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Tuesday, April 29, 2014

NASA Spinoff 2013 shows how much space is in our lives

Water filtration bottles, comfortable car seats and remote medical monitoring devices all have one thing in common—they all have benefited f... Read more »

NASA seeks external concepts for mission to oceanic Jovian moon

(Phys.org) —NASA has issued a Request for Information (RFI) to science and engineering communities for ideas for a mission to Europa that co... Read more »

Image: Glowing jewels in the galactic plane

The majority of the stars in our Galaxy, the Milky Way, reside in a single huge disc, known as the Galactic Plane, spanning 100 000 light-ye... Read more »

Why New Studies May Mean 'Game Over for the Climate Deniers' - TheStreet.com

Laura Kiesel 04/29/14 - 07:15 AM EDT BOSTON (TheStreet) -- This spring put climate change back on the mainstream media radar. It s... Read more »

Scientists Create Three-Atom Wide Wires Using Electron Beams - Nature World News

Scientists have used a beam of electrons to create a thin, flexible metallic wire that is just three atoms wide. The nanoscale wire could ... Read more »

Sun's 'Ring of Fire' down under probed by telescope web cams - Register

Vids Parts of Australia and Asia today experienced an "annular" eclipse, a phenomenon whereby the Moon covers just about all of t... Read more »

Monday, April 28, 2014

Move over exoplanets, exomoons may harbour life too

In the Star Wars universe, everyone's favourite furry aliens, the Ewoks, famously lived on the "forest moon of Endor". In scie... Read more »

Curiosity reaches out to scrutinize next Martian drill target at Mount Remarkable

To Drill or not to Drill? That's the momentous question posed by the international team of scientists and engineers who commanded NASA... Read more »

Antarctic prime spot for Tuesday's solar eclipse

Earthlings get their first solar eclipse of the year Tuesday. But you have to be well south of the equator to see it. The solar eclipse will... Read more »

Curiosity considers first dig into Windjana, the sands(tone) of Mars - Register

NASA's Curiosity rover has been doing some Martian house cleaning, brushing down a potential new target for its drilling tools. Curios... Read more »

Watch a Live Partial Solar Eclipse That Only Penguins Will Enjoy - Wired

[embedded content] Attention all night owls and Antarctic penguins: A annular solar eclipse will be turning the sun into a glowing ring ... Read more »

Scientists discover ancient caribou hunting site beneath Lake Huron - Christian Science Monitor

Researchers have spotted a 9,000 year old structure used to corral herds of caribou during the last ice age. ... Read more »

Sunday, April 27, 2014

LADEE sees zodiacal light before crashing into moon, but Apollo mystery remains

NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) literally 'saw the light' just days before crashing into the lunar... Read more »

Star is discovered to be a close neighbor of the Sun and the coldest of its kind

(Phys.org) —A "brown dwarf" star that appears to be the coldest of its kind—as frosty as Earth's North Pole—has been discovere... Read more »

SpaceX sues US Air Force over satellite contracts (Update)

SpaceX on Friday filed suit against the US Air Force for awarding billions of dollars to a single company for national security launches, an... Read more »

Rubik's Cube Proves It's Hip to Be Square - Wall Street Journal

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Wall Street Journal Anthony Brooks, an expert Rubik's Cube solver, takes on a Rubik's Cube-so... Read more »

Environmentalists say waiting further to affect the chances of fighting climate ... - Northern Voices Online

Environmentalists say that waiting any further will affect the chances of fighting climate change. Experts from across the world have given ... Read more »

SpaceX to sue Pentagon over satellite launch monopoly - Sydney Morning Herald

World Billionaire tech investor Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies plans to sue the US Air Force, saying it should be al... Read more »

Saturday, April 26, 2014

LADEE sees zodiacal light before crashing into moon, but Apollo mystery remains

NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) literally 'saw the light' just days before crashing into the lunar... Read more »

Star is discovered to be a close neighbor of the Sun and the coldest of its kind

(Phys.org) —A "brown dwarf" star that appears to be the coldest of its kind—as frosty as Earth's North Pole—has been discovere... Read more »

SpaceX sues US Air Force over satellite contracts (Update)

SpaceX on Friday filed suit against the US Air Force for awarding billions of dollars to a single company for national security launches, an... Read more »

NASA Curiosity Captures First Image of Asteroids from Mars Surface - Headlines & Global News

By Julie S | Apr 26, 2014 01:10 PM EDT NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has caught the first image of asteroids taken from the surface... Read more »

IPCC reports looks at costs of reducing greenhouse gases - Science Recorder

The third and latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which deals with mitigation of global warming, has se... Read more »

SpaceX CEO signals favor for Texas launch pad site - SFGate

BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) — SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk has signaled his company's intent to put its much-sought launch p... Read more »

LADEE sees zodiacal light before crashing into moon, but Apollo mystery remains

NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) literally 'saw the light' just days before crashing into the lunar... Read more »

Star is discovered to be a close neighbor of the Sun and the coldest of its kind

(Phys.org) —A "brown dwarf" star that appears to be the coldest of its kind—as frosty as Earth's North Pole—has been discovere... Read more »

SpaceX sues US Air Force over satellite contracts (Update)

SpaceX on Friday filed suit against the US Air Force for awarding billions of dollars to a single company for national security launches, an... Read more »