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Hidden Portals in Earth's Magnetic FieldHuntsville AL (SPX) Jul 03, 2012 A favorite theme of science fiction is "the portal" - an extraordinary opening in space or time that connects travelers to distant realms. A good portal is a shortcut, a guide, a door into the unknown. If only they actually existed ... It turns out that they do, sort of, and a NASA-funded researcher at the University of Iowa has figured out how to find them. "We call them X-points or electron diffusion regions," explains plasma physicist Jack Scudder of the University of Iowa. "They're places wher ... read more |
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  Looking at Density Differently in Microgravity We learn in elementary school about the three phases of matter - solids, liquids, gases - and how they behave. These forms of matter, particularly liquids and gases, have a tendency to act different ... more | .. |
 Making the shortest light bursts leads to better understanding of nature An attosecond is a ridiculously brief sliver of time - a scant billionth of a billionth of a second. This may seem too short to have any practical applications, but at the atomic level, where electr ... more | .. |
  Prediction system to protect astronauts from solar storms With the impending solar maximum expected to bring heightened rates of flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), putting at risk an ever-increasing human presence in space, Oh et al. designed and as ... more | .. |
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 Sounding Rocket Mission to Observe Magnetic Fields on the Sun On July 5, NASA will launch a mission called the Solar Ultraviolet Magnetograph Investigation or SUMI, to study the intricate, constantly changing magnetic fields on the sun in a hard-to-observe are ... more | .. |
 New Taiwanese centre to probe origins of universe Taiwan opened a space research control centre Tuesday, as part of an ambitious international project aimed at exploring the origins of the universe. ... more | .. |
 Tevatron offers Higgs boson data Scientists say data from the U.S. Energy Department's Tevatron collider offer the strongest indication to date for the long-sought Higgs particle. ... more | .. |
  The B612 Foundation Announces The First Privately Funded Deep Space Mission In a press conference at the California Academy of Sciences Thursday morning, the B612 Foundation unveiled its plans to build, launch, and operate the first privately funded deep space mission - SEN ... more |
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PLD Space selected as leading contender for ESA sovereign launch initiative
UK opens competitive bid for GBP 75 million orbital cleanup mission
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  Titan's tides point to hidden ocean Nothing like it has been seen before beyond our own planet: large tides have been found on Saturn's moon Titan that point to a liquid ocean - most likely water - swirling around below the surface. O ... more | .. |
  Milky Way struck 100 million years ago, still rings like a bell An international team of astronomers have discovered evidence that our Milky Way had an encounter with a small galaxy or massive dark matter structure perhaps as recently as 100 million years ago, a ... more | .. |
 Space tornadoes power the atmosphere of the Sun The super tornadoes - which are thousands of times larger and more powerful than their earthly counterparts but which have a magnetic skeleton - spin at speeds of more than 6,000 mph at temperatures ... more | .. |
  New Planet-weighing Technique Found Although there have been about 800 extra-solar planets discovered so far in our galaxy, the precise masses of the majority of them are still unknown, as the most-common planet-finding technique prov ... more |
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 Innovative technique enables scientists to learn more about elusive exoplanet One of the first planets discovered outside of the Solar System, Tau Bootis b, has eluded numerous attempts to measure the light coming from its atmosphere and so has remained something of a mystery ... more | .. |
 Dramatic change spotted on a faraway planet Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have seen dramatic changes in the upper atmosphere of a faraway planet. Just after a violent flare on its parent star bathed it in intense X-ray ... more | .. |
 Has the Speediest Pulsar Been Found? Researchers using three different telescopes - NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton in space, and the Parkes radio telescope in Australia - may have found the fastest moving pulsar ... more | .. |
 Tevatron scientists announce their final results on the Higgs particle After more than 10 years of gathering and analyzing data produced by the U.S. Department of Energy's Tevatron collider, scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations have found their strongest in ... more |
