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  Seville, Spain (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 The Flow Focusing technology (also known as GDVN, Gas Dynamic Virtual Nozzle), has been one of the key elements in the success of the first experiments carried out by the European XFEL project, the greatest source of x-rays in the world today. It is a tool that was created and developed by the Fluid Mechanics teacher Alfonso Ganan Calvo, of the Higher Technical School of Engineering at the University of Seville. This technology, which has been used for the study of microscopic biological samples, ... read more |
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Ultracold quantum mixInnsbruck, Austria (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 Only a few years ago it seemed unfeasible to extend the techniques of atom manipulation and deep cooling in the ultracold regime to many-valence-electron atomic species. The reason being the increas ... more 
New concept for tractor beam from Star Wars developedSaint Petersburg, Russia (SPX) Nov 28, 2018 Physicists from ITMO University developed a model of an optical tractor beam to capture particles based on new artificial materials. Such a beam is capable of moving particles or cells towards the r ... more 
Researchers have created a virtual reality simulation of a supermassive black holeWashington DC (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 The black hole at the centre of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, has been visualised in virtual reality for the first time. The details are described in an article published in the open access journal Co ... more 
The quest for galactic relics from the primordial universePorto, Portugal (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 They are massive, they are very small, and they are extremely rare, but may hold the secrets of how galaxies form and evolve. A new study[1] lifts the tip of the veil over the timid life of the mass ... more |
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Bacteria Likely to Soon Infect ISS Crew Found to Be Antibiotic-ResistantHouston TX (Sputnik) Nov 27, 2018 Although the newly researched strains bear a striking similarity to ones typically found on Earth, specifically in intensive care units in hospitals, the discovery is a wake-up call given the no-gra ... more 
New Climate Models of TRAPPIST-1's Seven Intriguing WorldsSeattle WA (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 Not all stars are like the Sun, so not all planetary systems can be studied with the same expectations. New research from a University of Washington-led team of astronomers gives updated climate mod ... more  
Astronomers discover giant relic of disrupted 'tadpole' galaxyTel Aviv, Israel (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 A team of astronomers from Israel, the United States and Russia has identified a disrupted galaxy resembling a giant tadpole, complete with an elliptical head and a long, straight tail, about 300 mi ... more 
From gamma rays to x-raysParis (ESA) Nov 26, 2018 Based on a new theoretical model, a team of scientists explored the rich data archive of ESA's XMM-Newton and NASA's Chandra space observatories to find pulsating X-ray emission from three sources. ... more  
Auroras help scientists study energy instabilities in spaceWashington (UPI) Nov 26, 2018 Scientists are using auroras to better understand the physics of explosive energy instabilities in space. ... more |
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NASA's Lucy in the Sky with... Asteroids?Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 A little over 4 billion years ago, the planets in our solar system coexisted with vast numbers of small rocky or icy objects orbiting the Sun. These were the last remnants of the planetesimals - the ... more  |
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Oxygen could have been available to life as early as 3.5 billion years agoLondon, UK (SPX) Nov 28, 2018 Microbes could have performed oxygen-producing photosynthesis at least one billion years earlier in the history of the Earth than previously thought. The finding could change ideas of how and ... more 
New device widens light beams by 400 timesWashington DC (SPX) Nov 29, 2018 By using light waves instead of electric current to transmit data, photonic chips - circuits for light - have advanced fundamental research in many areas from timekeeping to telecommunications. But ... more 
Atomic jet - the first lens for extreme-ultraviolet light developedBerlin, Germany (SPX) Nov 29, 2018 Scientists from the Max Born Institute (MBI) have developed the first refractive lens that focuses extreme ultraviolet beams. Instead of using a glass lens, which is non-transparent in the extreme-u ... more 
Quantum artificial life created on the cloudBilbao, Spain (SPX) Nov 23, 2018 A scenario of artificial intelligence could see the emergence of circumstances in which models of simple organisms could be capable of experiencing the various phases of life in a controlled virtual ... more 
Draw-your-own electrodes set to speed up development of micro detection devicesLondon, UK (SPX) Nov 27, 2018 Miniature devices for sensing biological molecules could be developed quicker thanks to a rapid prototyping method. Devices that sense and measure biological molecules important for healthcare, such ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Nov 28, 2018 
The New Horizons spacecraft is healthy and is now beginning its final approach to explore Ultima Thule - our first Kuiper Belt object (KBO) flyby target - about a billion miles beyond Pluto. And on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, New Horizons will swoop three times closer to "Ultima" than we flew past Pluto three years ago!
As someone who follows New Horizons, let your friends and socia ... more |
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 Seattle WA (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 
Not all stars are like the Sun, so not all planetary systems can be studied with the same expectations. New research from a University of Washington-led team of astronomers gives updated climate models for the seven planets around the star TRAPPIST-1.
