Wednesday 10 April 2013

Prof John Ellis to speak at the UC RUSAL president forum

In particular, Prof Ellis will focus on the new particle discovered recently at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN which may be the Higgs boson that provides the masses of elementary particles, making possible the existence of atoms. Prof Ellis pointed ...

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Curiosity rover sees signs of vanishing Martian atmosphere

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity sent back a taste of argon isotope data showing that much of the Martian atmosphere has vanished, and it might have once been much thicker, according to Jet Propulsion Laboratory officials. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS / AFP/Getty ...

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NASA Administrator Bolden's Statement on the NASA FY 2014 Budget Request

The following statement is from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on the administration's budget request for the 2014 fiscal year:

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NASA Associate Administrator Statements on the Asteroid Initiative in the FY 2014 Budget Request

The following are statements from the associate administrators of NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate, Science Mission Directorate and Space Technology Mission Directorate on the administration's budget request for the 2014 fiscal year.

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NASA's Twitter Account Wins Back-to-Back Shorty Awards

NASA's official Twitter feed, @NASA, has won its second consecutive Shorty award for the best government use of social media.

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Helix Nebula – A European High Flyer in the 2013 Global Cloud Space

In December of 2011, three of Europe's most prominent research centres, CERN, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), started mapping their requirements for cloud providers and integrators.

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NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity Observes Thinning Atmosphere






NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity Observes Thinning Atmosphere A recent research from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows how Mars has changed but still it's very much active. It has been said by the team that they feel that the red planet has apparently lost ...

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Hysteresis and charge trapping in graphene quantum dots | Browse ...

We report current hysteresis in response to applied voltage in graphene quantum dots of average diameter 4.5 ± 0.55 nm, synthesized electrochemically using ...

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[1304.1593] A Low Temperature Expansion for Matrix Quantum ...

Abstract: We analyze solutions to loop-truncated Schwinger-Dyson equations in massless N=2 and N=4 Wess-Zumino matrix quantum mechanics at finite ...

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B.C. firm's superfast quantum computer upgrade attracts Lockheed ...

D-Wave Two is 500000 times faster than its predecessor, which was already faster than a conventional computer.

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NASA's Mars Curiosity rover data reveals remaining atmosphere on Mars is still ...






Vienna, Austria – Mars has lost much of its original atmosphere, but what's left remains quite active, recent findings from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity indicate. Rover team members reported diverse findings today at the European Geosciences Union 2013 ...

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Mars Rover Curiosity Measures Red Plant's Air Quality, Finds Evidence of Large ...






Mars likely lost a majority of its original atmosphere to space a long time ago, researchers have announced. Curiosity, the robotic, roving probe sent to the Red Planet by the national Aeronautics and Space Administration, has discovered traces of ...

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Mars Curiosity Rover Begins One-Month Downtime | News ...






NASA this week stopped sending commands to the Mars Curiosity rover as part of a one-month ...

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Curiosity Rover's Parachute Blowing Around On Mars | Geekologie






This is a shot (and time-lapse video) of the Mars rover Curiosity's descent parachute caught ...

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NASA puts Mars rover on a month-long hiatus | Cutting Edge - CNET ...






NASA halts communication with Curiosity to avoid any interference during a ... NASA's Mars ...

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Curiosity Rover Goes Solo on Mars for 1st Time Today - Yahoo! News

From Yahoo! News: NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will be on its own for the first time over the next four weeks, thanks to an unfavorable alignment of the Red ...

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Readings from NASA's Curiosity rover show how Mars is losing its air

Scientists say new readings from NASA's Curiosity rover have confirmed how Mars lost its once-thick atmosphere. The measurements from Curiosity's Sample ...

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The Moon Is A Natural Platform For Asteroid Mining, Detection, And ...

The Moon Is A Natural Platform For Asteroid Mining, Detection, And Deflection. earthrise. There has been much talk in the media about what to do since last ...

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Optical transistors: Why quantum dots could be key

"Our findings show that these nanocrystals can form a completely new platform for optical logic," says Jonathan Saari, a PhD candidate. "We're still at the nascent stages, but this could mark a significant step toward optical transistors." (Credit ...

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