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  Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2018 Scientists working on NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter shared a 3-D infrared movie depicting densely packed cyclones and anticyclones that permeate the planet's polar regions, and the first detailed view of a dynamo, or engine, powering the magnetic field for any planet beyond Earth. Those are among the items unveiled during the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, on Wednesday, April 11. Juno mission scientists have taken data collected by the spacecraft's Jovian InfraRed ... read more |
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Chemical analysis technique gets major upgrade from Russian scientistsMoscow, Russia (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 Researchers from Skoltech and MIPT have developed a device for upgrading mass spectrometers, which are used to analyze the chemical makeup of unknown substances. The new device analyzes one substanc ... more  
NASA's newest planet-hunter, TESS, to survey the entire night skyWashington DC (UPI) Apr 11, 2018 With the crippled Kepler almost out of fuel, NASA is preparing the launch of its newest planet-hunting spacecraft, TESS. ... more 
SPHERE Reveals Fascinating Zoo of Discs Around Young Stars Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 12, 2018 New images from the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope are revealing the dusty discs surrounding nearby young stars in greater detail than previously achieved. They show a bizarre varie ... more 
ET Won't Phone Home: Psychologists Say SETI Has Faulty Alien Contact MethodsMoscow (Sputnik) Apr 12, 2018 A group of psychologists say scientists will never make contact with aliens because aliens are likely to use communications based on unknown physical principles. They also say scientists are prone t ... more |
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Largest catalog ever published of major gamma ray sources in the galaxyParis, France (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 The HESS international collaboration, to which CNRS and CEA contribute, has published the results of fifteen years of gamma ray observations of the Milky Way. Its telescopes installed in Namibia hav ... more 
Dark matter might not be interactive after allLiverpool UK (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 Astronomers are back in the dark about what dark matter might be, after new observations showed the mysterious substance may not be interacting with forces other than gravity after all. Dr Andrew Ro ... more 
A Cosmic Gorilla Effect Could Blind the Detection of AliensMadrid, Spain (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 One of the problems that have long intrigued experts in cosmology is how to detect possible extraterrestrial signals. Are we really looking in the right direction? Maybe not, according to the study ... more 
Dense Stellar Clusters May Foster Black Hole MegamergersBoston MA (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 When LIGO's twin detectors first picked up faint wobbles in their respective, identical mirrors, the signal didn't just provide first direct detection of gravitational waves - it also confirmed the ... more  
NASA's Mission to Touch the Sun Arrives in the Sunshine StateWashington DC (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 NASA's Parker Solar Probe has arrived in Florida to begin final preparations for its launch to the Sun, scheduled for July 31, 2018. In the middle of the night on April 2, the spacecraft was d ... more |
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 Newly Discovered Supernova Remnants Revealed in Gamma Rays 
Outback Radio Telescope Listens In on Interstellar VisitorPerth, Australia (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 A telescope in outback Western Australia has been used to listen to a mysterious cigar-shaped object that entered our solar system late last year. The unusual object - known as 'Oumuamua - cam ... more  |
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Dead star circled by lightMunich, Germany (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 Spectacular new pictures, created from images from both ground- and space-based telescopes, tell the story of the hunt for an elusive missing object hidden amid a complex tangle of gaseous filaments ... more 
Artificial intelligence helps to predict likelihood of life on other worldsLiverpool UK (SPX) Apr 05, 2018 Developments in artificial intelligence may help us to predict the probability of life on other planets, according to new work by a team based at Plymouth University. The study uses artificial ... more 
First Interdisciplinary Conference on Habitability in early solar systemGreenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 09, 2018 Media are invited to tune into a livecast from astrobiology experts at the first Goddard international interdisciplinary conference on habitability in the early solar system. The "Environments ... more  
Programming: a highly sought talent in Silicon ValleySan Francisco (AFP) April 11, 2018 Computer engineers are in high demand, with companies shelling out huge salaries for the best talent - especially in California's Silicon Valley. ... more 
Solid research leads physicists to propose new state of matterDallas TX (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 The term "superfluid quasicrystal" sounds like something a comic-book villain might use to carry out his dastardly plans. In reality, it's a new form of matter proposed by theoretical physicis ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2018 
Scientists working on NASA's Juno mission to Jupiter shared a 3-D infrared movie depicting densely packed cyclones and anticyclones that permeate the planet's polar regions, and the first detailed view of a dynamo, or engine, powering the magnetic field for any planet beyond Earth. Those are among the items unveiled during the European Geosciences Union General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, on We ... more |
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 Munich, Germany (SPX) Apr 12, 2018 
New images from the SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope are revealing the dusty discs surrounding nearby young stars in greater detail than previously achieved. They show a bizarre variety of shapes, sizes and structures, including the likely effects of planets still in the process of forming.
