Frankfurt, Germany (SPX) Oct 19, 2020
In 1999, the Egyptian chemist Ahmed Zewail received the Nobel Prize for measuring the speed at which molecules change their shape. He founded femtochemistry using ultrashort laser flashes: the formation and breakup of chemical bonds occurs in the realm of femtoseconds. A femtosecond equals 0.000000000000001 seconds, or 10 exp -15 seconds.

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Singapore (SPX) Oct 16, 2020
Using a brain-inspired approach, scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a way for robots to have the artificial intelligence (AI) to recognise pain and to self-repair when damaged. 
The system has AI-enabled sensor nodes to process and respond to 'pain' arising from pressure exerted by a physical force. The system also allows the robot to

NTU Singapore scientists develop 'mini-brains' to help robots recognize pain and to self

Gainesville FL (SPX) Oct 20, 2020
The University of Florida is helping to launch a new era in space research with a plant experiment aboard Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket that blasted off from the company's West Texas site Tuesday morning. 
Rob Ferl and Anna-Lisa Paul have been studying how plants respond to stressful environments for decades, placing their genetically engineered mustard plants on high-flying planes, on t

With New Shepard launch, space researchers become space customers

SpaceX called off the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60 new Starlink internet satellites Thursday (Oct. 22) due to mission assurance concerns.

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Ames IA (SPX) Oct 20, 2020
The Milky Way galaxy is in the recycling business. University of Iowa astronomers have determined our galaxy is surrounded by a clumpy halo of hot gases that is continually being supplied with material ejected by birthing or dying stars. This heated halo, called the circumgalactic medium (CGM), was the incubator for the Milky Way's formation some 10 billion years ago and could be where basic mat

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Washington DC (UPI) Oct 21, 2020
Images released Wednesday by NASA suggest the OSIRIS-REx mission's Touch-And-Go sample collection event was a success. 
Preliminary data collected during Tuesday's touchdown - and analyzed by scientists shortly afterwards - suggested the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft had performed as expected. 
The latest images have offered scientists added confidence that the craft's sampling tool, the

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Heidelberg, Germany (SPX) Oct 14, 2020
Scientists suspect that the planet Jupiter played an important role in the development of life on Earth, because its gravity often deflects potentially dangerous asteroids and comets on their orbits into the zone of rocky planets in a way that reduces the number of catastrophic collisions.

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Washington DC (SPX) Oct 15, 2020
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have proposed a novel method for finding dark matter, the cosmos' mystery material that has eluded detection for decades. Dark matter makes up about 27% of the universe; ordinary matter, such as the stuff that builds stars and planets, accounts for just 5% of the cosmos.

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