Sharpest-ever Ground-based Images of Pluto and
Charon: Proves a Powerful Tool for Exoplanet Discoveries

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Despite being infamously demoted from its status as a major planet, Pluto (and its largest companion Charon) recently posed as a surrogate extrasolar planetary system to help astronomers produce exceptionally high-resolution images with the Gemini North 8-meter telescope. Using a method called reconstructive speckle imaging, the researchers took the sharpest ground-based snapshots ever obt

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Professor says NASA's Martian weather reports
show extreme pressure swings

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Curiosity, the NASA rover that landed on Mars last month, is sending us remarkable weather observations from the Martian surface that are attracting interest from scientists. "From a weather point of view, Mars is the most 'Earth-like' of the other planets in our solar system, and many features of the weather there are similar to Earth," says Kevin Hamilton, a pioneer in the area of computer mod

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Mars-like Places on Earth Give Insights into
Rover Data

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Life thrives on Planet Earth. In even the most inhospitable places - the freezing Antarctic permafrost, Sun-baked salt pans in Tunisia or the corrosively acidic Rio Tinto in Spain - pockets of life can be found. Some of these locations have much in common with environments found on Mars, as discovered by orbiters and rovers exploring the surface. Researchers from the Centro de Astrobiologi

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Storm over genetically modified maize study
worsens

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France threatens to suspend imports of GM maize as animal feed if its food agency can confirm study claims that it gives rats cancer

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River Fans on Earth and Mars

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Curiosity science team member William Dietrich explores the relationship between river fans found in California's Death Valley on Earth and similar fans in Gale Crater on Mars.

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Pierre Bezier and the Bezier Curve

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Pierre Bezier was best known for popularizing Bezier curves used in CAD and computer graphics systems. These curves are used to design objects like automobile bodies. Fonts like TrueType and PostScript were designed using Bezier curves.Bezier came from a family of engineers. He followed in th

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Fast Charging for EVs

In the last decade, particularly the last four years, we have seen a tremendous push for electric vehicles (EVs). The end goal of many advocates of EVs is to see them replace conventional gasoline powered cars to reduce exhaust pollution and limit the use of fossil fuels.And while this goal in

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ATV-3 Undocking from ISS Postponed Indefinitely

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An undocking of Europe's ATV-3 unmanned resupply spacecraft from the International Space Station (ISS) has been postponed for at least another day, a spokesman for the Mission Control said. ATV-3 undocking from the ISS was initially scheduled for 2:35 a.m. Moscow time on Wednesday (10:35 p.m. GMT Tuesday). It was planned to be de-orbited and sunk in the Pacific Ocean on Thursday. "Ac

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