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Mysterious monocots have a watery origin story from Latest News from Science Magazine https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/11/lovely-lily-s-cousin-ear-corn-now-scientists-know-how-they-are-related

Advanced Colloids Experiment-Temperature-7 (ACE-T7) Sample Configuration:  The crew configured LMM (Light Microscopy Module) for the ACE-T-7 science run.  The ACE-T-7 module was processed prior to this increment, and this run will allow investigators to observe the structures following longer-term evolution.  The experiment involves the design and assembly of complex three-dimensional structures from small particles suspended … from ISS On-Orbit Status Report https://blogs.nasa.gov/stationreport/2018/11/02/iss-daily-summary-report-11022018/

NASA will host a live Science Chat at 2 p.m. EST Wednesday, Nov. 7, to discuss upcoming encounters of two of the agency’s planetary missions. from NASA Breaking News http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-hosts-science-chat-on-two-upcoming-out-of-this-world-encounters

NSF announces awards to shape the human-technology partnership for the well-being of workers and their productivity The National Science Foundation (NSF) is investing over $25 million in 26 projects to advance the cognitive and physical capabilities of workers in the context of human-technology interactions. These new awards will address critical social, technical, educational and economic needs in the workplace. The awards were issued under the Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier (FW-HTF), one of 10 Big Ideas for ... More at https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=297116&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click This is an NSF News item. Published November 05, 2018 at 10:30PM Read more at nsf.gov

Antimatter is an exotic material that vaporizes when it contacts regular matter. If you hit an antimatter baseball with a bat made of regular matter, it would explode in a burst of light. It is rare to find antimatter on Earth, but it is believed to exist in the furthest reaches of the universe. Amazingly, antimatter can be created out of thin air... from Top Technology News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181105105439.htm

We all know microwaves are good for cooking popcorn, but scientists have recently shown they can also prevent dangerous waves in plasmas and help produce clean, nearly limitless energy with fusion. Fusion takes place when fast moving atomic particles slam into each other and stick together. The particles need to be so hot that atoms break down, leaving a gas of charged particles called a plasma. from Top Technology News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181105105437.htm

In a lab on Earth, electrically charged dust generally lines up either along the downward pull of gravity or across it. Scientists got a surprise when examining data from a similar experiment on the International Space Station orbiting 248 miles above Earth. Rather than the dust bouncing around randomly, the dust often wiggled around in straight lines, even without gravity. from Top Technology News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181105105434.htm

Fusion offers the potential of near limitless energy by heating a gas trapped in a magnetic field to incredibly high temperatures where atoms are so energetic that they fuse together when they collide. But if that hot gas, called a plasma, breaks free from the magnetic field, it must be safely put back in place to avoid damaging the fusion device -- this problem has been one of the great challenges of magnetically confined fusion. from Top Technology News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181105105432.htm

New insights have been gained about stellar winds, streams of high-speed charged particles called plasma that blow through interstellar space. These winds, created by eruptions from stars or stellar explosions, carry with them strong magnetic fields which can interact with or effect other magnetic fields, such as those that surround planets like Earth. To understand these processes, researchers are employing laboratory experiments to study magnetic flows up close. from Top Technology News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181105105429.htm

Scientists have produced an extremely bright spot of light that can travel at any speed -- including faster than the speed of light. Researchers have found a way to use this concept, called 'flying focus,' to move an intense laser focal point over long distances at any speed. Their technique includes capturing some of the fastest movies ever recorded. from Top Technology News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181105105427.htm

Scientists are working to dramatically speed up the development of fusion energy in an effort to deliver power to the electric grid soon enough to help mitigate impacts of climate change. The arrival of a breakthrough technology -- high-temperature superconductors, which can be used to build magnets that produce stronger magnetic fields than previously possible -- could help them achieve this goal. Researchers plan to use this technology to build magnets at the scale required for fusion. from Top Technology News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181105105424.htm

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Imagine building a machine so advanced and precise you need a supercomputer to help design it. That's exactly what scientists and engineers in Germany did when building the Wendelstein 7-X experiment. The device is a type of fusion device called a stellarator. from Top Technology News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181105105445.htm

The solar wind is not a calm summer breeze. Instead, it is a roiling, chaotic mess of turbulence and waves. There is a lot of energy stored in this turbulence, so scientists have long thought that it heats the solar wind. However, the heating expected from turbulence is not the heating observed. Scientists now have a new idea about what heats the solar wind, a theory called magnetic pumping. from Top Technology News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181105105448.htm

The cosmos is a void dotted with stars and an ever-increasing number of newly-observed planets beyond our solar system. Yet, how these stars and planets formed out of clouds of interstellar dust and gas remains mysterious. The study of black holes provides clues that could help solve this mystery. from Top Technology News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181105105442.htm