The twin Sentinel-1 satellites have – for the first time – combined to show their capability for revealing even small deformations in Earth's surface.
Space Exploration
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NASA's Juno spacecraft is just a few days shy of its arrival at the solar system's biggest planet. The highly anticipated mission is about to offer a glimpse into the real nature of Jupiter, hopefully providing new insights ...
Space Exploration
Jun 30, 2016
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Sandia National Laboratories creates lightning in a lab to evaluate how anything from sensitive nuclear weapons components to entire buildings will hold up against the worst that nature might throw at them.
General Physics
Jun 30, 2016
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Water is necessary for life as we know it, but too much water is bad for habitability. Therefore, to study the habitability of extrasolar planets, determining the abundance of water is a key element. Yann Alibert, Science ...
Astronomy
Jun 30, 2016
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A new description of electron scattering in the surface layers of samples proposed by the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw significantly speeds up materials analysis and enables ...
Condensed Matter
Jun 30, 2016
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An international joint research group has succeeded in developing a new thermally activated, delayed-fluorescence (TADF) material that displays emission of light in colors from green to deep-red.
Materials Science
Jun 30, 2016
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After nearly two years apart, Europe's Rosetta spacecraft will join stranded robot probe Philae on September 30 on the icy surface of a comet hurtling through space, their eternal resting place, mission control said Thursday.
Space Exploration
Jun 30, 2016
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Fruit flies may seem simple, but these common visitors to the fruit bowl can drastically alter their gene expression and metabolism to respond to temperature changes in their environment, an international team of researchers ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 30, 2016
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Amazon is renewing its "Prime Day" July sales gimmick as Wal-Mart also tries to go after online shoppers.
Business
Jun 30, 2016
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Washington State University researchers have developed a unique, multifunctional smart material that can change shape from heat or light and assemble and disassemble itself. They have filed a provisional patent on the work.
Materials Science
Jun 30, 2016
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