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  Berlin, Germany (SPX) Mar 17, 2020 The Solar System formed approximately 4.5 billion years ago. Numerous fragments that bear witness to this early era orbit the Sun as asteroids. Around three-quarters of these are carbon-rich C-type asteroids, such as 162173 Ryugu, which was the target of the Japanese Hayabusa2 mission in 2018 and 2019. The spacecraft is currently on its return flight to Earth. Numerous scientists, including planetary researchers from the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR), intensive ... read more |
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Discovery of zero-energy bound states at both ends of a one-dimensional atomic line defectBeijing, China (SPX) Mar 14, 2020 In recent years, the development of quantum computers beyond the capability of classical computers has become a new frontier in science and technology and a key direction to realize quantum supremac ... more  
Russia eyes Oct 2021 launch for first lunar mission in 45 yearsMoscow (Sputnik) Mar 17, 2020 The launch of the first Russian spacecraft to the Moon after a 45-year hiatus is planned for 1 October 2021, a Russian space scientist announced at a meeting of the Space Council of the Russian Acad ... more  
Jupiter's Great Red Spot shrinking in size, not thicknessParis, France (SPX) Mar 17, 2020 Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is mainly made up of liquids and gases. Its clouds are shaped by jet streams, winds and vortices into numerous parallel bands, as well as coloured pa ... more  
Vast collapsed terrains on Mercury might be windows into ancient habitabilityTucson AZ (SPX) Mar 17, 2020 New research raises the possibility that some parts of Mercury's subsurface, and those of similar planets in the galaxy, once could have been capable of fostering prebiotic chemistry, and perhaps ev ... more |
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Continued Gravitational-Wave Discoveries from Public DataHannover, Germany (SPX) Mar 16, 2020 Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute, AEI) in Hannover together with international colleagues have published their second Open Gravitational ... more 
NASA selects first science instruments to send to Lunar GatewayWashington DC (SPX) Mar 13, 2020 NASA has selected the first two scientific investigations to fly aboard the Gateway, an orbital outpost which will support Artemis lunar operations while demonstrating the technologies necessary to ... more 
Puzzle about nitrogen solved thanks to cometary analoguesBern, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 13, 2020 Comets and asteroids are objects in our solar system that have not developed much since the planets were formed. As a result, they are in a sense the archives of the solar system, and determining th ... more  
Pentagon seeks 'to reconsider' cloud contract to MicrosoftSan Francisco (AFP) March 13, 2020 The US Department of Defense said Thursday it wants to reconsider its decision to award a multibillion-dollar military cloud computing contract to Microsoft in a bidding process Amazon claims was tainted by politics. ... more 
UNM scientists find Earth and moon not identical oxygen twinsAlbuquerque NM (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 Scientists at The University of New Mexico have found that the Earth and Moon have distinct oxygen compositions and are not identical in oxygen as previously thought according to a new study release ... more |
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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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Salmon parasite is world's first non-oxygen breathing animalWashington DC (UPI) Feb 26, 2020 Scientists have discovered an unusual species of parasite hiding the muscles of salmon. The tiny species, comprised of just ten cells, is unlike all other animals known to science. The species, Henneguya salminicola, doesn't breathe oxygen. ... more 
Time-resolved measurement in a memory deviceZurich, Switzerland (SPX) Feb 24, 2020 At the Department for Materials of the ETH in Zurich, Pietro Gambardella and his collaborators investigate tomorrow's memory devices. They should be fast, retain data reliably for a long time and al ... more 
Observed: An exoplanet where it rains ironSan Cristobal de La Laguna, Spain (SPX) Mar 12, 2020 This exoplanet, 390 light years away towards the constellation Pisces, has days when its surface temperatures exceed 2,400 Celsius, sufficiently hot to evaporate metals. Its nights, with strong wind ... more 
Breakthrough made towards building the world's most powerful particle acceleratorUlsan, South Korea (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 An international team of researchers, affiliated with UNIST has for the first time succeeded in demonstrating the ionization cooling of muons. Regarded as a major step in being able to create the wo ... more 
Paper sheds light on infant Universe and origin of matterAnn Arbor MI (SPX) Mar 11, 2020 A new study, conducted to better understand the origin of the universe, has provided insight into some of the most enduring questions in fundamental physics: How can the Standard Model of particle p ... more |
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 Paris, France (SPX) Mar 17, 2020 
Jupiter, the largest planet in the solar system, is mainly made up of liquids and gases. Its clouds are shaped by jet streams, winds and vortices into numerous parallel bands, as well as coloured patches, one of which clearly stands out: the Great Red Spot. This is an Earth-sized anticyclone that has been observed for over 350 years, but has suddenly decreased in size in recent years.
