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Aqua Dragons Heading to Space with New Line

Jan 16, 2017

Brainstorm has announced the latest addition to its Aqua Pets line with Aqua Dragons in Space. The exclusive limited edition range includes Aqua Dragon eggs that have been sent on a near space mission into the highest levels of the ...

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NASA Releases Radar Images of Large Asteroid

Dec 29, 2015

NASA released radar images of a large asteroid that made a relatively close approach to Earth on Saturday. Scientists said the flyby provided one of the best opportunities in years to gather data about a passing space rock. NASA Jet ...

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Numerous Microorganisms Are Able to Obtain The Energy

Feb 27, 2014

The Sun was once thought to provide energy for all life on Earth - meaning that life could not survive without it. In the 20th century, as astrobiologists began to explore the Earth's most remote and harsh environments, scientists began to ...

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Asteroids Can Have a Highly Varied Internal Structure

Feb 14, 2014

ESO's New Technology Telescope has been used to find the first evidence that asteroids can have a highly varied internal structure. By making measurements astronomers have found that different parts of the asteroid Itokawa have different ...

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A New Map Developed by Researchers From MIT and The Paris Observatory Charts The Size

Feb 8, 2014

To get an idea of how the early solar system may have formed, scientists often look to asteroids. These relics of rock and dust represent what today's planets may have been before they differentiated into bodies of core, mantle, and crust. ...

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Scientists Using The Herschel Space Observatory Have Made The First Definitive Detection

Jan 22, 2014

Scientists using the Herschel space observatory have made the first definitive detection of water vapor on the largest and roundest object in the asteroid belt, Ceres. Plumes of water vapor are thought to shoot up periodically from Ceres ...

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Europe's Rosetta Probe Is Due to Wake up From Years of Hibernation Monday

Jan 20, 2014

Europe's Rosetta probe is due to wake up from years of hibernation Monday, but scientists face an agonizing wait of several hours until the first signal reaches Earth and they can celebrate a new milestone in their unprecedented mission to ...

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Asteroid Mining Firms Have Begun Launching a Counterattack on The Academic Findings

Jan 16, 2014

Asteroid mining's prospects as a trillion-dollar industry could be mildly tarnished by a new Harvard study that found few space rocks near Earth worth mining. But asteroid mining firms have already begun launching a counterattack on the ...

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Devastating Supervolcanoes Can Erupt Simply Due to Changes

Jan 15, 2014

Devastating supervolcanoes can erupt simply due to changes that happen in their giant magma chambers as they slowly cool, according to a new study. This finding marks the first time researchers have been able to explain the mechanism behind ...

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Several Sources Confirm That The First Discovered Asteroid in 2014

Jan 7, 2014

Figure 1 - This animated GIF shows Asteroid 2014 AA, discovered by the NASA-sponsored Catalina Sky Survey on Jan. 1, 2014, as it moved across the sky. Credit: CSS/LPL/UA Several sources confirm that the first discovered asteroid in 2014, ...

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Asteroids Whose Orbits Bring Them Close to The Earth's Orbit Are Called Near Earth Objects

Dec 30, 2013

Asteroids (or comets) whose orbits bring them close to the earth's orbit are called near Earth objects. Some of them are old, dating from the origins of the solar system about four and one-half billion years ago, and expected to be rich in ...

Tags: Asteroid, primitive materials, young solar system, mineral

Peregrine Semiconductor Shipped Its 2 Billionth Ultracmos Chip

Nov 5, 2013

Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA, a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-sapphire (SOS) and silicon-on-insulator (SOI), has shipped its 2 billionth UltraCMOS chip (shipped to ...

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Scientists Have Developed a Way to Use 3D Printing to Create Structures

Jul 16, 2013

It may not quite be a character out of the Terminator 2, but university scientists have developed a way to use 3D printing to create structures made out of liquid metal. Researchers at North Carolina State University use 3D printing to ...

Tags: 3D Printer, Packaging, Printing

NASA Wants to Find Asteroids That Could Threaten Earth

Jun 18, 2013

NASA wants to find asteroids that could threaten Earth and figure out what to do about them and it wants your help doing it. The space agency today issued an asteroid-focused Grand Challenge, calling on scientists and citizen scientists ...

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NASA Plans to Take 3D Printers Into Space to Enable Astronauts to Create Tools

May 30, 2013

NASA scientists plan to take 3D printers into space to enable astronauts to create tools, and even food, onboard the International Space Station and later on the moon or even Mars. NASA's chief administrator Charles Bolden talked about 3D ...

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