How NASA makes sure we don't contaminate the Solar System and other top stories.

• How NASA makes sure we don't contaminate the Solar System

  

  So you want to explore the Solar System? You’re going to need to clean your spacecraft first. Any missions that NASA sends to other worlds nearby have to adhere to something called planetary protection. It’s the rule of preventing "harmful contamination" of the places we explore in the Solar System. That means making sure exploring spacecraft don’t spread too many harmful Earth’s organisms to all of our planetary neighbors. Planetary protection was initially created in service of humanity’s o..

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• What is Sharia law?

  

  Dr Jamila Hussain, a research associate at the University of Technology Sydney told SBS, Sharia encompasses all aspects of a Muslim’s life. “The overriding principle of Sharia is justice. It’s very broad and includes ordinary ways of life, for example how you behave towards other people. Religious duties like prayer and fasting and giving to charity – which is very important,” she said. “It also includes how you behave towards other people. And it includes things like commercial law, inheritanc..

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• Jupiter: NASA's Juno space probe makes closest approach yet to solar system's largest planet

  

  Jupiter: NASA's Juno space probe makes closest approach yet to solar system's largest planet Posted August 28, 2016 09:56:39 NASA's Juno space probe has made its closest approach yet to Jupiter during the main phase of its planned mission to the gas giant, the US space agency's officials said.Travelling at 208,000 kilometres per hour, Juno swung within approximately 4,200 kilometres of the solar system's largest planet at 8:44pm last night (AEST), the closest any spac..

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• Mars experiment on Hawaii due to end

  

  An international group of scientists are poised to emerge after a year of near isolation in a research station set up in Hawaii to simulate conditions on Mars.The scientists are scheduled to emerge on Sunday from a small white dome on Hawaii's Mauna Loa volcano which has a landscape which resembles the one found on Mars.The dome sits at an elevation of 2,500 metres above sea level where no plants grow, and the six scientists who participated in the experiment were only allowed to leave the dome ..

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• Article Published in Nature Has Scientists Saying They'll “Save Planet from Climate Change with Grain of Sand”

  

  While companies and governments across the world are working to reduce emissions, invent and use clean-burning fuels all in an effort to reduce the dumping of 30 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, a group of researchers at the University of Toronto may have just figured out how to save the planet. Canadian scientists believe they’ve found a way to convert carbon dioxide emissions in the atmosphere into an energy-rich fuel by using the 2nd most abundant element on earth – silico..

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