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FLEX takes on mutants

FLEX takes on mutants

25-08-2016 05:00 PM CEST

Because a plant isn't green doesn't mean it can't photosynthesise as well as its more usual counterpart, but when measured by satellites, these non-green varieties skew results on plant health. FLEX is different. Experiments using 'mutants' show that colour won't be an obstacle in this new mission's task of mapping plant health from space.

 

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Rosetta captures comet outburst

Rosetta captures comet outburst

25-08-2016 03:00 PM CEST

In unprecedented observations made earlier this year, Rosetta unexpectedly captured a dramatic comet outburst that may have been triggered by a landslide.

 

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Asteroid Q&A

Asteroid Q&A

23-08-2016 01:58 PM CEST

Tweet an asteroid related question and win an AIM T-shirt signed by Brian May

 

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'There are many dead': a search for survivors after earthquake in Italy Trump backtracks on immigration; Sanders staff flee project; Hope Solo suspended; Texas students choose toy cocks over glocks Cars sit amid the rubble from earthquake-damaged buildings in the central Italian village of Pescara del Tronto. Photograph: Marco Zeppetella/AFP/Getty Images Edward Helmore in New York Death toll in Italian quake rises More than 240 people are confirmed dead as rescuers frantically try to find survivors after a powerful earthquake struck central Italy on Wednesday – razing homes, buckling roads and burying residents under mounds of masonry in the hardest-hit towns of Amatrice, Accumoli and Arquata del Tronto. Amid the rubble of Amatrice, a town that seems almost to have toppled on to its hillside, the clock on the 13th-century bell tower is stuck at 3.39. Italy's civil protection agency was coordinating the rescue operation after the quake, which was felt in Rome more than 93 miles away. Italy in shock after Amatrice earthquake: 'This used to be my home' Donald Trump shifts on immigration After several days of teasing, Donald Trump is softening his stance on his signature issue of immigration reform. "They'll pay back taxes, they have to pay taxes, there's no amnesty, as such, there's no amnesty, but we work with them," Trump said in an interview with Fox News. The presidential nominee said undocumented immigrants living in the United States will get "no citizenship", they will pay back taxes in exchange for legal status provided "we get the bad ones out". Donald Trump in favor of immigration reform, softening stance on his signature issue Anti-EU leader campaigns with Trump Nigel Farage, architect of the British exit from the European Union, offered his support to Republican nominee Donald Trump in Jackson, Mississippi, yesterday, declaring a Trump presidency would bring "American independence". Farage's intervention is part of a plan hatched by new campaign chief Stephen Bannon, an enthusiastic supporter of Brexit. Meanwhile Trump's swing through the south has baffled campaigning experts. Nigel Farage at Donald Trump rally: 'I wouldn't vote for Clinton if you paid me' Colombian rebels sign accord to end war Colombia's government has secured a groundbreaking peace deal with leftist Farc rebels promising to end a war that has lasted 52 years, killing tens of thousands and displacing millions. The Colombian president, Juan Manuel Santos, announced on Wednesday that a national plebiscite would take place on 2 October for voters to either accept or reject the accord. Iván Márquez, the Farc's top negotiator, said: "We have won the most beautiful of all battles: [the battle] of peace for Colombia." Farc peace deal: rebels and Colombian government sign accord to end war Sanders staff flee legacy project No sooner had Democratic primary runner-up Bernie Sanders announced the Our Revolution grassroots project to "continue the struggle for justice", than key staff began to quit over its leadership and fundraising structure. The departures, including the entire organizing department and the group's digital director, came after Sanders's former campaign manager Jeff Weaver was appointed president of the group. Notwithstanding this setback, Sanders said the project planned to support "progressives at every level". Fleeing the Bern: half of staff quit Sanders legacy project before it begins Marijuana admitted to Oregon state fair Prize-winning marijuana plants will be included in the state fair's agricultural line-up in a move that cannabis advocates call a monumental step in removing the stigma around a product. The marijuana plants will only be viewable by those 21 and older. And the plants will be guarded by security. "Cannabis is taking its rightful place next to tomatoes and other agriculture," said Don Morse, with the Oregon Cannabis Business Council. Prize-winning pot: top marijuana plants debut at Oregon state fair Sex toys, not machine guns In another first for student democracy, hundreds of undergraduates at the University of Texas at Austin have signaled their opposition to the state's "campus carry" gun law by carrying dildos to an anti-gun demonstration. Under a new law, gun owners aged 21 and older are permitted to carry concealed handguns in most places on public university campuses. "We have crazy laws here but this is by far the craziest, that you can't bring a dildo on to campus legally but you can bring your gun," said Rosie Zander, a 20-year-old history student. Cocks Not Glocks: Texas students carry dildos on campus to protest gun law The speed of melting ice The Greenland Ice Sheet is losing 110,000 Olympic size swimming pools worth of water each year, a new study estimates. The findings, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, used data from the Cryosat 2 satellite to make high-resolution measurement of Greenland. Lead author Malcolm McMillan from the Centre for Polar Observation and Modeling estimates approximately 270 gigatons of ice loss per year for 2011–2014. Global warming is melting the Greenland Ice Sheet, fast Pizza by drone Global pizza giant Dominos will become the first to carry out regular deliveries by drone in New Zealand from late 2016. Speaking after the Domino's test flight this week, the country's transport minister, Simon Bridges, said the country was an "ideal environment" for drone delivery. Don Meij, the chief executive of Domino's Pizza Enterprises, said: "We've always said that it doesn't make sense to have a 2-tonne machine delivering a 2kg order." Domino's planning drone pizza delivery service in New Zealand Hope Solo given six-month ban The goalkeeper was given a six-month suspension for calling Sweden "a bunch of cowards" at the Olympics in Rio for their defensive play against Team USA. Solo also angered fans in Brazil when she posted a photo on social media of herself covered with mosquito netting and armed with insect repellant. Fans chanted "Zika!" each time she kicked downfield. The player, who was previously suspended for 30 days early in 2015 for her conduct, will not be eligible for selection to the national team until February. USA's Hope Solo given six-month ban for calling Sweden 'a bunch of cowards' In case you missed it ... A federal judge in Chicago has ruled that a 40-year-old landscape painting signed "Peter Doige" is not the work of the well-known Scottish painter Peter Doig. Doig had been sued by a former Canadian corrections officer who claimed the artist was falsely denying that he had made the work. "I feel a living artist should be the one who gets to say yea or nay and not be taken to task and forced to go back 40 years in time. It was painstaking to piece this together," he said during the ruling, according to the New York Times. Artist Peter Doig victorious as court agrees '$10m' painting is not his work Manage your emails | Unsubscribe | Trouble viewing? You are receiving this email because you are a subscriber to Guardian US Briefing. Guardian News & Media Limited - a member of Guardian Media Group PLC. Registered Office: 222 Broadway, 22nd and 23rd Floors, New York, New York, 10038

