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  Oxford UK (SPX) Dec 06, 2018 It's embarrassing, but astrophysicists are the first to admit it. Our best theoretical model can only explain 5% of the universe. The remaining 95% is famously made up almost entirely of invisible, unknown material dubbed dark energy and dark matter. So even though there are a billion trillion stars in the observable universe, they are actually extremely rare. The two mysterious dark substances can only be inferred from gravitational effects. Dark matter may be an invisible material, but it exerts ... read more |
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BepiColombo now firing on all cylindersParis (ESA) Dec 06, 2018 BepiColombo, the joint ESA/JAXA spacecraft on a mission to Mercury, is now firing its thrusters for the first time in flight. On Sunday, BepiColombo carried out the first successful manoeuver ... more  
China Will Launch First Probe to Moon's Far Side Later This WeekBeijing (Sputnik) Dec 05, 2018 On December 8, China's space agency will launch the Chang'e-4 probe, the first to visit the surface of the far side of the moon. The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has been setting ... more  
COSINE-100 experiment investigates dark matter mysteryNew Haven CT (SPX) Dec 06, 2018 Yale scientists are part of a new international experiment that challenges previous claims about the detection of non-luminous dark matter. Astrophysical evidence suggests that the universe co ... more 
Will light be the basis for quantum computing?Montreal, Canada (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 Using a compact optical platform that exploits the quantum characteristics of light, Professor Roberto Morandotti and his team are one step closer to realizing the first powerful photonic quantum co ... more |
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OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Arrives at Asteroid BennuWashington DC (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 NASA's Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx,) spacecraft completed its 1.2 billion-mile (2 billion-kilometer) journey to arrive at the as ... more  
Portsmouth researchers make vital contribution to new gravitational wave discoveriesPortsmouth UK (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 Researchers from the University of Portsmouth have made vital contributions to the observations of four new gravitational waves, which were announced this weekend (1 December). The new results ... more  
Radio JOVE From NASA: Tuning In to Your Local Celestial Radio ShowGreenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 What does Jupiter sound like? If you had to take a guess, would you imagine the sharp staccato of popcorn popping? The slow static of waves reaching the shore? As it turns out, Jupiter produces a ca ... more 
Double Trouble: A White Dwarf Surprises AstronomersHuntsville AL (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 Astronomers have detected a bright X-ray outburst from a star in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy almost 200,000 light years from Earth. A combination of X-ray and optical data indicate t ... more 
A golden age for particle analysisNuremberg, Germany (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 Process engineers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg (FAU) have developed a method which allows the size and shape of nanoparticles in dispersions to be determined considerably qui ... more |
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 Discovery of single material that produces white light could boost efficiency of LED bulbs 
On the trail of the Higgs BosonBologna, Italy (SPX) Dec 06, 2018 For the physics community, the discovery of new particles like the Higgs Boson has paved the way for a host of exciting potential experiments. Yet, when it comes to such an elusive particle as the H ... more  |
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Science: High pressure orders electronsKarlsruher, Germany (SPX) Dec 06, 2018 High-temperature superconductors can transport electrical energy without resistance. Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) have carried out high-resolution inelastic x-ray scatterin ... more 
Taking the Measure of an AsteroidBOULDER CO (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 CU Boulder scientists have a front row seat to observe a NASA spacecraft as it approaches the asteroid Bennu, coming to within 4.5 miles of the space rock. This meet up, which happened this morning, ... more 
Four New Gravitational Wave Detections AnnouncedLondon, UK (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 Four new gravitational wave detections have been announced including the most massive and distant source ever observed. The results are included in a new paper from the Laser Interferometer Gravitat ... more 
Four New Gravitational Wave Events from Black Hole MergersCollege Park MD (SPX) Dec 03, 2018 Scientists announced four new observations of gravitational waves - ripples in the fabric of spacetime - from the final moments of black hole mergers. The twin Laser Interferometer Gravitation ... more  
The empire strikes back: Microsoft returns to the top of the worldWashington (AFP) Dec 2, 2018 Microsoft is back at the top of the technology world following an extraordinary comeback to close the gap with Apple, some three years into a transformation of the onetime leader by chief executive Satya Nadella. ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 
What does Jupiter sound like? If you had to take a guess, would you imagine the sharp staccato of popcorn popping? The slow static of waves reaching the shore? As it turns out, Jupiter produces a cacophony of such sounds and all you need to hear them for yourself is a box the size of a DVD player.
