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  Moscow (Sputnik) Apr 23, 2019 When India tested its anti-satellite weapons, more than 100 fragments of destroyed spacecraft were created; in the future, these fragments could pose a threat to the ISS, the Russian Defence Ministry said. "On 27 March, India successfully tested anti-satellite weapons, as a result of the destruction of the spacecraft, more than 100 fragments were formed in the altitude range from 100 to 1,000 kilometres, orbiting very close to the ISS, which may create threats in the near future," senior assistant ... read more |
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Earth vs. asteroids: humans strike backParis (ESA) Apr 23, 2019 Incoming asteroids have been scarring our home planet for billions of years. This month humankind left our own mark on an asteroid for the first time: Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft dropped a copper p ... more  
Kennedy Scientist Leading Team to Combat Lunar DustKennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 Dust can be a nuisance - on Earth and the Moon. Astronauts exploring the Moon's South Pole will need a way to help keep pesky lunar dust out of hard to reach places. A team at NASA's Kennedy S ... more 
NASA accepts challenge of sending American astronauts to Moon in 2024Washington DC (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 The president directed NASA to land American astronauts on the Moon by 2024, and the agency is working to accelerate humanity's return to the lunar surface by all means necessary. "We've been ... more  
Travel through wormholes is possible, but slowWashington DC (SPX) Apr 16, 2019 A Harvard physicist has shown that wormholes can exist: tunnels in curved space-time, connecting two distant places, through which travel is possible. But don't pack your bags for a trip to ot ... more |
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Slime mold memorizes foreign substances by absorbing themWashington (UPI) Apr 22, 2019 The slime mold Physarum polycephalum doesn't have a nervous system, yet the single-celled organism is capable of learning and communicating. ... more 
Physicists aim to catch slow-decaying dark particle inside LHCWashington (UPI) Apr 18, 2019 Scientists at the Large Hadron Collider have developed a new strategy for tracking down dark matter. ... more  
Scientists from NUST MISIS create a super-fast robot microscope to search for dark matterMoscow, Russia (SPX) Apr 15, 2019 Researchers from the National University of science and technology MISIS (NUST MISIS, Moscow, Russia) and the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN, Naples, Italy) have developed a simple and ... more 
"Space Butterfly" Is Home to Hundreds of Baby StarsPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 01, 2019 What looks like a red butterfly in space is in reality a nursery for hundreds of baby stars, revealed in this infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Officially named Westerhout 40 (W40) ... more 
Astronomers Propose New Expression of the Activity-Rotation RelationshipBeijing, China (SPX) Apr 01, 2019 The study of stellar activity associates many aspects of stellar physics. In the past 40 years, the understanding of stellar activity and its relation with stellar structure and evolution has obtain ... more |
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Lithium in ancient star gives new clues for big bang nucleosynthesisLa Palma, Spain (SPX) Apr 18, 2019 Researchers from the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (Spain) and the University of Cambridge (UK) have detected lithium (Li) in the ancient star J0023+0307, a main-sequence extremely iron-poor ... more  |
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Explosion on Jupiter-sized star 10 times more powerful than ever seen on our sunWarwick UK (SPX) Apr 18, 2019 A stellar flare ten times more powerful than anything seen on our sun has burst from an ultracool star almost the same size as Jupiter. The star is the coolest and smallest to give off a rare ... more 
India's ASAT 'Justified'New Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 17, 2019 US Strategic Command chief General John E. Hyten defended India before members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, saying that the country had tested the anti-satellite missile because it needed ... more 
Tiny fragment of a comet found inside a meteoriteTempe AZ (SPX) Apr 16, 2019 A tiny piece of the building blocks from which comets formed has been discovered inside a primitive meteorite. The discovery by a Carnegie Institution of Science-led team, including a researcher now ... more 
Astronomers discover third planet in the Kepler-47 circumbinary systemSan Diego CA (SPX) Apr 17, 2019 Astronomers have discovered a third planet in the Kepler-47 system, securing the system's title as the most interesting of the binary-star worlds. Using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, a te ... more 
Peeling back the darkness of M87Austin TX (SPX) Apr 17, 2019 On April 10, a team of researchers from around the world revealed an image that many believed impossible to produce: a portrait of the shadow cast by a black hole that sits at the center of the gala ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 10, 2019 
More than 10 years since its discovery, (225088) 2007 OR10 is the largest minor planet in our solar system without a name, and the 3 astronomers who discovered it want the public's help to change that. In an article published by The Planetary Society today, Meg Schwamb, a planetary scientist who helped discover 2007 OR10, announced a campaign inviting the public to pick the best name to submit t ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 12, 2019 
Scientists have discovered oil-eating bacteria in the planet's deepest oceanic trench, the Mariana Trench.
