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November 11, 2013

ISS crew returns safely to Earth with Olympic torch
Moscow (AFP) Nov 11, 2013
Three astronauts returned to Earth Monday, following a 166-day mission, bringing the Olympic torch back from the International Space Station after a historic space walk. The trip completes the most ambitious leg of Russia's unparallelled torch relay in the run-up to the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi next February. Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, NASA US astronaut Karen Nyberg and Italian colleague Luca Parmitano, descended in the Soyuz capsule to touch down at 0249 GMT on the frosty steppe ... read more

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GOCE gives in to gravity Close to 01:00 CET on Monday 11 November, ESA's GOCE satellite reentered Earth's atmosphere on a descending orbit pass that extended across Siberia, the western Pacific Ocean, the eastern Indian Oce ... more		NASA's Orion Sees Flawless Fairing Separation in Second Test The three massive panels protecting a test version of NASA's Orion multipurpose crew vehicle successfully fell away from the spacecraft Wednesday in a test of a system that will protect Orion during ... more		Italy assures no risk of satellite debris on its territory Italian officials assured residents Sunday the risk of debris from a defunct satellite falling on Italy overnight was now nil, scrubbing an earlier warning of "minimal" danger. ... more
				Wageningen UR innovates in the ultra-low temperature freezing of research material In partnership with the Dutch company B.E.R.G. Koudetechniek and Klimaatbeheersing, Wageningen UR (University and Research centre) has designed and constructed an entirely new type of facility for t ... more		Georgia Tech Develops Inkjet-Based Circuits at Fraction of Time and Cost Researchers from Georgia Tech, the University of Tokyo and Microsoft Research have developed a novel method to rapidly and cheaply make electrical circuits by printing them with commodity inkjet pri ... more

Designing an acoustic diode Most people know about ultrasound through its role in prenatal imaging: those grainy, grey outlines of junior constructed from reflected sound waves. A new technology called an "acoustic diode," env ... more		A Single-Atom Light Switch With just a single atom, light can be switched between two fibre optic cables at the Vienna University of Technology. Such a switch enables quantum phenomena to be used for information and communica ... more		Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program Infleqtion lists shares on NYSE as neutral atom quantum firm Top Chinese gaming companies continue to challenge		European science satellite to break up late Sunday Fragments from a science satellite are likely to crash to Earth late Sunday or early Monday after the one-tonne probe breaks up at the end of its mission, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Friday. ... more
				Self-correcting crystal may unleash the next generation of advanced communications Researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have joined with an international team to engineer and measure a potentially important new class of nanostructured material ... more		Wind Tunnel Testing Used to Understand the Unsteady Side of Aerodynamics Think about a time you've been a passenger in a car and stuck your hand out the window. As your speed increases, so do the vibrations in your hand. Trying to keep those fingers steady as the wind wh ... more

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President Putin ends Russia and NATO ABM cooperation In another powerful and significant move for peace, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has cancelled a presidential order which in 2011, had set up an interdepartmental working g ... more		Gimball: A crash-happy flying robot Gimball bumps into and ricochets off of obstacles, rather than avoiding them. This 34 centimeter in diameter spherical flying robot buzzes around the most unpredictable, chaotic environments, withou ... more		Solar-driven ionosphere charges may nudge stressed faults toward rupture Stable black carbon in mangrove soils boosts coastal climate role Low crystallinity iron minerals show promise for chromium cleanup and carbon storage		Diamond Imperfections Pave the Way to Technology Gold From supersensitive detections of magnetic fields to quantum information processing, the key to a number of highly promising advanced technologies may lie in one of the most common defects in diamon ... more
				Stanford researchers surprised to find how neural circuits identify information needed for decisions While eating lunch you notice an insect buzzing around your plate. Its color and motion could both influence how you respond. If the insect was yellow and black you might decide it was a bee and mov ... more		New chemistry: Drawing and writing in liquid with light University of Helsinki researchers have manufactured photochemically active polymers which can be dissolved in water or certain alcohols. The new soluble, photosensitive polymer was created by docto ... more

European science satellite to break up late Sunday

NASA Technologists Embrace Laser Instrument Challenge

Italy assures no risk of satellite debris on its territory

Self-correcting crystal may unleash the next generation of advanced communications

Northrop Grumman Receives Contract to Sustain Joint STARS Fleet

Raytheon expands international footprint of electronic warfare capability

Kazakhstan say Baikonur launch site may be open to Western countries

ESA Swarm launch postponed

Europe's fifth ATV for launch by Arianespace begins its pre-flight checkout at the Spaceport

How pigeons may smell their way home

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	Making electrical contact along 1-D edge of 2-D materials Dr. Cory Dean, assistant professor of physics at The City College of New York, is the lead author of a paper published in the journal Science that demonstrates it is possible for an atomically thin ... more		Cat's eyes: Designing the perfect mixer As any amateur baker knows, proper mixing is crucial to a perfect pastry. Mix too little and ingredients will not be evenly distributed; beat instead of fold, and a souffle will fall flat. Mixing st ... more		Recycling valuable materials used in TVs, car batteries, cell phones Many of today's technologies, from hybrid car batteries to flat-screen televisions, rely on materials known as rare earth elements (REEs) that are in short supply, but scientists are reporting devel ... more		Synaptic transistor learns while it computes It doesn't take a Watson to realize that even the world's best supercomputers are staggeringly inefficient and energy-intensive machines. Our brains have upwards of 86 billion neurons, connected by ... more

AALTO plans Zephyr stratospheric hub in northern Australia and seeks local payload partners

Ancient guano drove Chincha coastal power

UAH lands first DARPA award for biological sciences department

NASA Technologists Embrace Laser Instrument Challenge		Big drone plan in the United States		Northrop Grumman Receives contract to Build Three More Global Hawks		Northrop Grumman Wins Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar Study		Boeing Partners with US Air Force to Reduce Supply Chain Costs
Northrop Grumman Receives Contract to Sustain Joint STARS Fleet		Iran starts producing new missile system		Gulf Arabs boost missile defenses despite U.S. thaw with Iran		Indonesia evacuates bodies after deadly helicopter crash		Islamists protest against US drone strikes in Pakistan

Vets of Doolittle WWII raid hold a final reunion

Unprecedented Dual Intercept Success for MEADS at White Sands Missile Range

Patriot delivers another flawless performance in Japan test firings

US firm claims first 3D-printed metal gun

US civilian drone operators to detail data use: regulators

'Miracle' baby born in Philippine typhoon rubble

Philippine security forces pour into typhoon-hit towns

Disaster experts warn on avoiding 2004 mistakes in Philippines

Philippines struggles to help desperate typhoon victims

World sends emergency relief to battered Philippines

Tormented survivors of Philippine typhoon raid the dead

EU mulls tough options to deal with Mediterranean migrants

China's FAW signs deal to build vehicles in Algeria

China leaders start key economic 'reform' summit

US finance chief to raise China currency on Asia trip

Cheap Chinese textiles slam Peru's garment industry

Africa scrambles to build export network for mineral resources

Latin America hopes to ride out slow U.S. growth

Romania accused of shady moves to please Canadian mining firm

Japan PM Abe rides around Tokyo in self-driving vehicles

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