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Water, water everywhere - but is it essential to life?Bristol UK (SPX) Apr 14, 2012 New research by scientists at the University of Bristol has challenged one of the key beliefs in chemistry: that proteins are dependent on water to survive and function. The team's findings, published this month in Chemical Science, could eventually lead to the development of new industrial enzymes. Proteins are large organic molecules that are vital to every living thing, allowing us to convert food into energy, supply oxygen to our blood and muscles, and drive our immune systems. Since proteins ... read more |
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 Impacts Could be Boon for Subterranean Life An incoming asteroid is trouble whether you're a dinosaur or a Bruce Willis fan. But microbes living deep underground may actually welcome the news, according to a recent study of an ancient impact ... more | .. |
 H3+: The Molecule that Made the Universe In a study that pushed quantum mechanical theory and research capabilities to the limit, UA researchers have found a way to see the molecule that likely made the universe - or at least the hot and f ... more | .. |
  Cassini Successfully Flies over Enceladus These raw, unprocessed images of Saturn's moons Enceladus and Tethys were taken on April 14, 2012, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Cassini flew by Enceladus at an altitude of about 46 miles (74 ... more | .. |
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  Voyager One Might Have Farther to Go to Exit the Heliosheath The Voyager 1 spacecraft is exploring the outer heliosheath past about 111 astronomical units (AU) from the Sun. he heliosheath is the region where the outgoing solar wind is slowed by the int ... more | .. |
  12-Billion-Year-Old White-Dwarf Stars Only 100 Light-Years Away A University of Oklahoma assistant professor and colleagues have identified two white dwarf stars considered the oldest and closest known to man. Astronomers identified these 11- to 12-billion-year- ... more | .. |
  Cosmic Mirages Confirm Accelerated Cosmic Expansion Quasars are very luminous objects powered by accretion of gas into supermassive black holes at the centers of distant galaxies. A quasar is typically located far away. Gravitational lensing is a phe ... more | .. |
 Time machine will study the early universe A new scientific instrument, a "time machine" of sorts, built by UCLA astronomers and colleagues, will allow scientists to study the earliest galaxies in the universe, which could never be studied b ... more |
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Russia fires 136 drones at Ukraine ahead of Trump-NATO head meeting
China says German plane laser claim 'inconsistent with facts'
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 NASA's WISE Mission Sees Skies Ablaze With Blazars Astronomers are actively hunting a class of supermassive black holes throughout the universe called blazars thanks to data collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The mission ... more | .. |
  Teamwork: IBEX and TWINS Observe a Solar Storm On April 5, 2010, the sun spewed a two million-mile-per-hour stream of charged particles toward the invisible magnetic fields surrounding Earth, known as the magnetosphere. As the particles interact ... more | .. |
 Discovery of the Musket Ball Cluster Using a combination of powerful observatories in space and on the ground, astronomers have observed a violent collision between two galaxy clusters in which so-called normal matter has been wrenched ... more | .. |
  ALMA Reveals Workings of Nearby Planetary System span class="NL"> a href="http://www.nrao.edu/" class="highlight">National Radio Astronomy Observatory /a> br> /span> by Staff Writers Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 13, 2012 A new observatory still u ... more |
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 UF-led team uses new observatory to characterize low-mass planets orbiting nearby star Astronomers have found compelling evidence for two low-mass planets orbiting the nearby star Fomalhaut, just 25 light years from Earth. Twice as massive as the sun and 20 times brighter, Fomalhaut i ... more | .. |
 When Stellar Metallicity Sparks Planet Formation In new research, scientists have attempted to determine the precise conditions necessary for planets to form in a star system. Jarrett Johnson and Hui Li of Los Alamos National Laboratory assert tha ... more | .. |
 Study On Extrasolar Planet Orbits Suggests That Solar System Structure Is The Norm Recently, the HARPS spectrograph and the Kepler satellite made a census of the planetary population around stars like our own, revealing a bounty of planetary systems. A follow-up study lead by memb ... more | .. |
  Russia postpones Luna-Glob moon mission Russia's Luna-Glob moon mission will see its first moon landing in 2015, a year later than originally planned, the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences said Tuesday. "We ... more |