An international team of researchers, including scientists from Britain, China and Russia, used a submersible to collect microbial samples from the trench, which bottoms out at 6.8 miles below sea level. For reference, the peak of Mount Everest is 5.5 miles above sea level.
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 Boulder CO (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
NASA has named a University of Colorado Boulder team a finalist in a competition to design a greenhouse for use on Mars.
The annual NASA BIG Idea Challenge is set for April 23-24 in Hampton, Virginia; it calls on student groups at universities across the country to develop solutions to vexing space problems. The event changes each year, and the 2019 contest is seeking innovative ideas for ... more |
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 Kennedy Space Center FL (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
Dust can be a nuisance - on Earth and the Moon. Astronauts exploring the Moon's South Pole will need a way to help keep pesky lunar dust out of hard to reach places.
A team at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida may have the solution. The technology launched to the space station April 17, 2019, from Wallops Flight Facility on the eastern shore of Virginia as part of the Materials Intern ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Apr 15, 2019 
Researchers from the National University of science and technology MISIS (NUST MISIS, Moscow, Russia) and the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN, Naples, Italy) have developed a simple and cost-effective technology that allows increasing the speed of the automated microscopes (AM) by 10-100 times.
The microscopes' speed growth will help scientists in many fields: medicine, nuclea ... more |
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 Paris (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
Synspective and Arianespace have signed a contract to launch the satellite StriX-a, Synspective's first SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) demonstrator satellite.
On April 18, 2019, Arianespace announced the signing of a launch service contract with Synspective for the launch of the satellite StriX-a (with a liftoff mass of approximately 150 kg.) into a Sun-synchronous orbit (SSO) in 2020.
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 Paris (ESA) Apr 23, 2019 
Incoming asteroids have been scarring our home planet for billions of years. This month humankind left our own mark on an asteroid for the first time: Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft dropped a copper projectile at very high speed in an attempt to form a crater on asteroid Ryugu. A much bigger asteroid impact is planned for the coming decade, involving an international double-spacecraft mission.
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 Pune, India (SPX) Apr 16, 2019 
The Sun is the brightest object in the sky which is probably the most studied object. Surprisingly, it still hosts mysteries which scientists have been trying to unravel for decades, for example, the origin of coronal mass ejections which can potentially affect the Earth. Led by Dr. Divya Oberoi and his Ph.D. students, Atul Mohan and Surajit Mondal, a team of scientists at the National Centre fo ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Apr 23, 2019 
China announced the cooperation plan for its future Chang'e-6 mission, offering to carry a total of 20-kg solicited payloads, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA) on Thursday.
The orbiter and lander of the Chang'e-6 mission will each reserve 10 kg for payloads, which will be selected from both domestic colleges, universities, private enterprises and foreign scientifi ... more |
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Moscow, Russia (SPX) Apr 15, 2019
Researchers from the National University of science and technology MISIS (NUST MISIS, Moscow, Russia) and the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN, Naples, Italy) have developed a simple and cost-effective technology that allows increasing the speed of the automated microscopes (AM) by 10-100 times.
The microscopes' speed growth will help scientists in many fields: medicine, nuclea ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 19, 2019 
Children judge and adjust their behavior toward people based on the person's facial features, just like adults do.
Previous studies have detailed the way various facial features - the tilt of a person's mouth or distance between a person's eyes, for example - influence a person's perception and expectations of another person. These preconceived notions, formed in an instant, can affec ... more |
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 Toyohashi, Japan (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
A research team in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Toyohashi University of Technology has developed new concept of fire extinguisher optimized for space-use; named Vacuum Extinguish Method (VEM).
VEM is based on the completely "reverse" operation of widely-used fire extinguisher, namely, spraying extinguisher agent(s) into the firing point. VEM is sucking the flame as well as c ... more |
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 Washington (AFP) April 22, 2019 
Measuring melting ice is a fairly precise business in 2019 - thanks to satellites, weather stations and sophisticated climate models.
By the 1990s and 2000s, scientists were able to make pretty good estimates, although work from previous decades was unreliable due to less advanced technology.
Now, researchers have recalculated the amount of ice lost in Greenland since 1972, the year the ... more |
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 Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
How exactly does the ocean - the Earth's largest carbon sink - capture and store carbon? The answer to this question will become increasingly important as the planet warms and as we try to get ahead of a runaway climate scenario.
That's according to UC Santa Barbara oceanographer Dave Siegel. "The whole number is about 10 petagrams of carbon per year," he said of the amount of carbon trans ... more |
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 Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Apr 23, 2019 
On March 17, 2002, the German-US satellite duo GRACE (Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment) were launched to map the global gravitational field with unprecedented precision. After all, the mission lasted a good 15 years - more than three times as long as expected. When the two satellites burnt up in the Earth's atmosphere at the end of 2017 and beginning of 2018, respectively, they had record ... more |
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