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June 18, 2012
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Princeton scientists observe electrons become both heavy and speedy
Princeton NJ (SPX) Jun 18, 2012
A Princeton University-led team of scientists has shown how electrons moving in certain solids can behave as though they are a thousand times more massive than free electrons, yet at the same time act as speedy superconductors. The observation of these seemingly contradictory electron properties is critical to the understanding of how certain materials become superconducting, in which electrons can flow without resistance. Such materials could dramatically increase the efficiency of electrical pow ... read more

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SATURN DAILY

Cassini Sees Tropical Lakes on Saturn Moon
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spied long-standing methane lakes, or puddles, in the "tropics" of Saturn's moon Titan. One of the tropical lakes appears to be about half the size of Utah's Great Salt ... more
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IRON AND ICE

Dawn Easing into its Final Science Orbit
After successfully completing nearly five months scrutinizing the giant asteroid Vesta at its lowest orbit altitude, NASA's Dawn spacecraft will begin its final major science data-gathering phase at ... more
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IRON AND ICE

NASA Releases Workshop Data and Findings on Asteroid 2011 AG5
Researchers anticipate that asteroid 2011 AG5, discovered in January 2011, will fly safely past and not impact Earth in 2040. Current findings and analysis data were reported at a May 29 works ... more
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SPACE TRAVEL

Data From Voyager 1 Points To Interstellar Future
Data from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft indicate that the venerable deep-space explorer has encountered a region in space where the intensity of charged particles from beyond our solar system has mark ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

WISE Finds Few Brown Dwarfs Close to Home
Astronomers are getting to know the neighbors better. Our sun resides within a spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy about two-thirds of the way out from the center. It lives in a fairly calm, suburb-l ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

NASA's Fermi Detects the Highest-Energy Light From a Solar Flare
During a powerful solar blast on March 7, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected the highest-energy light ever associated with an eruption on the sun. The discovery heralds Fermi's new role ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Neighbor galaxies may have brushed closely
Two of our Milky Way's neighbor galaxies may have had a close encounter billions of years ago, recent studies with the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) indicate. The new obse ... more
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BlackSky expands Gen-3 access to bolster Ukraine-focused intelligence operations
Maxar secures $205 million in multi-year deals to boost space capabilities across MEA
K2 Space validates satellite systems in orbit and fires record-breaking thruster
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Astronomers Map 40 Million Stars
Astronomers will soon have access to a new map of the sky that accurately measures the brightness and position of over 40 million stars. This map is a result of the AAVSO Photometric All-Sky Survey, ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Spotting Ultrafine Loops in the Sun's Corona
A key to understanding the dynamics of the sun and what causes the great solar explosions there relies on deciphering how material, heat and energy swirl across the sun's surface and rise into the u ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Astronomers pinpoint elusive galaxy after decade-long hunt
An international team of astronomers led by Fabian Walter of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy has managed for the first time to determine the distance of the galaxy HDF850.1, well-known among ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Magnetic fields slow down stars
Scientists have proved the existence of a magnetic effect that could explain why solar-like stars spin very slowly at the end of their lifetime. Researchers from the Leibniz-Institut fur Astrophysi ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Planets can form around different types of stars
It had previously been thought that planets were more likely to form around a star if the star had a high content of heavier elements. But new research from the University of Copenhagen, among other ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Extremely little telescope discovers pair of odd planets
Even small telescopes can make big discoveries. Though the KELT North telescope in southern Arizona carries a lens no more powerful than a high-end digital camera, it's just revealed the existence o ... more
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IRON AND ICE

'Unusually large' asteroid to race by Earth
A newly discovered asteroid the size of a city block will zoom past Earth but poses no risk of a collision, astronomers said on Thursday. ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

NuSTAR opens out of this world view thanks to Lab technology
For astrophysicist Bill Craig and his team, NASA's NuSTAR will open up a whole new world. In fact, NuSTAR will allow them to observe a new class of objects in space, called extreme objects, which ha ... more
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The long slow death of Norway's wild salmon
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TIME AND SPACE

