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  Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 In recent years, the development of CRISPR technologies and gene-editing scissors in particular have taken the world by storm. Indeed, scientists have learned how to harness these clever natural systems in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, among other areas. New research from the University of Copenhagen shows that we are not the first to find a way to exploit the benefits of the CRISPR technique. Apparently, primitive bacterial parasites have been doing so for millions of years. Th ... read more |
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Data from NASA's Cassini may explain Saturn's atmospheric mysteryPasadena CA (JPL) Apr 07, 2020 The upper layers in the atmospheres of gas giants - Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune - are hot, just like Earth's. But unlike Earth, the Sun is too far from these outer planets to account for the ... more  
Year's biggest supermoon to light up Tuesday's night skyWashington DC (UPI) Apr 06, 2020 Tuesday night's full moon will be the biggest of the year, as the moon is quite close to its perigee, its closest approach to Earth. ... more 
NASA Commemorates 50th Anniversary of Apollo 13, 'A Successful Failure'Huntsville AL (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 On April 11, 1970, the powerful Saturn V rocket carrying the Apollo 13 mission launched from Kennedy Space Center propelling astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and Jack Swigert on what was intended ... more  
BepiColombo Earth flyby enables unique instrument scan of MoonCologne, Germany (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 Space exploration missions require precision of the highest order. In the early hours of 10 April 2020, the European Space Agency's (ESA) BepiColombo spacecraft will fly towards Earth at over 30 kil ... more |
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Researchers zero in on Near-Earth Asteroid deflection simulations ahead of breakthrough missionWashington DC (Sputnik) Apr 06, 2020 The simulation tests are currently in full swing, as the astrophysicist community is looking forward to the so-called Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission - the first kinetic impact defle ... more 
Spot BepiColombo during its 'goodbye flyby'Paris (ESA) Apr 06, 2020 On 10 April, BepiColombo will be visible to amateur and professional astronomers during its first - and only - Earth flyby, as the spacecraft makes its way to Mercury, the innermost planet of the So ... more 
Why is BepiColombo back?Paris (ESA) Apr 06, 2020 BepiColombo is on its way to Mercury, but for some reason that brings it back to Earth. On 10 April 2020, BepiColombo will make a flyby of Earth, coming within just a couple of thousand kilometres o ... more  
Astronomers detect first double helium-core white dwarf gravitational wave sourceCambridge MA (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have announced the detection of J2322+0509, a detached binary white dwarf composed of two helium-core stars with a short orbital p ... more 
Disinfection for planetary protectionParis (ESA) Apr 03, 2020 Carefully wrapped inside this donut-shaped bag is a 35-m diameter parachute that will endure a frenzied six-minute dive into martian atmosphere. This qualification model is a copy of the large ... more |
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A Martian mash up: Meteorites tell story of Mars' water historyTucson AZ (SPX) Mar 31, 2020 In Jessica Barnes' palm is an ancient, coin-sized mosaic of glass, minerals and rocks as thick as a strand of wool fiber. It is a slice of Martian meteorite, known as Northwest Africa 7034 or Black ... more  |
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Hubble finds best evidence for elusive mid-sized black holeBaltimore MD (SPX) Apr 02, 2020 Astronomers have found the best evidence for the perpetrator of a cosmic homicide: a black hole of an elusive class known as "intermediate-mass," which betrayed its existence by tearing apart a wayw ... more 
China's lunar rover travels over 424 meters on moon's far sideBeijing (XNA) Apr 02, 2020 China's lunar rover Yutu-2, or Jade Rabbit-2, has driven 424.455 meters on the far side of the moon to conduct scientific exploration of the virgin territory. Both the lander and the rover of ... more  
Celebrating 30 years of HubbleCollege Park MD (SPX) Apr 02, 2020 Peering into the darkness to see what we could not previously see, the Hubble Space Telescope has been delighting scientists and the general public for 30 years with revealing details and images of ... more  
L3Harris Technologies to modernize US capabilities to detect orbital objectsMelbourne FLw (SPX) Apr 03, 2020 L3Harris Technologies has been awarded a $23 million contract to modernize and sustain critical space infrastructure used by the military to keep track of activities and objects in space. The curren ... more 
Xplore receives USAF award for innovative commercial capabilities around the MoonSeattle WA (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 Xplore reports it has won an Air Force award to study positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) solutions for cislunar space. The award category, for commercial and technical innovations between the ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 
The ice giant Uranus' unusual attributes have long puzzled scientists. All of the planets in our Solar System revolve around the Sun in the same direction and in the same plane, which astronomers believe is a vestige of how our Solar System formed from a spinning disc of gas and dust. Most of the planets in our Solar System also rotate in the same direction, with their poles orientated perpendic ... more |
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 Copenhagen, Denmark (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 
In recent years, the development of CRISPR technologies and gene-editing scissors in particular have taken the world by storm. Indeed, scientists have learned how to harness these clever natural systems in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries, among other areas.
