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Study Puts Solar Spin on Asteroids, their Moons & Earth Impacts

Study Puts Solar Spin on Asteroids, their Moons & Earth Impacts

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jul 09, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Asteroids with moons, which scientists call binary asteroids, are common in the solar system. A longstanding question has been how the majority of such moons are formed. In this week's issue of the journal ...





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Scientists demonstrate 'universal' programmable quantum processor

Scientists demonstrate 'universal' programmable quantum processor

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 11

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated the first "universal" programmable quantum information processor able to run any program allowed by quantum mechanics -- th ...


Research gives new insights into 4 billion year-old meteorites

Research gives new insights into 4 billion year-old meteorites

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have gained new insight into the makeup of ancient meteorites called Carbonaceous Chondrites, in research published in the October edition of the journal Earth Science and Planetary Le ...


First view of Earth as Rosetta approaches home

First view of Earth as Rosetta approaches home

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- This spectacular image of our home planet was captured by the OSIRIS instrument on ESA's Rosetta comet chaser earlier today as the spacecraft approached Earth for the third and final swingby. ...


WISE Is Chilling Out

WISE Is Chilling Out

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers are busy cooling the science instrument on NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The spacecraft is scheduled to blast into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in ...


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NASA on crusade to debunk 2012 apocalypse myths

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 4

The world is not coming to an end on December 21, 2012, the US space agency insisted Monday in a rare campaign to dispel widespread rumors fueled by the Internet and a new Hollywood movie.


Unusual meteorite found by time-lapse camera observatory

Unusual meteorite found by time-lapse camera observatory

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (15) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- An unusual meteorite with an interesting orbit has been tracked to the ground using a photographic observatory that records time-lapse images of fireballs traveling across the sky.


Rapid supernova could be new class of exploding star

Rapid supernova could be new class of exploding star

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (17) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- An unusual supernova rediscovered in seven-year-old data may be the first example of a new type of exploding star, possibly from a binary star system where helium flows from one white dwarf ...


Research findings key for understanding, interpreting genetic testing for long QT syndrome

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Results of a long QT syndrome (LQTS) study published in the current issue of Circulation play an important role in understanding genetic testing's role in diagnosing disease, according to the senior author, Michael Ackerman, ...


German high-school students involved in an astronomical research project

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

This week, Astronomy & Astrophysics publishes a somewhat unusual research article because it is co-authored by German high-school students. Led by astronomer Klaus Beuermann (University of Göttingen, Germany), the team i ...


Online payment firm PayPal has opened its software platform to outside developers

PayPal courts outside developers

Technology / Internet

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

PayPal has opened its software platform to outside developers in a move designed to unleash a flood of creative uses for the online financial transaction service.



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