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  Samara, Russia (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 Until now, in the scientific community there has been the prevailing view that thermal processes associated exclusively with the combustion and high-temperature processing of organic raw materials such as oil, coal, wood, garbage, food, tobacco underpin the formation of PAHs. However, the scientists from Samara University, together with their colleagues from the University of Hawaii, Florida International University, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory proved that the chemical synthesis of P ... read more |
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LGS Innovations' Laser Technology to Bring HD Video from the MoonHerndon, VA (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 LGS Innovations, a technology company providing specialized mission-critical communication research and solutions, has announced that it will be supporting the National Aeronautics and Space Adminis ... more  
FEFU astrophysicist contributed into international-team efforts on study Comet 29PVladivostok, Russia (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 Evgenij Zubko of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) in collaboration with other international team members has developed a comprehensive model to explain the results of a photometric study of the ... more  
Hubble moving closer to normal science operationsWashington DC (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 NASA took great strides last week to press into service a Hubble Space Telescope backup gyroscope (gyro) that was incorrectly returning extremely high rotation rates. The backup gyro was turned on a ... more 
Asteroid named after university of China's science academyBeijing (XNA) Oct 19, 2018 An asteroid has been named after the university of China's top science academy, with approval from the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union (IAU). Asteroid Guokeda (Univ ... more |
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UK-led Space Technology on BepiColombo Mission to MercuryLeicester UK (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 As the BepiColombo spacecraft sets off on its seven year journey to explore the strange world of Mercury this week, it will be carrying a piece of cutting-edge technology developed and built by UK s ... more 
Bepicolombo's first space selfiesParis (ESA) Oct 23, 2018 This trio of images was captured by the BepiColombo spacecraft after it blasted off into space at 01:45 GMT on 20 October on its seven year cruise to Mercury, the innermost planet of the Solar Syste ... more 
Giant planets around young star raise questions about how planets formBoston MA (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 Researchers have identified a young star with four Jupiter and Saturn-sized planets in orbit around it, the first time that so many massive planets have been detected in such a young system. T ... more  
Astronomers propose a new method for detecting black holesTenerife, Spain (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 Researchers at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) have thought out a strategy which could lead to a triplication in the number of known stellar mass black holes. A stellar mass bla ... more 
Algorithm takes search for habitable planets to the next levelThuwal, Saudi Arabia (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 An international team of scientists, including high performance computing (HPC) experts from the King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST), astronomers from the Paris Observatory a ... more |
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 Scientist explores a better way to predict space weather 
Superflares from young red dwarf stars imperil planetsBaltimore MD (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 The word "HAZMAT" describes substances that pose a risk to the environment, or even to life itself. Imagine the term being applied to entire planets, where violent flares from the host star may make ... more  |
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Students help scientist ID the sonic signatures of solar stormsWashington (UPI) Oct 20, 2018 What does it sound like when solar storms collide with Earth's magnetosphere? Students in London are helping scientists find out. ... more 
Russian physicists observe dark matter forming dropletsMoscow, Russia (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 Researchers developed a mathematical model describing motion of dark matter particles inside the smallest galaxy halos. They observed that over time, the dark matter may form spherical droplets of q ... more  
Gravitational waves could shed light on dark matterZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will enable astrophysicists to observe gravitational waves emitted by black holes as they collide with or capture other black holes. LISA will consist o ... more 
In five -10 years, gravitational waves could accurately measure universe's expansionChicago IL (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 Twenty years ago, scientists were shocked to realize that our universe is not only expanding, but that it's expanding fasterover time. Pinning down the exact rate of expansion, called the Hubb ... more 
Preparing future explorers for a return to the MoonColumbia MD (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 To train future explorers to support NASA's mission to return to the Moon's surface, scientists use similar environments found on the Earth. Last week, a group of domestic and international students ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 
The study of two potential plume sites on Jupiter's moon Europa has shown a lack of expected hotspot signatures, unlike Enceladus where plumes have a very clear and obvious temperature signature, research by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Julie Rathbun shows.
"We searched through the available Galileo thermal data at the locations proposed as the sites of potential plumes. Re ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 
Strategies to identify and explore ocean worlds in our solar system should focus on a range of targets, including confirmed and unconfirmed ocean worlds, according to a new paper by a team led by Planetary Science Institute Senior Scientist Amanda R. Hendrix.
