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  Boston MA (SPX) May 03, 2018 In some ways, star clusters are like giant families with thousands of stellar siblings. These stars come from the same origins - a common cloud of gas and dust - and are bound to one another by gravity. Astronomers think that our Sun was born in a star cluster about 4.6 billion years ago that quickly dispersed. By studying young star clusters, astronomers hope to learn more about how stars - including our Sun - are born. NGC 6231, located about 5,200 light years from Earth, is an ideal testbed for ... read more |
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Long-distance relationships of particles: Electron-hole pairs in two-dimensional crystalsDresden, Germany (SPX) May 04, 2018 When light of specific frequency hits a semiconductor crystal, it is absorbed and produces a excitation, a state of higher energy. In solar cells, this energy can be converted into electricity and u ... more 
Picking one photon out of the flowOdense, Denmark (SPX) May 04, 2018 In a collaboration between Aarhus University and the University of Southern Denmark, researchers have discovered a way to subtract a single quantum of light from a laser beam. This work has re ... more 
Toy-inspired experiment on behavior of quantum systemsStanford CA (SPX) May 03, 2018 With its suspended metallic spheres that clack back and forth, Newton's cradle is more than a popular desktop plaything. It has taught a generation of students about conservation of momentum and ene ... more  
NASA expands plans for Moon explorationWashington DC (SPX) May 04, 2018 NASA is returning to the Moon with commercial and international partners as part of an overall agency Exploration Campaign in support of Space Policy Directive 1. It all starts with robotic missions ... more |
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Taming The Multiverse: Stephen Hawking's Final Theory About The Big BangCambridge UK (SPX) May 02, 2018 Professor Stephen Hawking's final theory on the origin of the universe, which he worked on in collaboration with Professor Thomas Hertog from KU Leuven, has been published today in the Journal of Hi ... more  
Helium detected in exoplanet atmosphere for the first timeExeter UK (SPX) May 03, 2018 Astronomers have detected helium in the atmosphere of a planet that orbits a star far beyond our solar system for the very first time. An international team of researchers, led by Jessica Spak ... more 
Research casts doubt on theories of star formationCardiff UK (SPX) May 01, 2018 The birth of stars from dense clouds of gas and dust may be happening in a completely unexpected way in our own galaxy and beyond. This is according to an international team of researchers, in ... more 
Creating star stuff on earth is aim of new $7 million projectAustin TX (SPX) Apr 20, 2018 Astrophysicists will conduct experiments designed to re-create the physical environment inside stars, with a new $7 million grant that the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administra ... more
Lunar Orbital Platform Gateway is First Step Towards Mars - ESA CoordinatorMoscow (Sputnik) May 02, 2018 The Lunar Orbital Platform Gateway, which will be used for deep space exploration and research, is due to start operating by 2025, and NASA is preparing its first manufacture contracts. Philippe Sch ... more |
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Airbus-built Mercury-mission is on its way to Kourou for launchAmsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Apr 24, 2018 After years of development the BepiColombo spacecraft which will be heading to Mercury from autumn 2018 has at last taken to the air. On 23 April 2018 the first elements of the BepiColombo hardware ... more  |
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New mechanism of radio emission in neutron stars revealedSaint Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Apr 25, 2018 Young scientists from ITMO University have explained how neutron stars generate intense directed radio emission. They developed a model based on the transitions of particles between gravitational st ... more 
The Milky Way BluesSanta Barbara, CA (SPX) May 02, 2018 Scientists often transform astronomy data in a way that allows for interpretation with visual plots such as color-coded graphs. UC Santa Barbara postdoctoral fellow Greg Salvesen went in a different ... more  
Design for magnetoelectric device may improve your memoryWashington DC (SPX) May 07, 2018 For years, manufacturers have offered computers with increasing amounts of memory packed into smaller devices. But semiconductor companies can't reduce the size of memory components as quickly as th ... more 
Nanoscale measurements 100x more precise, thanks to improved two-photon techniqueWarwick UK (SPX) May 07, 2018 The precision of measuring nanoscopic structures could be substantially improved, thanks to research involving the University of Warwick and QuantIC researchers at the University of Glasgow and Heri ... more 
Atomically thin magnetic device could lead to new memory technologiesSeattle WA (SPX) May 04, 2018 Magnetic materials are the backbone of modern digital information technologies, such as hard-disk storage. A University of Washington-led team has now taken this one step further by encoding informa ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 01, 2018 
Far across the solar system, from where Earth appears merely as a pale blue dot, NASA's Galileo spacecraft spent eight years orbiting Jupiter. During that time, the hearty spacecraft - slightly larger than a full-grown giraffe - sent back spates of discoveries on the gas giant's moons, including the observation of a magnetic environment around Ganymede that was distinct from Jupiter's own magnet ... more |
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 Exeter UK (SPX) May 03, 2018 
Astronomers have detected helium in the atmosphere of a planet that orbits a star far beyond our solar system for the very first time.