The SPHERE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile allows astronomers ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2018 
Opportunity is continuing the exploration of "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater.
The rover is positioned about halfway down the approximately 656 feet (200-meter) valley near an apparent flow stream island.
A set of outcrops is garnering great interest and discussion among the science team. The rover is position on a surface target called "Tome."
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 Flagstaff AZ (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 
NAU assistant professor of planetary science Christopher Edwards co-authored a paper recently published in Nature Geoscience that has generated interest among scientists in the field as well as in mainstream science news, such as Science Daily and Outer Places.
The researchers analyzed remote-sensing data from two lunar missions and concluded that water appears to be evenly spread across t ... more |
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 Tubingen, Germany (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 
The H.E.S.S. telescopes have surveyed the Milky Way for the past 15 years searching for sources of gamma radiation. The H.E.S.S. collaboration includes scientists of the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the University of Tubingen led by Professor Andrea Santangelo and Dr. Gerd Puhlhofer.
They are interested in sources of very high energy gamma radiation in the TeV energy range, i ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2018 
In the mornings, Sylvia Beer sits at the desktop computer in her living room with a cup of coffee and looks for ridges on Mars. Her town of Wodonga, Australia, gets so hot that in summer she begins scanning Mars images at 4 a.m., when she takes medication for Parkinson's disease. The condition sometimes affects her memory and movement - she uses a cane or walker to get around, and can't walk as ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 5, 2018 
After years of searching, scientists are confident they're finally closing in on the location of the crater left by a meteorite that struck Australasia 800,000 years ago.
When the 12-mile-wide meteor struck Earth, debris was exploded in the sky and deposited across the region. The fragments have not been hard to come by, and yet, scientists have failed to locate the crater.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 10, 2018 
NASA's Parker Solar Probe has arrived in Florida to begin final preparations for its launch to the Sun, scheduled for July 31, 2018.
In the middle of the night on April 2, the spacecraft was driven from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, to nearby Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. From there, it was flown by the United States Air Force's 436th Airlift Wing to Space Co ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 2, 2018 
The plunge back to Earth of a defunct Chinese space laboratory will not slow down Beijing's ambitious plans to send humans to the moon.
The Tiangong-1 space module, which crashed Monday, was intended to serve as a stepping stone to a manned station, but its problems highlight the difficulties of exploring outer space.
But China has come a long way in its race to catch up with the United ... more |
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Tubingen, Germany (SPX) Apr 10, 2018
The H.E.S.S. telescopes have surveyed the Milky Way for the past 15 years searching for sources of gamma radiation. The H.E.S.S. collaboration includes scientists of the Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics of the University of Tubingen led by Professor Andrea Santangelo and Dr. Gerd Puhlhofer.
They are interested in sources of very high energy gamma radiation in the TeV energy range, i ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 12, 2018 
In the first six months of life, babies can draw correlations between visual and vocal cues.
Before infants can talk, they use posture, voice and facial expressions to communicate their emotions. New research suggests babies can also interpret emotional cues.
Previous studies have found babies show a preference for happy faces and voices during their first six months of life, and ... more |
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 Melbourne, Australia (The Conversation) Apr 11, 2018 
Elon Musk's SpaceX reportedly has two people signed up for a trip around the Moon (although these plans have been delayed slightly), and Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has advanced plans to launch space tourists from 2018 for a mere US$250,000 each - hundreds of people have already registered.
Is there anyone reading this who didn't want to be an astronaut when they were a child? I was ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
Glaciers in Alaska's Denali National Park are melting faster than at any time in the past four centuries because of rising summer temperatures, a new study finds.
New ice cores taken from the summit of Mt. Hunter in Denali National Park show summers there are least 1.2-2 degrees Celsius (2.2-3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than summers were during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. T ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) April 12, 2018 
Ocean heatwaves which can have "devastating and long-term impacts" on ecosystems have become longer and more frequent over the past century, according to an international study published Tuesday.
From 1925 to 2016, the number of annual marine heatwave days globally jumped by 54 percent, with a noticeable acceleration over the last three decades, a paper in the journal Nature Communications s ... 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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