Astronomers were looking forward to the first high-res X-ray spectra from space, and all they would tell us about the cosmos. But unknown disaster seems to have befallen the Japanese satellite.
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Plant Ecology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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Postdoctoral fellow, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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Senior Researcher, Consumer Behavior, Dept of Health Sciences and Technology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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PhD Candidate in Quantitative Developmental Biology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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Postdoctoral Researcher in marine microbiology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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Senior Researcher, Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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Assistant researcher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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Research Scientist, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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Professor of Sustainable Agrosystems, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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Senior Researcher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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Senior scientist, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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Research Technician, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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Senior Scientist in Computational Geosciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
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