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Glacier retreat could drive a surge in volcanic eruptions worldwide
UK thermal satellite firm wins ESA contract to deliver real time climate and security insights
Beyond male dominance in primates new study redefines gender power roles | .. |
 University of Florida astronomer reports rare case of gravitational lensing You could say that the odds of seeing it were astronomical. Yet there it was, 10 billion light-years from Earth, the most massive galaxy cluster ever seen at such a distance - with a gravity f ... more | .. |
Ex-NASA astronauts aim to launch asteroid tracker A private company made up of former NASA astronauts and US scientists said Thursday it is planning to build and launch its own space telescope to track dangerous asteroids and protect the Earth. ... more | .. |
 Youris: A Black Hole's Dinner A giant gas cloud is on collision course with the black hole in the centre of our galaxy in 2013. This is a unique opportunity to observe how a super massive black hole sucks in material, in real ti ... more | .. |
 Reaching, Researching Between Stars From Earth, observers use telescopes to look and learn about the distant luminous spheres. But the telescope often isn't the only instrument used. Karl Gebhardt, professor of astrophysics at The Uni ... more |
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  Caltech scientists find new primitive mineral in meteorite In 1969, an exploding fireball tore through the sky over Mexico, scattering thousands of pieces of meteorite across the state of Chihuahua. More than 40 years later, the Allende meteorite is still s ... more | .. |
  MESSENGER Completes Its 1,000th Orbit of Mercury MESSENGER will complete its 1,000th orbit of the planet closest to the Sun at 11:22 p.m. EDT tonight. "Reaching this milestone is yet another testimony to the hard work and dedication of the full ME ... more | .. |
 A Fleeting Flyby Of A Battered World Called Asteroid 21 Lutetia The long and tumultuous history of asteroid Lutetia was revealed by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft as it raced past this large, ancient asteroid. This spectacular movie shows a sequence of images snapped ... more | .. |
 NASA's Hubble Spots Rare Gravitational Arc from Distant, Hefty Galaxy Cluster Seeing is believing, except when you don't believe what you see. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found a puzzling arc of light behind an extremely massive cluster of galaxies re ... more |
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Ultrasound triggers nuclear decay anomaly hinting at flexible space-time
AI system accelerates aircraft concept design using language models
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 New Way of Probing Exoplanet Atmospheres For the first time a clever new technique has allowed astronomers to study the atmosphere of an exoplanet in detail - even though it does not pass in front of its parent star. An international team ... more | .. |
 US NRC Presents Long Term Priorities For US Nuclear Physics Program Nuclear physics is a discovery-driven enterprise aimed at understanding the fundamental nature of visible matter in the universe. For the past hundred years, new knowledge of the nuclear world has a ... more | .. |
 Sifting Through a Trillion Electrons Modern research tools like supercomputers, particle colliders, and telescopes are generating so much data, so quickly, many scientists fear that soon they will not be able to keep up with the deluge ... more | .. |
 VLT Takes a Close Look at NGC 6357 ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) has taken the most detailed image so far of a spectacular part of the stellar nursery called NGC 6357. The view shows many hot young stars, glowing clouds of gas and ... more |
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 Multiple Mergers Generate Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy A team of astronomers led by Professor Yoshiaki Taniguchi (Ehime University) has concluded that the ultraluminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) Arp 220 (Figure 1) developed from a multiple merger among fo ... more | .. |
  SETI on the SKA It was a vision of the search for extraterrestrial intelligence that was never meant to be. In 1971 NASA's Ames Research Center, under the direction of two of SETI's great heavyweights - Hewlett-Pac ... more | .. |
 Cassini Shows Why Jet Streams Cross-Cut Saturn Turbulent jet streams, regions where winds blow faster than in other places, churn east and west across Saturn. Scientists have been trying to understand for years the mechanism that drives these wa ... more | .. |
  Scientists twist light to send data A multi-national team led by USC with researchers hailing from the U.S., China, Pakistan and Israel has developed a system of transmitting data using twisted beams of light at ultra-high speeds - up ... more |
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