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2015-05-03 Australia Science


Headlines & Global News
   
Alien Planet: Exoplanet Found Orbiting Host Star Too Small for Extrasolar Planet   
Headlines & Global News
A team of Australian scientists have discovered an exoplanet orbiting a small cool star 500 light-years away. "We have found a small star, with a giant planet the size of Jupiter, orbiting very closely," said researcher George Zhou from the Research School of ...

Astronomers Found a Gas Giant Orbiting Surprisingly Close to a Tiny Star   Gizmodo
'Puffed up planet' orbiting small star discovered by Australian astronomers   CNN International
HATS-6b: Astronomers Discover Strange Saturn-like Exoplanet   Sci-News.com

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Minneapolis Star Tribune
   
Hubble Telescope's unlikely journey enables 25 years of space study   
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Few icons of science have had such a perilous existence, surviving political storms, physical calamities and the simple passage of time in the service of cosmic exploration. hide. In this image provided by NASA/JSC, astronauts Steven L. Smith and John M.
How To See The Hubble Space Telescope From Australia   Lifehacker Australia
Space Is Being Polluted with Junk Faster than We Can Dispose of It   Nextgov
Spacecraft debris set to collide with earth - who will be covered?   Insurance Business America

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Metro
   
Malnourished sea lion found hidden under car in San Francisco   
Metro
This adorable sea lion pup was rescued after he escaped the ocean and was found exploring the streets of San Francisco earlier this week. The young sea lion, which was named 'Rubbish' by animal shelter volunteers, was found hiding underneath a car in ...

Rubbish The Sea Lion Pup Stranded On The Streets Of San Francisco Rescued ...   The Inquisitr
A sea lion named 'Rubbish' found wandering the streets of San Francisco   Sydney Morning Herald
Sea lion on shore leave ends up in the gutter   The Times (subscription)
Breitbart News   
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Popular Mechanics
   
NASA Achieves a Breakthrough with EM Drive Project   
NY City News
Researchers at NASA's Johnson Space Centre have tested an electromagnetic (EM) propulsion drive in vacuum that could practically facilitate space travel in and around the solar system. In this new research, the scientists at NASA have successfully tested ...

NASA 'Warp Drive' Project The EmDrive Won't Save Mars Mission From Cancer ...   The Inquisitr
Warp drive space travel closer to reality?   Times of India
Is NASA Moving Toward a Hyperspace Drive?   Discovery News
Irish Examiner   
Newsmax   
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RT
   
Zombie howl: Newly discovered X-ray glow could be from matter-hungry stars   
RT
“Howls” of dead stars feeding on their stellar neighbors – that's one of the ways baffled scientists described a haze of high-energy X-rays at the core of our galaxy spotted by NASA's cutting-edge Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). NuSTAR is a ...

NuSTAR captures mysterious high-energy X-ray glow from the center of the ...   Gizmag
NASA space telescope sees possible X-ray 'screams' from zombie stars   Examiner.com
NuSTAR captures 'screams' from zombie stars   RedOrbit
Clarksville Online   
The Daily Galaxy (blog)   
Yahoo News   
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Radio Australia
   
Drones used to map ice floe in unprecedented operation 'set to change Antarctic ...   
Radio Australia
Scientists successfully pilot drones over Antarctic ice floe from aboard a ship in a world-first operation they say has the potential to change the face of Antarctic science. A drone casts a shadow while flying over sea ice in east Antarctica to collect data on ...


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Scientific American
   
Pluto May Have Icy Cap   
Scientific American
A bright spot on Pluto (right) could be nitrogen ice. The dwarf planet is shown with its largest moon, Charon. Credit: NASA. Images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft suggest that Pluto has a polar cap made of some kind of ice. The pictures, taken over the ...

Instruments on Pluto space probe built at Southwest Research Institute   KSAT San Antonio
Overflow seating arranged for Pluto event at VVC   Victorville Daily Press

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TechCrunch
   
Researchers Create The Ultimate Smartphone Ultra Zoom To See And Measure ...   
TechCrunch
Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, have created a smartphone ultra-zoom solution that allows scientists in the field to image and size DNA. The tool, which uses a little 3D-printed box that acts as a high-resolution microscope, can be ...

Smartphone attachment lets smartphones image DNA   SlashGear
3D-printed attachment turns any smartphone into a DNA-scanning microscope   Gizmag
3D-Printed Attachment Transforms Smartphone Into Microscope That Scans DNA   Ubergizmo (blog)
Med Device Online (press release)   
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Uncover California
   
Series of Strange Lights spotted flashing over California   
Uncover California
A series of bizarre lights that were spotted flashing in the sky of Southwest of San Diego on Tuesday night left a number of residents baffling. Many residents even thought that the lights were flashed by a UFO. NBC San Diego was told by one resident that light ...

Strange lights spotted flashing over California (Video)   Canada News
UFO Sighting Over San Diego (VIDEO)   E Canada Now
Do these mysterious lights mark the beginning of an alien invasion?   Metro
The Inquisitr   
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Gizmodo Australia
   
Video: Inside The Fiery Inferno Of A Rocket Launch   
Gizmodo Australia
Here's an awesome view of the fiery power that is a rocket. A GoPro camera is strapped inside this rocket test so that rocket scientists can get a view of what's going on inside. It's pretty amazing, the fire burns so hot that you can almost feel it through the screen ...


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