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Pluto spots closer up and Charon's chasms
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has taken its best image of four dark spots that continue to captivate. The spots appear on the side of Pluto that always faces its largest moon, Charon—the face that...
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Airline seat densification will continue, it is just of matter of how they do it
All long range airline and airplane manufacturing industry forecasts (such as those from Boeing) have denser seating included in the detailed planning.Airbus includes seat densification under airline...
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India will pay Russia for customized improvements of the Yasen Submarine
The new Economic Times report said that in contrast to previous Indo-Russian submarine deals, under the “Chakra 3” project, Russia will build India a customized submarine. The report speculates that...
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One Million Miles to Go to Pluto flyby
As NASA’s unmanned New Horizons spacecraft speeds closer to a historic July 14 Pluto flyby, it’s continuing to multi-task, producing images of an icy world that’s growing more fascinating and complex...
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Star Wars Awakens Looks like the Star Wars we have been looking for Since the...
New Tie FightersA lot of Millenium FalconOther new spacecraftA lot of live setsand on location shooting in deserts and other placesa lot of old and new John Williams music and some of the old castRead...
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Batman vs Superman looks worth watching but old Batman likely means universe...
Warner Brothers seems to be doing a decent job with the Batman vs Superman launch of a Justice League Universe based on the latest trailer.It seems to be an interesting adaptation of what was primarly...
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Future of nuclear arms control looks bleak
The future of nuclear arms control looks bleak.* All negotiation tracks have stalled* Existing treaties are being eroded by political and technological developments* plans for next steps are in...
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Pentagon JLENS aerostats sensor network to counter long range Russian KH-101...
Commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, Adm. Bill Gortney submitted an urgent need in April,2015 meant for AESA active electronically scanned array radars for...
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Now we know Pluto has a diameter of 2370 kilometers and images comparing...
NASA’s New Horizons mission has answered one of the most basic questions about Pluto—its size.Mission scientists have found Pluto to be 1,473 miles (2,370 kilometers) in diameter, somewhat larger than...
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Carnival of Space 414
1. Universe Today has a detailed guide and timeline to the encounter with Pluto2. Charon, the biggest moon of Pluton, was discovered in 1978. This article explains the discovery of this interesting...
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Boeing's fusion-fission hybrid propulsion patent is weak compared to the...
Boeing has a patent for a laser fusion - fission hybrid jet propulsion system.Boeing claims energy-efficient thrust can be produced by firing lasers at deuterium and tritium and then having the...
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Omnidirectional Free Space Wireless Charging Developed, currently with...
The simultaneous charging of multiple mobile devices at 0.5 meter away from the power source is now possible under the international electromagnetic field guidelines.Mobile devices, such as smartphones...
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NASA New Horizons has made its closest approach to Pluto but will transmit...
New Horizons made its closest approach to Pluto Tuesday, about 7,750 miles above the surface -- roughly the same distance from New York to Mumbai, India – making it the first-ever space mission to...
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CERN’s LHCb experiment reports observation of exotic pentaquark particles and...
The LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider has reported the discovery of a class of particles known as pentaquarks. The collaboration has submitted a paper reporting these findings to the...
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Nuclear Agreement with Iran Reached
The deal struck between Iran and the P5+1 (the permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany) in Vienna in the early hours of July 14th was broadly in line with the parameters of the...
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China's leadership prioritizes development of a long range bomber
According to the latest issue of Kanwa Defense Review, a Canada-based publication specializing in defense affairs and weapons technology, a meeting held recently by the military defined the PLA air...
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A Use For Robert Forward's Statite Concept: Artificial Pole Stars
A guest post by Joseph FriedlanderThe recent striking close conjunctionhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conjunctions_(astronomy)#2015of Jupiter (around -1.8 or -2 magnitude) and Venus (-4.5...
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Hydrogels developed for controlled release of hepatitis C drug
Researchers at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (IBN) of A*STAR have developed a drug-delivering hydrogel to treat chronic diseases such as hepatitis C, a liver disease that kills...
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Argonne working with Ford and others to demonstrate gasoline and natural gas...
It’s not as challenging as mixing oil and water, but scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are partnering with industry to study a tricky fuel mixing problem...
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Aerion and Spike Aerospace racing to supersonic business jets around 2018-2021
The Spike Aerospace supersonic business jet is designed to carry between 12 and 18 passengers in the lap of luxury, is intended to take off in December 2018.However, despite impressive engineering, the...
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