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Hearing Today: NASA Authorization Act of 2013

Hearing Today: NASA Authorization Act of 2013

Hearing: NASA Authorization Act of 2013 Location: 2318 Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515, US Time: 10:00 a.m. ET

Discovery of new material state counterintuitive to laws of physics

Discovery of new material state counterintuitive to laws of physics

Lemont IL (SPX) Jun 17, 2013 When you squeeze something, it gets smaller. Unless you're at Argonne National Laboratory. At the suburban Chicago laboratory, a group of scientists has seemingly...

First Particle Comprising Four Quarks Discovered

First Particle Comprising Four Quarks Discovered

ananyo writes "Physicists have resurrected a particle that may have existed in the first hot moments after the Big Bang. Arcanely called Zc(3900), it is the first confirmed particle made of four...

Plan for modified European rocket gets backing

Plan for modified European rocket gets backing

Le Bourget, France (AFP) June 17, 2013 Two major figures in the European space industry on Monday backed plans to modify the Ariane 5 rocket to help it shoot larger satellites into orbit. The head...

Interstellar Space Travel Art Contest Launches

Artists can submit visions of future interstellar travel to the FarMaker Interstellar Speed Sketch 2013 contest.

Project SOAR: Swiss Space Plane Gaining Steam | Video

Swiss Space Systems is developing a new private space shuttle designed to fly unmanned, and eventually manned, flights to suborbital space. See how aerospace veteran Thales Alenia Space will build...

frequency and vibration visualized

frequency and vibration visualized

nikola tesla said "if you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration."

NASA Announces Asteroid Grand Challenge

NASA announced Tuesday a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them. The challenge is a large-scale effort that will use multi-...

Space History Photo: SR-71 Landing with Drag Chute

The SR-71, on loan from the U.S. Air Force, deploys its drag chute before its nose gear touches the runway after a research flight.

Uranus Is Being Chased By Asteroids!

Uranus Is Being Chased By Asteroids!

As Uranus speeds in its orbit in the solar system, there are three large space rocks that are in lockstep with the gas giant, according to new simulations. Two of them are wobbling in unstable...