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January 30, 2012
TIME AND SPACE
Does antimatter weigh more than matter
Riverside CA (SPX) Jan 30, 2012
Does antimatter behave differently in gravity than matter? Physicists at the University of California, Riverside have set out to determine the answer. Should they find it, it could explain why the universe seems to have no antimatter and why it is expanding at an ever increasing rate. In the lab, the researchers took the first step towards measuring the free fall of "positronium" - a bound state between a positron and an electron. The positron is the antimatter version of the electron. It has iden ... read more

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IRON AND ICE

Bus-sized asteroid shaves by Earth
An asteroid about the size of a bus shaved by Earth on Friday in what spacewatchers described as a "near-miss," though experts were not concerned about the possibility of an impact. ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

INTEGRAL reveals new facets of the Vela pulsar wind nebula
Astronomers studying the Vela pulsar wind nebula with ESA's INTEGRAL observatory have successfully resolved its morphology in the hard X-ray band, for the first time. This pulsar-powered nebula is t ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Wild Early Lives of Today's Most Massive Galaxies
Astronomers have combined observations from the LABOCA camera on the ESO-operated 12-meter Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope [1] with measurements made with ESO's Very Large Telescope, ... more
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EXO WORLDS

NASA's Kepler Announces 11 Planetary Systems Hosting 26 Planets
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets. These discoveries nearly double the number of verified Kepler planets and triple the number of stars known ... more
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MOON DAILY

U.S. Presidential Hopeful Promises Moon Base by 2020
US Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has promised to build a moon base by 2020 if he becomes the next U.S. President in November, the Former Speaker of the House of Representatives said ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Cosmology in a petri dish
Scientists have found that micron-size particles which are trapped at fluid interfaces exhibit a collective dynamic that is subject to seemingly unrelated governing laws. These laws show a smooth tr ... more
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MOON DAILY

Moon looms bright over Republican debate
Republican White House hopefuls set their sights high Thursday with some vowing they would shoot for the moon and restore American supremacy in space if elected. ... more
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China, India should work towards 'win-win' cooperation: Chinese FM
US delays Patriot arms deliveries to Switzerland in switch to Ukraine
US 'moving at haste' to get Ukraine weapons: envoy
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MOON DAILY

Rocket Man: Gingrich peddles space dreams in Florida
Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has stirred strong passions by claiming he will establish a permanent moon base by 2020 if elected, but experts say he is living on another planet. ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Classifying Solar Eruptions
Solar flares are giant explosions on the sun that send energy, light and high speed particles into space. These flares are often associated with solar magnetic storms known as coronal mass ejections ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

NASA's NuSTAR Ships to Vandenberg for March 14 Launch
NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, shipped to Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., on Tuesday, to be mated to its Pegasus launch vehicle. The observatory will detect X-rays from ... more
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EXO LIFE

The Lake Lander's New Home
The Planetary Lake Lander has been moored for the past week a short distance off the southern shore of Laguna Negra, near PLL Base Camp. Its proximity to camp enabled engineers to test its data-samp ... more
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EXO LIFE

Life beyond Earth? Underwater caves in Bahamas could give clues
Discoveries made in some underwater caves by Texas A and M University at Galveston researchers in the Bahamas could provide clues about how ocean life formed on Earth millions of years ago, and perh ... more
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EXO LIFE

Life discovered on dead hydrothermal vents
Scientists at USC have uncovered evidence that even when hydrothermal sea vents go dormant and their blistering warmth turns to frigid cold, life goes on. Or rather, it is replaced. A team led ... more
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EXO WORLDS

NASA's Kepler confirms 26 new planets
The US space agency said Thursday its Kepler space telescope mission has confirmed 26 new planets outside our solar system, all of them orbiting too close to their host stars to sustain life. ... more
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EXO LIFE

