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  • NASA transports its Mars crew capsule in the belly of a really weird cargo plane

    NASA's Orion capsule — the spacecraft that could one day take humans to Mars — is going on an important flight today. Unfortunately it's not into space. Instead, the main structure of the vehicle is being transported from the Michoud Assembly Facility in Louisiana, where the capsule was built, to Kennedy Space Center in Florida. That's where it will live until it goes on its first uncrewed test flight on top of NASA's next big rocket, the Space Launch System.

    The Orion has a special ride to Kennedy called the Super Guppy. It's a giant transport plane NASA uses to lug around big cargo. Shaped like, well, a guppy, the plane is able to carry loads that weigh up to 26 tons in a cargo hold that has up to 39,000 cubic feet of usable space. NASA's Super Guppy was originally used to transport parts needed to form the International Space Space Station; the plane would carry the pieces to the sites they'd eventually launch from. Now, NASA keeps it on hand to carry oversized cargo, and the Orion definitely fits the bill, measuring about 10 feet tall and 16.5 feet in diameter.

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  • Ethiopian Geniuses who makes their own Terminators

    The black-and-white robot stopped and its eyes, two small red lights, suddenly lit up. Rotating 

    about 90 degrees, it recognized the blue plastic ball a few centimeters away, came forward and kicked it. "The robot is Chinese, but the processor is made in Ethiopia," Getnet Aseffa explains. "A student developed it, and within a few months we will organize the first national football competition between robots, in the same vein as the International RoboCup tournament!"  

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    ome to the iCog Labs experiment room in the heart of Addis Ababa's university district. Getnet Aseffa, 28, is one of the brains behind the operation. After graduating in computer science in 2012, this avid reader of futurist author Ray Kurzweil co-created iCog with the help of American researcher Ben Goertzel. It is the first Ethiopian research and development laboratory specializing in artificial intelligence.

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  • Jobs and Scholarship

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    The University of Gothenburg Study Scholarship

    Gothenburg University

    Masters Degree

    Deadline: 13 Feb 2016 (annual)

    Study in: Sweden

    Course starts August 2016

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    Talent for Governance Training Scholarships for Developing Countries

    The Hague Academy for Local Gov Training

    Deadline: 29 Jan 2016

    Study in: Netherlands

    Course starts May-Oct 2016

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    Heinrich Boll Scholarships in Germany for International Students 

    OPENS 20 JAN 2016

    Heinrich Boll Foundation

    Masters/PhD Degree

    Deadline: 3 Mar 2016 (Annual)

    Study in: Germany

    Next course starts 2016

    Read more: here

    Eiffel Scholarships in France for International Students

    Campus France

    Masters/PhD Degree

    Deadline: before 8 Jan 2016 (annual)

    Study in:  France

    Course starts AY 2016-2017

    Read more: Here

    K.U. Leuven Faculty of Science

    Masters (MS) Degree 

    Deadline: 31 Jan 2016 (annual)

    Study in:  Belgium

    Next course starts September 2016

    For more: Here

    Emile Boutmy Scholarships for Non-EU Students at Sciences Po

    Bachelors/Masters Degree 

    Deadline: 15 Jan/2 May 2016 (annual)

    Study in:  France

    Course starts September 2016

    For more: Here

    Bocconi University

    Bachelor’s/Masters Degree 

    Deadline: Jan-July 2016

    Study in: Milan, Italy

    Course starts September 2016

    For more: Here

    Ampère Excellence Scholarships for International Students
    ENS de Lyon

    Masters Degree

    Deadline: 16 Jan 2016 (annual)

    Study in: France

    Course starts September 2016

    For more: Here

    CID-Harvard

    Doctoral/Postdoctoral Fellowship 

    Deadline: 15 Jan 2016 (annual)

    Study in:  USA

    Next program starts September 2016

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  • NASA’s Solar Probe Plus to be launched in 2018, will fly ten times closer to the Sun’s corona

    NASA first discussed sending a suicide probe into the Sun itself nearly 60 years ago. Looks like the space agency is making good on a space probe that will travel nearly ten times closer to our star than the planet Mercury.

    Scientists at NASA and Johns Hopkins University are working on a space probe that will enter the Sun’s atmosphere for the first time, giving scientists invaluable data on the Sun’s corona. They also hope the space probe to provide new data about the Sun’s effects on everything from space weather to short term climate change.

    Named by the NASA as the “Solar Probe Plus“, it is currently being built by NASA with assistance from Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Lab and scientists from a variety of other universities and institutes. Built at a cost of $1.5 billion, Solar Probe Plus will carry an array of sensors into the sun’s corona, which will hopefully survive temperatures of over 2,500 degrees Fahrenheit and blasts of radiation and energized dust at levels not experienced by any previous spacecraft.

    According to Ralph McNutt of Johns Hopkins University, one of the probe’s team leads told FORBES that creating a spacecraft that can survive contact with the sun requires considerable scientific mastery. Solar Probe Plus will use seven Venus flybys over nearly seven years to gradually shrink its orbit around the Sun

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