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  Washington (UPI) Sep 7, 2018 A new mosaic image shared Friday by NASA showcases one of Ceres' bright spots. The dwarf planet's bright spots were first discovered and photographed in 2015. In the time since, high resolution images have offered scientists clearer and clearer views of the bright spots. Ceres' brightest spot is located on a feature called Cerealia Facula, found in the Occator Crater. The latest mosaic combines several photographs of the feature, some from altitudes as low as 22 miles above the dwarf pla ... read more |
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Single molecule control for a millionth of a billionth of a secondBath UK (SPX) Sep 10, 2018 Physicists at the University of Bath have discovered how to manipulate and control individual molecules for a millionth of a billionth of a second, after being intrigued by some seemingly odd result ... more  
SwRI scientists find evidence for early planetary shake-upSan Antonio TX (SPX) Sep 11, 2018 Scientists at Southwest Research Institute studied an unusual pair of asteroids and discovered that their existence points to an early planetary rearrangement in our solar system. These bodies ... more 
Legacy of NASA's Dawn, Near the End of Its MissionPasadena CA (JPL) Sep 10, 2018 NASA's Dawn mission is drawing to a close after 11 years of breaking new ground in planetary science, gathering breathtaking imagery, and performing unprecedented feats of spacecraft engineering. ... more  
Chilean scientists discover crucial event right before the death of a starSantiago, Chile (SPX) Sep 10, 2018 A new paper in the journal Nature Astronomy, The delay of shock breakout due to circumstellar material evident in most Type II Supernovae, written by a group of researchers from the Center for Mathe ... more |
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Superfast Jet from Neutron Star Merger ConfirmedSocorro NM (SPX) Sep 10, 2018 Precise measurement using a continent-wide collection of National Science Foundation (NSF) radio telescopes has revealed that a narrow jet of particles moving at nearly the speed of light broke out ... more  
Mysterious 'lunar swirls' point to moon's volcanic, magnetic pastNew Brunswick NJ (SPX) Sep 07, 2018 The mystery behind lunar swirls, one of the solar system's most beautiful optical anomalies, may finally be solved thanks to a joint Rutgers University and University of California Berkeley study. ... more 
Physicists control molecule for a millionth of a billionth of a secondWashington (UPI) Sep 7, 2018 Using a microscope and its electrical current, physicists have found a way to manipulate and control a single molecule. The breakthrough happened by accident. ... more  
Facebook to build $1 bn Singapore data centre, first in AsiaSingapore (AFP) Sept 6, 2018 Facebook said Thursday it will invest over $1 billion to build a data centre in Singapore, its first in Asia, powered by renewable energy and adapted to the city-state's tropical climate. ... more  
Boosting gravitational wave detectors with quantum tricksCopenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Sep 07, 2018 A group of scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) at the University of Copenhagen will soon start developing a new line of technical equipment in order to dramatically improve gravitational ... more |
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Asteroid-Deflection Mission Passes Key Development MilestoneLaurel MD (SPX) Sep 06, 2018 The first-ever mission to demonstrate an asteroid deflection technique for planetary defense has moved into the final design and assembly phase, following NASA's approval on Aug. 16. The Doubl ... more  |
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What actually is nothingCambridge UK (The Conversation) Aug 30, 2018 Philosophers have debated the nature of "nothing" for thousands of years, but what has modern science got to say about it? In an interview with The Conversation, Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal and Em ... more 
Youngest Accretion Disk Detected in Star FormationTaipei, Taiwan (SPX) Sep 07, 2018 An international team led by Chin-Fei Lee at the Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics (ASIAA) has discovered a very small accretion disk formed around one of the youngest protosta ... more 
Falling stars hold clue for understanding dying starsTokyo, Japan (SPX) Sep 07, 2018 An international team of researchers has proposed a new method to investigate the inner workings of supernovae explosions. This new method uses meteorites and is unique in that it can determine the ... more  
NASA-funded Rocket to View Sun with X-Ray VisionGreenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 07, 2018 Without special instrumentation, the Sun looks calm and inert. But beneath that placid facade are countless miniature explosions called nanoflares. These small but intense eruptions are born w ... more 
Relationship Established Between Brightness and Diet of Black HolesSantiago, Chile (SPX) Sep 07, 2018 A group of researchers led by Paula Sanchez-Saez, a doctoral student in the Department of Astronomy of the Universidad de Chile, managed to determine that the rate of variability in the light emitte ... more |
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 Orlando FL (SPX) Sep 11, 2018 
The reason Pluto lost its planet status is not valid, according to new research from the University of Central Florida in Orlando.
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union, a global group of astronomy experts, established a definition of a planet that required it to "clear" its orbit, or in other words, be the largest gravitational force in its orbit.
