Saturday 27 April 2013

Staking a claim in asteroid mining - Popular Mechanics

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Staking a claim in asteroid mining | Latest science breakthroughs, technological advances, DIY projects and tips and solutions to puzzling car problems.

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Probing relaxation times in graphene quantum dots : Nature ...

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Graphene quantum dots are attractive candidates for solid-state quantum bits. In fact, the predicted weak spin-orbit and hyperfine interaction promise spin qubits ...

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Diamond Crystals Could Create a Quantum Computer Internet ...

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Based on recent findings, scientists in the Netherlands believe that diamond crystals may one day form what amounts to an Internet connecting far flung ...

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American Graphite to Develop Graphene 3D Printing Material ...

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material, graphene, ukraine, research, university American Graphite Technologies Inc. has announced that it will collaborate with the National Academy of ...

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Quantum physics peeks head into classical world | ScienceBlog.com

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Using uniquely sensitive experimental techniques, scientists have found that laws of quantum physics – believed primarily to influence at only sub-atomic levels – can actually impact on a molecular level. ... energy required to loosen a molecule's bond to a surface, allowing movement – using 'density functional theory', a method that treats the electrons which bind the atoms according to quantum mechanics but, crucially, deals with atomic nuclei using a 'classical' physics approach.

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Asteroid-mining company reveals new telescope, says 'water is the ...

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I guess selling asteroid photos to NASA had to be relabeled as space mining to create the necessary buzz? I admit I was very excited at first, but slowly I get the ...

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Six ways to infinity... and beyond

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London - Interstellar travel, hypercomputers, space mining - they all sound like the stuff of Star Trek and Buck Rogers, but they're among the latest predictions from one of Britain's most eminent scientists. And the Astronomer Royal, Sir Martin Rees ...

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Space tourism company eyes Hawaii - Pacific Business News

A commercial space tourism company that has its sights set on rocketing tourists.. .

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