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  • Another NASA Space Telescope Shuts Down in Orbit
    Another NASA Space Telescope Shuts Down in Orbit
    October 12, 2018 | By The Associated Press
    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—Another NASA space telescope has shut down and halted science observations. Less than a week after the Hubble Space Telescope went offline, the Chandra X-ray Observatory did the same thing. NASA said Friday that Chandra’s automatically went into so-called safe mode on Oct. 10, possibly because of a gyroscope problem. Hubble went into […]
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  • Rocket Failure Astronauts Will Go Back Into Space: Russian Official
    Rocket Failure Astronauts Will Go Back Into Space: Russian Official
    October 12, 2018 | By Reuters
    MOSCOW—Two astronauts who survived the mid-air failure of a Russian rocket will fly again and are provisionally set to travel to the International Space Station (ISS) in spring of next year, the head of Russia’s space agency said on Oct. 12. Dmitry Rogozin, the head of Russian space agency Roscosmos, was speaking a day after […]
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  • US, Russian Astronauts Land Safely After Rocket Failure
    US, Russian Astronauts Land Safely After Rocket Failure
    October 11, 2018 | By The Associated Press
    BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan—The problem came two minutes into the flight: The rocket carrying an American and a Russian to the International Space Station failed on Oct. 10, triggering an emergency that sent their capsule into a steep, harrowing fall back to Earth. The crew landed safely on the steppes of Kazakhstan, but the aborted mission dealt […]
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  • Russian Rocket Failure Raises Questions for Launch of Canadian Astronaut
    Russian Rocket Failure Raises Questions for Launch of Canadian Astronaut
    October 11, 2018 | By The Canadian Press
    MONTREAL—Russia says it is suspending manned space launches pending a probe into a Russian booster rocket failure, raising questions about the fate of an upcoming launch that included a Canadian astronaut. U.S. and Russian space officials said NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos’ Alexei Ovchinin were safe after an emergency landing in the steppes of Kazakhstan […]
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  • In a Surprise, First Alien Moon Discovered Is Big and Gaseous
    In a Surprise, First Alien Moon Discovered Is Big and Gaseous
    October 9, 2018 | By Reuters
    WASHINGTON—Astronomers have pinpointed what appears to be the first moon detected outside our solar system, a large gaseous world the size of Neptune that is unlike any other known moon and orbits a gas planet much more massive than Jupiter. The discovery was a surprise, and not because it showed that moons exist elsewhere—they felt […]
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  • Google Unveils New Pixel Phone, Adds Tablet in Apple Challenge
    Google Unveils New Pixel Phone, Adds Tablet in Apple Challenge
    October 9, 2018 | By Reuters
    SAN FRANCISCO—Google unveiled the third edition of its Pixel smartphone, a Google Home smart speaker with a display and its first tablet computer on Oct. 9, as it makes a come-from-behind push into hardware. The company’s Android software has gone from being an also-ran to the brains of most of the world’s smartphones and Google […]
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  • Archaeologists Uncover 2,000-Year-Old Inscription of the Word Jerusalem in Hebrew
    Archaeologists Uncover 2,000-Year-Old Inscription of the Word Jerusalem in Hebrew
    October 9, 2018 | By The Associated Press
    Israeli archaeologists unveiled on Oct. 9 a 2,000-year-old inscription believed to be the first complete Hebrew spelling of the word Jerusalem as known in its current form—Yerushalayim. The stone was unveiled at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem and will go on display to the public on Wednesday. It was discovered last year on the outskirts […]
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  • NASA Addresses Unexplained Space Station Hole but Mystery Remains Unsolved
    NASA Addresses Unexplained Space Station Hole but Mystery Remains Unsolved
    October 7, 2018 | By Reuters
    NASA  has sought to tamp down speculation that sabotage caused a tiny hole found last month in the side of a Russian module docked at the International Space Station, but the mystery remained unsolved. NASA stressed in a brief statement issued from its Washington headquarters that Dimitri Rogozin, general director of the Russian space agency […]
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  • Debut of Spacex, Boeing Crew Capsules Off Until Next Year
    Debut of Spacex, Boeing Crew Capsules Off Until Next Year
    October 5, 2018 | By The Associated Press
    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—The debut of SpaceX and Boeing crew capsules is off until next year. NASA said this week that the first commercial test flights have slipped from late this year into next. SpaceX is shooting for a January shakedown of its Dragon capsule, without anyone on board. Boeing is aiming for a March trial run […]
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  • Lesser Known Hubble Space Images Spark Wild Imagination
    Lesser Known Hubble Space Images Spark Wild Imagination
    October 5, 2018 | By Petr Svab
    For over 25 years, Hubble Space Telescope has become a staple name for bringing us crystal-clear images of distant galaxies. Check out some less known ones.
