Tuesday 16 April 2013

Bechtel brings money, expertise, and credibility to Planetary Resources

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Depending on the extent of the investment and partnership, Bechtel brings a lot of heft and experience to the asteroid mining operation. Bechtel is one of the oldest and largest engineering and construction companies on Earth. It has been involved in ...

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Space Tourism: Owning land on the moon






... Lunar acre in area F-10 on the moon. lunar deed-3. Official Lunar codes & restrictions. Producer, Mia Sheldon official owns one Lunar Acre on the moon. Check out her official Lunar Deed. Don't miss the full story on space tourism airing this week ...

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CERN to host its first TEDx

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Geneva, 15 April 2013. The inaugural TEDxCERN event will take place on 3 May 2013, under the theme 'Multiplying Dimensions', at the Globe of Science and Innovation with a Live Webcast at the CERN* Main Auditorium and at http://tedxcern.ch homepage.

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LHC Physicists Use 'Ping-Pong Ball' Test: Maintenance Continues on Collider

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The LHC itself is massive, stretching for miles at the Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in the French village of Cessy. In fact, technicians routinely use bicycles to get around the collider's 17-mile-round tunnel. Yet its size serves a purpose ...

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CERN Scientists May Have Found The God Particle

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The CERN scientists may have finally discovered the Higgs boson or the so-called “God particle” according to a report by CNET. Although CERN scientists were careful not to jump into conclusion that what they discovered last year was the Higgs boson ...

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Asteroid-hunting sensor successfully tested by Nasa

The experience from the mission is planned to help with future projects such as asteroid mining, asteroid deflection and exploration of the Solar System from Mars to beyond. In related news, the chances of a comet hitting Mars in October 2014 have been ...

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After finding Mars was habitable, Curiosity keeps on roving

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WASHINGTON — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has already achieved its main mission goals, just seven months after landing on the Red Planet, but the car-size robot has no plans to rest on its laurels. Curiosity's chief task when it landed last August was ...

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Higgs Boson Outdraws Internet Cats, Kim Kardashian

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When Scientists at CERN's Large Hadron Collider reported that they had likely found the Higgs boson, physics went mainstream. Overnight, the subatomic particle became a meme, a watercooler topic, and a harbinger of the Mayan apocalypse. On the day it ...

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Scientists see three promising blips in underground dark matter search

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Follow @b0yle. Three potential signatures of exotic dark matter particles have been found hidden in the readings from an underground lab in Minnesota — and although the results are too tentative to be classified as a discovery, scientists say they ...

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Science Weekly podcast driving the Curiosity Mars rover | Science ...

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Rover driver Paolo Bellutta talks about the thrill of exploring the Martian landscape. Plus, Prof Prabhita Gai describes the thrill of winning the top prize ...

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Graphene nanoplatelets used to make battery anode with four times ...

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Science Weekly podcast: driving the Curiosity Mars rover

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Science Weekly podcast: driving the Curiosity Mars rover. Paolo Bellutta, one of Nasa's three Curiosity rover drivers, talks about the thrill of exploring the Martian landscape. Plus, Prof Prabhita Gai describes the thrill of winning the top prize for ...

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Is the space tourism industry ready for lift off? | Globalnews.ca

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.

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A Whiff of Dark Matter on the ISS NASA Science

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... Space Station has recorded intriguing signs of Dark Matter. ... April 15 2013 In science fiction finding antimatter on board your spaceship is not good ...

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Could Proton Mass Mystery Mean New Physics?

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Built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the 27-kilometer tunnel buried in the Swiss countryside exists to smash particle beams into each other at velocities approaching the speed of light. The idea is to use the resulting data ...

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Getting The Particle-ulars Of The Higgs-Boson

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Cal-Tech physicist Sean Carroll joins us on Monday's Up to Date to talk about the search for the particle at the CERN Large Hadron Collider and what it means for us. Cal-Tech physicist Sean Carroll works on violations of fundamental symmetries, the ...

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

Not content to let private companies have all the fun in asteroid exploration and exploitation, NASA managers have proposed a high-flying mission that would ...

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NASA Marks Third Anniversary of Obama Support of Space at Kennedy

NASA marked the third anniversary Monday of President Obama's speech at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where he laid out a plan to ensure the United States will remain the world's leader in space exploration.

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NASA Funded Asteroid Tracking Sensor Passes Key Test

An infrared sensor that could improve NASA's future detecting and tracking of asteroids and comets has passed a critical design test.

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NASA Hosts Media Briefing to Discuss Kepler Planetary Discovery

NASA will host a news briefing at 2 p.m. EDT, Thursday, April 18, to announce new discoveries from the agency's Kepler mission.

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