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Two UT Scientists Search for Potential Habitats for Life on MarsKnoxville TN (SPX) Dec 05, 2011 Two University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professors are searching for potential habitats for life on Mars. Linda Kah and Jeffrey Moersch, associate professors of earth and planetary sciences, are an integral part of a NASA team working on the Curiosity rover, which launched from the Kennedy Space Center on November 26 and is now hurtling toward the Red Planet. Curiosity is not scheduled to land until August 6, 2012. When it does, it will search for clues to whether the planet has ever had an enviro ... read more |
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 Mars Mission Hoping To Satisfy Curiosity The University of Leicester is to play a key role in NASA's $2.5 billion mission to Mars. Dr. John Bridges of the University's Space Research Centre leads a team from the University of Leicester, th ... more | .. |
  X-37B on Overtime The US Air Force has officially confirmed that the second flight of their X-37B robot spaceplane is on overtime. This small experimental spacecraft, which resembles a car-sized space shuttle, has be ... more | .. |
  Indra Makes In Cadiz A Flight Demonstration Of Its Unmanned Aircrafts Pelicano And Mantis In the framework of the European Robotics Week Indra has made a flight demo of two of its unmanned aircrafts: the Pelican helicopter and the Mantis plane, at Villamartin aerodrome (Cadiz). The ... more | .. |
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 Ball Aerospace Selected by NASA to Study Solar Electric Propulsion Spacecraft Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp. is one of five companies that will develop mission concepts for demonstrating solar electric propulsion in space, important for NASA's future deep space human e ... more | .. |
  Petroleum-eating mushrooms Take a Petri dish containing crude petroleum and it will release a strong odor distinctive of the toxins that make up the fossil fuel. Sprinkle mushroom spores over the Petri dish and let it sit for ... more | .. |
  At a crossroads who runs the red light In 2008, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 2.3 million automobile crashes occurred at intersections across the United States, resulting in some 7,000 deaths. More than ... more | .. |
  MDA to extend its services to support Canadarm2 and Dextre for ISS MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd., a provider of essential information solutions, announced today that it has received contracts worth CA$4.2 million from NASA's Johnson Space Center to exten ... more |
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Trump vows to relaunch Egypt-Ethiopia talks on dam row
China's birth rate falls to lowest on record
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  Princeton technique puts chemistry breakthroughs on the fast track Scientists can now take that "a-ha" moment to go with a method Princeton University researchers developed - and successfully tested - to speed up the chances of an unexpected yet groundbreaking chem ... more | .. |
 NASA launches biggest-ever rover to Mars NASA's Curiosity rover, the biggest, most sophisticated robotic explorer ever built, blasted off Saturday on a journey to Mars, where it will hunt for signs life once existed there. ... more | .. |
 NASA Launches Most Capable and Robust Rover to Mars NASA began a historic voyage to Mars with the Nov. 26 launch of the Mars Science Laboratory, which carries a car-sized rover named Curiosity. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard an ... more | .. |
  Insect cyborgs may become first responders, search and monitor hazardous environs Research conducted at the University of Michigan College of Engineering may lead to the use of insects to monitor hazardous situations before sending in humans. Professor Khalil Najafi, the ... more |
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 Researchers design steady-handed robot for brain surgery Neurosurgeons may one day get help in operating rooms from a robot with movements 10 times steadier than the human hand to perform delicate brain surgeries, the EU said Monday. ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Continutes To Scout For Site To Winter In In preparing for positioning Opportunity for the coming winter, the project has been scouting sites with favorable northerly tilt on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. ... more | .. |
Come Home X-37B At the end of November, the mysterious X-37B robot spaceplane will reach a critical point in its mission. This time will mark the end of the official 270-day endurance limit of the semi-secret milit ... more | .. |
  SSTL appoints Luis Gomes Director of EO and Science Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has appointed Luis Gomes Business Unit Director of Earth Observation (EO) and Science. He is now responsible for the strategic direction at SSTL in these m ... more |