Hendrix and Terry A. Hurford of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center are co-lead authors of "The NASA Roadmap to Ocean Worlds" that appe ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 22, 2018 
Imagine you are on Mars and you stumble upon an interesting rock. The colours, the shape of the crystals and the place where you find it all tell you: there is more to it than meets the eye. Tool in hand, you analyse how light scatters through it. Seconds later you read the following description on the screen:
Jarosite is a potassium and iron bearing hydrated sulphate. It crystallises with ... more |
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 Columbia MD (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 
To train future explorers to support NASA's mission to return to the Moon's surface, scientists use similar environments found on the Earth. Last week, a group of domestic and international students traveled to Barringer Meteorite Crater (aka Meteor Crater), Arizona, to learn necessary skills that could help NASA implement its plans for human and robotic missions to the lunar surface.
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 Taipei, Taiwan (SPX) Oct 19, 2018 
Almost all galaxy clusters experience mergers. While a merger takes place, a specific pattern of "spiral" often can be observed in X-ray images. Such a spiral feature is due to the motion of the gas (induced by a merger), called "sloshing gas." Observing a phenomenon similar to sloshing gas in the daily life is easy: when you swirl a wine glass containing some water in it and you will see how th ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Oct 23, 2018 
As part of a scientific collaboration with the Mexican Space Agency and other Mexican scientific public entities, ESA has combined images from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission to produce a detailed view of the different types of vegetation growing across the entire country.
The high-resolution land-cover map combines images captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2 between 2016 and 2018.
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 Vladivostok, Russia (SPX) Oct 22, 2018 
Evgenij Zubko of Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) in collaboration with other international team members has developed a comprehensive model to explain the results of a photometric study of the Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 (29P) which was successfully accomplished recently. The findings came as a real surprise revealed that the dust environment of 29P predominantly consists of only one type ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 20, 2018 
What does it sound like when solar storms collide with Earth's magnetosphere? Students in London are helping scientists find out.
Earth's magnetic field features a near-constant cacophony of low-frequency sound waves - too low-pitched to be discernible to the human ear. But by speeding up audio recordings of the magnetosphere, researchers at London's Queen Mary University made the soun ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Oct 19, 2018 
Many new companies have entered the commercial aerospace industry in China, supported by the government. Most of the CEOs come from government aerospace agencies or national scientific institutions. These companies still have a long way to go to catch up with Elon Musk's SpaceX.
The aerospace industry used to be a battleground for superpowers. Space agencies were all sponsored by governmen ... more |
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Taipei, Taiwan (SPX) Oct 19, 2018
Almost all galaxy clusters experience mergers. While a merger takes place, a specific pattern of "spiral" often can be observed in X-ray images. Such a spiral feature is due to the motion of the gas (induced by a merger), called "sloshing gas." Observing a phenomenon similar to sloshing gas in the daily life is easy: when you swirl a wine glass containing some water in it and you will see how th ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Oct 19, 2018 
Neurons inside the human brain are significantly larger than those in rodent brains. According to new research, the enhanced size allows for electrical compartmentalization.
Compartmentalized electrical signaling can help explain the advanced cognitive capabilities of the human brain.
"We've known for over 100 years that these human neurons had different shapes and were much long ... more |
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 Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 18, 2018 
With scarce nutrients and weak gravity, growing potatoes on the Moon or on other planets seems unimaginable. But the plant hormone strigolactone could make it possible, plant biologists from the University of Zurich have shown. The hormone supports the symbiosis between fungi and plant roots, thus encouraging plants' growth - even under the challenging conditions found in space.
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 
It's called ArcCI (or Arctic CyberInfrastructure) and promises to combine the thousands of images that have been taken along the years of the Arctic Ocean into one global database that will help scientists and the world see the physical changes occurring in the region including ice loss.
The hope is that this web-based repository will allow researchers to spend more time analyzing informat ... more |
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 Pohang, South Korea (SPX) Oct 17, 2018 
Changes in Atlantic Ocean sea surface temperatures can be used to predict extreme climatic variations known as El Nino and La Nina more than a year in advance, according to research conducted at Korea's Pohang University of Science and Technology and published in the journal Scientific Reports.
The El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is an irregular, periodic variation in trade winds and s ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Oct 23, 2018 
Twenty years ago, scientists were shocked to realize that our universe is not only expanding, but that it's expanding fasterover time.
Pinning down the exact rate of expansion, called the Hubble constant after famed astronomer and UChicago alumnus Edwin Hubble, has been surprisingly difficult. Since then scientists have used two methods to calculate the value, and they spit out distressing ... more |
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