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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 19, 2024
GomSpace North America, in a significant advancement of their ongoing partnership with SAIC, a leading $7 billion Federal contractor based in Reston, Virginia, has embarked on a new phase. Initially forging a strategic alliance in 2023, SAIC has now acquired a satellite kit from GomSpace. This kit will be the cornerstone of a specialized satellite project spearheaded at SAIC's space development
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 19, 2024
Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) has entered into a strategic partnership with NVIDIA to push the boundaries of AI in weather forecasting. This collaboration will see the integration of Spire's Radio Occultation (RO) data and unique data assimilation (DA) capabilities with NVIDIA's Earth-2 Cloud APIs. The objective is to employ artificial intelligence to enhance the speed and accuracy of climate
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 21, 2024
In a landmark study, researchers at Yale University and NOVA School of Science and Technology, NOVA University Lisbon (NOVA-FCT), have unveiled how subterranean bacteria thrive in oxygen-deprived environments by harnessing a specialized family of proteins. These proteins enable the bacteria to offload excess electrons onto tiny hair-like structures known as nanowires, creating an intricate, natu
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Dresden, Germany (SPX) Mar 21, 2024
In the quest for a sustainable and productive energy future, scientists have long eyed nuclear fusion, specifically the fusion of hydrogen nuclei, as a prime candidate. The main challenge, however, has been the daunting requirement of extremely high pressures and temperatures to initiate the process. The Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf's Dr. Tobias Dornheim, through the "X-ray laser o
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NASA's tiny BurstCube mission launches to study cosmic blasts
BurstCube, shown in this artist's concept, will orbit Earth as it hunts for short gamma-ray bursts. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab

NASA's BurstCube, a shoebox-sized satellite designed to study the universe's most powerful explosions, is on its way to the International Space Station.

The spacecraft travels aboard SpaceX's 30th Commercial Resupply Services mission, which lifted off at 4:55 p.m. EDT on Thursday, March 21, from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. After arriving at the station, BurstCube will be unpacked and later released into orbit, where it will detect, locate, and study short gamma-ray bursts—brief flashes of high-energy light.

"BurstCube may be small, but in addition to investigating these extreme events, it's testing new technology and providing important experience for early career astronomers and aerospace engineers," said Jeremy Perkins, BurstCube's principal investigator at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

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Newspaper clippings, books and first-hand accounts of people who said they visited other planets are catalogued in a giant Swedish archive on paranormal phenomena, attracting the curious and researchers from around the world.

The Archives for the Unexplained (AFU) claims to be the world's biggest library of paranormal phenomena, with 4.2 kilometers (2.6 miles) of shelves running underground.

Clas Svahn, 65, and Anders Liljegren, 73, who run the located in the southeastern town of Norrkoping, say they are neither superstitious nor believers, but rather "curious investigators of the unknown".

The AFU—the name of both the library and the association that has collected documentation for more than 50 years—is mainly comprised of books, but also more original documents, such as first-hand accounts of paranormal activity recorded on tape and photos of ghosts.

"What we are building here at AFU is depository knowledge," explains Svahn, showing AFP journalists around the 700-square-metre (7,535-square-foot) library.

"We're trying to get as much as we can on... every kind of unsolved scientific mystery that we can find... to make this available for the world."

The library receives around 300 visits each year, by appointment only.

A journey through ice and fire

Friday, 22 March 2024 13:31
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ESA astronaut candidate Rosemary Coogan lighting a fire during winter survival training in the snowy mountains of the Spanish Pyrenees as part of her basic astronaut training. Image: ESA astronaut candidate Rosemary Coogan lighting a fire during winter survival training in the snowy mountains of the Spanish Pyrenees as part of her basic astronaut training.

Earth from Space: Southeast Kenya

Friday, 22 March 2024 08:00
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The striking contrast of the diverse landscape in southeast Kenya is featured in this false-colour image captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2. Image: The striking contrast of the diverse landscape in southeast Kenya is featured in this false-colour image captured by Copernicus Sentinel-2.
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Mar 21, 2024
In a leap forward for space propulsion technology, RocketStar Inc. has demonstrated its FireStar Drive, an advanced spacecraft electric propulsion unit that leverages nuclear fusion to enhance pulsed plasma propulsion. By introducing aneutronic nuclear fusion into its water-fueled pulsed plasma thruster, the FireStar Drive markedly improves performance, utilizing high-speed protons from ionized
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