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University of New South Wales To confirm life on other planets, we need to detect far more molecules in their atmospheres than we currently do to rule out non-biological chemical processes. The search for life on other planets has received a major boost after scientists revealed the spectral signatures of almost 1000 atmospheric molecules that may be involved in the production or consumption of phosphine, a study led by UNSW Sydney revealed. Scientists have long conjectured that phosphine – a...

April 8, 2021 Mackenzie Day, an assistant professor in the UCLA Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, has received an award from the National Science Foundation CAREER program to support her long-term research studies of dune field evolution. The award includes funding to develop an open source library of virtual field trips, which students and teachers can view using virtual reality headsets. These virtual field trips will provide a 360-degree, three-dimensional experience of cond...

LANL: Embed Your Start-up In The ‘Secret City’ - 11:30 am Researchers investigate details of an astronomical simulation in the Cave Automatic Virtual Environment at LANL’s Supercomputing Center. Scientific innovators are invited to embed their companies in the technology and talent of the Laboratory for two years as part of the new NM LEEP program. Courtesy/LANL LANL News: New entrepreneurship program provides financial support and access to Los Alamos National Labor...

Dubai: The month of Sha’ban will start on March 15, according to Islamic scholars, and serves as a reminder that Ramadan is just around the corner – 30 days, to be exact. Astronomy experts said they expect the month of Sha’ban to be 29 days long, and through their calculations, Ramadan is then due to fall on April 13, 2021. Ibrahim Al Jarwan, member of the Arab Union for Astronomy and Space Sciences, said that the Ramadan crescent is expected to form on April 12, 2021, at 6.31 pm UAE time...

Washington University to develop lunar resource utilization technology for NASA Newswise — Power and in-situ resources are two things humans will need as they explore deep space. How future astronauts use these commodities depends on the technology at hand. That’s why NASA is looking to U.S. universities — including Washington University in St. Louis — for lunar-focused research to bring about advancements in in-situ resource utilization and sustainable power solutions. NASA announce...

(Image: Shutterstock) March 9, 2021 SHARE Power and in-situ resources are two things humans will need as they explore deep space. How future astronauts use these commodities depends on the technology at hand. That’s why NASA is looking to U.S. universities — including Washington University in St. Louis — for lunar-focused research to bring about advancements in in-situ resource utilization and sustainable power solutions. NASA announced March 8 that it has selected scientists at Washi...

Published March 7, 2021, 12:00 AM (George Robert E. Valencia III, NRCP OED) “Recovery  and  rebuilding  ought  to  be  the  focus  of  local  research  efforts  in  the  pandemic’s wake,” according to Dr. Gregorio E. H. del Pilar, National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP)  president.  The  NRCP  Governing  Board  thus  set  ‘Pagbangon  at  Pananaig:  National Recovery and Rebuilding’ as the theme for the Council’s  virtual Annual Scientific Confer...

March 5, 2021 SHARE The ordinary atoms that make up the known universe — from our bodies and the air we breathe to the planets and stars — constitute only 5% of all matter and energy in the cosmos. The remaining 95% is made up of a recipe of 25% dark matter and 70% dark energy, both nonluminous components whose nature remains a mystery. Theoretical physicist Katherine Freese, the Jeff and Gail Kodosky Endowed Chair in Physics at the University of Texas at Austin, will explore dark matter...

Space-SI releases their first multi-spectral image from the SFL-Built NEMO-HD smallsat 03/02/2021 1 Minute Read Space-SI, the Slovenian Centre of Excellence for Space Sciences and Technologies, recently released the first multi-spectral image captured by the company’s NEMO-HD Earth Observation (EO) smallsat, just 16 days after launch. Built by Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) in collaboration with SPACE-SI, NEMO-HD is Slovenia’s first smallsat carrying a...