No evidence for 'knots' in space
Theories of the primordial Universe predict the existence of knots in the fabric of space - known as cosmic textures - which could be identified by looking at light from the cosmic microwave backgro ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Alien Earths Could Form Earlier than Expected
Building a terrestrial planet requires raw materials that weren't available in the early history of the universe. The Big Bang filled space with hydrogen and helium. Chemical elements like silicon a ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Successful launch for NASA's 'black hole hunter' telescope
A sophisticated orbiting telescope that uses high-energy X-ray vision to hunt for black holes in the universe launched on Wednesday after an aircraft-to-rocket takeoff, NASA said. ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Small Planets Don't Need 'Heavy Metal' Stars to Form
The formation of small worlds like Earth previously was thought to occur mostly around stars rich in heavy elements such as iron and silicon. However, new ground-based observations, combined with da ... more
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MOON DAILY

Nanoparticles found in moon glass bubbles explain weird lunar soil behaviour
A stunning discovery by QUT soil scientist Marek Zbik of nano particles inside bubbles of glass in lunar soil could solve the mystery of why the moon's surface topsoil has many unusual properties. D ... more
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TECH SPACE

New national supercomputer to perform astronomical feats
The University of Leicester has been awarded funding to establish a multi-million pound national supercomputer which will make it possible to study space in unprecedented detail and provide new insi ... more
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SPACE SCOPES

Hubble Sees a Celestial Swan and Butterfly
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 7026, a planetary nebula. Located just beyond the tip of the tail of the constellation of Cygnus (The Swan), this butterfly-shaped cloud ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Astronomer's Refining Method to "Age" the Most Abundant Stars
As a part of their "Living with a Red Dwarf" program, Villanova astronomers Scott Engle and Ed Guinan are trying to understand how the most common type of star known live its lives, and what kinds o ... more
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China speeds up renewables building spree: report
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TECH SPACE

Nano-engineered synthetic diamond sets a new quantum information record
Element Six, the world leader in synthetic diamond supermaterials, working in partnership with academics in Harvard University, California Institute of Technology and Max-Planck-Institut fur Quanten ... more
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TECH SPACE

Spin structure reveals key to new forms of digital storage
A synthetic compound long known to exhibit interesting transition properties may hold the key to new, non-magnetic forms of information storage, say researchers at the RIKEN SPring-8 Center and thei ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Discovery of the Most Distant Galaxy in the Cosmic Dawn
A team of astronomers led by Takatoshi Shibuya (The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan), Dr. Nobunari Kashikawa (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan), Dr. Kazuaki Ota (Kyoto Univ ... more
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EXO LIFE

Unique microbes found in extreme environment
Researchers who were looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on Earth have found a hardy few. A new DNA analysis of rocky soils in the martian-like landsca ... more
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EXO LIFE

CU-Boulder-led team finds microbes in extreme environment on South American volcanoes
A team led by the University of Colorado Boulder looking for organisms that eke out a living in some of the most inhospitable soils on Earth has found a hardy few. A new DNA analysis of rocky soils ... more
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JOVIAN DREAMS

Mapping Volcanic Heat on Io
A new study finds that the pattern of heat coming from volcanoes on Io's surface disposes of the generally-accepted model of internal heating. The heat pouring out of Io's hundreds of erupting volca ... more
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JOVIAN DREAMS

UBC Researchers Help Unveil Jupiter's Smallest Known Moon
At a measly 2 kilometres in diameter, the smallest of two moons recently discovered orbiting Jupiter may be the giant planet's smallest known satellite. In September of 2010, two previously unknown ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Breaking the limits of classical physics
With simple arguments, researchers show that nature is complicated! Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have made a simple experiment that demonstrates that nature violates common sense - the ... more
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