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  Liverpool UK (SPX) Apr 04, 2018 The Beatles are one of the greatest cultural phenomena to come from the 20th Century, yet many people are unaware of their impact on science. In 'Here, There and Everywhere', inspired by the book 'La scienza dei Beatles' ('The science of the Beatles'), Viviana Ambrosi shows how the Fab Four can bring the study of celestial objects and the exploration of the universe closer to a large public audience. This is set out in a presentation on 3rd April at the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science ... read more |
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First age-map of the heart of the Milky WayLiverpool UK (SPX) Apr 04, 2018 The first large-scale age-map of the Milky Way shows that a period of star formation lasting around 4 billion years created the complex structure at the heart of our galaxy. The results will be pres ... more 
A novel test bed for non-equilibrium many-body physicsZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 Whether a material is, for example, a metal or an insulator depends on a range of microscopic details, including the strength of interactions between electrons, the presence of impurities and the nu ... more  
The Problem With Space Junk is We Don't Know Where Most Objects AreMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 04, 2018 China's unresponsive Tiangong-1 space lab has come down over the South Pacific, it broke up while re-entering the Earth's atmosphere at 17,000 miles per hour according to Chinese reports. Sputnik di ... more  
Is there life adrift in the clouds of Venus?Madison WI (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 In the search for extraterrestrial life, scientists have turned over all sorts of rocks. Mars, for example, has geological features that suggest it once had - and still has - subsurface liquid ... more |
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NASA prepares to launch next ExoPlanet missionWashington DC (SPX) Mar 29, 2018 NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is undergoing final preparations in Florida for its April 16 launch to find undiscovered worlds around nearby stars, providing targets where future studi ... more  
Understanding gravity: The nanoscale search for extra dimensionsOsaka, Japan (SPX) Mar 29, 2018 Often, practical limits control the experimental measurements that can be made, governing the difference between what we expect to be true based on the most likely predictions of models and calculat ... more 
Dark matter goes missing in oddball galaxyGreenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 29, 2018 Galaxies and dark matter go together like peanut butter and jelly. You typically don't find one without the other. Therefore, researchers were surprised when they uncovered a galaxy that is mi ... more  
Newly discovered planet is hot, metallic and dense as MercuryWarwick UK (SPX) Mar 28, 2018 A hot, metallic, Earth-sized planet with a density similar to Mercury - situated 339 light years away - has been detected and characterised by a global team of astronomers, including the Uni ... more 
JFSCC tracks Tiangong-1's reentry over the Pacific OceanVandenberg AFB CA (SPX) Apr 04, 2018 U.S. Strategic Command's (USSTRATCOM) Joint Force Space Component Command (JFSCC), through the Joint Space Operations Center (JSpOC), confirmed Tiangong-1 reentered the Earth's atmosphere over the s ... more |
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Roscosmos, NASA to set common standards for first lunar orbit stationMoscow (Sputnik) Mar 29, 2018 The Russian and US space agencies will meet next month to set out plans for mankind's first outpost in the moon's orbit, which will include a Russia-built module, a source told Sputnik on Thursday. ... more  |
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Making Heisenberg's uncertainty principle uncertainZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 Heisenberg's uncertainty principle posits that there is a fundamental limit to the precision with which so-called complementary variables, such as position and momentum, can be measured. That is, th ... more 
Researchers develop nanoparticle films for high-density data storageWashington DC (SPX) Apr 04, 2018 As we generate more and more data, the need for high-density data storage that remains stable over time is becoming critical. New nanoparticle-based films that are more than 80 times thinner than a ... more 
Microsoft shakes up ranks to shoot for the cloudSan Francisco (AFP) March 29, 2018 Microsoft on Thursday announced a big managerial shakeup including the departure of the head of its Windows group as the technology pushes deeper into a future in the cloud. ... more 
Neutrino experiment sets the stage for deep discovery about matterOak Ridge TN (SPX) Mar 27, 2018 If equal amounts of matter and antimatter had formed in the Big Bang more than 13 billion years ago, one would have annihilated the other upon meeting, and today's universe would be full of energy b ... more 
Oracle's big-money case against Google gets new lifeSan Francisco (AFP) March 27, 2018 An appeals court on Tuesday gave Oracle another shot at wringing billions of dollars from Google in a keenly watched legal battle over the use of freely available Java software code. ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 7, 2018 
Jupiter's tempestuous, gassy atmosphere stretches some 3,000 kilometres (1,860 miles) deep and comprises a hundredth of the planet's mass, studies based on observations by NASA's Juno spacecraft revealed Wednesday.
