Monday 15 April 2013

Dark Matter Found? Underground Detector Finds Hints Of Elusive Particle ...

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WIMPs are one possible candidate that explain dark matter, which emits no light but interacts with the universe through its gravity. However, the signals ..... It truly is like something out of science fiction," said Carolyn Porco, leader of the ...
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Dark-matter experiment CDMS sees three tentative clues

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Deep within a mine in the US state of Minnesota, CDMS - which stands for Cryogenic Dark Matter Search - tries to catch those rare interactions as dark matter particles bump into the nuclei of atoms in a detector that is held at temperatures near that ...

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Is the space tourism industry ready for lift off?






In the middle of the desert at the Mojave Air and Space Port, there is a race underway: a race to build a spaceship that will take tourists into space. Two spaceships are leading the pack, Virgin Galactic's 'SpaceShip 2' and XCOR Aerospace's 'Lynx ...

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Creating Condensates for Quantum Computer Clusters

Just about any new computer you can purchase today, and even some smartphones, contain multicore processors, which deliver high performance without a necessarily high clock speed and associated thermal load. Though not exactly thermal load, ...

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Mars rovers go quiet, as sun blocks transmissions






/NASA. The rover Curiosity and other NASA spacecraft at Mars are now in a radio blackout, as the sun is interfering with transmissions. Curiosity took this self-portrait by combining 66 exposures in February.

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Top 5 Discoveries by Mars Rover Curiosity (So Far)

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has only been exploring the Red Planet since last August, but the robot has already racked up quite a string of accomplishments. For starters, the rover's dramatic "seven minutes of terror" touchdown successfully ...

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Dark Matter Search Results Indicate First Hint of WIMP-like Signal

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COLLEGE STATION -- An international collaboration whose search for dark matter is powered by detectors being fabricated at Texas A&M University has for the first time observed a concrete hint of what physicists believe to be the particle behind dark ...

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Speech: EU funding for research and education – inspiring science today and in ...

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I would like to thank CERN, and in particular you, Professor Heuer, for organising this visit and for giving me the opportunity to discover the famous facilities of the Large Hadron Collider. I am also delighted to have the opportunity to meet with ...

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NASA Curiosity rover tracks vanished Martian atmosphere in argon ...

Before going incommunicado behind the Sun for a month, NASA¿s Mars Curiosity rover sent Earth evidence that the Red Planet has lost much of its original ...

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Hubble Catches Dusty Detail

Amazing aurora



Space science image of the week: ESA’s Cluster mission studies the link between solar activity and stunning auroras on Earth

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News from the experiments at the CERN Injector Accelerators ...

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Europe/Zurich. English; Login. iCal export. Download current event: Event calendar file · Detailed timetable calendar file. In order to enable an iCal export link, ...

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CERN Director General Rolf-Dieter Heuer will give a BSA Distinguished Lecture, titled "Research at CERN—From the Highest Energies to the Smallest Particles ...

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Two-dimensial nanotechnology materials beyond graphene - Nanowerk

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Another new two-dimensional material – made up of layers of crystal known as molybdenum oxides – has unique properties that encourage the free flow of electrons at ultra-high speeds (read more: "New 2D material for next generation high-speed ...

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Wonderful nanotechnology-Graphene

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Chinese professor at Zhejiang university Gao Chao has created the world's lightest material 0.16 milligram per cc - carbon graphene aerogel. It is good for tackling pollution. It mops up oil. Good for oil spill control. Can absorb 900 times its own weight.

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Graphene… The New, New Wonder Material? | The Diplomat

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The notion of utilizing graphene has floated around for over 50 years. Yet it was not until ten years ago in the University of Manchester wherein Andre Geim and ...

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Graphene - new material, new business partnerships - Graphene ...

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Browse: Home / Graphene – new material, new business partnerships. IBM 212.00+2.78 - +1.33%; Northern Graphite0.8723-0.0983 - -10.13%; Focus ...

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Graphene-modified LiFePO4 cathode for lithium ion battery ... - Nature

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(a) The cycle life test for the Li+ ion battery cells based on the carbon-coated LiFePO4 cathodes added with 0 and 0.8 wt% of graphene. (b) The discharge rate ...

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Redesigned material could lead to lighter, faster ... - Graphene Times

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EarthSky (blog)The material's structure is closely related to that of graphene—a much-touted two-dimensional material comprised of single layers of c...

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Shaking ExoMars



Space science image of the week: the ExoMars Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module undergoes vibration tests at ESA’s ESTEC test centre

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The dark side of matter - science - YouTube

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Mars Rovers Go Quiet, As Sun Blocks Transmissions

The rover Curiosity and other NASA spacecraft at Mars are now in a radio blackout, as the sun is interfering with transmissions. Curiosity took this self-portrait by combining 66 exposures in February. Communications between the Earth and Mars are on ...

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Your questions answered: asteroid mining | In-depth | The Engineer

Our expert panel answers your questions on whether the costs and challenges of mining asteroids be overcome to create new space-based industries?

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Capturing an Asteroid: How NASA Could Do It - Yahoo! News

From Yahoo! News: NASA's bold plan to drag an asteroid into orbit around the moon may sound like science fiction, but it's achievable with current technology, ...

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More on asteroid mining and retrieval

Naveen Jain says lunar development to benefit "asteroid mining, detection and deflection". Naveen Jain, the billionaire co-founder and chairman of Moon ...

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NASA - NASA's Asteroid Initiative Benefits From Rich History






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NASA's Plan to Snag a Near-Earth Asteroid - News from Sky ...






Not content to let private companies have all the fun in asteroid exploration and exploitation ...

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