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  Evanston IL (SPX) Jan 09, 2019 Microbes stranded in the International Space Station (ISS) are just trying to survive, man. A new Northwestern University study has found that - despite its seemingly harsh conditions - the ISS is not causing bacteria to mutate into dangerous, antibiotic-resistant superbugs. While the team found that the bacteria isolated from the ISS did contain different genes than their Earthling counterparts, those genes did not make the bacteria more detrimental to human health. The bacteria are instead ... read more |
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Young planets orbiting red dwarfs may lack ingredients for lifeBaltimore MD (SPX) Jan 09, 2019 Rocky planets orbiting red dwarf stars may be bone dry and lifeless, according to a new study using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (http://www.nasa.gov/hubble). Water and organic compounds, essential ... more 
Nature's magnifying glass reveals unexpected intermediate mass exoplanetsMaunakea HI (SPX) Jan 09, 2019 Astronomers have found a new exoplanet that could alter the standing theory of planet formation. With a mass that's between that of Neptune and Saturn, and its location beyond the "snow line" of its ... more  
'Missing' galactic mergers come to lightBoulder CO (SPX) Jan 09, 2019 Galaxy mergers - in which two galaxies join together over billions of years in brilliant bursts of light - aren't always easy for astronomers to spot. Now, scientists from the University of Colorado ... more 
Astronomers find warped protoplanetary disk around distant starWashington (UPI) Jan 8, 2019 Researchers in Japan have identified a young star with an already warped protoplanetary disk. The discovery could help scientists better understand how planets come to travel in slightly askew orbital planes. ... more |
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TESS discovers its third new planet, with longest orbit yetBoston MA (SPX) Jan 08, 2019 NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, has discovered a third small planet outside our solar system, scientists announced this week at the annual American Astronomical Society winter me ... more  
UA student simulates thousands of black holes to test EinsteinTucson AZ (SPX) Jan 08, 2019 Lia Medeiros, a doctoral student at the University of Arizona, is developing mathematical models that will allow researchers to pit Einstein's general theory of relativity against the most powerful ... more  
Scientists expect breakthrough findings on lunar far sideBeijing (XNA) Jan 05, 2019 China's Chang'e-4 probe has landed on the South Pole-Aitken (SPA) Basin on the far side of the moon, regarded as a virgin territory by scientists expecting important discoveries. "The far side ... more 
Chinese rover Yutu-2 rolls out on to lunar far sideBeijing (XNA) Jan 05, 2019 China's second lunar rover has driven on the far side of the moon, which is expected to bring more scientific discoveries from the alien world. The new rover, named Yutu-2, or literally Jade R ... more 
Chinese rover 'Jade Rabbit' drives on far side of the moonBeijing (AFP) Jan 4, 2019 A Chinese lunar rover has driven on the far side of the moon, the national space agency announced on Friday, hailing the development as a "big step for the Chinese people". ... more |
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India's second moon mission postponed again - reportsMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 04, 2019 India's first moon mission, named Chandrayaan-1, took place back in 2008. The Chandrayaan-2 mission was scheduled to be launched on Thursday but has reportedly been postponed. India's second m ... more  |
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Galaxy collision could send solar system flyingDurham UK (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 A nearby galaxy is hurtling towards the Milky Way on a collision course that could fling our solar system into interstellar space. New research led by astrophysicists at Durham University, UK, ... more 
Programming light on a chipBoston MA (SPX) Jan 09, 2019 Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new integrated photonics platform that can store light and electrically control its fr ... more 
A competing state of matter in superconducting material uncoveredAmes IA (SPX) Jan 03, 2019 A team of experimentalists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory and theoreticians at University of Alabama Birmingham discovered a remarkably long-lived new state of matter in an iron ... more 
Chang'e-4 lands on largest crater in solar systemBeijing (XNA) Jan 04, 2019 China's Chang'e-4 lunar probe has made the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon. Experts believe that the precise landing will help prepare the country for its following lunar explora ... more 
Swedish instrument has landed on the moonKiruna, Sweden (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 On January 3, 03:26 Swedish time, the Chinese Chang'E-4 spacecraft landed successfully on the far side of the Moon. The Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF) has developed one of the scientific i ... more |
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 Laurel MD (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 
Data from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which explored Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule earlier this week, is yielding scientific discoveries daily.
"The first exploration of a small Kuiper Belt object and the most distant exploration of any world in history is now history, but almost all of the data analysis lies in the future," said Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boul ... more |
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 Boston MA (SPX) Jan 08, 2019 
NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, TESS, has discovered a third small planet outside our solar system, scientists announced this week at the annual American Astronomical Society winter meeting in Seattle.
