SEATTLE (Reuters) – The world’s largest-diameter tunneling machine could resume drilling under downtown Seattle in late November after repairs are completed, allowing a central part of a years-delayed highway project …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
Day: July 17, 2015
NASA scientist Claudia Alexander, last Galileo project manager, dies at 56
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•(Reuters) – NASA scientist Claudia Alexander, who was a project manager for the Galileo spacecraft mission to Jupiter and worked on the European Space Agency’s Rosetta comet chaser, has died …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
NASA’s New Horizons discovers frozen plains in the heart of Pluto’s ‘heart’
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•In the latest data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, a new close-up image of Pluto reveals a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million years …read more Source:: Science
Scientists puzzle over Pluto’s polygons
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•NEW YORK (Reuters) – New pictures relayed by the first spacecraft to visit distant Pluto show odd polygon-shaped features and smooth hills in an crater-free plain, indications that the icy …read more Source:: UKScienceNews
International report confirms: 2014 was Earth’s warmest year on record
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•In 2014, the most essential indicators of Earth’s changing climate continued to reflect trends of a warming planet, with several markers such as rising land and ocean temperature, sea levels …read more Source:: Science
Amateur astronomers spot one in a billion star
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•The Gaia satellite has discovered a unique binary system where one star is ‘eating’ the other, but neither star has any hydrogen, the most common element in the Universe. The …read more Source:: Science