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Atlanta GA (SPX) Oct 20, 2023
Danti, a tech company specializing in AI-powered data solutions, recently secured a Direct-to-Phase II contract worth $1.2 million from AFWERX. The focus of the contract is to leverage artificial intelligence in geospatial and broader data search to tackle key challenges faced by the Department of the Air Force, specifically the Space Force. AFWERX, in collaboration with the Air Force Rese
Berlin, Germany (SPX) Oct 20, 2023
In a significant step towards sustainable aviation, key stakeholders in Germany's aerospace sector have come together to expedite the development and deployment of Power-to-Liquid (PtL) aviation fuels. A Letter of Intent (LoI) was signed in Berlin, sealing a comprehensive research collaboration among Lufthansa Airlines, the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR)
Boston MA (SPX) Oct 17, 2023
Anyone who has ever tried to pack a family-sized amount of luggage into a sedan-sized trunk knows this is a hard problem. Robots struggle with dense packing tasks, too. For the robot, solving the packing problem involves satisfying many constraints, such as stacking luggage so suitcases don't topple out of the trunk, heavy objects aren't placed on top of lighter ones, and collisions betwee
Sendai, Japan (SPX) Oct 19, 2023
In an innovative study, a multidisciplinary team of researchers has successfully altered the trajectory of light in a manner akin to the influence of gravity. The research, recently published in the journal Physical Review A, presents groundbreaking applications in the areas of optics, materials science, and notably, 6G communications technology. Albert Einstein's theory of relativity has
Ames IA (SPX) Oct 19, 2023
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is looking for materials that "revolutionize and engineer our future." Researchers at Iowa State University and the University of California, Santa Barbara think they can do just that by fundamentally changing Digital Light Processing - a type of 3D printing that users light rather than heat to quickly cure and harden liquid resin into plastic layers -
Mountain View CA (SPX) Oct 24, 2023
In a new study published in the Astronomical Journal, researchers used the known population of exoplanets and extrapolated to the much larger, unknown population of exoplanets to set better thresholds for planetary effects on signals from ETIs (extraterrestrial intelligences). The prior recommendation for the threshold "drift rate" contribution, caused by a planet's motion around its host star,
Durham UK (SPX) Oct 24, 2023
An international team of astronomers has carried out what is believed to be the largest ever cosmological computer simulation, tracking not only dark but also ordinary matter (such as planets, stars and galaxies), giving us a glimpse into how our Universe may have evolved. The FLAMINGO simulations calculate the evolution of all components of the universe - ordinary matter, dark matter, and dark

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Washington DC (SPX) Oct 24, 2023
With its dense atmosphere and low gravity, Saturn's moon Titan is a great place to fly. But well before NASA's Dragonfly rotorcraft lander soars through Titan's skies, researchers on Earth - led by the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland - are making sure their designs and models for the nuclear-powered, car-sized drone will work in a truly unique environment
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 24, 2023
The 29th SpaceX commercial resupply services (CRS) mission for NASA carries scientific experiments and technology demonstrations, including studies of enhanced optical communications and measurement of atmospheric waves. The uncrewed SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than Nov. 5.
College Station TX (SPX) Oct 24, 2023
Texas A and M University is joining a multi-university team on a major research project to track objects orbiting the moon. The Air Force Research Laboratory is awarding up to $5 million over five years for the Space University Research Initiative (SURI). "The SURI is an outstanding initiative to train our next-generation workforce. We look forward to carrying out creative research aimed a
Tucson AZ (SPX) Oct 24, 2023
In 2021, a team of University of Arizona astronomers suggested that a recently discovered near-Earth asteroid, Kamo`oalewa, could be a chunk of the moon. Two years after the striking discovery, another UArizona research group has found that a rare pathway could have enabled this to happen. So far, only distant asteroids from beyond the orbit of Mars have been considered a source of near-Ea
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 24, 2023
The dry, wind-swept summits of volcanoes in the Puna de Atacama of Chile and Argentina are the closest thing on Earth to the surface of Mars due to their thin atmosphere and freezing temperatures. At their extreme elevations of more than 6,000 meters above sea level, experts had concluded that mammalian life simply wasn't possible. But researchers reporting October 23 in the journal Current Biol
Evanston IL (SPX) Oct 24, 2023
By analyzing tiny lunar crystals gathered by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972, researchers recalculated the age of the Earth's Moon. Although previous assessments estimated the Moon as 4.425 billion years old, the new study discovered it is actually 4.46 billion years old - 40 million years older than previously thought. Led by researchers at the Field Museum and the University of Glasgow, the
Newark NJ (SPX) Oct 24, 2023
Researchers at New Jersey Institute of Technology's Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research (NJIT-CSTR) have captured the Oct. 14 solar eclipse in a way never seen before - recording the first radio images of an annular eclipse's famous "ring of fire" effect. The eclipse was partially visible to much of the continental U.S. for several hours that Saturday, though the full "ring of fire" effe
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