The new planet, named HD 21749b, orbits a bright, nearby dwarf star about 53 light-years away, in the constellation Reticulum, and appears to have the longest orbital period of ... more |
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 London, UK (SPX) Jan 03, 2019 
As far as we know, Mars is the only planet populated entirely by robots! Due to the time taken for commands to travel to Mars (eight minutes each way), hand guided robots are limited to travelling only a few dozen metres a day.
New software developed in the UK will change this, enabling future Mars rovers to make their own decisions about where to go and how to get there, driving up to a k ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) Jan 4, 2019 
A Chinese lunar rover has driven on the far side of the moon, the national space agency announced on Friday, hailing the development as a "big step for the Chinese people".
The Yutu-2 (Jade Rabbit-2) rover drove onto the moon's surface from the lander at 10:22pm Thursday (1422 GMT), about 12 hours after the groundbreaking touchdown of the Chang'e-4 probe, the agency said.
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 SAntiago, Chile (SPX) Jan 08, 2019 
The paper was published in the last 2018 issue (Dec 20) of the Astrophysical Journal and was led by the astronomer of the University of Chile and researcher of the Center for Excellence in Astrophysics and Associated Technologies CATA, Luis Campusano.
Fritz Zwicky, famous American astronomer of Swiss origin, arrived in 1933 at the astonishing conclusion that even though galaxies are the si ... more |
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 Aarhus, Denmark (SPX) Jan 08, 2019 
How far have we come in achieving the UN's sustainable development goals that we are committed to nationally and internationally? Yes, it can be difficult to make a global assessment of poverty and poor economic conditions, but with an eye in the sky, researchers are able to give us a very good hint of the living conditions of populations in the world's poor countries.
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 01, 2019 
At 2:43 p.m. EST on December 31, while many on Earth prepared to welcome the New Year, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, 70 million miles (110 million kilometers) away, carried out a single, eight-second burn of its thrusters - and broke a space exploration record. The spacecraft entered into orbit around the asteroid Bennu, and made Bennu the smallest object ever to be orbited by a spacecraft.
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 Plainsboro NJ (SPX) Jan 02, 2019 
The sun defies conventional scientific understanding. Its upper atmosphere, known as the corona, is many millions of degrees hotter than its surface. Astrophysicists are keen to learn why the corona is so hot, and scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) have completed research that may advance the search.
The scientists found that form ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) Jan 6, 2019 
During the Cold War, US eyes were riveted on the Soviet Union's rockets and satellites. But in recent years, it has been China's space programs that have most worried US strategists.
China, whose space effort is run by the People's Liberation Army, today launches more rockets into space than any other country - 39 last year, compared to 31 by the United States, 20 by Russia and eight by Eur ... more |
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SAntiago, Chile (SPX) Jan 08, 2019
The paper was published in the last 2018 issue (Dec 20) of the Astrophysical Journal and was led by the astronomer of the University of Chile and researcher of the Center for Excellence in Astrophysics and Associated Technologies CATA, Luis Campusano.
Fritz Zwicky, famous American astronomer of Swiss origin, arrived in 1933 at the astonishing conclusion that even though galaxies are the si ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 01, 2019 
Zinc is one of the essential components in the diet of all living organisms. It is the second most abundant biological trace element after iron. Zinc is of great importance in various metabolic functions and its deficiency can cause many problems.
It is involved in cellular metabolism, growth, development, cellular physiology, and immune function. Approximately 300 enzymes and 100 transcri ... more |
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 London (AFP) Jan 9, 2019 
London is Europe's most attractive city for technology start-ups, despite a sharp slowdown last year, a study showed Wednesday.
With Brexit looming, the Mayor's promotional agency London & Partners said that Pounds 1.8 billion ($2.3 billion, 2.0 billion euros) was invested in fledgling tech businesses in 2018.
That represented a near 30-percent slump on 2017 and was the first slowdown in six y ... more |
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 East Boothbay ME (SPX) Jan 09, 2019 
Microscopic marine plants flourish beneath the ice that covers the Greenland Sea, according to a new study in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. These phytoplankton create the energy that fuels ocean ecosystems, and the study found that half of this energy is produced under the sea ice in late winter and early spring, and the other half at the edge of the ice in spring.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Jan 04, 2019 
Chilly reminders of a centuries-long cold snap can be found deep within the Pacific, a new study finds.
According to the results, ongoing cooling observed in Pacific deep-ocean temperatures indicates that the deep Pacific is still adjusting to the surface cooling that occurred during the Little Ice Age, which began nearly 1,000 years ago.
The common-era climate anomaly known as the L ... more |
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 Hannover, Germany (SPX) Dec 17, 2018 
The detection of Einstein's gravitational waves relies on highly precise laser measurements of small length changes. The kilometer-size detectors of the international network (GEO600, LIGO, Virgo) are so sensitive that they are fundamentally limited by tiny quantum mechanical effects.
These cause a background noise which overlaps with gravitational-wave signals. This noise is always presen ... more |
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