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Contested 'faster-than-light' experiment yields same resultsParis (AFP) Nov 18, 2011 A fiercely contested experiment that appears to show the accepted speed limit of the Universe can be broken has yielded the same results in a re-run, European physicists said on Friday. But counterparts in the United States said the experiment still did not resolve doubts and the Europeans themselves acknowledged this was not the end of the story. On September 23, the European team issued a massive challenge to fundamental physics by saying they had measured particles called neutrinos which ... read more |
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  Mystery of the Lunar Ionosphere How can a world without air have an ionosphere? Somehow the Moon has done it. Lunar researchers have been struggling with the mystery for years, and they may have finally found a solution. But first ... more | .. |
  ITT Exelis and Chronos develop offerings for the Interference, Detection and Mitigation market ITT Exelis and Chronos Technology have agreed to jointly pursue and develop product offerings for the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Interference, Detection and Mitigation (IDM) market Sa ... more | .. |
  Raytheon Wins Majority Share of US Air Force Paveway Purchase The U.S. Air Force awarded Raytheon a $24 million contract for Paveway II laser-guided bomb components, the majority share of the Air Force's laser-guided bomb buy for overseas contingency operation ... more | .. |
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  Bats, Dolphins, and Mole Rats Inspire Advances in Ultrasound Technology Sonar and ultrasound, which use sound as a navigational device and to paint accurate pictures of an environment, are the basis of countless technologies, including medical ultrasound machines and su ... more | .. |
  Rising air pollution worsens drought and flooding Increases in air pollution and other particulate matter in the atmosphere can strongly affect cloud development in ways that reduce precipitation in dry regions or seasons, while increasing rain, sn ... more | .. |
  Raytheon Develops Wireless Integration For Combat-Proven Enhanced Paveway Raytheon has completed testing and development of a new wireless method of integrating its combat-proven Enhanced Paveway precision-guided bomb on aircraft. The new integration tool, called WiPak, u ... more | .. |
 Weighing in at 30,000 pounds, a new bomb for US The US Air Force has a new 30,000-pound bomb in its arsenal designed to penetrate targets buried deep underground, a spokesman said Tuesday. ... more |
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Sidekick autonomy software guides YFQ-42A test mission for CCA program
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  2012: Killer Solar Flares Are a Physical Impossibility Given a legitimate need to protect Earth from the most intense forms of space weather - great bursts of electromagnetic energy and particles that can sometimes stream from the sun - some people worr ... more | .. |
 Exploring the last white spot on Earth Scientists will soon be exploring matter at temperatures and pressures so extreme it can only be produced for microseconds using powerful pulsed lasers. Matter in such states is present in the Earth ... more | .. |
 NRL's MIGHTI selected by NASA for potential space flight A Naval Research Laboratory instrument designed to study the Earth's thermosphere is part of a future science mission that has been selected by NASA for evaluation for flight. The NRL-develope ... more | .. |
 GMV Supports Successful Launch of Europe's Galileo GMV, one of the main companies contracted to establish and support Europe's satellite navigation strategy, continues to play a key role in the most recent phase of the Galileo program. GMV successfu ... more |
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 Castles in the desert - satellites reveal lost cities of Libya Satellite imagery has uncovered new evidence of a lost civilization of the Sahara in Libya's south-western desert wastes that will help re-write the history of the country. The fall of Gaddafi has o ... more | .. |
  UC Aerial Robot System Can Save Firefighter Lives Wildfires kill and, too often, fatalities are caused by a lack of situational awareness, said Kelly Cohen. Timely information can prevent wildfire deaths, especially among first responders, said Coh ... more | .. |
 China launches remote-sensing satellite China successfully launched the remote-sensing satellite Yaogan XII Wednesday from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Center in the northern Shanxi province, according to a press release from the center. ... more | .. |
 Scientists Prepare for Coming ATTREX Climate Study A consortium of scientists are in the early stages of preparation for a multi-year airborne science campaign to study the humidity and chemical composition of air entering the tropical tropopause la ... more |
