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| October 30, 2013 |
 The Galactic Mosh Pit Potsdam, Germany (SPX) Oct 30, 2013 - Astronomers have discovered that our Galaxy wobbles. An international team of astronomers around Mary Williams from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) detected and examined this phenomenon with the RAdial Velocity Experiment (RAVE), a survey of almost half a million stars around the Sun. In addition to the regular Galactic rotation the scientists found the Milky Way moving perp ... more |  |
 Unique Chemical Composition Surrounding Supermassive Black Hole Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Oct 30, 2013 - The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) successfully captured a detailed image of high density molecular gas around an active galactic nucleus harboring a supermassive black hole. The observations at the highest ever achieved reveal a unique chemical composition characterized by enhancement of hydrogen cyanide (HCN) around the black hole. An research team thought a hi ... more |  |
A Glimpse of the Violent Past of Milky Way's Giant Black Hole Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 30, 2013 - Researchers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have found evidence that the normally dim region very close to the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy flared up with at least two luminous outbursts in the past few hundred years. This discovery comes from a new study of rapid variations in the X-ray emission from gas clouds surrounding the supermassive black hol ... more |  |
 Russia Mulls Development of New Super-Heavy Carrier Rocket Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 30, 2013 - Russia's Federal Space Agency, Roscosmos, is to discuss with leading Russian scientists development of a new launch vehicle capable of carrying up payloads to 70 tons, its head said Friday. "We will analyze and use all the existing potential...to choose the optimal solution [for the super-heavy rocket]," newly-appointed Roscosmos chief Oleg Ostapenko told reporters. The results of th ... more |  |
 Russia, US to protect satellite navigation systems at UN level Moscow (Voice of Russia) Oct 30, 2013 - Russia and the United States, concerned about competition from navigation systems being developed by the European Union and China, intend to secure frequency spectrum and other positions for their GLONASS and GPS satellite navigation systems at the level of the United Nation's International Committee on GNSS (ICG). "The GLONASS and GPS systems were developed in the 1970s and, naturally, th ... more |  |
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 NASA Releases Movie of Sun's Canyon of Fire Greenbelt MD (SPX) Oct 30, 2013 - A magnetic filament of solar material erupted on the sun in late September, breaking the quiet conditions in a spectacular fashion. The 200,000 mile long filament ripped through the sun's atmosphere, the corona, leaving behind what looks like a canyon of fire. The glowing canyon traces the channel where magnetic fields held the filament aloft before the explosion. Visualizers at NASA's God ... more |  |
 UNC neuroscientists discover new 'mini-neural computer' in the brain Chapel Hill NC (SPX) Oct 30, 2013 - Dendrites, the branch-like projections of neurons, were once thought to be passive wiring in the brain. But now researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have shown that these dendrites do more than relay information from one neuron to the next. They actively process information, multiplying the brain's computing power. "Suddenly, it's as if the processing power of the ... more |  |
ALMA Reveals Ghostly Shape of 'Coldest Place in the Universe' Charlottesville VA (SPX) Oct 30, 2013 - At a cosmologically crisp one degree Kelvin (minus 458 degrees Fahrenheit), the Boomerang Nebula is the coldest known object in the Universe - colder, in fact, than the faint afterglow of the Big Bang, which is the natural background temperature of space. Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope have taken a new look at this intriguing object to l ... more |  |
 ATV-4: all good missions must come to an end Paris (ESA) Oct 30, 2013 - ESA's supply and support ferry ATV Albert Einstein has served the International Space Station faithfully since it was launched from Europe's spaceport in French Guiana in June. Its mission comes to an end next week when it undocks on Monday and enters Earth's atmosphere five days later. Albert Einstein is the fourth in the series of ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicles that delivers supplies ... more |  |
 Association of Space Explorers Calls for Global Cooperation to Confront Asteroid Threats New York NY (SPX) Oct 30, 2013 - At a public event at New York's American Museum of Natural History, the Association of Space Explorers (ASE), a professional society of astronauts and cosmonauts, issued a challenge to the global community to take the next vital steps to confront the threat from dangerous asteroids. The ASE Committee on Near-Earth Objects statement follows the United Nations General Assembly adoption of a ... more |  |
