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  Washington DC (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 An image from the international Cassini spacecraft provides evidence of rainfall on the north pole of Titan, the largest of Saturn's moons. The rainfall would be the first indication of the start of a summer season in the moon's northern hemisphere. "The whole Titan community has been looking forward to seeing clouds and rains on Titan's north pole, indicating the start of the northern summer, but despite what the climate models had predicted, we weren't even seeing any clouds," said Rajani Dhingr ... read more |
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The Truth is Out There: New Online SETI Tool Tracks Alien SearchesMoscow (Sputnik) Jan 16, 2019 A new online tool will assist amateurs and professionals in digging through massive data banks to uncover new clues into the search for alien life. As researchers around the globe continue the ... more  
POLAR experiment reveals orderly chaos of black holesBeijing, China (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 An international consortium of scientists studying gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) as part of the POLAR (GRB polarimeter) experiment has revealed that high-energy photon emissions from black holes are neith ... more  
Innovative research uses remote radio telescopes to detect cosmic raysPerth, Australia (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 Curtin University researchers have developed a particle detector at the remote site of the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) radio telescope that is capable of conducting a ground-breaking study into ... more 
Trillions of starts light up the dawn of the universeTucson AZ (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 With the help of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the brightest object ever seen at a time when the universe was less than one billion years old. The brilliant beacon is a ... more |
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Comprehensive Model Captures Life of a Solar FlareBoulder CO (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 A team of scientists has, for the first time, used a single, cohesive computer model to simulate the entire life cycle of a solar flare: from the buildup of energy thousands of kilometers below the ... more  
PolyU Provides Multi-Disciplinary Support to the Nation's Historic Landing on the Far Side of the MoonHong Kong, China (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) proudly supported the nation's current lunar exploration, Chang'e-4 lunar probe, which successfully performed the historic landing on the far side of the ... more 
New quantum structures in super-chilled helium may mirror early days of universeHelsinki, Finland (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 For the first time, researchers have documented the long-predicted occurrence of 'walls bound by strings' in superfluid helium-3. The existence of such an object, originally foreseen by cosmology th ... more 
Observations of a rare hypernova complete the picture of the death of the massive starsGranada, Spain (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 The end of a star's life can occur in a tranquil manner in the case of low mass stars, such as the Sun. This is not the case, however, for very massive stars, which suffer such extreme explosive eve ... more 
High-speed supernova reveals earliest moments of a dying starLeicester UK (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 An international team of scientists, including astronomers from the Universities of Leicester, Bath and Warwick, have found evidence for the existence of a 'hot cocoon' of material enveloping a rela ... more |
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 Big Bang query: Mapping how a mysterious liquid became all matter 
Physicists find new ways to manipulate light, paving way for quantum techWashington (UPI) Jan 14, 2019 Scientists at Britain's National Physical Laboratory in London have developed new techniques for manipulating light. ... more  |
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The orderly chaos of black holesGeneva, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 16, 2019 During the formation of a black hole a bright burst of very energetic light in the form of gamma-rays is produced, these events are called gamma-ray bursts. The physics behind this phenomenon includ ... more 
China envisions moon base after far-side successBeijing (AFP) Jan 14, 2019 China will seek to establish an international lunar base one day, possibly using 3D printing technology to build facilities, the Chinese space agency said Monday, weeks after landing a rover on the moon's far side. ... more 
Team of telescopes finds X-ray engine inside mysterious supernovaParis (ESA) Jan 14, 2019 ESA's high-energy space telescopes Integral and XMM-Newton have helped to find a source of powerful X-rays at the centre of an unprecedentedly bright and rapidly evolving stellar explosion that sudd ... more 
Next generation photonic memory devices are light-written, ultrafast and energy efficientEindhoven, Netherlands (SPX) Jan 15, 2019 Light is the most energy-efficient way of moving information. Yet, light shows one big limitation: it is difficult to store. As a matter of fact, data centers rely primarily on magnetic hard drives. ... more 
China's moon rover prepares for a rough ride on the dark sideBeijing (AFP) Jan 11, 2019 China on Friday hailed its historic mission to the far side of the moon as a "complete success" so far but said new challenges await its rover as it explores rugged terrain. ... more |
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 Tucson AZ (SPX) Jan 16, 2019 
On Jan. 2, the New Horizons spacecraft made the most distant flyby ever attempted, successfully returning images of the Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule. While the world is agog at the so-called "snowman" shape of this icy asteroid, the concept is nothing new to PSI scientist and artist, Bill Hartmann.
