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Thursday, 19 January 2023 07:13
Zero-Covid left in dust as Chinese revellers fuel travel boom
Dali, China (AFP) Jan 19, 2023
Armed with selfie sticks and freshly recovered from Covid, Chinese tourists ambled through bar streets in the country's backpacker haven of Dali, partying the stress of the past three years into oblivion.
As Lunar New Year approaches, China is seeing a domestic travel boom after the government abruptly dismantled its longstanding zero-Covid strategy last month.
"I feel so free," said Hu,

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Thursday, 19 January 2023 07:20
Hera’s time of trial

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Thursday, 19 January 2023 02:37
Geotail operations come to an end after 30 years
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 19, 2023
After 30 years in orbit, mission operations for the joint NASA-JAXA Geotail spacecraft have ended, after the failure of the spacecraft's remaining data recorder.
Since its launch on July 24, 1992, Geotail orbited Earth, gathering an immense dataset on the structure and dynamics of the magnetosphere, Earth's protective magnetic bubble. Geotail was originally slated for a four-year run, but

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Thursday, 19 January 2023 02:37
NASA hands over female 'astronaut' phantoms safe and sound after flight to the Moon
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Jan 19, 2023
It was a historic journey. As part of NASA's Artemis I mission, the Orion spacecraft, powered and supplied by the European Service Module (ESM), flew to the Moon and back for the first time. On board were the two female astronaut phantoms, Helga and Zohar - part of the first experiment conducted in space to measure the radiation exposure to which the female body is exposed during such a flight.

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Thursday, 19 January 2023 02:37
Guerrilla RF announces entry into the satellite communications industry
Greensboro NC (SPX) Jan 19, 2023
Guerrilla RF, Inc. (OTCQX: GUER), the innovative fabless semiconductor company has announced its entry into the rapidly growing satellite communications (SATCOM) industry.
According to Fortune Business Insights, the global SATCOM industry will grow from $29.98 billion in 2022 to $56.74 billion by 2029, a 9.54% compounded annual growth rate. Market growth will be driven by mobile applicatio

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Thursday, 19 January 2023 02:37
Billions of celestial objects revealed in gargantuan survey of the Milky Way
Washington DC (SPX) Jan 19, 2023
Astronomers have released a gargantuan survey of the galactic plane of the Milky Way. The new dataset contains a staggering 3.32 billion celestial objects - arguably the largest such catalog so far. The data for this unprecedented survey were taken with the Dark Energy Camera, built by the US Department of Energy, at the NSF's Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NOIRLa

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Thursday, 19 January 2023 02:37
NASA recaps Webb Telescope findings from AAS Meeting
Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 19, 2023
Scientists shared new findings and updates from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, also called "Webb" or "JWST," at press conferences during the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Seattle, from Jan. 8 to 12.
Scientists from NASA and universities shared Webb results from multiple different scientific disciplines, ranging from the early universe and galaxy evolution

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Thursday, 19 January 2023 02:37
Tumultuous migration on the edge of the Hot Neptune Desert
Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Jan 19, 2023
All kinds of exoplanets orbit very close to their star. Some look like the Earth, others like Jupiter. Very few, however, are similar to Neptune. Why this anomaly in the distribution of exoplanets? Researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Centre of Competence in Research (NCCR) PlanetS have observed a sample of planets located at the edge of this Hot Neptune Desert to u

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Thursday, 19 January 2023 02:37
How was the solar system formed? The Ryugu asteroid is helping us learn
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Jan 19, 2023
Mineral samples collected from the Ryugu asteroid by the Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft are helping UCLA space scientists and colleagues better understand the chemical composition of our solar system as it existed in its infancy, more than 4.5 billion years ago.
In research recently published in Nature Astronomy, scientists using isotopic analysis discovered that carbonate minerals from the

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Thursday, 19 January 2023 02:37
Light-based tech could inspire Moon navigation and next-gen farming
Melbourne, Australia (SPX) Jan 19, 2023
Super-thin chips made from lithium niobate are set to overtake silicon chips in light-based technologies, according to world-leading scientists in the field, with potential applications ranging from remote ripening-fruit detection on Earth to navigation on the Moon.
They say the artificial crystal offers the platform of choice for these technologies due to its superior performance and rece

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