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  Chicago IL (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 There's a particular set of chemical reactions that governs many of the processes around us--everything from bridges corroding in water to your breakfast breaking down in your gut. One crucial part of that reaction involves electrons striking water, and despite how commonplace this reaction is, scientists still have to use ballpark numbers for certain parts of the equation when they use computers to model them. An article published in Nature Communications on Jan. 16 offers a new and better set of ... read more |
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Cutting-Edge Technology Enhances Virgo Gravitational-Wave DetectorHannover, Germany (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 A team of researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI) in Hannover and from the Institute for Gravitational Physics at Leibniz Universitat Han ... more 
Scientists find two ways to create 4D quantum Hall effectWashington (UPI) Jan 29, 2018 Two teams of scientists have measured the effects of a fourth dimension in a pair of lab experiments. Scientists didn't discover an extra dimension, but they did show how materials might behave if there was one. ... more 
Unexpected matter found in hostile black hole windsEvanston IL (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 The existence of large numbers of molecules in winds powered by supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies has puzzled astronomers since they were discovered more than a decade ago. Molecul ... more  
FUGIN Project Making Most Detailed Radio Map of the Milky WayTokyo, Japan (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 Astronomers have conducted a large-scale survey of the invisible Milky Way using the Nobeyama 45-m Radio Telescope. When you look up on a clear dark night, you can see the Milky Way with the naked e ... more |
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What's behind the most brilliant lights in the skyMadison WI (SPX) Feb 01, 2018 Space physicists at University of Wisconsin-Madison have just released unprecedented detail on a bizarre phenomenon that powers the northern lights, solar flares and coronal mass ejections (the bigg ... more 
Relativity matters: Two opposing views of the magnetic force reconciledWashington DC (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 Current textbooks often refer to the Lorentz-Maxwell force governed by the electric charge. But they rarely refer to the extension of that theory required to explain the magnetic force on a point pa ... more 
Astrochemists reveal the magnetic secrets of methanolGothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 A team of scientists, led by Boy Lankhaar at Chalmers University of Technology, has solved an important puzzle in astrochemistry: how to measure magnetic fields in space using methanol, the simplest ... more  
First Light for Planet Hunter ExTrA at La SillaGarching, Germany (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 A new national facility at ESO's La Silla Observatory has successfully made its first observations. The ExTrA telescopes will search for and study Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby red dwarf stars ... more  
CubeSats for hunting secrets in lunar darknessParis (ESA) Jan 25, 2018 Imagine sending a spacecraft the size of an airline cabin bag to the Moon - what would you have it do? ESA issued that challenge to European teams last year, and two winners have now been chosen. ... more 
Deep Learning Pioneered for Real-Time Gravitational Wave DiscoveryUrbana IL (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 Scientists at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, have pioneered the use of GPU-accelerated deep learning for rapid ... more 
Theory shows unified origin for 3 types of extreme-energy space particlesUniversity Park PA (SPX) Jan 26, 2018 New model connects the origins of very high-energy neutrinos, ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays, and high-energy gamma rays with black-hole jets embedded in their environments. One of the biggest m ... more |
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Ultralow power consumption for data recordingSendai, Japan (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 A team of researchers at Tohoku University, in collaboration with the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) and Hanyang University, has developed new phase change m ... more  
Europa and Other Planetary Bodies May Have Extremely Low-Density SurfacesTucson AZ (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 Spacecraft landing on Jupiter's moon Europa could see the craft sink due to high surface porosity, research by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Robert Nelson shows. Nelson was the ... more 
Quantum cocktail provides insights on memory controlZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 The speed of writing and reading out magnetic information from storage devices is limited by the time that it takes to manipulate the data carrier. To speed up these processes, researchers have rece ... more  |
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Johns Hopkins scientist proposes new limit on the definition of a planetBaltimore MD (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 Pluto hogs the spotlight in the continuing scientific debate over what is and what is not a planet, but a less conspicuous argument rages on about the planetary status of massive objects outside our ... more 