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Solar-driven ionosphere charges may nudge stressed faults toward rupture
Stable black carbon in mangrove soils boosts coastal climate role
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  China's Sinopec to pay $3.5 bn for Brazil oil stake China's Sinopec said Friday it will pay $3.54 billion for a 30 percent stake in the Brazilian unit of Portuguese oil giant Galp Energia, marking the latest push by Chinese companies into Latin America. ... more | .. |
 TerraSAR-X image of the month - Tents in the desert Viewed from above, the US 'Burning Man' festival resembles a spider web. The structure laid out on the site for this festival looks very much like a small town. In October and September 2011, the Te ... more | .. |
 In GPS case, US court debates '1984' scenario The US Supreme Court delved Tuesday into the issue of privacy amid 21st century technology, hearing arguments on whether police can use a GPS device attached to a vehicle to track a suspect without a search warrant. ... more | .. |
 Stalled Weather Systems More Frequent in Decades of Warmer Atlantic Slow-moving winter weather systems that can lead to massive snowfalls are more frequent during the decades when the North Atlantic Ocean is warmer than usual, a new NASA study finds. The study ... more |
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 Thousand-Color Sensor Reveals Contaminants in Earth and Sea The world may seem painted with endless color, but physiologically the human eye sees only three bands of light - red, green, and blue. Now a Tel Aviv University-developed technology is using colors ... more | .. |
 Map mischief creates furore in India New Delhi lodged a diplomatic protest with China after a map used in a commercial presentation showed sections of northern India as part of China. ... more | .. |
 Galileo satellites handed over to control centre in Germany Europe's first two Galileo satellites have reached their final operating orbits, opening the way for activating and testing their navigation payloads. Marking the formal end of their LEOP Laun ... more | .. |
 Russia set to launch Proton-M carrier rocket with 3 Glonass-M satellites Russia's Proton-M carrier rocket with three Glonass-M navigation satellites will be launched on Thursday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, a spokesman for the Russian Space Agency (Rosco ... more |
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AALTO plans Zephyr stratospheric hub in northern Australia and seeks local payload partners
Ancient guano drove Chincha coastal power
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 China envoy loses cool over Indian map error: report The Chinese ambassador to India told a journalist in New Delhi to "shut up" in a heated exchange over a map that showed parts of India within China, newspapers reported on Friday. ... more | .. |
 Russia launches navigation satellites Russia on Friday successfully launched three satellites for its global navigation system Glonass on a Proton-M rocket from its Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Russian space agency said. ... more | .. |
 ATK Awarded Contract for Third LRIP Lot of AARGM ATK has announced that it has been awarded a $54.4-million contract by the U.S. Navy for a third lot of low-rate initial production (LRIP) Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missiles (AARGM). The contra ... more | .. |
 Landsat's TIRS Instrument Comes Out of First Round of Thermal Vacuum Testing The Thermal Infrared Sensor (TIRS) that will fly on the next Landsat satellite came out of its first round of thermal vacuum testing Tuesday, October 4 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbe ... more |
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 Halloween Weekend Snow Paints a Ghostly Picture in the U.S. Northeast A late October snowstorm from a Nor'easter blanketed the eastern U.S. from West Virginia to Maine and broke records the weekend before Halloween Monday. NASA's Aqua satellite flew over the reg ... more | .. |
 NASA Launches JPL-Built Earth Science Experiment An experiment developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., to test technology for future NASA Earth science missions was aboard one of five small "CubeSat" research satellites th ... more | .. |
  A Crack in the Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf After more than two weeks of successful flights over Antarctica and its surrounding waters and sea ice, one of the more interesting things NASA's Operation IceBridge team has seen this year is a lar ... more | .. |
  OGC Team Produces Winning Single European Sky Aviation Proposal The OGC announced that a consortium that includes the OGC and OGC members has been accepted as an Associate Partner of the Single European Sky ATM Research programme (SESAR Joint Undertaking). ... more |
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