Monday 22 April 2013

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Maple Syrup Land: Quantum physics: The devils'pitchfork seems fitting

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Quantum physics falls squarely in the latter category. It has something to do with discrete units of energy (as opposed to energy that has a facebook page filled ...

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string theory - Why quantum mechanics - Physics Stack Exchange

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String theory takes quantum mechanics for granted and try to make it compatible ... of particle physics, quantum physics,classical mechanics etc etc to a layman ...

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Graphene's Mechanical Strengths Overestimated, Scientists Prove

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On the other hand, it's been known for several years that you can't create the perfect graphene. The so-called “perfect” hexagonal arrays are actually “enriched” with islands of graphene (grains). Boris Yakobson, a researcher at Rice, said to Material ...

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Nanowires grown on graphene have surprising structure - Nanowerk

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While silicon is the most widely used material in devices, it has a number of shortcomings. Now, the group has grown nanowires of the material indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) on a sheet of graphene, a 1-atom-thick sheet of carbon with exceptional ...

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Queen's chemists create new graphene-like material with wide ...

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KINGSTON, ON -- Queen's University researchers have discovered a simple, cost -effective method for making new molecular materials similar to graphene, but ...

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NASA's Johnson Space Center, White Sands Earn EPA 'Green' Honors

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recognized NASA's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M., and Johnson Space Center in Houston as Federal Green Challenge National Award winners.

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NASA Successfully Launches Three Smartphone Satellites

Three smartphones destined to become low-cost satellites rode to space Sunday, April 21, aboard the maiden flight of Orbital Science Corp.'s Antares rocket from NASA's Wallops Island Flight Facility in Virginia.

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KLM's Space Contest: The Final Tourism Marketing Frontier : Condé ...

The marketers of Dutch airline KLM have kicked the space-tourism race up a notch with their contest this weekend, the prize for which is a $95000 seat on a ...

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Bechtel joins crew for asteroid mining

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Mining is an industry they are involved a lot in on Earth.” Planetary Resources' initial goal is to search for water and mineral-rich asteroids, among some 1,500 near-earth objects, by launching the first of a number of space telescopes in the next 24 ...

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LHC proton beam technology to help battle cancer

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A British medical company is working with scientists at Cern, the European Centre for Nuclear Research, to develop affordable proton beam therapy (PBT), based on the same technology which drives the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's biggest ...

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"Tantalizing hint" of dark matter particles - World Science

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A new analysis of some old data has turned up what a scientist calls a “tantalizing hint” of particles theorized to make up dark matter, a mysterious component of ...

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Dark Matter Ring and Galaxy Cluster in Cobalt Blue Announcement

Dark Matter Ring and Galaxy Cluster in Cobalt Blue Announcement

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Graphene Silicon Nanoplatelets Increase Lithium-Ion Battery Capacity 4 Fold

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Six months ago, Northwestern University professor Harold Kung theorized that, using a graphene–silicon mixture, there was a way to extend a new lithium-ion battery's charge by 10 times and increase its lifespan by a factor of 10. The technology ...

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Space science image of the week: Saturn's enigmatic moon Enceladus

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Bechtel joins in asteroid mining mission | Mining Australia

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Contractor Bechtel has joined with space miner Planetary Resources to mine near earth asteroids.

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Bechtel Bets on Planetary Resources Asteroid Mining

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Privately owned engineering giant Bechtel is investing in the asteroid mining startup, Planetary Resources, Inc. Founded in 2009, Planetary Resources is ...

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Bechtel joins in asteroid mining mission

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“As we pursue our vision to expand the resource base beyond Earth; we're extremely excited to announce this partnership with Bechtel. They are a world leader in the engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) industry,” said Peter H. Diamandis ...

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New graphene-like material with wide range of potential uses

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The discovery has been demonstrated by the transformation of a non-fluorescent precursor into a graphene-like fluorescent material. The researchers mixed a non-fluorescent compound in a polymer film. The film was covered up in certain areas to create a ...

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Scientists want Higgs boson to be renamed

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This undated image made available by CERN shows a typical candidate event including two high-energy photons whose energy (depicted by red towers) is measured in the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter. The yellow lines are the measured tracks of other ...

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Quantum physics - MIT News Office

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MIT News is dedicated to communicating to the media and the public the news and achievements of the students, faculty, staff and the greater MIT community.

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NASA Partner Orbital Sciences Test Launches Antares Rocket

NASA commercial space partner Orbital Sciences Corporation Sunday launched its Antares rocket at 5 p.m. EDT from the new Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport Pad-0A at the agency's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.

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