Rare 'super blood blue moon' visible on Jan 31Miami (AFP) Jan 28, 2018 A cosmic event not seen in 36 years - a rare "super blood blue moon" - may be glimpsed January 31 in parts of western North America, Asia, the Middle East, Russia and Australia. ... more 
NASA Poised to Topple a Planet-Finding BarrierGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 NASA optics experts are well on the way to toppling a barrier that has thwarted scientists from achieving a long-held ambition: building an ultra-stable telescope that locates and images dozens of E ... more 
A hot Jupiter with unusual windsMontreal, Canada (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 The hottest point on a gaseous planet near a distant star isn't where astrophysicists expected it to be - a discovery that challenges scientists' understanding of the many planets of this type found ... more 
A new 'atmospheric disequilibrium' could help detect life on other planetsSeattle WA (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 As NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and other new giant telescopes come online they will need novel strategies to look for evidence of life on other planets. A University of Washington study has fo ... more 
Chasing dark matter with the oldest stars in the Milky WayPrinceton NJ (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 Just how quickly is the dark matter near Earth zipping around? The speed of dark matter has far-reaching consequences for modern astrophysical research, but this fundamental property has eluded rese ... more |
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 Chinese volunteers spend 200 days on virtual 'moon base' 
First evidence of winds outside black holes throughout their mealtimesEdmonton, Canada (SPX) Jan 26, 2018 New research shows the first evidence of strong winds around black holes throughout bright outburst events when a black hole rapidly consumes mass. The study, published in Nature, sheds new li ... more 
Black hole jets account for three highest-energy particles in the universeWashington (UPI) Jan 22, 2018 Scientists have traced the three highest-energy particles in the universe to a single cosmic origin. The latest research - published this week in the journal Nature Physics - suggests neutrinos, cosmic rays and gamma rays all results from the powerful jets of supermassive black holes. ... more
What scientists can learn about the Moon during the Jan. 31 eclipseGreenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 26, 2018 The lunar eclipse on Jan. 31 will give a team of scientists a special opportunity to study the Moon using the astronomer's equivalent of a heat-sensing, or thermal, camera. Three lunar events ... more 
Astronomers produce first detailed images of surface of giant starAtlanta GA (SPX) Jan 26, 2018 An international team of astronomers has produced the first detailed images of the surface of a giant star outside our solar system, revealing a nearly circular, dust-free atmosphere with complex ar ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 25, 2018 
Spacecraft landing on Jupiter's moon Europa could see the craft sink due to high surface porosity, research by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Robert Nelson shows.
Nelson was the lead author of a laboratory study of the photopolarimetric properties of bright particles that explain unusual negative polarization behavior at low phase angles observed for decades in association wi ... more |
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 Garching, Germany (SPX) Jan 29, 2018 
A new national facility at ESO's La Silla Observatory has successfully made its first observations. The ExTrA telescopes will search for and study Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby red dwarf stars. ExTrA's novel design allows for much improved sensitivity compared to previous searches. Astronomers now have a powerful new tool to help in the search for potentially habitable worlds.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 31, 2018 
A panoramic image that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover took from a mountainside ridge provides a sweeping vista of key sites visited since the rover's 2012 landing, and the towering surroundings.
The view from "Vera Rubin Ridge" on the north flank of Mount Sharp encompasses much of the 11-mile (18-kilometer) route the rover has driven from its 2012 landing site, all inside Gale Crater. One hil ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Jan 30, 2018 
On January 24, 2018, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) met to exchange their views on space exploration. The agencies signed a joint statement affirming their strong mutual interest in continued future cooperation in space exploration.
Both agencies have established a strong and committed partnership throughout the many y ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 26, 2018  China is pushing its ambitious global trade infrastructure programme to the Arctic, outlining Friday its vision for a "Polar Silk Road" for ships as it seeks greater access to the strategically vital region.
The Arctic is geographically far from China's borders but with large oil and gas deposits and potential shipping lanes has become more strategically important for the Asian giant.
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