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Day: February 18, 2017
NASA Developing Contingency Plan for Commercial Crew Delays
NASA plans to complete by the middle of March a contingency plan for ensuring access to the International Space Station should its two commercial crew partners suffer additional delays. In a response included in a U.S. Government Accountability Office report issued Feb. 16 , Bill Gerstenmaier, NASA associate administrator for human exploration and operations, concurred with a report recommendation that NASA develop alternative ways of getting astronauts to and from the ISS if commercial crew vehicles are not certified once NASA’s current contract with Russia for Soyuz flights expires at the end of 2018.
Fastest computer in the West might run out of time
The $30 million, house-sized supercomputer named Cheyenne belongs to a federally funded research center. It began work a few weeks ago crunching numbers for several ambitious projects, from modeling air currents at wind farms to figuring out how to better predict weather months to years in advance.
Review: New generation personal robot useful – but with limitations
A new generation of personal robots and devices is in the works. Among the more notable is Kuri, a robot developed by Redwood City, Calif., start-up Mayfield Robotics, which is controlled by Bosch.
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White Night Melbourne 2017: Live coverage of the city’s all-night party
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How the Cold War inspired the Poker Flat rocket range’s first launches
A 45-foot NASA sounding rocket set for launch soon at Poker Flat Research Range north of Fairbanks. Workers there wrote on the nose cone of the aurora-research rocket a frequent quote from range founder Neil Davis: “‘We’re in a building situation.’
In 1930, this amateur astronomer discovered this dwarf planet
In 1930, photographic evidence of Pluto, now designated a “dwarf planet,” was discovered by Clyde W. Tombaugh at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. This image made available by NASA on Friday, July 24, 2015 shows Pluto made by combining several images from two cameras on the New Horizons spacecraft, the first spacecraft to visit and photograph the celestial body.
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A Region On Mars With Recent Water Is About To Get Major Attention
Striations exposed on the surface between Martian sand dunes in Lucaya Crater indicate fluctuating levels of salty groundwater. At “a” we see possible cross beds which are tilted layers of sand within larger layers deposited by wind or water.
Biologists find weird cave life that may be 50,000 years old
This image provided by Penny Boston shows a red wall in a cave with butterfly crystal. In a Mexican cave system so beautiful and hot that it is called both Fairyland and hell, scientists have discovered life trapped in crystals that could be 50,000 years old.
Biologists discover weird cave life that may be 50,000 years old
In a Mexican cave system so beautiful and hot that it is called both Fairyland and hell, scientists have discovered life trapped in crystals that could be 50,000 years old. The bizarre and ancient microbes were found dormant in caves in Naica, Mexico, and were able to exist by living on minerals such as iron and manganese, said Penelope Boston, head of NASA’s Astrobiology Institute.
20 years after Dolly: Everything you always wanted to know about the cloned sheep and what came next
It’s been 20 years since scientists in Scotland told the world about Dolly the sheep, the first mammal successfully cloned from an adult body cell. What was special about Dolly is that her “parents” were actually a single cell originating from mammary tissue of an adult ewe.
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The alarm bells may have started ringing a little too soon. Indian infotech firms like Infosys began losing the confidence of shareholders last month when bills proposing changes to the H-1B visa programme, which allows nearly 1.5 million skilled Indians to work in the US, were tabled in Congress.
Raging Capital Management LLC Has $17,310,000 Stake in Cavium, Inc.
Raging Capital Management LLC boosted its position in Cavium, Inc. by 26.7% during the fourth quarter, Holdings Channel reports. The fund owned 277,234 shares of the semiconductor provider’s stock after buying an additional 58,416 shares during the period.
Short Interest in Novavax, Inc. (NVAX) Decreases By 1.9%
Novavax, Inc. was the recipient of a significant drop in short interest in the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 63,797,973 shares, a drop of 1.9% from the January 13th total of 65,010,684 shares.
Tata TaMo Futuro sportscar rendered – World Premiere at Geneva Motor Show 2017
Tamo Futuro limited production sportscar may not have a significant impact on Tata Motors’ bottom line in the immediate future but the maiden project by the automaker’s newly formed “incubating center” is at the very center of its latest turnaround strategy. Destined to make its world debut at the Geneva Motor Show 2017 next month, TaMo Futuro is an exercise which is aimed at gaining back the brand value that was lost and some more.
Xinhua Insight: Thriving Shenzhen tells tale of old man and the city
“I should have stopped my second son from going to Hong Kong 40 years ago,” said Deng, 75, at his home in Shenzhen, a business city in southern China’s Guangdong Province. The city has served Deng’s eldest and youngest sons well.
Gene editing patent ruling sways fortune of biotech hopefuls
In a highly anticipated decision that could sway the fortunes of a handful of biotechnology companies, the federal patent office has turned back a challenge to patents covering a widely used method for editing genes. The office’s board of appeals ruled Wednesday that the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard can keep patents it had been awarded for a technique called CRISPR that lets scientists alter DNA within cells.
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Dwarf planet boasts organic compounds, raising prospect of life
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft image of the limb of dwarf planet Ceres shows a section of the northern hemisphere in this image on October 17, 2016. Photo Courtesy: NASA A NASA spacecraft has detected carbon-based materials, similar to what may have been the building blocks for life on Earth, on the Texas-sized dwarf planet Ceres that orbits between Mars and Jupiter in the main asteroid belt, scientists said on Thursday.
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Mayat Dergaga, left, and her mother, Muluka Adem, stand in the hallway of the U.S. District Courthouse in Greeneville after the ceremony in which Dergaga became an American citizen Friday morning. Both women are from Ethiopia.
This Trump mask uses voice recognition, bigly video – CNET
Toy maker Redwood Ventures puts a high-tech spin on a costume mask of the president. The Trumpism Randomizer Mask makes its huge debut in front of New York’s Trump Tower.