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| January 22, 2014 |
 Israeli company to unveil laser defense Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jan 21, 2014 - A state-owned Israeli arms company says it will unveil a new laser-defense system next month that will be capable of shooting down short-range rockets and mortar fire. Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. says the "Iron Beam" system will use a "directed high energy laser beam" to intercept incoming projectiles fired from short distances. The system is to be displayed at the Singapore Air S ... more |  |
 ESA to develop satellite reentry technology Moscow (Voice of Russia) Jan 22, 2014 - The European Space Agency (ESA) intends to launch Vega launch vehicle with the Intermediate Experimental Vehicle (IEV) this year to develop the satellite reentry technology, ESA chief Jean-Jacques Dordain told a press conference in Paris on Friday. The press conference was broadcast live at the Moscow office of the ESA Permanent Mission to Russia. The takeoff of Vega launch vehicle with IE ... more |  |
 Distant quasar illuminates a filament of the cosmic web Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - Astronomers have discovered a distant quasar illuminating a vast nebula of diffuse gas, revealing for the first time part of the network of filaments thought to connect galaxies in a cosmic web. Researchers at the University of California, Santa Cruz, led the study, published January 19 in Nature. Using the 10-meter Keck I Telescope at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, the researchers ... more |  |
 India to launch three navigation satellites this year New Delhi (XNA) Jan 22, 2014 - India is to launch three navigation satellites this year, a senior official of the state- owned space agency has reportedly said. "Three satellites belonging to the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) constellation will be launched by the space agency this year," the Scientific Secretary of the Indian Space Research Organization, V. Koteshwara Rao, was quoted by the media a ... more |  |
 NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center to be Renamed for Neil Armstrong Washington DC (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - President Barack Obama has signed HR 667, the congressional resolution that redesignates NASA's Hugh L. Dryden Flight Research Center as the Neil A. Armstrong Flight Research Center, into law. The resolution also names Dryden's Western Aeronautical Test Range as the Hugh L. Dryden Aeronautical Test Range. Both Hugh Dryden and Neil Armstrong are aerospace pioneers whose contributions are hi ... more |  |
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 Massive Galaxy Cluster Verifies Predictions of Cosmological Theory Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - By observing a high-speed component of a massive galaxy cluster, Caltech/JPL scientists and collaborators have detected for the first time in an individual object the kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect, a change in the cosmic microwave background caused by its interaction with massive moving objects. MACS J0717.5+3745 is an extraordinarily dynamic galaxy cluster with a total mass greater th ... more |  |
 NASA: Cracked Sea Ice Stirs Up Arctic Mercury Concern Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 22, 2014 - Vigorous mixing in the air above large cracks in Arctic sea ice that expose seawater to cold polar air pumps atmospheric mercury down to the surface, finds a NASA field campaign. This process can lead to more of the toxic pollutant entering the food chain, where it can negatively affect the health of fish and animals who eat them, including humans. Scientists measured increased concentrati ... more |  |
 Signed, Sealed and Delivered: New NASA Video Shows GPM's Journey to Japan Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - Pack it up, put it on a plane and fly it to Japan. It sounds simple enough, but a new video from NASA shows when your package is a satellite, it's anything but. NASA's new video, "GPM's Journey to Japan," highlights the unique shipment of the Global Precipitation Measurement mission's Core Observatory by air, land and sea. Built at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., the ... more |  |
South African set to be first black 'Afronaut' Mabopane, South Africa (AFP) Jan 21, 2014 - No one in Mandla Maseko's family has ever stepped outside South Africa, but the young township DJ is set to rocket into space next year. From the dusty district of Mabopane, near Pretoria, 25-year-old Maseko has landed a coveted seat to fly 103-kilometres (64 miles) into space in 2015, after winning a competition organised by a US-based space academy. He beat off a million other entrants ... more |  |
 Water found in stardust suggests life may be common in universe Honolulu (UPI) Jan 20, 2013 - The discovery of water in stardust suggests life may exist across the cosmos, in solar systems all over the universe, U.S. researchers say. Dust grains floating through our solar system have been found to contain tiny pockets of water that form when they are hit by charged particles from the sun, a phenomenon created in laboratories but previously unconfirmed inside actual stardust, the ... more |  |
