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Moon Methone meets Cassini-> 0

Submitted by MistrX on Tuesday May 22, @05:47AM

MistrX writes ""NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its closest approach to Saturn's tiny moon Methone as part of a trajectory that will take it on a close flyby of another of Saturn's moons, Titan. The Titan flyby will put the spacecraft in an orbit around Saturn that is inclined, or tilted, relative to the plane of the planet's equator. The flyby of Methone took place on May 20 at a distance of about 1,200 miles (1,900 kilometers). It was Cassini's closest flyby of the 2-mile-wide (3-kilometer-wide) moon. The best previous Cassini images were taken on June 8, 2005, at a distance of about 140,000 miles (225,000 kilometers), and they barely resolved this object.""
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Chemical reaction eating CO2, producing energy-> 0

Submitted by MistrX on Tuesday May 22, @05:11AM

MistrX writes ""While there are plenty of ways to make carbon-based products from CO2, these methods usually require a lot of energy because the CO2 molecules are so stable. If the energy comes from the burning of fossil fuels, then the net result will be more CO2 entering the atmosphere. Now a material scientist at Michigan Technological University has discovered a chemical reaction that not only soaks up CO2, but also produces useful chemicals along with significant amounts of energy."

http://www.gizmag.com/co2-li3n-reaction/22620/"
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First testflights with flying car succesful.-> 0

Submitted by MistrX on Monday April 02, @09:07AM

MistrX writes "The Dutch company PAL-V completed it's first series of testflights with it's flying car, the PAL-V One, successfully. The PAL-V One flies like a gyrocopter, with a minimal runway length of 165 meters, and drives around like a trike on the road. Furthermore it offers 2 passengers at a maximum speed of 180km/h on both on land and in the air.

The company aims with the PAL-V One on usage within the United States, China, the United Kingdom, Germany and France, because private flying is more commonplace."
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Buildingblocks of DNA confirmed in Meteorites-> 0

Submitted by MistrX on Tuesday August 09 2011, @04:18AM

MistrX writes "Researchers announce that the components of DNA have now been confirmed to exist in extraterrestrial meteorites. A different team of scientists also discovered a number of molecules linked with a vital ancient biological process, adding weight to the idea that the earliest forms of life on Earth may have been made up in part from materials delivered to Earth the planet by from space.

Past research had revealed a range of building blocks of life in meteorites, such as the amino acids that make up proteins. Space rocks just like these may have been a vital source of the organic compounds that gave rise to life on Earth."
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Breakthrough in cure to EHEC bacteria-> 1

Submitted by MistrX on Thursday June 09 2011, @04:44AM

MistrX writes "Researchers from TNO have made a world wide breakthrough in the battle against lethal bacteria such as EHEC. Food scientists from TNO were able to find natural ingredients that effectively cut bacteria short that had become resistent to antibiotics. The discovery has been tested using the ESBL-bacterium, but is also applicable against the EHEC-bacterium. The finding comes at a time when the bacteria has made more than 20 lethal victims in Germany and has infected thousands."
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Large Hadron Collider is a time machine?-> 0

Submitted by MistrX on Thursday March 17 2011, @05:47AM

MistrX writes "(PhysOrg.com) — If the latest theory of Tom Weiler and Chui Man Ho is right, the Large Hadron Collider – the world's largest atom smasher that started regular operation last year – could be the first machine capable causing matter to travel backwards in time."
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Meteorite over the Netherlands-> 0

Submitted by MistrX on Wednesday October 14 2009, @06:00AM

MistrX writes "A lot of people in the Netherlands saw a fireball at around seven pm on Tuesday evening. Astronomer Theo Jurriens from Groningen University confirmed that it was an extremely bright meteor which broke into three pieces after hitting the atmosphere.
He says he received about 100 reports of sightings of the meteor from people throughout the country. The KNMI national weather centre also received a large number of calls reporting the event.
It was also witnessed in Germany and Belgium

An image of the event: http://www.geenstijl.nl/archives/images/meteo477.jpg"
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Massive new ring discovered around Saturn-> 0

Submitted by MistrX on Wednesday October 07 2009, @06:04AM

MistrX writes "The dusty hoop extends some 13 million km (eight million miles) from the planet, about 50 times further out into space than its more familiar rings.

Scientists tell the journal Nature that the tenuous ring is probably made up of debris kicked off Saturn's moon Phoebe by small impacts."
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String theory applied for the first time-> 0

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on Friday June 26 2009, @01:39PM

MistrX writes "Scientists from the Dutch Foundation for Fundamental Research to Matter explained a physical anomaly with help of String Theory. This is the first time String theory is applied."
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