An international team of researchers, led by Jessica Spake from the University of Exeter, discovered evidence of the inert gas on 'super-Neptune' exoplanet WASP-107b, found 200 light years from Earth and in the constellation of Virgo.
The pivotal brea ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) May 03, 2018  The climate of early Mars is a subject of debate. While it has been thought that Mars had a warm and wet climate, like Earth, other researchers suggested early Mars might have been largely glaciated.
A recent study by Ramses Ramirez from the Earth-Life Science Institute (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) and Robert Craddock from the National Air and Space Museum's Center for Earth and ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) May 04, 2018 
NASA is returning to the Moon with commercial and international partners as part of an overall agency Exploration Campaign in support of Space Policy Directive 1. It all starts with robotic missions on the lunar surface, as well as a Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway for astronauts in space beyond the Moon.
Right now, NASA is preparing to purchase new small lunar payload delivery services, de ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 07, 2018 
The spacecraft element of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently completed its first two major launch environmental tests at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in Redondo Beach, California, and will soon undergo further tests to ensure it will handle the rigors of launch and the harsh environment of space.
The spacecraft element's first test simulated the mechanical shock caused by the ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) May 03, 2018  While ESA's CryoSat continues to provide clear insight into how much sea ice is being lost and how the Antarctic and Greenlandic ice sheets are changing, the mission has again surpassed its original scope by revealing exactly how mountain glaciers are also succumbing to change.
Glaciers all over the globe are retreating - and for the last 15 years, glacial ice has been the main cause of se ... more |
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 Providence RI (SPX) Apr 26, 2018 
Experiments using a high-powered projectile cannon show how impacts by water-rich asteroids can deliver surprising amounts of water to planetary bodies. The research, by scientists from Brown University, could shed light on how water got to the early Earth and help account for some trace water detections on the Moon and elsewhere.
"The origin and transportation of water and volatiles is on ... more |
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 Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) May 03, 2018 
Solar flares, cosmic radiation, and the northern lights are well known phenomena. But exactly how their enormous energy arises is not as well understood.
Now, physicists at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered a new way to study these spectacular space plasma phenomena in a laboratory environment. The results have been published in the renowned journal Nature Communic ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) May 07, 2018 
China is developing its first space rocket with a reusable first stage that could see its trial launch as early as 2020, SpaceNews reported, citing a senior Chinese rocket designer.
Long Lehao of the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology (CALT), revealed the new plans for the Long March 8 medium-lift launcher during a space industry conference in Harbin on April 24.
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Greenbelt MD (SPX) May 07, 2018
The spacecraft element of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently completed its first two major launch environmental tests at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems in Redondo Beach, California, and will soon undergo further tests to ensure it will handle the rigors of launch and the harsh environment of space.
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 York UK (SPX) May 04, 2018  Scientists have produced a 3D nanoscale reconstruction of the mineral structure of bone.
Bone performs equally well whether in an accelerating cheetah or in a heavy elephant, thanks to its toughness and strength.
The properties of bone can be attributed to its hierarchical organisation, where small elements form larger structures.
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 Houston TX (SPX) May 02, 2018  As a child watching Apollo 11 land on the Moon, Ted Mosteller dreamed of working for the space program. As leader of NASA's Commercial Crew Program Landing and Recovery Team, he directs a multi-agency operation to rescue astronauts in emergency landing scenarios.
"It's like insurance," he said. "You have insurance on your car or house, but you hope you never have to use it."
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 Swansea UK (SPX) May 03, 2018 
Even though the sun does not shine in Antarctica in winter, in some places snow on the glaciers can melt. The cause: warm wind.
Utrecht glacier researcher Peter Kuipers Munneke discovered that fact by combining the results of weather stations and satellite images. His findings were published in Geophysical Research Letters on Wednesday 2 May.
Winter in Antarctica is pitch black and f ... more |
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 Buffalo NY (SPX) May 04, 2018  The idea of using energy from the sun to evaporate and purify water is ancient. The Greek philosopher Aristotle reportedly described such a process more than 2,000 years ago.
Now, researchers are bringing this technology into the modern age, using it to sanitize water at what they report to be record-breaking rates.
By draping black, carbon-dipped paper in a triangular shape and usin ... more |
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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Apr 13, 2018 
A permanent Max Planck Independent Research Group under the leadership of Dr. M. Alessandra Papa has been established at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute; AEI) in Hannover.
The primary goal of the research group "Searching for Continuous Gravitational Waves" is to make the first direct detection of gravitational waves from rapidly rotating neutr ... more |
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