New research from the University of Copenhagen shows that we are not the first to find a way to exploit the benefits of the ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Apr 03, 2020 
Newly discovered single-celled creatures living deep beneath the seafloor have given researchers clues about how they might find life on Mars. These bacteria were discovered living in tiny cracks inside volcanic rocks after researchers persisted over a decade of trial and error to find a new way to examine the rocks.
Researchers estimate that the rock cracks are home to a community of bact ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 07, 2020 
NASA's Artemis programme, named after the Greek goddess of the Moon, is part of an ambitious effort to place astronauts on the lunar surface and develop an ongoing human presence there by 2024.
NASA'S ambitious Artemis programme aimed at returning astronauts to the lunar surface by 2024 has just been expanded even further, aiming to maintain a human presence on the Moon and, potentially, M ... more |
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 Stanford CA (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 
Just as the sun has planets and the planets have moons, our galaxy has satellite galaxies, and some of those might have smaller satellite galaxies of their own. To wit, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a relatively large satellite galaxy visible from the Southern Hemisphere, is thought to have brought at least six of its own satellite galaxies with it when it first approached the Milky Way, bas ... more |
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 Chicago IL (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 
A dataset of large-scale aerial images produced by Intelinair, a spinout from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, aims to give farmers visibility into the conditions of their fields. The dataset, called Agriculture-Vision, will enable agricultural pattern analysis of aerial images, providing farmers with actionable insights into the performance of their crops to improve decision-maki ... more |
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 Washington DC (Sputnik) Apr 06, 2020 
The simulation tests are currently in full swing, as the astrophysicist community is looking forward to the so-called Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission - the first kinetic impact deflection probe to be carried out on a near-Earth asteroid.
Researchers at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in California have moved further in their efforts to simulate how they mi ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Mar 31, 2020 
NASA has selected a new mission to study how the Sun generates and releases giant space weather storms - known as solar particle storms - into planetary space. Not only will such information improve understanding of how our solar system works, but it ultimately can help protect astronauts traveling to the Moon and Mars by providing better information on how the Sun's radiation affects the space ... more |
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 Wuhan, China (XNA) Apr 06, 2020 
China will launch the first two communications satellites for its space-based Internet-of-Things (IoT) project in mid to late April, with one satellite named after its birthplace Wuhan, according to the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC).
The rocket to send the satellites, Kuaizhou-1A, was developed by the Wuhan-based Sanjiang Group under the CASIC. Despite its proxim ... more |
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Stanford CA (SPX) Apr 07, 2020
Just as the sun has planets and the planets have moons, our galaxy has satellite galaxies, and some of those might have smaller satellite galaxies of their own. To wit, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a relatively large satellite galaxy visible from the Southern Hemisphere, is thought to have brought at least six of its own satellite galaxies with it when it first approached the Milky Way, bas ... more |
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 Leipzig, Germany (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 
The species Australopithecus afarensis inhabited East Africa more than three million years ago, and occupies a key position in the hominin family tree, as it is widely accepted to be ancestral to all later hominins, including the human lineage. "Lucy and her kind provide important evidence about early hominin behavior.
They walked upright, had brains that were around 20 percent larger than ... more |
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 Houston TX (SPX) Apr 07, 2020 
Boeing has decided to fly a second uncrewed flight test as a part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Although no new launch date has been set, NASA has accepted the proposal to fly the mission again and will work side-by-side with Boeing to resume flight tests to the International Space Station on the company's CST-100 Starliner system.
The agency's Commercial Crew Program is a unique appr ... more |
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 Beijing, China (SPX) Apr 03, 2020 
Previous research studies have revealed how rising temperatures and melting ice in the Arctic may impact the rest of Earth's climate over seasons, years and even longer. Now, two researchers from Fudan University in Shanghai, China, are making the argument that the effects may actually be felt in a matter of weeks, but more robust, observational-based analysis is needed to fully understand how q ... more |
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 Plymouth UK (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 
The UK's plankton population - microscopic algae and animals which support the entire marine food web - has undergone sweeping changes in the past six decades, according to new research published in Global Change Biology.
Involving leading marine scientists from across the UK, led by the University of Plymouth, the research for the first time combines the findings of UK offshore surveys su ... more |
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 Cambridge MA (SPX) Apr 06, 2020 
Scientists at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard and Smithsonian have announced the detection of J2322+0509, a detached binary white dwarf composed of two helium-core stars with a short orbital period. It is the first gravitational wave source of its kind ever detected.
"Theories predict that there are many double helium-core white dwarf binaries out there," said Dr. Warren Brown, CfA a ... more |
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