The fifth Mobile User Objective System (MUOS) satellite built by Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Navy has reached orbit, successfully deployed its solar arrays and antennas, and is beginning pre-operational, on-orbit testing.
Space Exploration
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope had imaged NGC 6818 before, but it took another look at this planetary nebula, with a new mix of colour filters, to display it in all its beauty. By showing off its stunning turquoise and ...
Astronomy
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(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with the of Universities of Lancaster, Rothmamsted and Essex has submitted a request to Britain's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs asking for permission to grow genetically ...
Climate negotiators started work Monday on implementing the Paris Agreement on global warming amid uncertainty over how the U.S. election will impact the landmark deal as temperatures and greenhouse gases soar to new heights.
Environment
Nov 7, 2016
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Astronomers of the Universities of Tübingen and Vienna are investigating the basic principles of the formation of stars.
Astronomy
Nov 7, 2016
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Smartphones, laptops, electric cars—whatever the device, an efficient battery is high on any user's wish list. The search for the next-generation battery has recently focused on sodium– oxygen batteries. Theoretically, ...
Materials Science
Nov 7, 2016
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A precise measurement of absolute beam intensity is a key parameter to monitor any losses in a beam and to calibrate the absolute number of particles delivered to the experiments.
Superconductivity
Nov 7, 2016
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Kaikaifilu is a new species of giant sea lizard (mosasaur) discovered in 66 million-year-old rocks of Antarctica. At about 10 m long, it is the largest known top marine predator from this continent. It lived near the end ...
Archaeology
Nov 7, 2016
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Amateur astronomers and aurora hunters alike have been reporting a green glow across the UK sky. Easily confused with the aurora borealis, or northern lights, the sightings were of another phenomena called "airglow".
Space Exploration
Nov 7, 2016
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Caltech applied physicists have experimentally simulated the sun's magnetic fields to create a realistic coronal loop in a lab.
Space Exploration
Nov 7, 2016
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