The universe is full of radio emissions. Many objects in space emit radio waves, and scientis ... more |
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 Mountain View CA (SPX) Dec 05, 2018 
It's the first time a visitor from another star system has been seen nearby. But what is it? An asteroid, a comet ... or an alien artifact?
Scientists at the SETI Institute have attempted to address this question by using the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) to observe 'Oumuamua when it was about 170 million miles away, or slightly less than the diameter of Earth's orbit.
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Dec 06, 2018 
Arizona State University research technician and Mars 2020 Mastcam-Z calibration engineer Andy Winhold waited patiently on the loading dock of ASU's Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building IV in anticipation of the arrival of a very special delivery.
On board the delivery truck was precious cargo from Malin Space Science Systems, a test model of "Mastcam-Z," the mast-mounted came ... more |
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 Beijing (Sputnik) Dec 05, 2018 
On December 8, China's space agency will launch the Chang'e-4 probe, the first to visit the surface of the far side of the moon.
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has been setting the stage for a number of remote lunar operations, launching the Queqiao communications satellite to an orbit on the far side of the moon this past May and planning out its new Long March 9 heavy lif ... more |
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 Montreal, Canada (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 
Using a compact optical platform that exploits the quantum characteristics of light, Professor Roberto Morandotti and his team are one step closer to realizing the first powerful photonic quantum computer. In the journal Nature Physics, the INRS researchers revealed to have generated a particular class of quantum states-d-level cluster states-, as well as to have used them to implement novel qua ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Dec 06, 2018 
Measurements of atmospheric ozone from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite are now being used in daily forecasts of air quality.
Launched in October 2017, Copernicus Sentinel-5P - short for Sentinel-5 Precursor - is the first Copernicus satellite dedicated to monitoring our atmosphere. It is part of the fleet of Copernicus Sentinel missions that ESA develops for the European Union's envir ... more |
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 Tampa (AFP) Dec 3, 2018 
NASA's first-ever mission designed to visit an asteroid and return a sample of its dust back to Earth arrived Monday at its destination, Bennu, two years after launching from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The $800 million unmanned mission, known as OSIRIS-REx, made a rendez-vous with the asteroid at around 12:10 pm (1710 GMT), firing its engines a final time.
"We have arrived," said Javier Ce ... 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.
This premier ed ... more |
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Montreal, Canada (SPX) Dec 04, 2018
Using a compact optical platform that exploits the quantum characteristics of light, Professor Roberto Morandotti and his team are one step closer to realizing the first powerful photonic quantum computer. In the journal Nature Physics, the INRS researchers revealed to have generated a particular class of quantum states-d-level cluster states-, as well as to have used them to implement novel qua ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Dec 4, 2018  As humans continue to alter the landscape and transform environments, ecosystems across the globe are becoming increasingly homogenous.
New research suggests the same cosmopolitan species are taking advantage of humankind's environmental disruption. And as the same cosmopolitan species thrive across planet Earth, more unique species are disappearing.
To quantify the phenomenon, a ... more |
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 Storrs CT (SPX) Dec 05, 2018 
An experiment devised by researchers at UConn startup LambdaVision will be launched into space tomorrow. The company's robotic system to manufacture films that could cure blindness will be brought to the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory by the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft.
The experiment is one of a diverse group of research investigations intended to benefit life on Earth ... more |
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 Ottawa (AFP) Dec 3, 2018 
A committee of wildlife experts warned Monday that Canada's largest land predator, the polar bear, was at risk of disappearing from its vast Arctic landscape as melting Arctic sea ice makes hunting prey a challenge.
"It is clear we will need to keep a close eye on this species," Graham Forbes, co-chair of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC) said in a statem ... more |
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 West Lafayette IN (SPX) Dec 06, 2018 
One hundred thousand residents of Flint, Michigan could only use water from bottles or filters during a years-long lead contamination crisis, which started when the city switched to a new drinking water source in 2014.
As part of a class assignment that grew into a case study, Purdue University researchers found that during the first three weeks of the disaster alone, anywhere from 31 to 1 ... more |
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 Portsmouth UK (SPX) Dec 04, 2018 
Researchers from the University of Portsmouth have made vital contributions to the observations of four new gravitational waves, which were announced this weekend (1 December).
The new results are from the National Science Foundation's LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) and the European-based VIRGO gravitational-wave detector. The results were announced at the Gravi ... more |
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