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Rivers choose their path based on erosion - a discovery that could transform flood planning and restoration
Tens of millions of tons of nanoplastics detected adrift in North Atlantic
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  A Spiral Galaxy in Hydra This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 4980, a spiral galaxy in the southern constellation of Hydra. The shape of NGC 4980 appears slightly deformed, something which is often ... more | .. |
  Herschel Spots Comet Massacre Around Nearby Star ESA's Herschel Space Observatory has studied the dusty belt around the nearby star Fomalhaut. The dust appears to be coming from collisions that destroy up to thousands of icy comets every day. Foma ... more | .. |
 Could "advanced" dinosaurs rule other planets New scientific research raises the possibility that advanced versions of T. rex and other dinosaurs - monstrous creatures with the intelligence and cunning of humans - may be the life forms that evo ... more | .. |
 Jupiter helps Halley's Comet give us more spectacular meteor displays The dramatic appearance of Halley's comet in the night sky has been observed and recorded by astronomers since 240 BC. Now a study shows that the orbital influences of Jupiter on the comet and the d ... more |
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 'Ordinary' black hole discovered 12 million light years away An international team of scientists have discovered an 'ordinary' black hole in the 12 million light year-distant galaxy Centaurus A. This is the first time that a normal-size black hole has been de ... more | .. |
 e-MERLIN's deep radio survey of the Hubble Deep Field: first results A team of astronomers at Jodrell Bank Observatory have begun the deepest ever high-resolution radio imaging of the region around the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), the images originally captured by the Hu ... more | .. |
 Dark Heart of a Cosmic Collision Infrared and X-ray observations from two space telescopes have been combined to create a unique look at violent events within the giant galaxy Centaurus A. The observations strengthen the view that ... more | .. |
 SDO and STEREO Spot Something New On the Sun One day in the fall of 2011, Neil Sheeley, a solar scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C., did what he always does - look through the daily images of the sun from NASA's Sola ... more |
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Nanosheet breakthrough enables low temperature heat storage through water trapping
EU climate VP seeks 'fair competition' with China on green energy
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  U.K. skywatchers bemoan light pollution Light pollution of night skies over Britain meant half the star-gazers who joined a recent star count had trouble seeing even bright stars, organizers said. ... more | .. |
 Hubble Spies a Spiral Galaxy Edge-on The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has spotted the "UFO Galaxy." NGC 2683 is a spiral galaxy seen almost edge-on, giving it the shape of a classic science fiction spaceship. This is why the astrono ... more | .. |
 Black Holes Grow Big by Eating Stars Most galaxies, including the Milky Way, have a supermassive black hole at their center weighing millions to billions of suns. But how do those black holes grow so hefty? Some theories suggest they w ... more | .. |
 South Pole Telescope homes in on dark energy, neutrinos Analysis of data from the 10-meter South Pole Telescope is providing new support for the most widely accepted explanation of dark energy - the source of the mysterious force that is responsible for ... more |
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  Space Debris Remediation - Who Are We Kidding? Over the past few years we have endured idea after idea on how to remove space debris. The list is almost endless. There is the ground-based high energy laser that will zap trash right out of space. ... more | .. |
 Russia Plans to Launch Lunar Rovers to Moon after 2020 Russia plans to send two lunar rovers to Moon after 2020 and a landing station after 2022 as the first steps to form the future manned lunar base there, the country's Academy of Sciences said in its ... more | .. |
 Russia Wants To Bind Satellite To Apophis Asteroid Russia plans to send a satellite with a radio beacon to near-Earth asteroid of 99942 Apophis for finding out how big is a threat of its collision with Earth, the country's Academy of Sciences said i ... more | .. |
 NASA Extends Kepler, Spitzer, Planck Missions NASA is extending three missions affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. - Kepler, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the U.S. portion of the European Space Agency's Planck mi ... more |
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