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The European Space Agency prepares satellite INTEGRAL to re-enter and disintegrate into the Earth’s atmosphere in 2029. Credit: ESA/D. Ducros Researchers at University of La Rioja (Spain) have developed a new method to eliminate artificial satellites in highly elliptical orbits when they finish their missions. The methodology, which reduces both cost and risk, has been […]
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Star Wars gamechanger? Scientists create self-healing material plugging holes in spaceships
August 30th, 2015 
Awake Goy The resin must be put between a polymer sandwich to stay liquid. But once the walls are breached by something small and speedy – like a bullet or a flying piece of space debris – it reacts with oxygen and forms a clog. While there is a number of materials with similar behavior, the new […]
Researchers discover a 2 billion year old Nuclear Reactor in Africa
May 27th, 2015 David Schulberg Two billion years ago parts of an African uranium deposit spontaneously underwent nuclear fission In 1972, a worker at a nuclear fuel processing plant noticed something suspicious in a routine analysis of uranium obtained from a normal mineral source from Africa. As is the case with all […]