NASA Digest, Vol 39, Issue 7

August 24, 2016  MEDIA ADVISORY M16-102 NASA Astronaut Shane Kimbrough Available for Interviews Before Space Station Mission   NASA Astronaut Shane Kimbrough answers a question from the media at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, on Feb. 24. Kimbrough is scheduled to launch to the International Space Station aboard a Soyuz spacecraft Sept. 23. Credits: NASA NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, who is making final preparations for a September launch to the International Space Station, is available for live satellite interviews from 7 to 8 a.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 6. The interviews will air live on NASA Television and the agency's website. Kimbrough will participate in the interviews live from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. The interviews will be preceded at 6:30 a.m. by a video highlighting his mission training. To participate, media should contact Thomas Gerczak at 281-792-7515 or thomas.j.gerczak@nasa.gov no later than 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 2. Media participating in the live shots must tune to NASA Television's NTV-3 channel. Satellite tuning information is available at: http://go.nasa.gov/1pOWUhR Kimbrough and his crewmates, cosmonauts Andrey Borisenko and Sergey Ryzhikov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, will launch aboard a Soyuz spacecraft at 2:17 p.m. Sept. 23 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. This will be the second flight of the upgraded Soyuz MS spacecraft, and the crew will spend two days testing the modified systems before docking to the station at 5:05 p.m. Sept. 25. At the space station, they will join Expedition 49 members NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Takuya Onishi. Together, the six crew members will continue the several hundred experiments in biology, biotechnology, physical science and Earth science currently under way and scheduled to take place aboard humanity's only orbiting lab. A retired Army colonel and native of Killeen, Texas, Kimbrough completed his first spaceflight in 2008 on space shuttle mission STS-126. During this mission, he worked to expand the living quarters of the space station to accommodate a six-member crew – an effort that included two spacewalks, during which he logged 12 hours and 52 minutes outside the orbiting laboratory. Kimbrough is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta. He began his NASA career at the agency's Johnson Space Center as a flight simulation engineer on the Shuttle Training Aircraft before being selected as an astronaut in 2004. This will be Kimbrough's first long-duration stay on the space station. He is scheduled to return to Earth with crew members Borisenko and Ryzhikov in February 2017. Get the latest NASA TV schedule and video streaming information at: http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv Follow the space station crew and mission on social media at: http://twitter.com/space_station http://instagram.com/iss Follow Kimbrough on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/astro_kimbrough

Rocking Soundcloud

Rocking Soundcloud

25-08-2016 12:15 PM CEST

ESA's Soundcloud channel is now official: hear the latest sounds from mission control, the launch pad and deep space, including #SingingComet and the ISS warning alarm, a tone astronauts hope never to hear for real

 

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