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 Latest AEHF Comms Payload Gets Boost From Customized Integrated Circuits Redondo Beach CA (SPX) Oct 30, 2013 - Recent deliveries of application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) are getting Northrop Grumman Corporation's production of payloads for the U.S. Air Force's fifth and sixth Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) protected communication satellites off to a strong start. More than 800 ASICs delivered by Honeywell Aerospace in Plymouth, Minn., and BAE Systems of Arlington, Va., bolster ... more |  |
NASA's Great Observatories Begin Deepest-Ever Probe of the Universe Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 30, 2013 - NASA's Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes are teaming up to look deeper into the universe than ever before. With a boost from natural "zoom lenses" found in space, they should be able to uncover galaxies that are as much as 100 times fainter than what these three great observatories typically can see. In an ambitious collaborative program called The Frontier Fields, astronomers w ... more |  |
 US military's airship programs lose altitude Washington (AFP) Oct 26, 2013 - The US military has invested billions in blimp-like aircraft to track militants planting roadside bombs but the spyship experiment is losing altitude because of technical failures and changing priorities. The lighter-than-air projects were billed as an innovative revival of an old aircraft design to conduct "unblinking" surveillance on the battlefield - at a fraction of the cost of fuel-gu ... more |  |
 Tiny Sensors Put the Squeeze on Light Washington DC (SPX) Oct 28, 2013 - Microelectromechanical systems, known as MEMS, are ubiquitous in modern military systems such as gyroscopes for navigation, tiny microphones for lightweight radios, and medical biosensors for assessing the wounded. Such applications benefit from the portability, low power, and low cost of MEMS devices. Although the use of MEMS sensors is now commonplace, they still operate many orders of m ... more |  |
 How climate change affects microbial life below the seafloor Bremen, Germany (SPX) Oct 25, 2013 - Traces of past microbial life in sediments off the coast of Peru document how the microbial ecosystem under the seafloor has responded to climate change over hundreds of thousands of years. For more a decade scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology and their colleagues at MARUM and the University of Aarhus have investigated microbial life from this habitat. This "Deep ... more |  |
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Zoomable Holograms Pave the Way for Versatile, Portable Projectors Washington DC (SPX) Oct 28, 2013 - Imagine giving a presentation to a roomful of important customers when suddenly the projector fails. You whip out your smartphone, beam your PowerPoint presentation onto the conference room screen, and are back in business within seconds. This career-saving application and others like it are the promise of a new generation of ultra-small projectors. Now researchers from Japan and Poland ha ... more |  |
JQI team 'gets the edge' on photon transport in silicon Washington DC (SPX) Oct 28, 2013 - Scientists have a new way to edge around a difficult problem in quantum physics, now that a research team from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and University of Maryland's Joint Quantum Institute (JQI) have proved* their recent theory about how particles of light flow within a novel device they built. While the problem itself-how to find an easier way to study the ... more |  |
 Northrop Grumman Demonstrates Micro-Gyro Prototype for DARPA Program Woodland Hills CA (SPX) Oct 24, 2013 - Northrop Grumman has developed and demonstrated a new micro-Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Gyro (micro-NMRG) prototype for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), providing precision navigation for size- and power-constrained applications. The development of a hermetically sealed micro-NMRG that meets precision navigation requirements along with a successful prototype demonstrat ... more |  |
Quantum conductors benefit from growth on smooth foundations Washington DC (SPX) Oct 25, 2013 - Imagine if the "information superhighway" had HOV lanes so that data could be stored, processed and disseminated many times faster than possible with today's electronics. Researchers in the United States and China have teamed to develop such a speedway for future devices, an exotic type of electrical conductor called a topological insulator (TI). In a new paper in the journal AIP Advances, ... more |  |
Atomically Thin Device Promises New Class of Electronics Chicago IL (SPX) Oct 25, 2013 - As electronics approach the atomic scale, researchers are increasingly successful at developing atomically thin, virtually two-dimensional materials that could usher in the next generation of computing. Integrating these materials to create necessary circuits, however, has remained a challenge. Northwestern University researchers have now taken a significant step toward fabricating complex ... more |  |
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