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  Washington DC (UPI) Feb 27, 2020 Scientists have found iron "whiskers" on particles from the asteroid samples returned by the Japanese space agency's Hayabusa mission. In 2005, JAXA's Hayabusa probe hunted down and landed on the near-Earth asteroid 25143 Itokawa. Five years later, the spacecraft returned to Earth with soil samples collected from the asteroid's surface - something that had never been done before. Over the last decade, the Itokawa samples have been analyzed by dozens of scientists, but until recently, th ... read more |
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Radio waves detect particle showers in a block of plasticStanford CA (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 When neutrinos crash into water molecules in the billion-plus tons of ice that make up the detector at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica, more than 5,000 sensors detect the light of sub ... more  
Using light to put a twist on electronsBoston MA (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 Some molecules, including most of the ones in living organisms, have shapes that can exist in two different mirror-image versions. The right- and left-handed versions can sometimes have different pr ... more 
Scientists 'film' a quantum measurementStockholm, Sweden (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 Quantum physics describes the inner world of individual atoms, a world very different from our everyday experience. One of the many strange yet fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics is the role o ... more 
Quantum researchers able to split one photon into threeWaterloo, Canada (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 Researchers from the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the University of Waterloo report the first occurrence of directly splitting one photon into three. The occurrence, the first of i ... more |
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Joining forces to solve the neutrino mass puzzleMainz, Germany (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 Among the most exciting challenges in modern physics is the identification of the neutrino mass ordering. Physicists from the Cluster of Excellence PRISMA+ at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JG ... more 
Gemini South telescope captures exquisite planetary nebulaHilo HI (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 The latest image from the international Gemini Observatory showcases the striking planetary nebula CVMP 1. This object is the result of the death throes of a giant star and is a glorious but relativ ... more 
New clues in the search for the oldest galaxies in the universeVictoria, Canada (The Conversation) Feb 26, 2020 A galaxy cluster can be likened to a great city of galaxies, a galactic conurbation where each galaxy represents an individual, twinkling structure. Just as an archaeologist might seek evidence of t ... more  
Mission Control to Develop Lunar Surface Autonomous Science Payload for CSAOttawa, Canada (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 Mission Control Space Services Inc. (Mission Control) is pleased to announce a contract awarded by the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) for the development of a novel payload to advance lunar scientific ... more 
Earth has new, but temporary, natural moonWashington DC (UPI) Feb 26, 2020 There is a new, but temporary, natural moon orbiting Earth, according to the International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center. ... more |
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Why is NASA Sending Dragonfly to TitanGreenbelt MD (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 Titan, with its methane seas and orange smog, is in some ways the most similar world to Earth that we have found. Though it's merely a moon tethered by gravity to its cosmic ruler, Saturn, Titan has ... more  |
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Ultraviolet instrument delivered for ESA's Jupiter missionSan Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 An ultraviolet spectrograph (UVS) designed and built by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is the first scientific instrument to be delivered for integration onto the European Space Agency's Jupite ... more 
NASA asks Commercial Moon Delivery Partners to fly rover to search for water iceMoffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 NASA is asking its 14 Commercial Lunar Payload Services companies to bid on flying VIPER to the Moon by 2023. VIPER, or Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, is a golf-cart sized mobile r ... more 
NASA CubeSats play big role in lunar explorationWashington DC (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 They might be small, but they're also mighty. Very small and innovative spacecraft called CubeSats are poised to play a role in NASA's Artemis program, which will return humans to the Moon by 2024. ... more  
Want to catch a photon? Start by silencing the sunHoboken NJ (SPX) Feb 25, 2020 Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have created a 3D imaging system that uses light's quantum properties to create images 40,000 times crisper than current technologies, paving the way f ... more 
Beyond the Brim, Sombrero galaxy's halo suggests turbulent pastBaltimore MD (SPX) Feb 21, 2020 Surprising new data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope suggests the smooth, settled "brim" of the Sombrero galaxy's disk may be concealing a turbulent past. Hubble's sharpness and sensitivity resolv ... more |
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 San Antonio TX (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 
An ultraviolet spectrograph (UVS) designed and built by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) is the first scientific instrument to be delivered for integration onto the European Space Agency's Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) spacecraft. Scheduled to launch in 2022 and arrive at Jupiter in 2030, JUICE will spend at least three years making detailed observations in the Jovian system before going ... more |
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 Cambridge UK (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 
Astronomers have found an exoplanet more than twice the size of Earth to be potentially habitable, opening the search for life to planets significantly larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune.