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  • Therse Beautiful Artsy NASA Photos Were Buried in the Archives
    Therse Beautiful Artsy NASA Photos Were Buried in the Archives
    October 5, 2018 | By Petr Svab
    Browsing through NASA photo archives, one may not really expect anything surprising. You know, guys in tinfoil suits, flag on the Moon, a shuttle taking off—that kind of thing. Imagine my delight when I stumbled upon quite a few examples of impressive photography work.    
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  • Red Tide Is Plaguing Beaches on Both of Florida’s Coasts
    Red Tide Is Plaguing Beaches on Both of Florida’s Coasts
    October 4, 2018 | By The Associated Press
    Many of Florida’s famous beaches were empty on Oct. 4 because of a red tide outbreak that for the first time in decades is plaguing both the Gulf and Atlantic coasts at once. While the Gulf Coast has suffered the brunt of the toxic algae outbreak all summer, it only just showed up this week […]
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  • NASA Addresses Unexplained Space Station Hole but Mystery Remains Unsolved
    NASA Addresses Unexplained Space Station Hole but Mystery Remains Unsolved
    October 4, 2018 | By Reuters
    NASA sought on Oct. 3, to tamp down speculation that sabotage caused a tiny hole found in September in the side of a Russian module docked at the International Space Station, but the mystery remained unsolved. NASA stressed in a brief statement issued from its Washington headquarters that Dimitri Rogozin, general director of the Russian […]
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  • Another Scientist Related to UC Berkeley Wins Nobel Prize
    Another Scientist Related to UC Berkeley Wins Nobel Prize
    October 4, 2018 | By Bay City News
    For the second time this week, a Nobel Prize has been given to a scientist associated with the University of California at Berkeley. On Oct.4, Frances Arnold, who arrived at UC Berkeley in 1980 as a graduate student and went on to earn a doctorate at Cal in 1985, was awarded the Nobel Prize in […]
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  • Another Rare Fish Pulled Back From Extinction
    Another Rare Fish Pulled Back From Extinction
    October 4, 2018 | By Reuters
    Another rare Colorado River fish has been pulled back from the brink of extinction, wildlife officials said Oct. 4, the second comeback in 2018 for a species unique to the Southwestern U.S. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recommended reclassifying the ancient and odd-looking Razorback Sucker from endangered to threatened, meaning it is still at […]
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  • Canadian Researchers Testing Origins of Life Theory in New Planet Simulator
    Canadian Researchers Testing Origins of Life Theory in New Planet Simulator
    October 4, 2018 | By The Canadian Press
    A small group of Ontario researchers believe they may have solved the origins of life mystery. The results come from early experiments run in a planet simulator at McMaster University’s new Origins of Life Laboratory, which started running this summer. The simulator—the centrepiece of the facility—is testing a theory that suggests life on Earth began in warm […]
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  • Trio Wins Chemistry Nobel 2018 for Work on Antibody Drugs
    Trio Wins Chemistry Nobel 2018 for Work on Antibody Drugs
    October 4, 2018 | By Reuters
    STOCKHOLM, London—Two Americans and a Briton won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Oct. 3 for harnessing the power of evolution to generate novel proteins used in everything from environmentally friendly detergents to cancer drugs. The fruits of this work include the world’s top-selling prescription medicine–the antibody injection Humira sold by AbbVie for treating […]
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  • Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Leon Lederman Dies at 96
    Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Leon Lederman Dies at 96
    October 3, 2018 | By The Associated Press
    BOISE, Idaho—Leon Lederman, an experimental physicist who won a Nobel Prize in physics for his work on subatomic particles and coined the phrase “God particle,” died Wednesday at 96. Lederman directed the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory near Chicago from 1978 to 1989. He’s described as a giant in his field who also had a passion […]
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  • In a Surprise, First Alien Moon Discovered Is Big and Gaseous
    In a Surprise, First Alien Moon Discovered Is Big and Gaseous
    October 3, 2018 | By The Associated Press
    WASHINGTON—Astronomers have pinpointed what appears to be the first moon detected outside our solar system, a large gaseous world the size of Neptune that is unlike any other known moon and orbits a gas planet much more massive than Jupiter. The discovery, detailed by researchers on Wednesday, was a surprise, and not because it showed […]
