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Space Science

To Infinity And Beyond: These Crystal Sensors Can See Blasts From Black Holes And Also Cancers

Brendan Coffey
August 19, 2019
In the 1960s, satellites monitoring Soviet nuclear tests noticed huge, curious flashes of radiation. Rather than coming from the ground below, they were arriving from deep space. After decades of study, these rapid flashes of the most energetic form of radiation — known as gamma ray bursts or GRBs — remain one of the biggest mysteries of the cosmos. Scientists believe they could be powerful burps emanating from black holes after they lunched on a large star, or they could be caused by a handful of other extreme events taking place across the universe.
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The Vanguard

The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Sam Worley
June 01, 2019

Scientists devised a microscopic “submarine” that could ply the deepest interiors of the human body, delivering drugs to the exact places they’re needed, while engineers built a prototype of an “air taxi” powered by hydrogen fuel cells, and astronauts on board the International Space Station studied the effect of cosmic radiation on DNA. We’re way past planes, trains, and automobiles in this week’s coolest scientific discoveries.

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space

This News Will (Space) Rock You: NASA’s New Horizons Probe Snaps Photos Of The Most Distant Object Ever Visited By Human Spacecraft

Sam Worley
Tomas Kellner
January 02, 2019
Just after midnight on New Year’s Day, NASA scientists got an extra reason to pop the champagne — and it came shaped like a champagne bottle or, depending on your perspective, a bowling pin or a snowman. However you look at it, the cause for celebration is an object 22 miles long, 9 miles across and some 4 billion miles from the sun. When NASA’s New Horizons craft buzzed by it on Jan. 1, Ultima Thule became the most distant object ever visited by a human probe.
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space

Fantastic Voyage: NASA's Voyager 2 Probe Enters Interstellar Space After 41 Years, Still Powered By GE

Tomas Kellner
December 11, 2018

Earlier this week, NASA announced that the Voyager 2 space probe has become only the second object made by humans to leave the solar system — specifically, the protective bubble called the heliosphere, which shelters the planets from galactic cosmic rays — and enter interstellar space. Voyager 1, the probe’s twin, achieved the same feat in 2012, flying on a more direct path.

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Out Of Here: Cassini Takes The Plunge

September 15, 2017
Saturn takes the prize as the prettiest planet in the solar system, regardless of the size of your telescope. But its true beauty came to light only recently after the Cassini spacecraft snapped a series of stunning photographs of the distant world and its satellites. Dispatched to Saturn two decades ago, the Cassini orbiter, carrying the Huygens probe, completed numerous flybys around Saturn’s massive body, through its rocky rings and around its potentially life-sheltering moons Titan and Enceladus.
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space

How Can We Fix The Space Junk Problem? A Net And A Harpoon, Say Aerospace Engineers 

May 15, 2017

Since man first ventured into the cosmos, space has been gradually filling up with space junk— remnants of old spacecraft, ejected pieces of equipment, parts of launch rockets and micro-fragments of glass and metal. This junk poses a real threat to our dependency on satellite services, but luckily Dr. Jason Forshaw, part of the RemoveDebris team, is launching one the world’s first missions to test space junk capturing technologies later this year. He explains what to expect.

 

 
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The Weekend Edition

NASA: Saturn's Moon Enceladus Has All the Basic Ingredients for Life

David Nield Science Alert
April 16, 2017
But there’s more. His team is planning to feed the AR’s visual information into a database and analyze it for insights with apps running on Predix. “I think the more we leverage augmented reality, the more data we can harvest out of our processes,” Beacham says. “The way the AR system works, it takes pictures as it goes. Those pictures provide data you can analyze and discover ways to further optimize your processes and insights about production that are hard to get otherwise.”
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
January 27, 2017
Scientists successfully grew human stem cells inside a pig for the first time, built an AI that rivals dermatologists in spotting skin cancer and created a metal out of hydrogen — a material so unique it could act as a superconductor at room temperature. Science is so hot!
 

This AI Can Rival Doctors In Spotting Skin Cancer 
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
January 20, 2017
This week we learned about an A.I. potentially smarter that three-quarters of American adults, read about a soft robot that can keep a weak heart beating and watched Venus do The Wave. Raise your arms and say yeah!
 

This Computer May Be Smarter Than Most of Us
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space

Look Up! An Out-Of-This-World Holiday Spectacular

December 26, 2016
Get ready for a new kind of light show after NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launches in late 2018. The supersensitive device will fly to a spot a million miles from Earth and then orbit the sun. It will come with infrared eyes and a special shade to protect it from the sun’s glare. They will allow the telescope to gather infrared light, which is invisible to human eyes, and probe the formation of the first galaxies, among many other things.
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