Monday 22 August 2016

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If you've ever wondered what men's fashion was like 5,300 years ago, a team of scientists led by Niall O'Sullivan of University College Dublin (UCD) have part of the answer. Using DNA analysis, the clothing and accessories found with the frozen corpse of a Copper Age man in the Alps shows that they were made up of at least five different species of domestic and wild animals.

.. Continue Reading This iceman wouldn't be caught dead in any old leather

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In 2012, scientists at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and the University of Leicester came up with an idea to replace radio-based space navigation with a cosmic GPS that uses pulsars as a sort of deep-space lighthouse. Four years later, they've published a paper as part of a ESA feasibility study to see if the idea is practical and shown how it could be used to fix a spaceship within a radius of two kilometers (1.2 mi) at the distance from Earth to Neptune... Continue Reading How to navigate deep space by pulsar

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Across Western Europe are collections of standing stones dating back thousands of years that scientists have long suspected were huge astronomical computers, but that's largely been a matter of conjecture. Now a team of scientists from the University of Adelaide has statistically proven that some of the oldest standing stones in Britain were deliberately constructed to align with solar and lunar movements... Continue Reading Stonehenge and other standing stones really are computers

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SpaceX has made a comeback by nailing another seabarge landing of a first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket. Returning from the successful launch of a Japanese communications satellite, the Falcon 9 booster set down on the "Of Course I Still Love You" droneship located in the Atlantic downrange from the launch site in Florida late Saturday... Continue Reading SpaceX nails high-speed ocean landing

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NASA is that much closer to snatching an asteroid after the robotic half of its two-partAsteroid Redirect Mission (ARM) passed a key program review. The mission to retrieve an asteroid and move it into lunar orbit for study can now proceed to the next phase of design and development ahead of a planned launch in late 2021... Continue Reading NASA's asteroid capture mission gets ready to rock in 2021

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In the forensic sciences, the discovery of a single fact can convict a criminal or let an innocent person walk free. This is particularly important in gun crimes and a team of scientists at Flinders University in Australia have developed a new technique for analyzing gunshot residue that is so sensitive that it's possible to match residue with a specific brand of ammunition... Continue Reading Residue forms identifying fingerprint for brands of bullets

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