Saturday 19 September 2015

Construction Begins on Test Version of Important Connection for SLS

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Strong connection points between the stages of NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) — the agency's advanced launch vehicle

The post Construction Begins on Test Version of Important Connection for SLS has been published on Technology Org.

 
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Social sciences beat physical sciences in reaching funding equality

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Grant funding is a key contributor to continued gender inequality within academia. Women receive smaller grants than men in biology, the physical sciences, and engineering. However, a new study published in Nature reports that, in the UK at least, social science funding doesn't show a similar gender bias when academic position is accounted for.

This study examined applications for UK Economic and Social Research Council Research Grants between 2008 and 2013. It tabulated the number of grant requests submitted by men and women, their success in earning grant awards, and the sizes of awarded grants. These data were analyzed using the UK government's information on the number of men and women in social science academic jobs in the UK.

The researchers found that, though women hold 48 percent of the academic jobs in social science, they make up just 41 percent of grant applicants, indicating a slight under-representation. The data from the Economic Social Research Council shows that 18 percent of both male and female applicants were successful in earning social science grants, indicating that men and women were equally likely to receive grant awards once you account for their lower application rate.

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Researchers demo solar water-splitting technology

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Rice University researchers have demonstrated an efficient new way to capture the energy from sunlight and convert it

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Graphene promise for body armour

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The "wonder material" graphene could be used to make bulletproof armour, new research suggests. 
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Tadpole Nebula, Auriga Constellation Square Sticker

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This nebula is brimming with new-born stars, many as young as only a million years of age. It's called the Tadpole nebula because the masses of hot, young stars are blasting out ultraviolet radiation that has etched the gas into two tadpole-shaped pillars, called Sim 129 and130, the yellow forms that seem to be swimming away from the three red stars close to the centre of the picture.

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A Prominence on the Sun

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This eerie landscape of incandescent plasma suspended in looping and twisted magnetic fields stretched toward the Sun's eastern horizon on September 16. Captured through a backyard telescope and narrowband filter in light from ionized hydrogen, the scene reveals a gigantic prominence lofted above the solar limb. Some 600,000 kilometers across, the magnetized plasma wall would dwarf worlds of the Solar System. Ruling gas giant Jupiter can only boast a diameter of 143,000 kilometers or so, while planet Earth's diameter is less than 13,000 kilometers. Known as a hedgerow prominence for its appearance, the enormous structure is far from stable though, and such large solar prominences often erupt.

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North American and Pelican Nebulae Wall Graphic

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A gorgeous picture from outer space featuring the North American and Pelican emission nebulae in the constellation of Cygnus, The Swan. The red, green and yellow areas all highlight the cloud of interstellar ionised hydrogen.
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How the “heat” compound from chili peppers could help kill cancer cells

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Capsaicin, the compound responsible for chilis' heat, is used in creams sold to relieve pain, and recent research

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NASAs Saturn V rocket Poster

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Saturn V rocket, used for the American manned lunar landing missions

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New way proposed to chart the cosmos in 3-D

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If only calculating the distance between Earth and far-off galaxies was as easy as pulling out the old measuring tape. Now researchers are proposing a new way to calculate distances in the cosmos using mysterious bursts of energy.
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The Rose Galaxies, Arp 273 Square Sticker

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series An amazing outer space picture featuring two interacting galaxies that together form the shape of a rose. The larger of the spiral galaxies, UGC 1810, has a disk that is twisted by the gravitational pull of its companion galaxy, UGC 1813.
Knots of young, hot blue stars bejewel the spirals arms in glistening starlight while below, its smaller, nearly edge-on companion is going through intense star formation at its centre, perhaps triggered by their encounter.

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