A team from the University of Cambridge used the mass, radius, and atmospheric data of the exoplanet K2-18b and determined that it's possible for the planet to host liquid water at habitable condi ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 24, 2020 
After nearly a year of trying to dig into the Martian surface, the heat probe belonging to NASA's InSight lander is about to get a push. The mission team plans to command the scoop on InSight's robotic arm to press down on the "mole," the mini pile driver designed to hammer itself as much as 16 feet (5 meters) down. They hope that pushing down on the mole's top, also called the back cap, will ke ... more |
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 Moffett Field CA (SPX) Feb 26, 2020 
NASA is asking its 14 Commercial Lunar Payload Services companies to bid on flying VIPER to the Moon by 2023. VIPER, or Volatiles Investigating Polar Exploration Rover, is a golf-cart sized mobile robot that will look for water ice at one of the Moon's poles.
During its mission, VIPER will roam several miles and use its four science instruments - including a 1-meter drill - to sample vario ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 
When neutrinos crash into water molecules in the billion-plus tons of ice that make up the detector at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica, more than 5,000 sensors detect the light of subatomic particles produced by the collisions. But as one might expect, these grand-scale experiments don't come cheap.
In a paper recently accepted by Physical Review Letters, an international te ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Feb 27, 2020 
NASA has selected a new space-based instrument as an innovative and cost-effective approach to maintaining the 40-year data record of the balance between the solar radiation entering Earth's atmosphere and the amount absorbed, reflected, and emitted. This radiation balance is a key factor in determining our climate: if Earth absorbs more heat than it emits, it warms up; if it emits more than it ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 27, 2020  Scientists have found iron "whiskers" on particles from the asteroid samples returned by the Japanese space agency's Hayabusa mission.
In 2005, JAXA's Hayabusa probe hunted down and landed on the near-Earth asteroid 25143 Itokawa. Five years later, the spacecraft returned to Earth with soil samples collected from the asteroid's surface - something that had never been done before.
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 Hoboken NJ (SPX) Feb 25, 2020 
Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology have created a 3D imaging system that uses light's quantum properties to create images 40,000 times crisper than current technologies, paving the way for never-before seen LIDAR sensing and detection in self-driving cars, satellite mapping systems, deep-space communications and medical imaging of the human retina.
The work, led by Yuping Huang ... more |
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 Nanjing (XNA) Feb 21, 2020 
China's spacecraft tracking ship Yuanwang-5 is sailing to the Pacific Ocean from a port in east China's Jiangsu Province Thursday for a maritime space monitoring mission.
It is the first voyage of the ship this year.
Before the end of the Spring Festival, the mission members were gathered and quarantined on the ship to prevent the novel coronavirus infection. They completed the prepa ... more |
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Stanford CA (SPX) Feb 27, 2020
When neutrinos crash into water molecules in the billion-plus tons of ice that make up the detector at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory in Antarctica, more than 5,000 sensors detect the light of subatomic particles produced by the collisions. But as one might expect, these grand-scale experiments don't come cheap.
In a paper recently accepted by Physical Review Letters, an international te ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Feb 26, 2020 
The foot's longitudinal arch has long been credited with providing the stability needed for bipedalism, but new research suggests a different one, the transverse arch, is much more important.
When humans walk and run, a significant amount of pressure is placed on the foot - a force exceeding several times the body's weight. Despite this pressure, the foot doesn't significantly bend. ... more |
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 Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 
This book is a genuine treasure, focused on the making and consumption of alcohol throughout history...with a new upshot - the growing role of alcohol production in low Earth orbit (LEO) - or should it be libation Earth orbit? - and beyond!
Featuring 7 chapters, this volume includes a brief history of alcohol and society, booze in science fiction, retro-flections of drinking in space, spac ... more |
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 Gothenburg, Sweden (SPX) Feb 28, 2020 
Inland Antarctic ice contains volumes of water that can raise global sea levels by several metres. A new study published in the journal Nature shows that glacier ice walls are vital for the climate, as they prevent rising ocean temperatures and melting glacier ice.
The ocean can store much more heat than the atmosphere. The deep sea around Antarctica stores thermal energy that is the equiv ... more |
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 Addis Ababa (AFP) Feb 29, 2020 
Ethiopia on Saturday expressed "disappointment" with the latest push by the United States to resolve a long-running dispute over a massive dam on the Nile River, suggesting a deal could still be far off.
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, set to become the largest hydropower plant in Africa, has been a source of tension between Addis Ababa and Cairo since Ethiopia broke ground on it in 201 ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Feb 28, 2020 
When it comes to grasping an object, our eyes, ears and hands are intimately connected. Our brain draws information from different senses, such as sight, sound and touch, to coordinate hand movements.
Researchers think that, on Earth, gravity is also part of the equation - it provides a set of anchoring cues for the central nervous system. Human evolution has balanced its way across millen ... more |
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