Tuesday 23 April 2013

Quantum physics for new generation of solar cells

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Professor Stanko Tomić and his team from the University of Salford's School of Computing, Science & Engineering will be designing the semi-conductor quantum dots, which have the ability, to substantially reduce the energy losses present in conventional ...

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A Material Worth Billions to Oil Companies

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Three years ago, a single material was responsible for handing two men the Nobel Prize in physics. They received the international recognition for research and experiments successfully conducted with the two-dimensional material graphene. The ...

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NASA Announces 2012 Small Business Industry Awards

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on Tuesday recognized three companies as winners of the agency's 2012 Small Business Industry Awards.

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Virgin Galactic Zooms through 'Cold Flow' Test to Inch Closer to Space






We haven't heard that much from Virgin Galactic recently, but that doesn't mean the space ship team hasn't been hard at work behind the scenes. They're still doing their very best to ensure that space tourism becomes a reality sooner than later.

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Infor Announces Excellence in Action Award Winners at Inforum 2013

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CERN, the world's largest research organization for particle physics, was facing growing demand for infrastructure and facility management services to cater to the large communities of visiting scientists on-site each year. Strict financial constraints ...

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The Hunt for the Higgs on Solar News Channel

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MANILA, Philippines - At CERN, also known as the European Organization for Nuclear Research, physicists are channeling proton along a track to speeds just barely beneath the speed of light. In doing so, the protons are smashed together, creating a ...

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Hubble Captures Comet ISON



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Comet ISON is potentially the "comet of the century" because around the time the comet makes its closest approach to the Sun, on November 28, it may briefly become brighter than the full Moon. Right now the comet is far below naked-eye visibility, and so Hubble was used to snap the view of the approaching comet, which is presently hurtling toward the Sun at approximately 47,000 miles per hour. When the Hubble picture was taken on April 10, the comet was slightly closer than Jupiter's orbit at a distance of 386 million miles from the Sun. Even at that great distance the Sun is warming the comet enough to trigger outgassing from its frozen gases locked up in the solid nucleus. Hubble photographed a jet blasting dust particles off the sunward-facing side of the comet's nucleus. Preliminary measurements from the Hubble images suggest that the nucleus of ISON is no larger than three or four miles across. The comet was discovered in September 2012 by the Russian-led International Scientific Optical Network (ISON) using a 16-inch telescope.




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Device points to graphene-based 'smart windows'

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The scientists combined graphene with an enhanced version of the material of their own creation – graphExeter – to improve the efficiency with which graphene-based photoelectric devices turn light into electrical signal but also allowing them to be ...

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Has dark matter been glimpsed at last Telegraph

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Dark matter may have been glimpsed for the first time after scientists working underground ... By Nick Collins Science Correspondent. 1107AM BST 17 Apr 2013 ...

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Yves Saint Laurent mimic graphene properties for new mascara

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The formula used to deliver "long-lasting volume and intense colour" in the mascara range has been inspired by graphene, the thin, flexible carbon crystal material that's being heralded as the new miracle-material in the tech and construction industries.

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Scientists Push to Give Higgs New Name

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(AP Photo/Keystone, Fabrice Coffrini, File). This image provided by CERN, shows a collision from the Higgs search in which four high energy electrons are observed. (AP Photo/CERN). ADVERTISEMENT (Click Prev or Next to continue viewing images.) ...

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Herschel links Jupiter’s water to comet impact



ESA’s Herschel space observatory has solved a long-standing mystery as to the origin of water in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter, finding conclusive evidence that it was delivered by the dramatic impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 in July 1994.




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Bechtel joins crew for asteroid mining FTcom

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Bechtel joins crew for asteroid mining. By Mark Odell in London ... and partner in a mission to mine nearearth asteroids for raw materials using robots ...

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'God particle' technology could radicalize cancer treatments

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The researchers at Cern hope to open U.K.-based treatment centers within three years. Email. Print. Facebook Delicous MySpace. Twitter Stumble Digg. More Destinations. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The researchers also hope to open U.K.-based ...

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