturn for five years, becoming the longest-lasting cyclone ever seen on the Solar System's great planets, scientists reported Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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