This full-size prototype of part of the first CubeSat designed for atmospheric reentry is dwarfed by the cavernous surroundings of ESA's Hertz radio-testing chamber.
Space Exploration
Dec 9, 2015
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After a year-long wait in storage for a Proton rocket to become available, the EDRS-A laser communications payload and its Eutelsat host satellite are finally at the Baikonur cosmodrome and being prepared for launch in late ...
Space Exploration
Dec 9, 2015
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Why send a message back in time, but lock it so that no one can ever read the contents? Because it may be the key to solving currently intractable problems. That's the claim of an international collaboration who have just ...
Quantum Physics
Dec 9, 2015
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A new test for detecting multiple explosives simultaneously has been developed by UCL scientists. The proof-of-concept sensor is designed to quickly identify and quantify five commonly used explosives in solution to help ...
Nanophysics
Dec 9, 2015
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A Bangor University academic discusses the connection between language and meaning in a new book published by Cambridge University Press.
Social Sciences
Dec 9, 2015
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(Phys.org)—A combined team of researchers from the U.S. and Germany has discovered a very thin layer of fat covering the scales of a single species of snake. In their paper published in Journal of the Royal Society Interface, ...
The recent 'unprecedented' flooding in north-west England might be more common than currently believed, a group of scientists has warned.
Environment
Dec 9, 2015
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In the basement under the Niels Bohr Institute building on Juliane Maries Vej in Copenhagen they have found astronomical observations that go more than 120 years back in time. The observations were recorded on thin photographic ...
Astronomy
Dec 9, 2015
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(Phys.org)—A small team of researchers with the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research has found that street dog mothers are not as willing to share meat with their pups as they are with other sources of food. ...
The German research vessel Polarstern covers thousands of kilometres between the northern and southern hemispheres in search of samples of biological material. This ship, however, has some other onboard passengers: organisms ...
Ecology
Dec 9, 2015
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