Wednesday 1 May 2013

Invisible Gravity Waves Detectable with Quantum Mechanics | Spacecom

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A new method to detect gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time, would "split" atoms, taking advantage of the quantum nature of particles.

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Space tourism nears reality - Oregon Business

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SPACE.com: A spaceship designed for high-flying tourists made its first rocket- powered flight and broke the sound barrier in preparation to bring space travel ...

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NASA's LAUNCH Program Recognized for Government Innovation

A NASA program supporting innovative approaches to sustainability challenges has received an Innovations in American Government Award from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

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NASA Invites Public to Send Names and Messages to Mars

NASA is inviting members of the public to submit their names and a personal message online for a DVD to be carried aboard a spacecraft that will study the Martian upper atmosphere.

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Key Players Gathered for the Graphene LIVE Tradeshow Held by IDTechEX

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Graphene suppliers benefit enormously from this co-location, as they find in one place several of their major end user groups. The transparent conductive film community is present, so are the supercapacitor and functional ink suppliers and users.

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Graphene: Ready for prime time?

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Driven by remarkable science, such as the 2003 work by University of Manchester professors (and Nobel laureates) Andrew Geim and Kostya Novoselov, who used pencil-quality graphite and regular adhesive tape, graphene has been touted as the next ...

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Study: reusable white graphene nanosheets soak up oil spills in minutes

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White graphene, made up of hexagonal nanonetworks of boron and nitrogen (it's also known as boron nitride), is the sister material to graphene. But unlike miracle material graphene, which is super-conductive, lightweight and strong, white graphene is ...

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NASA Rover Prototype Set to Explore Greenland Ice Sheet

NASA's newest scientific rover is set for testing May 3 through June 8 in the highest part of Greenland.

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Spaceship Two flies high (though not as high as it could)

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Virgin Galactic, a space tourism company within Virgin Group, launched a spaceship into sub-orbit on Monday. They've been trying to design a commercial aircraft capable of launching tourists into space since 2004. The spaceship, called SpaceShip Two, ...

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Richard Branson to build orbital spaceships to ferry tourists into space in 2014

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Virgin Galactic, after launching the historic first rocket-powered flight of its SpaceShipTwo vehicle, plans to build a fleet of orbital spaceships and begin ferrying hundreds of tourists into space in 2014. On Monday morning, Virgin Galactic's ...

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Quantum Mechanics Trick May Detect Invisible Gravity Waves

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The existence of gravitational waves, or ripples in space and time, has long been predicted, but the elusive phenomenon has eluded scientists for decades. Now researchers are proposing a new method to detect these cosmic wrinkles that relies on the ...

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NASA Selects U.S. Small Business Technology Transfer Projects For Further Development

NASA has selected 14 proposals from small business and research institution teams to continue development of innovative technologies that are needed for future NASA missions and could become viable commercial products and services.

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Success Continues as NASA's Orion Parachute Tests Get More Difficult

A test version of NASA's Orion spacecraft safely landed during a simulation of two types of parachute failures Wednesday.

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Graphene-based transistor to revolutionise medical imaging? - New Electronics

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The device, created by a team from the Universities of Manchester and Nottingham, consists of two layers of graphene separated by an insulating layer of boron nitride just a few atomic layers thick. The electron clouds in each graphene layer can be ...

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Silicon-graphene anodes for improved lithium-ion capacity

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XG Sciences, a developer of anodes for lithium-ion batteries, has launched an anode material using silicon-graphene to achieve four-times the capacity of conventional anodes. The material is produced using the company's graphene nanoplatelets, which ...

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Recyclable White Graphene Material Can Absorb Pollution, Says Research

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A team of scientists have discovered that white graphene, a next-generation material also known as boron nitride, is a powerful pollutant absorber that can be used multiple times. The findings were published yesterday in Nature Communications, and show ...

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Virgin Galactic's Spacecraft Goes Supersonic in First Rocket Test

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A supersonic flight test for Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo marked a big milestone in the company's efforts to make suborbital space tourism into a reality. The spacecraft tested its rocket in midair for the first time on April 29—a critical step ...

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Richard Branson's Tourist Spaceship Breaks Sound Barrier: VIDEO

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Civilian space travel got one step closer yesterday as the first private spaceship designed for space tourism fired its rockets for a few seconds and broke the sound barrier. Mashable writes: Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo space plane fired its rocket ...

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Virgin Galactic Gets Closer to Starting Space Tourism with Supersonic flight

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British billionaire Richard Branson's commercial space venture Virgin Galactic has been planning on starting Space tourism for some time now. The company took one step forward in the right direction when their supersonic flight SpaceShipTwo ignited its ...

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One flight closer to space tourism

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pubId=35121343001 One flight closer to space tourism Virgin Galactic launches Spaceshiptwo's first rocket-powered flight and plans are to reach full space by the end of the year. 04-30-2013 technology SpaceShipTwo richard branson national Virgin ...

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Virgin Galactic Reaches Milestone In Space Tourism Industry - for KUHF

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by: Wendy Kaufman, NPR. Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson's space tourism venture, cleared a big hurdle Monday with its first powered test flight. Virgin Galactic plans to start taking "space tourists" for rides early next year. A ticket is expected to ...

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Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo for space tourists in successful test flight

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Windsor Genova – Fourth Estate Cooperative Contributor. Mojave, CA, United States (4E) – Virgin Galactic's tourist spacecraft made its first rocket-powered flight over the Mojave Desert in California on Monday to bring space tourism one step closer to ...

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Space tourism venture passes important test

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WASHINGTON: Virgin Galactic's passenger space plane, which is designed to take tourists to the edge of space, flew its first rocket-powered test flight Monday, breaking the sound barrier at high altitude. SpaceShipTwo ignited its engine after being ...

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Mining in space - Saturday Extra - ABC Radio National (Australian ...

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One of the world's largest engineering groups Bechtel has joined forces with Planetary Resources, a US company developing technology to mine asteroids.

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Will Space Mining Surpass Earth Mining? | Space - Before It's News

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(Before It's News). Thom Hartmann of The Big Picture on RT talks to Moon Express CEO Bob Richards about the future of space exploration and its potential for ...

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Batteries That Use Graphene Analog Material Have More Energy ...

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Batteries That Use Graphene Analog Material Have More Energy.

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University of Manchester researchers cultivate first graphene-based ...

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University of Manchester researchers reported to Nature Communications that they have developed the first graphene-based transistor with bistable ...

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Space tourism venture passes important test | ArabNews

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Space tourism venture passes important test. Space-tourism---page-10.jpg. Orbital Sciences Corp. Antares rocket lifts off from the launchpad at the NASA facility ...

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Eye Opener at 8: Giant leap for space tourism - CBS News Video

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CBS News video: Eye Opener at 8: Giant leap for space tourism - Space tourism looks more ...

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Space tourism milepost: Virgin Galactic test flight over Mojave - San ...

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MOJAVE, Calif. -- Virgin Galactic s passenger spaceship has made its first powered test flight. SpaceShipTwo fired its rocket engine early Monday after being ...

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Virgin Galactic one flight closer to space tourism - CNN.com

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Virgin Galactic's passenger spacecraft, SpaceShipTwo, completed its first rocket- powered flight Monday above the Mojave Desert in California.

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Virgin Galactic Reaches Milestone In Space Tourism Industry : NPR

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Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson's space tourism venture, cleared a big hurdle Monday with its first powered test flight. Virgin Galactic plans to start taking " space ...

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Graphene's highspeed seesaw | The University of Manchester

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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 ...

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