The figure shows paintings that Hartmann made from 1978 to 1996, to illustrate the possib ... more |
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 Warwick UK (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 
New research led by an astronomer at the University of Warwick has found the first confirmed example of a double star system that has flipped its surrounding disc to a position that leaps over the orbital plane of those stars. The international team of astronomers used the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) to obtain high-resolution images of the Asteroid belt-sized disc.
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 London, Canada (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 
In the coming years, new rovers will explore Mars with better scientific instruments, as capable as those that exist in labs here on Earth today. Roberta Flemming from Western University's Department of Earth Sciences and the Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration is leading a team of researchers to develop a compact instrument that could be deployed to analyze mineral and rock structures ... more |
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 Hong Kong, China (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) proudly supported the nation's current lunar exploration, Chang'e-4 lunar probe, which successfully performed the historic landing on the far side of the Moon on 3 January 2019.
Adopted by Chang'e-4 mission was PolyU's advanced technologies, namely the design and development of an advanced Camera Pointing System, and an innovative lunar topograp ... more |
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 Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 
NASA has moved closer to conducting science operations again with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, which suspended operations on Tuesday, Jan. 8. Today, Jan. 15, the instrument was brought back to its operations mode.
Shortly after noon EST on Jan. 8, software installed on the Wide Field Camera 3 detected that some voltage levels within the instrument were out o ... more |
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 Tempe AZ (SPX) Jan 17, 2019  Fluvial landscapes and the availability of water are of paramount importance for human safety and socioeconomic growth. Hydrologists know that identifying the boundaries of floodplains is often the first crucial step for any urban development or environmental protection plan.
Floodplain zoning is usually performed using complex hydrodynamic models, but modeling results can vary widely acro ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 17, 2019 
According to the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS), researchers have so far detected around 18,000 hazardous objects in space, 99 percent of which are asteroids.
The presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences agreed upon developing a national program to research the issues and methods of countering hazards from space, such as asteroids, comets and space debris, Scientific Director of the ... more |
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Jan 17, 2019 
A team of scientists has, for the first time, used a single, cohesive computer model to simulate the entire life cycle of a solar flare: from the buildup of energy thousands of kilometers below the solar surface, to the emergence of tangled magnetic field lines, to the explosive release of energy in a brilliant flash.
The accomplishment, detailed in the journal Nature Astronomy, sets the s ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Jan 14, 2019 
As the Chang'e-4 probe made the first-ever soft landing on the far side of the moon, a senior Chinese space expert said China will deepen its lunar exploration and venture further into the unknown.
China's current lunar program includes three phases: orbiting, landing, and returning. The first two phases have been accomplished, and the next step is to launch the Chang'e-5 probe to collect ... more |
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Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 17, 2019
NASA has moved closer to conducting science operations again with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 instrument, which suspended operations on Tuesday, Jan. 8. Today, Jan. 15, the instrument was brought back to its operations mode.
Shortly after noon EST on Jan. 8, software installed on the Wide Field Camera 3 detected that some voltage levels within the instrument were out o ... more |
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 Exeter UK (SPX) Jan 15, 2019 
Scientists have made a step forward in understanding the evolution of human feet.
Unlike species such as chimpanzees, which have opposable digits on their feet, humans have evolved arched feet to enhance upright walking.
These arches were thought to be supported by plantar intrinsic muscles (PIMs) - but a study by the University of Queensland and the University of Exeter shows PIMs h ... more |
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 Oslo (XNA) Jan 16, 2019 
Having successfully harvested fresh lettuce in space in 2015, astronauts are expected to see beans on their menu by 2021 thanks to high-tech planters developed by Norwegian researchers.
A technical workshop at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) developed the model of the planter box for producing food in space, said Silje Wolff, a plant physiologist at the Center for ... more |
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 Tampa (AFP) Jan 14, 2019 
Global warming is melting ice in Antarctica faster than ever before - about six times more per year now than 40 years ago - leading to increasingly high sea levels worldwide, scientists warned on Monday.
Already, Antarctic melting has raised global sea levels more than half an inch (1.4 centimeters) between 1979 and 2017, said the report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Scienc ... more |
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 Paris (AFP) Jan 14, 2019  More than 16,000 desalination plants scattered across the globe produce far more toxic sludge than fresh water, according to a first global assessment of the sector's industrial waste, published Monday.
For every litre of fresh water extracted from the sea or brackish waterways, a litre-and-a-half of salty slurry, called brine, is dumped directly back into the ocean or the ground.
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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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