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  Houston TX (SPX) Apr 12, 2018 The Advanced Plant Habitat (APH), a recent addition to the International Space Station, is the largest growth chamber aboard the orbiting laboratory. Roughly the size of a mini-fridge, the habitat is designed to test which growth conditions plants prefer in space and provides specimens a larger root and shoot area. This space in turn will allow a wider variety of crops to grow aboard the station. Thus far, the habitat has been used to grow and study Arabidopsis, small flowering plants related to c ... read more |
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Growing Plants in Antarctica 'Open Way' for Distant Space Missions - AnalystPullman WA (SPX) Apr 12, 2018 Antarctica has yielded its first vegetable crops, grown without soil or daylight. Scientists grew the greens at the Neumayer-Station III inside a high-tech greenhouse. The project aims to help culti ... more  
Scientists discover a link between superconductivity and the periodic tableMoscow, Russia (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 Scientists from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and Skoltech have demonstrated the high-temperature superconductivity of actinium hydrides and discovered a general principle for calculati ... more 
Take it from me: I'm not signing up to become a space tourist just yetMelbourne, Australia (The Conversation) Apr 11, 2018 Elon Musk's SpaceX reportedly has two people signed up for a trip around the Moon (although these plans have been delayed slightly), and Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic has advanced plans to launc ... more  
Estonia calls for deployment of Patriot missiles and US troopsWashington (AFP) April 5, 2018 Estonian President Kersti Kaljulaid called for US Patriot missiles and troops to be deployed to her small Baltic state Wednesday, telling AFP it was necessary to make deterrence "believable" for Russia. ... more |
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Boeing to restart production of Standoff Land Attack MissilesWashington DC (UPI) Apr 11, 2018 Boeing has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy for standoff land attack missiles to support Saudi Arabia. ... more  
Fierce clashes as French police try to clear anti-capitalist campNotre-Dame-Des-Landes, France (AFP) April 11, 2018 Activists reinforced by dozens of their supporters clashed with police for a third day in western France on Wednesday to oppose their eviction from an anti-capitalist camp set up 10 years ago to protest a new airport. ... more 
Boeing to advance design process for new Air Force OneWashington DC (UPI) Apr 11, 2018 Boeing was awarded a contract from the U.S. Air Force to advance design services on VC-25B, the next version of Air Force One. ... more 
Yemen rebel missiles, drones shot down over SaudiRiyadh (AFP) April 11, 2018 Saudi Arabia said its air defences on Wednesday intercepted ballistic missiles fired from rebel-held Yemen at Riyadh and the south of the kingdom where two drones were also shot down. ... more 
257 dead as military plane crashes in Algeria's worst air disasterBoufarik, Algeria (AFP) April 11, 2018 Algeria suffered its deadliest ever air catastrophe Wednesday when a military plane crashed after takeoff, killing 257 people on board, mostly army personnel and their family members. ... more |
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Clashes as French police clear anti-airport protest campNotre-Dame-Des-Landes, France (AFP) April 9, 2018 French anti-capitalist activists clashed with riot police at burning barricades Monday during a huge security operation to clear a rural protest camp at the site of an abandoned airport project. ... more  |
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Boeing tapped to support P-8A Poseidon trainingWashington (UPI) Apr 10, 2018 Boeing was awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy for training systems for the P-8A Poseidon aircraft. ... more 
Two soldiers killed in Kentucky copter crash: armyWashington (AFP) April 7, 2018 Two US soldiers with an airborne combat brigade died when their Apache helicopter crashed during a routine training mission at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, the army reported Saturday. ... more 
US agrees guided missiles for Qatar before Trump talksWashington (AFP) April 9, 2018 The United States approved a deal to sell Qatar $300 million in guided missiles Monday, on the eve of President Donald Trump's White House meeting with Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. ... more  
DT Research introduces new rugged tablet with scientific-grade GNSSSan Jose CA (SPX) Apr 09, 2018 DT Research, the leading designer and manufacturer of purpose-built computing solutions for vertical markets, has announced the DT301T Rugged RTK Tablet, a lightweight military-grade tablet that is ... more  
Deep Space Industries to provide Comet satellite propulsion for BlackSky, LeoStellaSeattle WA (SPX) Apr 06, 2018 Deep Space Industries (DSI) has signed a contract to provide its Comet water-based satellite propulsion systems for the BlackSky Earth observation constellation of smallsats. DSI will provide an ini ... more |
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 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 11, 2018 
IMAGE's signal remains too weak to achieve frame lock, which is necessary to retrieve data from the spacecraft. But important steps have been taken this week to be prepared in case of re-established contact.
