One of the main reasons for limiting the operating lifetimes of nuclear reactors is that metals exposed to the strong radiation environment near the reactor core become porous and brittle, which can lead to cracking and failure. ...
Condensed Matter
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On 29 February a test model of Orion's solar array was unfolded at NASA's Plum Brook Station test facility in Sandusky, Ohio to check everything works as expected. The solar panels were made by Airbus Defence and Space in ...
Space Exploration
Mar 2, 2016
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Potentially hazardous asteroids are still looming large in the minds of scientists engaged in planetary defense issues. Numerous strategies describing deflection of near-Earth objects (NEOs) have been proposed, including ...
Space Exploration
Mar 2, 2016
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The asteroid 2013 TX68 will come fairly close to Earth in early March, but the exact time and distance of its closest approach will not be known until after the fact. Sean Marshall, a fifth-year Cornell University PhD student, ...
Space Exploration
Mar 2, 2016
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A team of scientists lead by Dmitry Vatolin, senior research fellow in Graphics & Media Lab at Lomonosov Moscow State University, spent eight years studying the problem of headaches caused by 3-D movies. In mid-February, ...
Business
Mar 2, 2016
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The earliest example of an organism living on land – an early type of fungus – has been identified. The organism, from 440 million years ago, likely kick-started the process of rot and soil formation, which encouraged ...
Biotechnology
Mar 2, 2016
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A team of scientists affiliated with several research facilities in France has conducted a study on giant viruses known as mimiviruses and has found that at least some of them have an immune system that is similar in some ...
A research team from the Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Biophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences has synthesized a material that is perfect for protection of respiratory organs, analytical research and other ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 2, 2016
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Components housed in stainless steel for protection against extreme environments seen in the aerospace and defense industries require paths for electricity to power them and communicate with them. Those paths in turn need ...
Condensed Matter
Mar 2, 2016
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Scientists of the Tomsk State University have found preserved moose in Western Siberia with unique genetic features. This discovery will help determine the origin and path of moose movement in the last few tens of thousands ...
Ecology
Mar 2, 2016
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