| Medications underused in treating opioid addiction, Mayo Clinic expert says
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| Though research shows that medication-assisted treatment can help people who are addicted to opioids, the three drugs approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are underused, according to a review of current medical data on opioid addiction in the U.S. This review appears in the October issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings.
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| Iridium and OneWeb to collaborate on a global satellite services offering
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 London UK (SPX) Sep 19, 2019 Iridium Communications and OneWeb have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work together toward a combined service offering. This combined service offering would be designed to make it easier for their mutual partners to offer unique bundling and co-marketing opportunities for the Iridium Certus L-band services and OneWeb's Ku-band service. The offering would leverage the strengt
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| Russia to give cosmonauts guns to fend off animals on landing
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 Moscow (AFP) Sept 18, 2019 Russia is testing a gun that returning cosmonauts could use to fend off wild animals when landing in remote areas, the head of the Russian space agency said Wednesday. Cosmonauts have been unarmed for more than a decade but Roscosmos agency head Dmitry Rogozin said it was time to bring back weapons as manned launches move to the Russian Far East. "It's possible that landings will also be
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| Deep dive for dark matter may aid all of data science
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 Houston TX (SPX) Sep 19, 2019 A Rice University scientist and his colleagues are booting their search for dark matter into a study they hope will enhance all of data science. Rice astroparticle physicist Christopher Tunnell and his team have received a $1 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to reimagine data science techniques and help push data-intensive physical sciences past the tipping point to discover
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| US Air Force selects Hughes to strengthen SATCOM resilience
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 Germantown MD (SPX) Sep 17, 2019 Hughes Network Systems has been awarded a $2.2M contract funded by the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), through the Space Enterprise Consortium (SpEC), to produce an Enterprise Management and Control (EM and C) prototype for satellite communications (SATCOM). The prototype will include the Hughes Flexible Modem Interface (FMI) which will enhance interoperability acros
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| New global Space Safety Coalition established
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 Maui HI (SPX) Sep 19, 2019 A first-of-its-kind global ad hoc coalition dedicated to developing and maintaining a set of "living" space-safety best practices was announced at the Advanced Maui Optical and Space Surveillance Technologies Conference - AMOS. The new coalition, the Space Safety Coalition (SSC), is comprised of space operators, space industry associations and space industry stakeholders. SSC aims to lead
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| 'Snow-Cannon' Enceladus shines up Saturn's super-reflective moons
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 Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 19, 2019 Radar observations of Saturn's moons, Mimas, Enceladus and Tethys, show that Enceladus is acting as a 'snow-cannon,' coating itself and its neighbours with fresh water-ice particles to make them dazzlingly reflective. The extreme radar brightness also points to the presence of 'boomerang' structures beneath the surface that boost the moons' efficiency in returning the microwave signals to the sp
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| AIDA collaboration highlights case for planetary defense
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 Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Sep 19, 2019 Surprising results from recent asteroid missions have highlighted the importance of testing planetary defence strategies in space, according to scientists participating in the joint ESA/NASA Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment (AIDA) collaboration. The unexpectedly large crater on asteroid Ryugu created by the JAXA Hayabysa2 impactor, together with the sand-like behaviour of material on it
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