Last week, the engineers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, successfully established network connections with both the antennas at NASA's Wallops Flight Faci ... more |
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 New Delhi (Sputnik) Apr 04, 2018 
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has said it has not given up on the recently launched GSAT-6A that went missing ahead of the third and final course correction firing on April 1.
The communication satellite was launched on March 29 this year from the spaceport Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh.
"The scientists completed the second orbit raising operation of GSAT-6A on Saturd ... more |
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 San Jose CA (SPX) Apr 09, 2018 
DT Research, the leading designer and manufacturer of purpose-built computing solutions for vertical markets, has announced the DT301T Rugged RTK Tablet, a lightweight military-grade tablet that is purpose-built for GIS mapping applications with Real Time Kinematic (RTK) satellite navigation used to enhance the precision of position data derived from satellite-based positioning systems. This uni ... more |
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 Notre-Dame-Des-Landes, France (AFP) April 11, 2018 
Activists reinforced by dozens of their supporters clashed with police for a third day in western France on Wednesday to oppose their eviction from an anti-capitalist camp set up 10 years ago to protest a new airport.
The clashes erupted at dawn when protesters began throwing projectiles at officers from behind barricades set up to defend the camp at Notre-Dames-des-Landes near the city of ... more |
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 Jerusalem (SPX) Apr 03, 2018 
Following three years of extensive research, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU) physicist Dr. Uriel Levy and his team have created technology that will enable our computers - and all optic communication devices - to run 100 times faster through terahertz microchips.
Until now, two major challenges stood in the way of creating the terahertz microchip: overheating and scalability.
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 Pasadena CA (JPL) Apr 12, 2018 
In the mornings, Sylvia Beer sits at the desktop computer in her living room with a cup of coffee and looks for ridges on Mars. Her town of Wodonga, Australia, gets so hot that in summer she begins scanning Mars images at 4 a.m., when she takes medication for Parkinson's disease. The condition sometimes affects her memory and movement - she uses a cane or walker to get around, and can't walk as ... more |
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 Koh Phi Phi Ley, Thailand (AFP) April 11, 2018 
Hordes of tourists clamber across the white sand with selfie sticks as Thai park rangers wade into turquoise waters to direct boats charging into the cliff-ringed cove.
Made famous by the 2000 movie "The Beach" starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Maya Bay on the western Thai island of Koh Phi Phi Ley is now a case study in the ruinous costs of runaway tourism, swamped by up to 4,000 daily visitors. ... more |
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 Beijing (AFP) April 2, 2018 
The plunge back to Earth of a defunct Chinese space laboratory will not slow down Beijing's ambitious plans to send humans to the moon.
The Tiangong-1 space module, which crashed Monday, was intended to serve as a stepping stone to a manned station, but its problems highlight the difficulties of exploring outer space.
But China has come a long way in its race to catch up with the United ... more |
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 Tokyo (AFP) April 8, 2018 
On January 5, as Tokyo's commuters were struggling back to work after their long New Year break, blaring sirens from every phone pierced the sleepy atmosphere: "strong" earthquake coming.
The message delivered via the country's alert system, part of its much-hyped J-Alert mechanism, warned of a big one directly hitting the Japanese capital - potentially on the scale of the devastating 2011 ... more |
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 Washington DC (UPI) Apr 11, 2018 
Boeing has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy for standoff land attack missiles to support Saudi Arabia.
The deal, announced Tuesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $64 million under the terms of a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract.
The agreement enables Boeing to "restart" the AGM-84 Standoff Land Attack Missile production line and expand the production ... more |
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 Lausanne, Switzerland (SPX) Mar 21, 2018 
2D materials, which consist of a few layers of atoms, may well be the future of nanotechnology. They offer potential new applications and could be used in small, higher-performance and more energy-efficient devices. 2D materials were first discovered almost 15 years ago, but only a few dozen of them have been synthesized so far.
Now, thanks to an approach developed by researchers from EPFL ... more |
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 Trieste, Italy (SPX) Apr 05, 2018  Man or woman, happy or sad. Sometimes a glance is enough to say it. Yet, the visual process that allows us to recognize the gender or emotional state of a person is very sophisticated. Until recently, only primates were deemed able to perform such complex operations as object recognition.
A new study from the International School for Advanced Studies - SISSA, published in the journal Curre ... more |
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 Washington (UPI) Apr 10, 2018 
SRC Inc. has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Air Force for services in support of counter unmanned aerial systems.
The deal, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is valued at $57.5 million under the terms of a undefinitized contract action.
The agreement enables SRC Inc., out of North Syracuse, N.Y., for counter unmanned aerial systems.
Work on the contract w ... more |
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