The measurements shed the first light on what goes on beneath the surface of the largest planet in the Solar System, which from a distance resembles a colourful, striped glass mar ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 29, 2018 
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is undergoing final preparations in Florida for its April 16 launch to find undiscovered worlds around nearby stars, providing targets where future studies will assess their capacity to harbor life.
"One of the biggest questions in exoplanet exploration is: If an astronomer finds a planet in a star's habitable zone, will it be interesting from a ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 28, 2018 
Opportunity is continuing the exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater.
The rover is positioned about half way down the approximately 656 feet (200-meter) valley.
Opportunity is engaged in an extensive in-situ (contact) science campaign on the surface target called "Aguas Calientes," an exposed rock outcrop.
After previously brushing the surface, ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Mar 30, 2018 
The last blue moon until 2020 will peak in the sky at 8:37 a.m. EDT Saturday.
For the second time this year, a blue moon will appear. The first was in January.
Linda Lam, a Weather.com meteorologist, said people living in the South, Southwest and West Coast of the United States have the best chance of seeing the blue moon, but a cold front may block the view along much of the Eas ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 29, 2018 
Galaxies and dark matter go together like peanut butter and jelly. You typically don't find one without the other.
Therefore, researchers were surprised when they uncovered a galaxy that is missing most, if not all, of its dark matter. An invisible substance, dark matter is the underlying scaffolding upon which galaxies are built. It's the glue that holds the visible matter in galaxies - s ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 04, 2018 
A 314-kilogram heavy observatory launched to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center is a culmination of almost 20 years of work by a Danish research team that cost close to $50 million. The project is expected to shed light on climate change and propel Denmark to a top slot in space exploration.
The Asim Space Observatory has been successfully launched into space and ... more |
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 Liverpool UK (SPX) Apr 04, 2018 
The Beatles are one of the greatest cultural phenomena to come from the 20th Century, yet many people are unaware of their impact on science.
In 'Here, There and Everywhere', inspired by the book 'La scienza dei Beatles' ('The science of the Beatles'), Viviana Ambrosi shows how the Fab Four can bring the study of celestial objects and the exploration of the universe closer to a large publi ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 14, 2018 
Measurements of the three-dimensional structure of the earth, as opposed to the one-dimensional models typically used, can help scientists more accurately determine which areas of the United States are most vulnerable to blackouts during hazardous geomagnetic storms.
Space weather events such as geomagnetic storms can disturb the earth's magnetic field, interfering with electric power grid ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) March 27, 2018 
An uncontrolled Chinese space station weighing at least seven tonnes is set to break up as it hurtles to Earth on or around April 1, the European Space Agency has forecast.
"It will mostly burn up due to the extreme heat generated by its high-speed passage through the atmosphere," it said in a statement.
Some debris from the Tiangong-1 - or "Heavenly Palace" - spacelab will likely fal ... more |
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 29, 2018
Galaxies and dark matter go together like peanut butter and jelly. You typically don't find one without the other.
Therefore, researchers were surprised when they uncovered a galaxy that is missing most, if not all, of its dark matter. An invisible substance, dark matter is the underlying scaffolding upon which galaxies are built. It's the glue that holds the visible matter in galaxies - s ... more |
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 Exeter UK (SPX) Mar 30, 2018 
Parts of the Amazon previously thought to have been almost uninhabited were really home to thriving populations of up to a million people, new research shows.
Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that there were hundreds of villages in the rainforest away from major rivers, and they were home to different communities speaking varied languages who had an impact on the environment around t ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 28, 2018 
How would you like to sit at the helm of human spaceflight, responsible for the success of missions and the highly trained teams of engineers and scientists that make them possible? NASA is hiring new flight directors for just this job at its mission control at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
"Flight directors play a critical role in the success of our nation's human spaceflight missions, ... more |
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 Boulder BO (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 
A range of less than one degree Fahrenheit (or half a degree Celsius) of climate warming over the next century could make all the difference when it comes to the probability of future ice-free summers in the Arctic, new University of Colorado Boulder research shows.
The findings, which were published in the journal Nature Climate Change, show that limiting warming to 2.7 degrees Fahrenheit ... more |
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 Tel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 
Almost all organisms have an internal biological clock that synchronizes their behavior with the environment in which they live. Endogenous biological clocks follow the major cyclical rhythms: the solar-influenced 24-hour transition of day and night, the tidal 12.4 hour rising and falling of the tides that is governed by the lunar cycle, and the annual seasonal changes.
Organisms that live ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 23, 2018 
When a gravitational wave reaches Earth, every second counts. The data processing speed will have a crucial impact on how much astronomers can learn from these space-time ripples, says computer scientist Cao Junwei.
"In an era of multi-messenger astronomy, we have to shorten the time as much as possible so as to trigger the alert quickly enough for follow-up observations," says Cao, who le ... more |
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