The work also could help astronomers more effectively study planets around stars unlike our Sun, and better use the limited, expensive resou ... more |
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 Pasadena, United States (AFP) Nov 26, 2018  Cheers and applause erupted at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday as a $993 million unmanned lander, called InSight, touched down on the Red Planet and managed to send back its first picture.
The high-drama landing of the waist-high spacecraft capped a nearly seven year journey, from spacecraft design, to launch to eventual touchdown, marking the eighth successful landing on Mars in ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Nov 20, 2018 
Russia's Roscosmos state space corporation and NASA will work on the concept of a lunar orbital station that may be built with the fully-fledged participation of Russia, Roscosmos head Dmitry Rogozin said on Monday.
"Today NASA is highly interested in the full-fledged Russian participation [in development of a lunar station], and I hope that together we will shape the full architecture of ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Nov 26, 2018 
In order to observe billions of faint galaxies and investigate the nature of the dark Universe, ESA's pioneering Euclid mission will require state-of-the-art optics. The first optical element to be delivered, the telescope's primary mirror (M1), has arrived at the premises of Airbus Defence and Space in Toulouse.
Euclid's optical design is based on a Korsch-type telescope with an aperture ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) Nov 29, 2018 
The possibility of extreme summer heat and typhoons in Tokyo is a "major issue" for the 2020 Olympics, a top official said Thursday, admitting there would be a knock-on effect on the budget.
Speaking to bosses from Olympic Committees around the world, Tokyo CEO Toshiro Muto said the Japanese capital had endured "unprecedented heat weather and typhoons last summer."
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Nov 26, 2018 
A little over 4 billion years ago, the planets in our solar system coexisted with vast numbers of small rocky or icy objects orbiting the Sun. These were the last remnants of the planetesimals - the primitive building blocks that formed the planets.
Most of these leftover objects were then lost, as shifts in the orbits of the giant planets scattered them to the distant outer reaches of the ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 26, 2018 
Scientists are using auroras to better understand the physics of explosive energy instabilities in space.
"An instability is a physical process whereby the energy output can essentially grow very quickly without limits," Colin Forsyth, physicist at the University College London's, told UPI in an email.
When a clean swell breaks and crashes on the beach, or when a pile of sand sud ... more |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Nov 23, 2018  According to Euroconsult's latest report, China Space Industry 2018, the China space value chain had an estimated size of more than $16 billion in 2017, with the downstream market accounting for just over 85%. Satellite Navigation, one of the key satellite applications in China, was the main revenue generator in 2017, ahead of Satellite Communications and Earth Observation.
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Paris (ESA) Nov 26, 2018
In order to observe billions of faint galaxies and investigate the nature of the dark Universe, ESA's pioneering Euclid mission will require state-of-the-art optics. The first optical element to be delivered, the telescope's primary mirror (M1), has arrived at the premises of Airbus Defence and Space in Toulouse.
Euclid's optical design is based on a Korsch-type telescope with an aperture ... more |
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 Edinburgh UK (SPX) Nov 28, 2018 
Some of the world's oldest cave paintings have revealed how ancient people had relatively advanced knowledge of astronomy.
The artworks, at sites across Europe, are not simply depictions of wild animals, as was previously thought. Instead, the animal symbols represent star constellations in the night sky, and are used to represent dates and mark events such as comet strikes, analysis sugge ... more |
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 Houston TX (Sputnik) Nov 27, 2018 
Analysis has shown that all five strains of the mysterious bacterium found on the space station belonged to one species, called Enterobacter bugandensis. They resembled the genomes that infected newborn babies on our planet, raising concerns that they could also threaten the astronauts' health.
Astronauts on board the International Space Station are coexisting with a colony of "space bugs" ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Nov 27, 2018 
An ancient rhino species known as the Siberian unicorn persisted on the Eurasian steppe for longer than previously estimated.
According to a new study, the Siberian unicorn, Elasmotherium sibiricum, went extinct around 35,000 years ago.
There were once as many as 250 rhino species. Today, only five rhino species survive. Researchers think the Siberian rhino was one of the last ex ... more |
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 London (AFP) Nov 28, 2018 
Britain's environment minister reassured the country on Wednesday that it would have plenty of safe drinking water should it crash out of the European Union without a deal.
The unusual message from Michael Gove came in response to a media report of cabinet ministers being briefed about various doomsday scenarios.
One of them reportedly included the possibility of the UK running out of th ... more |
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 Nagoya, Japan (SPX) Nov 19, 2018 
Everybody is familiar with granular clusters - while making a cake in the kitchen, you see that the flour forms clumps. Porous dust agglomerates - clumps of clumps of dust grains - are considered to be building materials in the formation of planets. But to reveal how planets are formed, the physical behaviour of these dust clumps has to be properly understood.
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