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 New Brunswick NJ (SPX) Mar 17, 2020 
Rutgers researchers have discovered the origins of the protein structures responsible for metabolism: simple molecules that powered early life on Earth and serve as chemical signals that NASA could use to search for life on other planets.
Their study, which predicts what the earliest proteins looked like 3.5 billion to 2.5 billion years ago, is published in the journal Proceedings of the N ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) March 12, 2020 
A joint Russian-European expedition to find life on Mars has been postponed for two years, the Russian and European space agencies said Thursday, citing the novel coronavirus and multiple technical issues.
The unmanned ExoMars, whose mission is to land a robot on the Red Planet to seek out signs of life, was scheduled to launch later this year after experiencing several delays. But even that ... more |
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 Moscow (Sputnik) Mar 17, 2020 
The launch of the first Russian spacecraft to the Moon after a 45-year hiatus is planned for 1 October 2021, a Russian space scientist announced at a meeting of the Space Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The last Soviet interplanetary automatic station was Luna-24, launched in 1976. Russia in its history has not yet sent a spacecraft to the moon.
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 Washington DC (UPI) Mar 13, 2020 
A study of spiral structure, reduced in complexity so citizen scientists can participate, could offer insight into how galaxies evolve, researchers say.
Researchers at the North Carolina Museum on Natural Sciences in Raleigh used software and tracings of known spiral galaxies on paper, and found that no artificial intelligence program, algorithm or other approach was as accurate in depi ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Mar 16, 2020 
The South Asian summer monsoon (SASM) provides the principal water supply for over a billion people. In good monsoon years, farmers reap a rich harvest, while in bad monsoon years, severe droughts wipe out crops. And heavy rains during monsoon season cause floods and hit economy badly. Policy-makers and stakeholders urgently need projection of SASM for the coming 15-30 years - usually termed as ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Mar 16, 2020 
Scientists have detected ammonium salts on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko (shown in this image on the right) by analysing data collected by the Visible, Infrared and Thermal Imaging Spectrometer (VIRTIS) on ESA's Rosetta mission between August 2014 and May 2015.
The new study, led by Olivier Poch of Institut de Planetologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, France, and publis ... more |
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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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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 18, 2020 
The first of China's new medium-sized carrier rocket Long March-7A suffered a failure Monday.
The rocket blasted off at 9:34 p.m. Beijing Time from the Wenchang Space Launch Center on the coast of south China's Hainan Province, but a malfunction occurred later.
Chinese space engineers will investigate the cause of the failure.
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Washington DC (UPI) Mar 13, 2020
A study of spiral structure, reduced in complexity so citizen scientists can participate, could offer insight into how galaxies evolve, researchers say.
Researchers at the North Carolina Museum on Natural Sciences in Raleigh used software and tracings of known spiral galaxies on paper, and found that no artificial intelligence program, algorithm or other approach was as accurate in depi ... more |
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 Johannesburg, South Africa (SPX) Mar 18, 2020 
High-resolution micro-CT scanning of the skull of the fossil specimen known as "Little Foot" has revealed some aspects of how this Australopithecus species used to live more than 3 million years ago.
The meticulous excavation, cleaning and scanning of the skull of the ~3.67 million-year-old fossil specimen has revealed the most complete Australopithecus adult first cervical vertebra yet fo ... more |
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 Moscow (AFP) March 12, 2020 
Astronauts awaiting a space mission are banned from leaving Star City training centre outside Moscow due to the novel coronavirus and will skip traditional pre-launch rituals, the centre's head said Thursday.
The next launch to the International Space Station is due to blast off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan on April 9 with Russian cosmonauts Ivan Vagner and Anatoly Ivanishin and NASA astronau ... more |
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 Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Mar 16, 2020 
New University of Melbourne research has revealed that ice ages over the last million years ended when the tilt angle of the Earth's axis was approaching high values.
During these times, longer and stronger summers melted the large Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, propelling the Earth's climate into a warm 'interglacial' state, like the one we've experienced over the last 11,000 years.
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 12, 2020 
DARPA's Manta Ray Program aims to demonstrate critical technologies for a new class of long duration, long range, payload-capable unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs). UUVs that operate for extended durations without the need for on-site human logistics support or maintenance offer the potential for persistent operations during longer term deployments.
DARPA has selected three companies to ... more |
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 Raleigh NC (SPX) Mar 16, 2020 
Spiral structure is seen in a variety of natural objects, ranging from plants and animals to tropical cyclones and galaxies. Now researchers at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences have developed a technique to accurately measure the winding arms of spiral galaxies that is so easy, virtually anyone can participate. This new and simple method is currently being applied in a citizen scien ... more |
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