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 Hubble Looks At Messier 65 and Its History Baltimore MD (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - The first day of March 1780 was a particularly productive night for Charles Messier. Combing the constellation of Leo for additions to his grand astronomical catalog, he struck on not one, but two, new objects. One of those objects is seen here: Messier 65. "Nebula discovered in Leo: It is very faint and contains no star," he jotted down in his notebook. But he was wrong - as we now know, ... more |  |
 World's Lowest Profile Active and Passive Antennas Raleigh NC (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - Telit Wireless Solutions and Parsec Technologies have announced that a combination of the companies' technologies results in the world's lowest profile companion solution for GPS receiver and antenna. For host devices able to accommodate higher volumetric symmetry, assembly of the components can be made to fit a 6x16x8mm volume. A flat component arrangement can yield an ultra-low-profile v ... more |  |
 Turkish Telecoms Satellite to Launch From Baikonur Feb. 15 Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 22, 2014 - A Turkish telecommunications satellite will be launched Febuary 15 from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan aboard a Proton-M heavy-lift rocket, Russia's space agency Roscosmos said Thursday. The satellite was delivered to Baikonur on a cargo airplane Thursday. "Following customs procedures it will be sent to a testing facility, where it will be held in a cleanroom for further la ... more |  |
 Rosetta: To Chase a Comet Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 22, 2014 - Comets are among the most beautiful and least understood nomads of the night sky. To date, half a dozen of these most heavenly of heavenly bodies have been visited by spacecraft in an attempt to unlock their secrets. All these missions have had one thing in common: the high-speed flyby. Like two ships passing in the night (or one ship and one icy dirtball), they screamed past each other at hyper ... more |  |
Russia's Soyuz Rocket to Get Video Cameras Moscow (RIA Novosti) Jan 22, 2014 - Russia's Soyuz family of launchers will be upgraded with new electronics and external video cameras before entering service at the new Vostochny space center in 2015, the rocket manufacturer said Friday. "The video system will monitor the rocket from liftoff during its flight, and especially during the stage separations," a factory spokesman told RIA Novosti. The Soyuz-2 launchers fo ... more |  |
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 Gold nanoparticles help to develop a new method for tracking viruses Jyvaskyla, Finland (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - Researchers at the Nanoscience Center (NSC) of University of Jyvaskyla in Finland have developed a novel method to study enterovirus structures and their functions. The method will help to obtain new information on trafficking of viruses in cells and tissues as well as on the mechanisms of virus opening inside cells. This new information is important for example for developing new antiviral drug ... more |  |
 Iran nuclear deal comes into force as US sanctions loom Vienna (AFP) Jan 22, 2014 - Iran is due Monday to unplug key nuclear equipment for six months in return for a slight easing of crippling Western sanctions, as an interim deal between Tehran and world powers takes effect. This starts the clock on negotiating a trickier long-term accord aimed at ending the Iran nuclear standoff and averting war once and for all, a process threatened however by possible new US sanctions. ... more |  |
Poison-breathing bacteria may be boon to industry, environment Athens GA (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - Buried deep in the mud along the banks of a remote salt lake near Yosemite National Park are colonies of bacteria with an unusual property: they breathe a toxic metal to survive. Researchers from the University of Georgia discovered the bacteria on a recent field expedition to Mono Lake in California, and their experiments with this unusual organism show that it may one day become a useful tool ... more |  |
 Carbon nanotube sponge shows improved water clean-up London, UK (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - A carbon nanotube sponge capable of soaking up water contaminants, such as fertilisers, pesticides and pharmaceuticals, more than three times more efficiently than previous efforts has been presented in a new study published today. The carbon nanotube (CNT) sponges, uniquely doped with sulphur, also demonstrated a high capacity to absorb oil, potentially opening up the possibility of using ... more |  |
CCNY Team Models Sudden Thickening of Complex Fluids New York NY (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - A new model by a team of researchers with The City College of New York's Benjamin Levich Institute may shed new understanding on the phenomenon known as discontinuous shear thickening (DST), in which the resistance to stirring takes a sudden jump. Easily observed in a 'kitchen experiment' by mixing together equal amounts of cornstarch and water, DST occurs because concentrated suspensions ... more |  |
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