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NASA's asteroid-wrangling plan may get shot down
Florida Today
A formal Request For Information to provide ideas on NASA's asteroid initiative is posted at NASA's business opportunities website. Deadline for ideas is 5 p.m. July 18. NASA will consider them at a July 30 mission formulation review. More.
Forget Smartphone and Tablet PCs, Asteroid Harnessing is the Future of ...Highlight Press
NASA Announces Asteroid Grand ChallengeNASA
NASA 'Grand Asteroid Challenge' Asks Citizen Scientists To Help Hunt Down ...RedOrbit
Businessweek -ABC News -Los Angeles Times
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Supermoon Coming Sunday June 23rd – Doomsday Theorist Batten Down the ...
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Supermoon Coming Sunday June 23rd – Doomsday Theorist Batten Down the Hatches There's nothing like a good supermoon to get doomsday theorists hot under the collar and right up there on their soapboxes. It's only ever 14-months that we're treated to ...
Supermoon will be big, bright, and full on June 23CNET
Next “supermoon” to appear on June 23euronews
5 Sky Events This Week: Lord of the Rings Meets Luna, Solstice SupermoonNational Geographic
The SandPaper -EarthSky -Nature World News
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Climate change threatens trouble in the near future, World Bank says
Washington Post
The World Bank is beginning to commit billions of dollars to flood prevention, water management and other projects to help major Asian cities avoid the expected impact of climate change, a dramatic example of how short the horizon has become to alleviate ...
Warming Threatens Africa Food, Asia Water Within LifetimeBloomberg
What Climate Change Means for Africa, Asia and the Coastal PoorWorld Bank Group
World Bank highlights climate-poverty linkDanbury News Times

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NASA: LEGO Mars Curiosity Rover Toy Coming
Design & Trend
One of Mars Rover Curiosity's designers, Stephen Pakbaz, has created a LEGO version of the NASA Mars Science Laboratory that was selected by thousands of LEGO fans to be an official toy. "I combined this first-hand experience with my Lego hobby to ...
LEGO plans Mars rover Curiosity modelFox News
Mars rover engineer to give us LEGO version (+ video)Christian Science Monitor
NASA's Curiosity LEGO Set Coming Soon To A Home Near You [PHOTOS]International Business Times
PC Magazine -Guardian Express -Los Angeles Times
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COLD BALLS OF FLAME light up International Space Station
Register
At first glance, lighting a fire on the International Space Station (ISS) seems like a good way to earn a Darwin Award and the opprobrium of all humanity. Yet boffins have been doing it for some time in an effort to learn more about how flames behave.
NASA reports International Space Station Flame Experiment produces strange ...Clarksville Online
Cool Flames : Playing With Balls of Space FireDiscovery News
Experimenting with fireballs in spaceCNET (blog)
DVICE -Nextgov -RedOrbit
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Earth To Appear As A 'Pale Blue Dot' In A Photo From Saturn's Neighborhood ...
International Business Times
Earth will be captured in a photo, taken from hundreds of millions of miles away on July 19, by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which is currently exploring Saturn, the space agency announced on Tuesday. Cassini is composing a multi-image portrait of the Saturn ...
Nasa's Cassini probe to acquire distant Earth portraitBBC News
Cassini Spacecraft To Take Earth's Photo From Deep SpaceRTT News
NASA's Cassini To Reveal Pictures of Earth as 'Pale Blue Dot' Taken From SaturnHeadlines & Global News
NASA -Design & Trend -National Geographic
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Computer algorithm uses echoes to create 'virtual' room maps
UPI.com
LAUSANNE, Switzerland, June 18 (UPI) -- A new computer algorithm that can give humans the ability to map their environments with sound could lead to an app to aid blind people, Swiss researchers say. Some animals such as bats, whales and dolphins use ...
App Lets You Map Rooms Like a BatDiscovery News
Echolocating app will let you map a room with soundNew Scientist
Echoes create an interior map appScience News
GlobalPost -Science AAAS -The Australian
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Spin doctors brazenly fiddle with tiny bits in front of the neighbours
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The University of New South Wales, working with Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, is celebrating what it hopes will be another step towards large-scale quantum computing: a technique that can address single electron qubits separated by mere ...
Which qubit my dear? New method to distinguish between neighbouring ...ECNmag.com
New Way to Distinguish Between Neighboring Quantum Bits: SpinScience World Report
Quibbling Over Qubits: New Discovery Marks Milestone in Quantum Computer ...Nature World News
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Aww: Watch A Robotic Cheetah-Cub Run
Popular Science
A mechanical cheetah cub joins the Noah's Ark that has captivated robotics in recent years. Today Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL)'s Biorobotics Laboratory (Biorob) published a study detailing experiments on the cheetah-cub quadruped ...
Cheetah-Cub Robot Created: See Other Nature-Inspired MachinesNational Geographic
'Cheetah-Cub' looks like a robot, runs like a catNBCNews.com
Now, a robot with nine livesComputerworld
Los Angeles Times -Digital Trends -Christian Science Monitor
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NASA Unveils New Astronaut Class for Deep-Space Exploration
Space.com
NASA has picked eight Americans, a mix of scientists and military pilots, to begin training for future space missions that may one day launch them all the way to Mars. The new class includes four men and four women who will join the 49 active astronauts at ...
NASA's New Class of Astronauts Gives Parity to Men and WomenNew York Times
NASA's new astronauts: Will these men and women fly to Mars?Los Angeles Times
New Female Astronauts Show Evolution of Women in SpaceNational Geographic
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