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First reported 10 hours ago - Updated 10 hours ago - 1 reports

‘Nothing to fear’ from UK nuclear plants

‘Nothing to fear’ from UK nuclear plantsIreland has nothing to fear from proposals for eight new nuclear power plants in Britain, this country’s nuclear safety watchdog says.A three-year study by the Radiological Protection Institute of Ireland (RPII) ... [Published Irish Examiner - 10 hours ago]

Entities: United Kingdom, Ireland, Nuclear

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

How Cosmic Rays Damage Camera Sensors in Space

Those speckles you see in Chris Hadfield's videos are dead pixels on the camera's sensors from space radiation.Here's a little behind-the-scenes detail for you. For this week's videos with Chris Hadfield (you've seen them by now, right?), Chris actually ... [Published Tested - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Cosmic Rays, Cosmonaut, Chris Hadfield, Cosmic Radiation

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated 20 hours ago - 4 reports

NASA

NASA chief technologist: 'Our destiny lies among the planets of our solar system'

Mason Peck discusses obstacles to Mars missions, warp drives and deadly asteroidsMay 21, 2013, 11:49 AM Getting to Mars and back safely will require shorter flight timesImage credit: Flickr/FLYINGSINGER Mason Peck, NASA's chief technologist, chatted online ... [Published ITworld.com - 20 hours ago]

Entities: NASA, Solar System, Planetoid, Interstellar Travel, Cosmic Ray

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Arctic observatory finds 'alien' particles

Possible signals from at least 26 suspected high-energy neutrinos of as yet unknown origin have been picked up by a particle detector at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory near the South Pole, a science site has reported. Scientists said the preliminary ... [Published GMA News.tv - May 20 2013]

Entities: Cosmic Ray, Madison (Wisconsin, United States), Smoking Gun, Electron

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Dark matter, WIMPS, and NASA's Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer data

Abell 222/223 galaxies, showing a filament of dark matter stretching between the two galaxies (Photo: Jörg Dietrich, U-M Department of Physics)Image Gallery (10 images)Recently the media has been saturated with overly-hyped reports that NASA's Alpha Magnetic ... [Published Gizmag - May 20 2013]

Entities: Dark Matter, Spectrometer, Electron, Supersymmetry

First reported May 19 2013 - Updated May 19 2013 - 1 reports

U.S. must stay committed to racing towards space

Space scientists are buzzing. Capturing billions of cosmic ray "hits" on the International Space Station and the landing the Curiosity rover perfectly on Mars are just the latest achievements space exploration has produced. But to be successful, America ... [Published Wisconsin Rapids Tribune - May 19 2013]

Entities: United States, Cosmic Ray, Space shuttle

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

The moon: A sleeping beauty without a fairytale ending

_ Everyone knows the part in "Sleeping Beauty" where the prince comes and plants a waking kiss on the lovely, slumbering princess.But before sleeping beauty was a beauty, before she fell into her deep sleep, how did she get to be so enchanting? As the ... [Published Boulder Daily Camera - May 17 2013]

Entities: Hydrogen, Apollo 15, Planet Earth, Cosmic Ray

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Rumored UFO in fact a rocket

China has launched a research rocket to gather high-altitude scientific data, with the experiment attracting widespread public attention because it was visible in the evening sky across many provinces.Scientists conducted the test Monday for research ... [Published News Guangdong - May 16 2013]

Entities: Rumours, Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Barium Sulfate, Zhaoqing

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

New insights into what triggers lightning

Cosmic rays interacting with water droplets within thunderclouds could play an important role in initiating lightning strikes. That is the claim of researchers in Russia, who have studied the radio signals emitted during thousands of lightning strikes. ... [Published Environmental Research Web - May 16 2013]

Entities: Aleksandr Gurevich, Cosmic Ray, Discharge, Cumulonimbus

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 2 reports

The Evidence for Climate Change Without Using Computer Models or the IPCC

YouTube SOURCES are listed in the next video, because of space constraints. Predictable posts are answered here. Please spend your time and effort in addressing the evidence presented in the video: "This is a straw man argument. Of course skeptics ... [Published Little Green Footballs - May 13 2013]

Entities: Global Warming/Climate Change, Carbon Dioxide, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

Do cosmic rays grease lightning?

| Katia Moskvitch |NOBODY knows exactly what triggers lightning bolts.Now, two Russian researchers say that these discharges of a billion volts or more could be caused by the interaction of cosmic rays-high-energy particles from outer space-with ... [Published Borneo Bulletin - May 11 2013]

Entities: Cosmic Ray, Electron, Cumulonimbus, PULSING

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 2 reports

New insights into what triggers lightning

Entities: Aleksandr Gurevich, Cosmic Ray, Discharge, Cumulonimbus

Quotes

"Free from the protection offered by the atmosphere, cosmic rays bombard us within Space Station, penetrating the hull almost as if it was not there. They zap everything inside, causing such mischief as locking up our laptop computers and knocking pixels out of whack in our cameras. The computers recover with a reboot; the cameras suffer permanent damage. After about a year, the images they produce look like they are covered with electronic snow. Cosmic rays contribute most of the radiation dose received by Space Station crews. We have defined lifetime limits, after which you fly a desk for the rest of your career. No one has reached that dose level yet."

How Cosmic Rays Damage Camera Sensors in Space [Published Tested - 18 hours ago]

"Defending the planet from threats from space is a global problem. It's going to take all of us pulling together. For 2014, President Obama has requested funding to allow NASA to engage with the nation and the world on the science and technology that will be necessary to accomplish this goal. Keep watching for ways you can engage with NASA on asteroids."