Scientists discover new clue to the chemical origins of life
Organic chemists at the University of York have made a significant advance towards establishing the origin of the carbohydrates (sugars) that form the building blocks of life. A team led by Dr ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Rice lab mimics Jupiter's Trojan asteroids inside a single atom
Rice University physicists have gone to extremes to prove that Isaac Newton's classical laws of motion can apply in the atomic world: They've built an accurate model of part of the solar system insi ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Vesta Likely Cold and Dark Enough for Ice
Though generally thought to be quite dry, roughly half of the giant asteroid Vesta is expected to be so cold and to receive so little sunlight that water ice could have survived there for billions o ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Flights rerouted as massive solar storm slams Earth
Solar radiation from a massive sun storm - the largest in nearly a decade - collided with the Earth's atmosphere on Tuesday, prompting an airline to reroute flights and skywatchers to seek out spectacular light displays. ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Cassini's radar observes Titan's tropical dune fields
Sand dunes are common on Earth, Mars, Venus and - unexpectedly - on Saturn's giant moon, Titan. Now detailed analysis of radar observations gathered during the Cassini spacecraft's flybys of cloud-s ... more
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EXO LIFE

NASA Debunks Life on Venus Claim
NASA has dismissed the sensational claim by a Russian scientist that there is life on Venus, saying that the "disc" seen moving on the surface was in fact a lens cap. Earlier this month an art ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

NRL's SoloHI Instrument Selected for Flight on Solar Orbiter Mission
The Naval Research Laboratory's Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager (SoloHI), part of the Solar Orbiter mission, is headed for space. The European Space Agency (ESA) has chosen the Solar Orbiter ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Earth's Cloudy Past Could Reveal Exoplanet Details
Two astronomers from Spain are trying to determine how brightly Earth would shine in the age of the dinosaurs. Their results not only reveal how Earth would look to a distant observer, but could als ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Elusive Matter Found To Be Abundant Far Above Earth
Cold plasma has been well-hidden. Space physicists have long lacked clues to how much of this electrically charged gas exists tens of thousands of miles above Earth and how the stuff may impact our ... more
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US reaches civil nuclear cooperation accord with Bahrain
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SOLAR SCIENCE

M8.7 Solar Flare and Earth Directed CME
The sun erupted late on January 22, 2012 with an M8.7 class flare, an earth-directed coronal mass ejection (CME), and a burst of fast moving, highly energetic protons known as a "solar energetic par ... more
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SATURN DAILY

The two faces of Titan's dunes
A new analysis of radar data from the international Cassini spacecraft has revealed regional variations amongst Titan's sand dunes. The result yields new clues to the giant moon's climatic and geolo ... more
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TECH SPACE

Australia joins the fight against space junk
Australia is backing a proposal to minimise the amount of 'space junk' circling the planet. The plan has been put forward by the EU, and calls for an international code of conduct for outer sp ... more
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DEEP IMPACT

ASU acquires exotic piece of Mars
ASU's Center for Meteorite Studies has acquired a significant new sample for its collection: a rare Martian meteorite that fell in southern Morocco in July 2011. It is the first Martian fall in abou ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Comet Corpses in the Solar Wind
A paper published in Science raises an intriguing new possibility for astronomers: unearthing comet corpses in the solar wind. The new research is based on dramatic images of a comet disintegrating ... more
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EXO LIFE

Extreme Life at the Bottom of a Glacier
The bottom of a glacier is not the most hospitable place on Earth, but at least two types of bacteria happily live there, according to researchers. The bacteria - Chryseobacterium and Paenispo ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Mimas And Dione
Saturn's moon Mimas peeks out from behind the night side of the larger moon Dione in this Cassini image captured during the spacecraft's Dec. 12, 2011, flyby of Dione. Dione is 698 miles, or 1 ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Scientists Make First-Ever Observations Of Comet's Demise Deep Inside Solar Atmosphere
In a paper to be published tomorrow in the journal Science, for the first time ever scientists at the Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL) at the Advanced Technology Center (ATC ... more
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