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New Theories May Shed Light on Dark Matter
If current theories prove correct, ordinary matter--all that we can see, smell and touch--makes up just a fraction, maybe 4 percent, of the universe. The rest comes from the so-called...
Universal Declaration of Human Rights to head into space
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is to be hoisted to the International Space Station to mark the 60th anniversary of the document's adoption by the UN, the European Space...
Fingers, Loops and Bays in the Crab Nebula
(PhysOrg.com) -- This image gives the first clear view of the faint boundary of the Crab Nebula's X-ray-emitting pulsar wind nebula. The nebula is powered by a rapidly-rotating, highly-magnetized neutron...
Plan to Send Hot Air Balloon to Saturn's Moon Titan
Mission would use an orbiting spacecraft, a surface probe, and a hot air balloon.
How Water Made Earth Livable for Us - The Peroxy Way
Water and the peroxy may have been vital for Earth's habitability.
Minerals on Mars Point to More Recent Presence of Water
Scientists are seeing global mineralogical signs that Mars was at least occasionally wet for the first two billion years of its existence.
Dot Earth: The President and the Planet, on a Budget
What’s a president to do on issues like climate and population, particularly in an era of huge deficits and pressing real-time problems?
Cloud radar with a silver lining - it can really predict the weather
A new cloud radar system has been developed by Brian Moyna which promises more accurate, more localised weather forecasting
Science Weekly Extra podcast: Astronaut Richard Garriott on space travel and being back on Earth
A space capsule carrying the first two men to follow their fathers into orbit has returned to Earth from the international space station.Search and recovery crews in Kazakhstan retrieved the...
New weather satellite moves toward launch
VANDENBERG AIR FORE BASE, Calif., Nov. 5 (UPI) -- The latest polar-orbiting environmental weather satellite developed by the U.S. space agency has arrived in California for its scheduled...
Meet G, Silicon Valley's celebrity entrepreneur
You'll find the world of G at the top of a 37-story elevator ride up to a fabulous San Francisco penthouse with a stunning view of Treasure Island and the...
Tackling the big questions -- approaching a revolution in our understanding of gravity
(PhysOrg.com) -- The way galaxies move through the cosmos has recently begun to baffle scientists. Even when the gravitational theories of Newton and Einstein are taken into account, the universe...
Energy Department promotes Victor Der
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- The U. S. Department of Energy announced the appointment of Victor Der as its principal deputy assistant secretary for fossil energy.
Model Predicts Equipment's Remaining Life And Links Info To Inventory Decisions
New research could soon make predicting the degradation and remaining useful life of mechanical and electronic equipment easier and more accurate, while significantly improving maintenance operations and spare parts logistics.
Bremen University wins ESA competition
PARIS, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- A robot rover designed by a Bremen University team has won a European Space Agency contest to retrieve soil samples from a lunar-style...
NASA selects student astronomy ambassadors
WASHINGTON, Nov. 5 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency has selected 46 students to take part in its International Year of Astronomy Student Ambassadors Program.
Election Sends Three NASA Supporters Packing
The House Science Committee lost three strong NASA supporters in the Nov. 4 U.S. election.
Very cold ice films in laboratory reveal mysteries of Universe
Could life have started in a lump of ice? The Universe is full of water, mostly in the form of very cold ice films deposited on interstellar dust particles, but...
The overall channels of the lightning discharges
A new narrowband radio interferometer system has been developed for continuous observation of various processes of a lightning discharge at a time resolution of one microsecond. By using this system,...
Space Communications Patent Spans Solar System
Mobile Satellite Ventures has a patent on a hybrid space communications system.
Spacewatch: ISS crosses Britain during November
The ISS (International Space Station) crosses Britain during the night for the rest of this month but remains largely unseen in the Earth's shadow. Until the weekend, though, it has...
Report: Space Shuttle Retirement Date in Jeopardy
NASA's plan to retire its shuttle fleet by 2010 faces big challengs, a new report finds.
Solar Storm! Shields Up!
Physicists bring Star Trek-like force fields into the realm of possibility
First Rocket Parts Of NASA's New Launch System Arrive In Florida
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first major flight hardware of the Ares I-X rocket has arrived in Florida to begin preparation for the inaugural test flight of the agency's next-generation launch system....
Astronomy Department dedicates new telescope
A small knot of a dozen people gathered on the Science Center roof today to officially dedicate Harvard’s latest teaching telescope, a 16-inch cassegrain telescope built by DFM Engineering in...
PAMELA bares all
Satellite data do indeed hint at dark-matter annihilation, the European team claims
May the Force (Field) Be with You
If astronauts hope to ever set foot on Mars, myriad technical challenges will need to be overcome, not the least of which is shielding space travelers from bombardment by energetic...
Venezuela launches telecommunications satellite
Venezuela has launched a satellite that will contribute to telemedicine and education, and offer access to the country's rural areas.