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  • Photo Taken by Spacecraft Shows What It’s Like to Stand on Comet
    Photo Taken by Spacecraft Shows What It’s Like to Stand on Comet
    October 2, 2018 | By Jack Phillips
    The European Space Agency (ESA) released a new image of what it is like to stand on a comet, shot via the Rosetta spacecraft. The picture was taken in 2014 before Rosetta spacecraft landed on the comet, which is known as Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta ended its mission on Sept. 30, 2016, crash-landing on the comet. […]
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  • NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Swinging by Venus on Way to Sun
    NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Swinging by Venus on Way to Sun
    October 2, 2018 | By The Associated Press
    NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is swinging by Venus on its unprecedented journey to the sun. Launched in August, the spacecraft gets a gravity assist as it passes within 1,500 miles (2,400 kilometers) of Venus. The flyby is the first of seven that will draw Parker ever closer to the sun. By the end of October, Parker will […]
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  • Harvard Study Indicates Child Abuse Might Alter DNA
    Harvard Study Indicates Child Abuse Might Alter DNA
    October 2, 2018 | By Chris Jasurek
    A study based on a small sample seems to indicate that child abuse can change the DNA of the victims—and that those changes might be passed on to the victims’ offspring. The result of this study, combined with other research, seems to indicate that childhood trauma such as child abuse, not only harms the victim, […]
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  • Scientists From US, France, Canada Win Nobel for Laser Work
    Scientists From US, France, Canada Win Nobel for Laser Work
    October 2, 2018 | By The Associated Press
    STOCKHOLM—Three scientists from the United States, Canada, and France won the Nobel Prize in physics on Oct. 2, for work with lasers described as revolutionary and bringing science fiction into reality. The American, Arthur Ashkin of Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, entered the record books of the Nobel Prizes by becoming the oldest laureate at age […]
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  • Scientists Behind Game-Changing Cancer Immunotherapies Win Nobel Medicine Prize
    Scientists Behind Game-Changing Cancer Immunotherapies Win Nobel Medicine Prize
    October 2, 2018 | By Reuters
    STOCKHOLM/LONDON—American James Allison and Japanese Tasuku Honjo won the 2018 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine on Oct. 1, for game-changing discoveries about how to harness and manipulate the immune system to fight cancer. The scientists’ work in the 1990s has since swiftly led to new and dramatically improved therapies for cancers such as melanoma […]
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  • Scientists Explore Why People Get ‘Hangry’ in New Study
    Scientists Explore Why People Get ‘Hangry’ in New Study
    September 30, 2018 | By Colin Fredericson
    Scientists in Canada exploring the “hangry” phenomenon have found a link between hunger and mood swings. “Hangry” refers to the expression that people started using to refer to their irritable mood that would arise with the feeling of hunger. Researchers at the University of Guelph in Canada went ahead to observe the moods of hungry […]
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  • Uber Agrees to $148 Million Settlement With States Over Data Breach
    Uber Agrees to $148 Million Settlement With States Over Data Breach
    September 26, 2018 | By The Associated Press
    CHICAGO—Uber has agreed to pay $148 million and take steps to tighten data security, after the ride-hailing company failed for a year to notify drivers that hackers had stolen their personal information. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan announced the settlement on Sept. 26, between Uber Technologies Inc. and all 50 states and the District of […]
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  • Archaeologists Discover ‘Massive’ Ancient Building in Egypt
    Archaeologists Discover ‘Massive’ Ancient Building in Egypt
    September 25, 2018 | By The Associated Press
    CAIRO—Egypt says archaeologists have discovered a “massive” ancient building in the town of Mit Rahina, 12 miles (20 kilometers) south of Cairo. The Antiquities Ministry said on Sept. 25, archaeologists also uncovered an attached building that includes a large Roman bath and a chamber likely for religious rituals. Mostafa Waziri, secretary general of the Supreme […]
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