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  Davis CA (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 A new explanation for the Moon's origin has it forming inside the Earth when our planet was a seething, spinning cloud of vaporized rock, called a synestia. The new model led by researchers at the University of California, Davis and Harvard University resolves several problems in lunar formation and is published Feb. 28 in the Journal of Geophysical Research - Planets. "The new work explains features of the Moon that are hard to resolve with current ideas," said Sarah Stewart, professor of Earth a ... read more |
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Study details new story for how the moon formedBoston MA (SPX) Mar 01, 2018 Simon Lock wants to change the way you think about the Moon. A graduate student in Harvard's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Lock is the lead author of a study that suggests the Moon - r ... more 
Research details mineralogy of potential lunar exploration siteProvidence RI (SPX) Mar 02, 2018 A detailed study of a giant impact crater on the Moon's far side could provide a roadmap for future lunar explorers. The study, by planetary scientists from Brown University, maps the mineralo ... more 
How does water change the moon's origin story?Washington DC (SPX) Feb 28, 2018 It's amazing what a difference a little water can make. The Moon formed between about 4.4 and 4.5 billion years ago when an object collided with the still-forming proto-Earth. This impact created a ... more  
China factory expansion slows to 19-month low in FebruaryBeijing (AFP) Feb 28, 2018 China's factory expansion slowed again in February as output and export orders dropped due to the Lunar New Year holidays, hitting a 19-month low, official data showed Wednesday. ... more |
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Illegal South African abalone flowing into Hong Kong: reportHong Kong (AFP) Feb 8, 2018 Illegally poached abalone from South Africa is pouring into Hong Kong where the gastronomic gastropods are a traditional and expensive banquet favourite, a new study warned Friday. ... more 
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Captures New Earth-Moon ImageWashington DC (SPX) Feb 15, 2018 As part of an engineering test, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft captured this image of the Earth and Moon using its NavCam1 imager on January 17 from a distance of 39.5 million miles (63.6 million km). ... more  
China confirms first human case of H7N4 bird fluHong Kong (AFP) Feb 15, 2018 China has confirmed the first human case of H7N4 bird flu, prompting Hong Kong to issue a health warning for those travelling to the mainland during the busy Lunar New Year holiday. ... more 
New study sheds light on moon's slow retreat from frozen EarthBoulder CO (SPX) Feb 09, 2018 A study led by University of Colorado Boulder researchers provides new insight into the Moon's excessive equatorial bulge, a feature that solidified in place over four billion years ago as the Moon ... more 
UCF Seeks New Way to Mine Moon for WaterOrlando FL (SPX) Feb 08, 2018 UCF's Phil Metzger and Julie Brisset from the Florida Space Institute recently landed a contract to develop a model to mine the moon for water. Data suggests the moon has water locked away in ... more |
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Two Small Asteroids Safely Pass Earth This WeekPasadena CA (JPL) Feb 08, 2018 Two small asteroids recently discovered by astronomers at the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) near Tucson, Arizona, are safely passing by Earth within one lunar distance this week. The f ... more  |
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Hong Kong schools shut over deadly flu outbreakHong Kong (AFP) Feb 7, 2018 Kindergartens and primary schools in Hong Kong will shut early for the Chinese New Year break due to a deadly flu outbreak, the government said Wednesday. ... more  
Vietnam marks 50 years since launch of Tet OffensiveHo Chi Minh City (AFP) Jan 31, 2018 Vietnam marked 50 years since the audacious Tet Offensive on Wednesday, in a bittersweet ceremony featuring patriotic dance performances recalling the attacks that changed the course of the Vietnam War. ... more  
China's first successful lunar laser ranging accomplishedBeijing (XNA) Jan 29, 2018 China has accomplished its first successful Lunar Laser Ranging (LLR), with a 1.2-meter telescope laser ranging system. Based on the signals of laser pulses reflected by the lunar retro-reflec ... more  
Rare 'super blood blue moon' visible on Jan 31Miami (AFP) Jan 28, 2018 A cosmic event not seen in 36 years - a rare "super blood blue moon" - may be glimpsed January 31 in parts of western North America, Asia, the Middle East, Russia and Australia. ... more 
Chinese volunteers spend 200 days on virtual 'moon base'Beijing (AFP) Jan 26, 2018 Chinese students spent 200 continuous days in a "lunar lab" in Beijing, state media said Friday, as the country prepares for its long-term goal of putting people on the moon. ... more |
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 Moscow, Russia (SPX) Mar 02, 2018 
Researchers from MIPT and their colleagues from Research Center Juelich (Germany) and Dmitry Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia have described a new method for studying microorganisms that can survive in extreme conditions. The scientists identified a fluorescent dye that enabled them to observe the life cycle of bacteria in real time.
Halophiles, which is the ancient Gr ... more |
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 Ithaca NY (SPX) Jan 19, 2018 
Using the now-complete Cassini data set, Cornell University astronomers have created a new global topographic map of Saturn's moon Titan that has opened new windows into understanding its liquid flows and terrain. Two papers, recently published in Geophysical Review Letters, describe the map and discoveries arising from it.