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Greenland truce or Trump win? Davos "framework" pauses tariffs but not the takeover boasts
Greenlanders doubtful over Trump resolution
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 neuroArm: Robotic Arms Lend a Healing Touch The delicate touch that successfully removed an egg-shaped tumor from Paige Nickason's brain got a helping hand from a world-renowned arm - a robotic arm, that is. The technology that went int ... more | .. |
  Conclusion of the XIXth Scientific-Technical Conference of young scientists and specialists The XIXth Scientific-Technical conference of young scientists and specialists concluded its work at S.P. Korolev Rocket-Space Corporation Energia. At the meetings of its 12 sections 365 representati ... more | .. |
 Robot guards to patrol South Korean prisons Robot guards with sensors to detect abnormal behaviour will soon begin patrolling South Korean prisons to ease the burden on their human counterparts, researchers said Thursday. ... more | .. |
  Bluefin to Provide UUVs for US Navy's LCS Mine Countermeasure Bluefin Robotics is being awarded a subcontract from General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems for engineering and manufacturing of the Surface Mine Countermeasure Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (S ... more |
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 Insect cyborgs may become first responders, search and monitor hazardous environs Research conducted at the University of Michigan College of Engineering may lead to the use of insects to monitor hazardous situations before sending in humans. Professor Khalil Najafi, the ch ... more | .. |
 Preparing for future human exploration: measuring the radiation environment on Mars NASA will launch the Mars Science Laboratory on Nov. 26, 2011, to assess the past and present habitability of the Red Planet's surface. The mission will land Curiosity, a rover equipped with 10 inst ... more | .. |
 Robojelly Gets an Upgrade: Underwater robot learns to swim more like the real thing Engineers at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (VirginiaTech) have developed a robot that mimics the graceful motions of jellyfish so precisely that it has been named Robojelly. De ... more | .. |
 Chevron oil spill a wake-up call for Brazil: analysts An oil spill off Brazil's coast is a wake-up call for the country's ability to deal with major oil emergencies as it prepares to tap potentially huge deep-water reserves, analysts said. ... more |
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Quantum transport method reads open quantum states
Scientists uncover new quantum state that could power future technologies
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 NASA in high gear for Mars rover launch The US space agency plans to launch on Saturday the most powerful and advanced robotic rover ever built to explore Mars and hunt for signs that life may once have existed on the red planet. ... more | .. |
 US to launch rover seeking signs of life on Mars The biggest, most advanced robotic machine ever built to explore Mars is poised to launch Saturday on a mission to find places where life may have existed, or may live on today, NASA said this week. ... more | .. |
  ULA Completes Milestone Toward Certifying Atlas V For Human Spaceflight United Launch Alliance (ULA) has announced the completion of a key milestone that could lead toward the certification of the Atlas V launch vehicle for human spaceflight. ULA has successfully comple ... more | .. |
 Brazil suspends Chevron's exploration activities Brazil on Wednesday suspended the exploration activities of US energy giant Chevron in its territory following an oil spill off Rio de Janeiro state. ... more |
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 Chevron faces $145 million in possible Brazil fines Brazil could slap fines of more than $145 million (105 million euros) on Chevron over its oil spill, and the US energy giant could be barred from operating in the country's deepwater fields, officials said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
 Smart swarms of bacteria inspire robotics researchers Much to humans' chagrin, bacteria have superior survival skills. Their decision-making processes and collective behaviors allow them to thrive and even spread efficiently in difficult environments. ... more | .. |
  A realistic look at the promises and perils of nanomedicine Is the emerging field of nanomedicine a breathtaking technological revolution that promises remarkable new ways of diagnosing and treating diseases? Or does it portend the release of dangerous ... more | .. |
 Launch Team Focuses on Unique Needs of Curiosity About the size of a small SUV and weighing as much as some cars, the Mars Science Laboratory "Curiosity" is being asked to conduct the most intensive examination of the surface of the red planet eve ... more |
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