Since Neptune's gravity inf ... more |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Sep 10, 2018 
Wolf 503b, an exoplanet twice the size of Earth, has been discovered by an international team of Canadian, American and German researchers using data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope. The find is described in a new study whose lead author is Merrin Peterson, an Institute for Research on Exoplanets (iREx) graduate student who started her master's degree at Universite de Montreal (UdeM) in May. ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 12, 2018 
No signal from Opportunity has been heard since Sol 5111 (June 10, 2018), though NASA has approved a strategy for listening for the rover through January of 2019.
It is expected that Opportunity has experienced a low-power fault and perhaps, a mission clock fault and then an up-loss timer fault. The science team continues to listen for the rover either during the expected fault communicati ... more |
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 New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Sep 07, 2018 
The mystery behind lunar swirls, one of the solar system's most beautiful optical anomalies, may finally be solved thanks to a joint Rutgers University and University of California Berkeley study.
The solution hints at the dynamism of the moon's ancient past as a place with volcanic activity and an internally generated magnetic field. It also challenges our picture of the moon's existing g ... more |
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 Socorro NM (SPX) Sep 10, 2018 
Precise measurement using a continent-wide collection of National Science Foundation (NSF) radio telescopes has revealed that a narrow jet of particles moving at nearly the speed of light broke out into interstellar space after a pair of neutron stars merged in a galaxy 130 million light-years from Earth. The merger, which occurred in August of 2017, sent gravitational waves rippling through spa ... more |
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 San Francisco CA (SPX) Sep 06, 2018 
PlanetWatchers has developed a new multi-source Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) platform that utilizes multiple SAR sources to deliver actionable insights without the usual delays due to weather, time of day, and environmental conditions. Natural resource managers will now receive enhanced risk management and analytical data from the new platform.
World-renowned remote sensing specialist Pr ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Sep 7, 2018 
A new mosaic image shared Friday by NASA showcases one of Ceres' bright spots.
The dwarf planet's bright spots were first discovered and photographed in 2015. In the time since, high resolution images have offered scientists clearer and clearer views of the bright spots.
Ceres' brightest spot is located on a feature called Cerealia Facula, found in the Occator Crater. The latest ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 07, 2018 
Without special instrumentation, the Sun looks calm and inert. But beneath that placid facade are countless miniature explosions called nanoflares.
These small but intense eruptions are born when magnetic field lines in the Sun's atmosphere tangle up and stretch until they break like a rubber band. The energy they release accelerates particles to near lightspeed and according to some scien ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Aug 30, 2018 
Engineers have successfully tested the propulsion system of China's planned space station lab capsules, a key step in its space station program.
Weighing 66 tonnes, the space station will comprise a core module and two lab capsules. The propulsion system will determine whether lab capsules can move in space.
Engineers designed 36 engines for the propulsion system with four to adjust ... more |
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Socorro NM (SPX) Sep 10, 2018
Precise measurement using a continent-wide collection of National Science Foundation (NSF) radio telescopes has revealed that a narrow jet of particles moving at nearly the speed of light broke out into interstellar space after a pair of neutron stars merged in a galaxy 130 million light-years from Earth. The merger, which occurred in August of 2017, sent gravitational waves rippling through spa ... more |
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 Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Sep 11, 2018 
Food needs to be broken down in the mouth before it can be swallowed and digested further. How this is being done depends on many factors, such as the mechanical properties of the foods and the morphology of the masticatory apparatus. Palaeoanthropologists spend a great deal of their time reconstructing the diets of our ancestors, as diet holds the key to understanding our evolutionary history. ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Sept 12, 2018 
Future space tourists may be able to toast the view from orbit with fine champagne, after designers came up with a high-tech bottle made for knocking back bubbly in zero gravity.
The Mumm champagne house teamed up with designer Octave de Gaulle, who has specialised in conceiving of everyday objects for the final frontier, to develop the space-age bottles.
Journalists from several countri ... more |
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 Madison WI (SPX) Sep 07, 2018 
Millenia ago, ancient farmers cleared land to plant wheat and maize, potatoes and squash. They flooded fields to grow rice. They began to raise livestock. And unknowingly, they may have been fundamentally altering the climate of the Earth.
A study published in the journal Scientific Reports provides new evidence that ancient farming practices led to a rise in the atmospheric emission of th ... more |
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 Amsterdam, Netherlands (SPX) Sep 12, 2018 
Water trapped in dust grains from which the Earth formed can explain the current large amount of water on Earth. This is suggested by scientists from the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom, based on calculations and simulations. The research will appear in two articles in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics.
For a long time, scientists have been struggling with an explanation f ... more |
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 Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Sep 07, 2018 
A group of scientists from the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) at the University of Copenhagen will soon start developing a new line of technical equipment in order to dramatically improve gravitational wave detectors.
Gravitational wave detectors are extremely sensitive and can e.g. register colliding neutron stars in space. Yet even higher sensitivity is sought for in order to expand our know ... more |
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