Creating the map took about a year, according to doctoral student ... more |
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 06, 2018 
This image captures the swirling cloud formations around the south pole of Jupiter, looking up toward the equatorial region.
NASA's Juno spacecraft took the color-enhanced image during its eleventh close flyby of the gas giant planet on Feb. 7 at 7:11 a.m. PST (10:11 a.m. EST). At the time, the spacecraft was 74,896 miles (120,533 kilometers) from the tops of Jupiter's clouds at 84.9 degre ... more |
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 Washington DC (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
In order to maximize investment in, and benefits of, future deep space exploration platforms and technologies, NASA and its International Space Station partners have collaborated to draft standards that address seven priority areas in which technology compatibility is crucial for global cooperation.
The agency and its partners are seeking feedback on these draft interoperability standards, ... more |
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 Venice, Italy (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
From nanoscale silver to titanium dioxide for air purification, the use of nanomaterials of high commercial relevance proves to have clear benefits as it attracts investments, and raises concerns. 'Nano' sized materials (a nanometre is one millionth of a millimetre) could pose environmental and health risks under certain conditions. The uncertainties and insufficient scientific knowledge could s ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Mar 06, 2018 
In a world-first, an ESA-led team has built and fired an electric thruster to ingest scarce air molecules from the top of the atmosphere for propellant, opening the way to satellites flying in very low orbits for years on end.
ESA's GOCE gravity-mapper flew as low as 250 km for more than five years thanks to an electric thruster that continuously compensated for air drag. However, its work ... more |
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 Beijing (XNA) Mar 06, 2018 
China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, the nation's largest missile maker, will launch a satellite this year to demonstrate technologies for a vast space-based communications network capable of covering every corner on the Earth, including the Arctic and Antarctica.
Zhang Zhongyang, president of the CASIC Second Academy, said engineers are assembling the satellite and plan to place it ... more |
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Pasadena CA (JPL) Mar 01, 2018
On Feb. 22, 2018, the signal from IMAGE began to break up and has been silent since Feb. 24. The team continues to assess what may be the issue, but it is known that this episode does not mimic the sudden silence that occurred in 2005 when contact was originally lost with the spacecraft. The team continues to make preparations to attempt to bring the attitude dete ... more |
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 Uppsala, Sweden (SPX) Feb 13, 2018 
In a new article, published in Nature Materials, researchers from Beijing, Uppsala and Julich have made significant progress allowing very high resolution magnetic measurements. With their method it is possible to measure magnetism of individual atomic planes.
Magnetic nanostructures are used in a wide range of applications. Most notably, to store bits of data in hard drives. These structu ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 04, 2018 
A research team of multiple institutes, including the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan and University of Tokyo, released an unprecedentedly wide and sharp dark matter map based on the newly obtained imaging data by Hyper Suprime-Cam on the Subaru Telescope. The dark matter distribution is estimated by the weak gravitational lensing technique.
The team located the positions and le ... more |
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Beijing (XNA) Mar 06, 2018
China Aerospace Science and Industry Corp, the nation's largest missile maker, will launch a satellite this year to demonstrate technologies for a vast space-based communications network capable of covering every corner on the Earth, including the Arctic and Antarctica.
Zhang Zhongyang, president of the CASIC Second Academy, said engineers are assembling the satellite and plan to place it ... more |
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 Belfast UK (SPX) Mar 06, 2018 
Scientists at Queen's University Belfast have led an international team to the ground-breaking discovery that magnetic waves crashing through the Sun may be key to heating its atmosphere and propelling the solar wind.
The Sun is the source of energy that sustains all life on Earth but much remains unknown about it. However, a group of researchers at Queen's have now unlocked some mysteries ... more |
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 Paris (ESA) Mar 03, 2018 
Two of ESA BIC Sweden's incubators have been ranked fourth and seventh in the world classification of university affiliated business incubators among 259 evaluated in 53 countries.
"Being top rated in the world shows that we here in the North are at the forefront and it's feels great," said Jens Lundstrom, CEO for Arctic Business Incubator (ABI) and Manager of ESA Business Incubator Centre ... more |
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 Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Mar 03, 2018 
On February 26, 2018, Hayabusa2 saw its destination -asteroid Ryugu- for the first time! The photographs were captured by the ONC-T (Optical Navigation Camera - Telescopic) onboard the spacecraft. Images were taken between noon JST on February 26th and 9:00am the following morning, with about 300 shots taken in total.
Data for nine of these images were transmitted from the spacecraft on Fe ... more |
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 Barcelona (AFP) March 1, 2018 
Artificial intelligence could emulate human bias, including sexism, if there is no oversight on data used to create it, experts at the world's largest mobile phone fair in Barcelona warned Thursday.
"We're all very aware the machines will learn the same bias as those who coded them," Emma McGuiguan, in charge of technology at consultants Accenture, said at the Mobile World Congress.
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