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	Search for Water on Other Planets Takes Giant Leap Forward www.space.com A new technique is being developed to detect water in the protoplanetary disks of other solar systems. If successful, it would help in our understanding of how habitable planets form.
	Kansas Students Connect With International Space Station Crew For Out Of This World Conversat www.nasa.gov Astronauts orbiting 220 miles above Earth will discuss science and living in space with students from Mueller Aerospace and Engineering Discovery Magnet School in Wichita, Kan., on Tuesday, March 2.
	NASA and Italian Space Agency Find New Use for Module www.nasa.gov NASA and the Italian Space Agency announced a new use for an existing Multi Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM) known as “Leonardo.”
	NASA Opens High Frontier to Education and Not-For-Profit Groups www.nasa.gov NASA is announcing a new initiative to launch small cube-shaped satellites for education and not-for-profit organizations.
	NASA Pioneer Aaron Cohen Dies www.nasa.gov NASA Pioneer Aaron Cohen Dies
	Scientists listen to the sun in new sonification project www.physorg.com (PhysOrg.com) — Scientists can now listen to a set of solar wind data that’s FB-RB usually represented visually, as numbers or graphs. University of Michigan researchers have sonified the data. They’ve created an acoustic, or musical, representation of it.
	Proton launches trio of Russian navigation satellites www.spaceflightnow.com Three more Glonass navigation satellites were dispatched to space Monday, ensuring the network continues providing positioning services to Russian territory as officials seek to expand it to global coverage.
	First Observation Of T2K Neutrino Event At Super-Kamiokande www.spacedaily.com Kamiokande, Japan (SPX) Mar 01, 2010 – UK particle physicists working on the multinational T2K project, which is designed to detect some of the least understood particles in the universe, have helped track their first neutrino which has travelled 185 miles (295 km) under Japan.
	World’s most powerful atom smasher restarts: CERN www.spacedaily.com Geneva (AFP) Feb 28, 2010 – Scientists have restarted the world’s most powerful atom-smasher overnight, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) said Sunday, as they launch a new bid to uncover the secrets of the universe.
	First Measurement Of The Age Of Cometary Material www.spacedaily.com Livermore, CA (SPX) Mar 01, 2010 – Though comets are thought to be some of the oldest, most primitive bodies in the solar system, new research on comet Wild 2 indicates that inner solar system material …
	Partners in space: CSIRO and NASA celebrate its 50th anniversary (Partnership) www.csiro.au The 26th of February 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of CSIRO’s partnership with NASA in solar system exploration. Learn more about our historic collaboration in this video. (7:08)
	NASA Radar Finds Ice Deposits at Moon’s North Pole; Additional Evidence of Water Activity on. www.nasa.gov Using data from a NASA radar that flew aboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft, scientists have detected ice deposits near the moon’s north pole.
	Dark matter lens used to measure age of universe www.eurekalert.org Astronomers from the United States and Europe have used a gravitational lens — a distant, light-bending clump of dark matter — to make a new estimate of the Hubble constant, which determines the size and age of the universe.
	Widening the search for extraterrestrial intelligence www.labspaces.net The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been dominated for its first half century by a hunt for unusual radio signals. But as he prepares for the publication of his new book The Eerie Silence: …
	Italian Space Plane Prototype to Attempt Daring Maneuvers www.space.com An Italian aerospace firm first wants to test whether hypersonic space planes could pull off high-speed aeronautic maneuvers during the fiery reentry into Earth’s atmosphere.
	Famed Space Artist Robert McCall, 90, Dies www.space.com Artist Robert McCall, whose visions of the past, present, and future of space exploration have graced U.S. postage stamps, NASA mission patches, and the Smithsonian, died on Friday.
	European Observatories in Chile Undamaged by Earthquake www.space.com Several European-built observatories in Chile have escaped damage from the massive 8.8 earthquake that struck the country’s central regions Saturday.

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Light-speed computing one step closer http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2… A new infrared laser made from germanium that operates at room temperature could lead to powerful computer chips that operate at the speed of light, say US scientists. P.S. I’m a sucker for articles with the name “One Step” in the title.

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