Tuesday 30 April 2013

New Material to Soak Up Oil Spills?

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The team made nanosheets of boron nitride, also called white graphene, that were able to soak up a wide range of spilled oils, chemical solvents and dyes such as those discharged by the textile, paper and tannery industries. Highly porous, the sheets ...

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University of Manchester researchers cultivate first graphene-based transistor

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University of Manchester researchers reported to Nature Communications that they have developed the first graphene-based transistor with bistable characteristics, which means that the device can spontaneously switch between two electronic states.

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Can Antimatter Defy Gravity? Scientists Plan Experiment To Find Out - iTechPost

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By analyzing which direction antihydrogen fell out of the trap, the researchers say could determine if gravity pulled on antihydrogen differently than on hydrogen. If antimatter did fall upward, it would dispute the theory that dark matter in our ...

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Klutzes rejoice: Samsung may be making a rugged Galaxy S4, Virgin Galactic is one step closer to space tourism, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 15 could be cancelled. Related Links - Tiger Woods PGA 2015 cancelled - http://www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/r.

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Virgin Galactic One Test Flight Closer to Space Tourism

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Virgin Galactic is one flight closer to space tourism, launching its first rocket-powered flight of a space vehicle earlier Monday. The company, which is looking to be the world's first commercial spaceline, now is in the final phase of vehicle testing ...

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Virgin Galactic's SpaceShip Two, the first craft ever built to take tourists into space, completed its maiden rocket-powered flight yesterday and could head into space by the end of next year, the company said. The 10-minute flight saw SpaceShip Two ...

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Graphene's high-speed seesaw

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Wonder material graphene is the world's thinnest, strongest and most conductive material, and has the potential to revolutionise a huge number of diverse applications; from smartphones and ultrafast broadband to drug delivery and computer chips. It was ...

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Virgin Galactic's space tourism partnership with Abu Dhabi blasts off

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DUBAI // Virgin Galactic, the space tourism company co-owned by Abu Dhabi's Aabar Investments, has completed the first rocket-powered test flight of its spacecraft. SpaceShipTwo, took off from Mojave, California, lifted by its carrier aircraft ...

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NASA Extends Crew Flight Contract with Russian Space Agency

NASA has signed a $424 million modification to its contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) for full crew transportation services to the International Space Station in 2016 with return and rescue services extending through June 2017.

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Private Asteroid-Mining Project Launching Tiny ... - e! Science News

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Planetary Resources hopes to loft a set of cubesats to Earth orbit by this time next year.

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Graphene and lithium will power the super-batteries of tomorrow

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Especially when it comes to our mobile devices. That's because a membrane of graphene, drilled with a network of tiny holes, is the secret to longer battery life. Batteries made the graphene can be charged ten times more swiftly than previously possible.

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Virgin Galactic Gets Another Step Closer to Space Tourism

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(Newser) – We're one step closer to space tourism, as Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo made history today: The private spaceship, designed for future commercial flights, successfully completed its first rocket-powered test flight, Space.com reports.

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Quantum physics could boost III-V solar cell efficiency - Compound Semiconductor

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Stanko Tomic, a professor from the University of Salford's School of Computing, Science & Engineering and his team will be designing the semiconductor quantum dots. They aim to substantially reduce the ... Tomic and his team will use methods of ...

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One step closer to a quantum computer - Linköping University

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A quantum computer is controlled by the laws of quantum physics; it promises to perform complicated calculations, or search large amounts of data, at a speed ...

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Sony to use Triluminous display tech in future Xperia phones ...

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Sony recently revealed its newest Triluminous display tech that uses quantum dots, or nanocrystals so small they have quantum properties, and are emitting light ...

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Graphene Technologies Selected as 2013 FiReStarter Company - AZoNano

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"We are delighted to be recognized by FiRe for our innovative work in producing an advanced industrial material from carbon dioxide and look forward to many productive discussions at the conference," said Jon Myers, Graphene Technologies CEO and ...

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Virgin Galactic Has First Rocket Test Flight - Sky News

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Space tourism edges closer as Virgin hails its first rocket-powered test flight as "history in the making". 11:11pm UK, Monday 29 April 2013. Virgin Galactic's passenger spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, completed its first rocket-powered flight. Video ...

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Virgin Galactic Is One Supersonic Trip Closer to Actual Space Tourism

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Nearly a decade after Richard Branson founded the space tourism wing of his Virgin empire and more than three years after he unveiled the ship that will get humans into the suborbital vacation business, SpaceShipTwo has proven itself ready for liftoff.

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Twenty years of a free, open web




Screenshot of the original NeXT web browser in 1993 (Image: Berners-Lee/CERN)



On 30 April 1993 CERN published a statement that made World Wide Web ("W3", or simply "the web") technology available on a royalty-free basis. By making the software required to run a web server freely available, along with a basic browser and a library of code, the web was allowed to flourish.

British physicist Tim Berners-Lee invented the web at CERN in 1989. The project, which Berners-Lee named "World Wide Web", was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for information sharing between physicists in universities and institutes around the world.

Other information retrieval systems that used the internet - such as WAIS and Gopher - were available at the time, but the web's simplicity along with the fact that the technology was royalty free led to its rapid adoption and development.

“There is no sector of society that has not been transformed by the invention, in a physics laboratory, of the web,” says Rolf Heuer, CERN Director-General. “From research to business and education, the web has been reshaping the way we communicate, work, innovate and live. The web is a powerful example of the way that basic research benefits humankind.”

The first website at CERN - and in the world - was dedicated to the World Wide Web project itself and was hosted on Berners-Lee's NeXT computer. The website described the basic features of the web; how to access other people's documents and how to set up your own server. Although the NeXT machine - the original web server - is still at CERN, sadly the world's first website is no longer online at its original address.

To mark the anniversary of the publication of the document that made web technology free for everyone to use, CERN is starting a project to restore the first website and to preserve the digital assets that are associated with the birth of the web. To learn more about the project and the first website, visit http://info.cern.ch




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Graphene-based nanosheets give lithium-ion batteries more energy ...

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Using everyone's favorite wonder material, graphene, a team from the University of Science and Technology in China have managed to prevent the issue of ...

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Space Tourism Venture Passes Important Test - 4 Traders

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After years of delays and nagging engine problems, Richard Branson's space tourism venture cleared an important hurdle Monday with the first powered test flight of its rocket-powered SpaceShipTwo craft. Though it lasted only about 16 seconds, the ...

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Virgin Galactic one step closer to space tourism

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SpaceShipTwo is a suborbital vehicle, designed to carry space tourists on trips to the edge of space and back for $200,000 a ride. Though these flights wouldn't make a full orbit of the planet, they would provide passengers with a brief experience of ...

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Space Tourism Venture Passes Important Test - NASDAQ.com

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Piloted by two test pilots from Scaled Composites, the pioneering aerospace company that designed the 60- foot-long, all-composite craft,.

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Virgin Galactic one step closer to space tourism | MNN - Mother ...

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A private spaceship designed to carry space tourists made its first rocket- powered test flight today.

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Virgin Galactic Is One Supersonic Trip Closer to Actual Space Tourism

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From Yahoo! News: Nearly a decade after Richard Branson founded the space tourism wing of his Virgin empire and more than three years after he unveiled the ...

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Graphene the nanosized material with a massive future CNNcom

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Stronger than steel, thinner than a human hair, is graphene the "miracle material" that could transform the face of materials science?

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