NASA chief technologist: 'Our destiny lies among the planets of our solar system' [Published ITworld.com - 20 hours ago]

...However, no strong patterns emerged as there were relatively few particles to work with, prompting her to conclude that "there are no identifiable sources at this time. Screening techniques For now, the scientists said proving the neutrinos originated in high-energy cosmic processes will take time. The search is always for the source, and we havent found that yet. That would be the smoking gun, Kopper said. TJD, GMA News"

Arctic observatory finds 'alien' particles [Published GMA News.tv - May 20 2013]

According to the initial CERN report, the results of the AMS data and analysis, "are consistent with the positrons originating from the annihilation of dark matter particles in space, but not yet sufficiently conclusive to rule out other explanations." However, early media coverage was strongly oriented toward explaining the observed positron excess as associated with dark matter annihilation, and appeared...

Dark matter, WIMPS, and NASA's Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer data [Published Gizmag - May 20 2013]

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‘Nothing to fear’ from UK nuclear plants [Published Irish Examiner - 10 hours ago]
How Cosmic Rays Damage Camera Sensors in Space [Published Tested - 18 hours ago]
NASA chief technologist: 'Our destiny lies amon... [Published ITworld.com - 20 hours ago]
Natural GMOs Part 165. Novel double-stranded RN... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 21 2013]
NASA tech chief does reddit AMA [Published Washington Post - May 21 2013]
NASA tech chief takes to Reddit for a spacey As... [Published Venturebeat - May 20 2013]
NASA tech chief takes to Reddit for a spacey As... [Published Venturebeat - May 20 2013]
Arctic observatory finds 'alien' particles [Published GMA News.tv - May 20 2013]
Dark matter, WIMPS, and NASA's Alpha Magnetic S... [Published Gizmag - May 20 2013]
U.S. must stay committed to racing towards space [Published Wisconsin Rapids Tribune - May 19 2013]
IceCube Neutrino Observatory Detects Mysterious... [Published The Huffington Post \| Full News Feed - May 19 2013]
Exotic atoms hold clues to unsolved physics puz... [Published domain-b - May 19 2013]
Money Weekend’s FutureWatch: 18 May 2013 [Published Money Morning Australia - May 18 2013]
Headlines at 21st Century Tech for May 17, 2013 [Published World Future Society - May 18 2013]
The moon: A sleeping beauty without a fairytale... [Published Boulder Daily Camera - May 17 2013]
Mac Planet: Apples in space [Published New Zealand Herald - May 16 2013]
Antarctic Observatory Finds First Cosmic, High-... [Published Softpedia - May 16 2013]
Rumored UFO in fact a rocket [Published News Guangdong - May 16 2013]
New insights into what triggers lightning [Published Environmental Research Web - May 16 2013]
Relax. It’s not Global Warming ‘End Times’ [Published Human Events Online - May 15 2013]
Space-Ready Memory Goes Extra Terrestrial [Published Electronic Specifier - May 14 2013]
Earth-Moon: A Watery “Double-Planet” [Published Air And Space Magazine - May 14 2013]
Babu G. Ranganathan [Published Boise Weekly - May 13 2013]
The Evidence for Climate Change Without Using C... [Published Little Green Footballs - May 13 2013]
The Evidence for Climate Change WITHOUT Compute... [Published Little Green Footballs - May 13 2013]
DEEP SCIENCE [Published Timberjay Newspapers - May 12 2013]
Do cosmic rays grease lightning? [Published Borneo Bulletin - May 11 2013]
NASA Invites Media to Speak with Dark Matter De... [Published SpaceRef - May 11 2013]
Reports from "Humans 2 Mars Summit" suggest dus... [Published PhysOrg.com - May 10 2013]
Exotic atoms hold clues to unsolved physics puz... [Published Brightsurf Science News - May 10 2013]

Blogs

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Natural GMOs Part 165. Novel double-stranded RN... [Published GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe - May 21 2013] Some people have raised worries about whether novel double-stranded RNA molecules present in plant foods might be harmful to people. Naturally occurring plants often produce novel double-stranded RNA molecules, so we have long been exposed to this risk.One ...
NASA tech chief takes to Reddit for a spacey As... [Published Venturebeat - May 20 2013] So, you want to know why the International Space Station dumped Windows in favor of Linux ? Ask NASA chief technologist Mason Peck. He’s doing an Ask Me Anything thread on Reddit today, and he’s down to party.Peck’s been in charge of NASA’s tech decisions ...
NASA tech chief takes to Reddit for a spacey As... [Published Venturebeat - May 20 2013] So, you want to know why the International Space Station dumped Windows in favor of Linux ? Ask NASA chief technologist Mason Peck. He’s doing an Ask Me Anything thread on Reddit today, and he’s down to party. Peck’s been in charge of NASA’s ...
The Evidence for Climate Change Without Using C... [Published Little Green Footballs - May 13 2013] YouTube SOURCES are listed in the next video, because of space constraints. Predictable posts are answered here. Please spend your time and effort in addressing the evidence presented in the video: "This is a straw man argument. Of course skeptics ...
The Evidence for Climate Change WITHOUT Compute... [Published Little Green Footballs - May 13 2013] YouTube SOURCES are listed in the next video, because of space constraints. Predictable posts are answered here. Please spend your time and effort in addressing the evidence presented in the video: "This is a straw man argument. Of course skeptics ...

Press Releases

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NASA Administrator Statement On Alpha Magnetic ... [Published PR Newswire: Entertainment & Media - Apr 03 2013]
NASA TV Briefing Discusses Alpha Magnetic Spect... [Published Auto & Transportation - Apr 02 2013]
NASA's Super-TIGER Balloon Breaks Records While... [Published Auto & Transportation - Feb 04 2013]