After all the drama with the Phobos-grunt failure for Russia, it has to be a bit nerve racking to the ISS astronauts that need food, water and parts when a Russian supply ship takes off. If the ship had failed, it would be longer before fresh supply is arrived. The good news is that the liftoff of the Progress 46 unmanned ship went off without a hitch this week and the supply vessel is on the way to the ISS.
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Kepler telescope finds 11 new planetary systems, one has five planets
The NASA team that operates the Kepler space telescope has used their all-seeing eye to find 11 new planetary systems. The new discovery brings the total number of planets that have been discovered by the Kepler team to 60. In all, there are 729 confirmed extra-solar planets. As always, the team uses regular changes in the light of the star to tell if planets are orbiting.
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Boise State University Greenspeed team aims for 215mph on vegetable oil diesel
A team of students from Boise State University that participate in automotive projects announced this week that they intend to go for an existing land speed record for petroleum powered trucks of 215mph. The team is called Greenspeed and they are aiming at the 215mph record with a diesel truck using fuel derived from vegetable oil.
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Scientists show off 3-D cloaking from all angles in microwave spectrum
We are a long way off from creating a cloak of invisibility that a person can wear or being able to turn a vehicle of some sort invisible. Scientists are working on cloaking things in certain spectrums of light. A team of researchers has demonstrated the ability to cloak a 3-D object from all angles. The catch is that the cloaking only works on microwave spectrums.
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X-ray laser produces temperatures hotter than the sun’s corona
There is lots of research around the globe that focuses on lasers and their application. The laser is being investigated for all sorts of uses, including weapons. Some of the research that involves lasers aims to recreate conditions of all sorts that involve high temperatures and exotic matter.
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Chemists create first envelopes for artificial life
Through a rather simple chemical reaction, chemists at the University of California, San Diego, and Harvard University have created self-assembling cell membranes, these pre-cursors to artificially creating life. Though it might not sit well with the god-fearing citizens of Earth, these chemists, Neal Devaraj and Itay Budin, have published a report in the Journal of the American Chemical Society which details their important step in creating an artificial cell. Should they succeed, they'll be the first (or the second if you count the big bang and its good friends here on the planet, to create a living organism from non-living molecules.
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Space shuttle Discovery set for final voyage to Smithsonian
It's more than a little sad to see the space shuttle fleet retired and Americans having to hitch a ride aboard Russian spacecraft to reach the ISS. The space shuttle Discovery landed after its final space mission in March of last year. We knew when the discovery touched down after that final mission that it was bound for the Smithsonian museum to join the massive aerospace collection the museum owns.
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NASA releases videos of Sun’s massive M8.7 solar flare
We've been following the terrifying sounding but mostly harmless solar flare as summoned up by the Sun's most recent solar storm as it hits the Earth in a dazzling display across the Northern half of the hemisphere. What NASA has posted in regards to the situation is not one, but two views of not the Earth, but the Sun as it flares up early this week. Photos of the aurora collection going on constantly for the past couple of days have been popping up across Flickr as well, a few choice slides provided for you here as well.
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Solar Flare from Sun hits Earth, aurora watchers alert
As predicted earlier this week by Space officials and reported right here on SlashGear yesterday, the Sun's newest solar storm has unleashed a lovely coronal mass ejection (CME) outward and towards the Earth, making impact throughout the day today. As was also expected, there appears to be no danger in the radiation storm, believe it or not, despite its terrifying name. What we are looking out for, instead, is a collection of auroras in the night sky - if it's dark out where you live, look up!
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Venera 13 probe pics from 1982 show life on Venus claims Russian scientist
Back in 1982, the Russians landed a probe on the surface of Venus that was called Venera 13. A Russian scientist named Leonid Ksanfomalti has analyzed the photos. The 79-year-old scientist looked at the photos that were taken by the probe, one of which is below, and has determined for himself that the somewhat moon shaped object in the right side of the image is an insect-like creature.
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US denies any link to failed Russian Phobos-grunt probe
Russia continues to look for what caused the failure of its Phobos-grunt probe. The failed propulsion system ultimately led to the massive spacecraft falling back into the atmosphere and burning up. Russia is so far looking in the wrong place according to some of its own scientists. Russian officials have been hinting that the US radar station in Alaska may have had something to do with the failure of the probe.
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Sun’s newest Radiation Storm hits Earth tomorrow
There's not really anything to fear from the solar eruptions that are now taking place off the surface of our closest star otherwise known as The Sun, but a radiation storm literally hurling itself at the earth and millions of miles per hour does sound sinister, doesn't it? It'll be January 24th, tomorrow, when we find out the full effects of the largest radiation storm since 2005. The effects are coming from what NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory caught in their sights at 0359 GMT January 23: an extreme ultraviolet flash from a huge eruption on the sun.
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