Thursday 2 May 2013

Will Space Mining Surpass Earth Mining? | Moonandback

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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 economic growth.

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One flight closer to space tourism | Video | news10.net

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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 ...

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How graphene and friends could harness the Sun's energy - PhysOrg.com

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(Phys.org) —Combining wonder material graphene with other stunning one-atom thick materials could create the next generation of solar cells and optoelectronic devices, scientists have revealed. University of Manchester and National University of ...

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New Dark Matter Detector Searches for Invisible Particles - Laboratory Equipment

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The COUPP-60 detector is the latest addition to a suite of dark-matter experiments running in the SNOLAB underground science laboratory, located in Ontario, Canada. Scientists run dark-matter experiments underground to shield them from a distracting ...

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Mars: Send Your Haiku To Another Planet! - iTechPost

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Human Mars Mission, 'Super Earth' Discovery, SpaceX Reusable Rocket: Space Tourism Anyone? Mars: Who Wants To Go? (Video). Seeking poets interested in sending their haikus to Mars stems from NASA's desire to gain more exposure for its Mars ...

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Video: NASA Working on Lunar Mining Robot

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It might seem like devolution instead of evolution, but NASA is working on a less sophisticated robot for lunar mining operations. Instead of a research scientist space rover that collects tons of data and sends it back to Earth or analyzes it right ...

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Quantum Mechanics Trick May Detect Invisible Gravity Waves

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Instead of splitting a laser beam in two, the scientists plan to essentially split an atom — a prospect made possible by quantum mechanics. According to this theory, particles are less like tiny marbles and more like hazy clouds of probability ...

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New absorbent material could be the future of water treatment

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A new material could be the future of pollutant clean-up and water treatment. White graphene was originally intended for use in the electronic industry to create better solar cells, high density batteries and ultracapacitors for faster computers. It ...

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Magnetic defects upset graphene electron spins

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Spin lifetimes in graphene appear to be limited by magnetic defects. So say researchers at the University of British Columbia in Canada who have measured the resistivity and conductivity of the carbon material at ultra-low temperatures in varying ...

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Novel Graphene-Based Transistor Can Spontaneously Switch Between Two ...

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A new transistor capable of revolutionising technologies for medical imaging and security screening has been developed by graphene researchers from the Universities of Manchester and Nottingham. Graphene transistors could be key in medical imaging ...

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Quantum Mechanics Trick May Detect Invisible Gravity Waves Yahoo News

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From Yahoo! News: The existence of gravitational waves, or ripples in space and time, has long been predicted, but the elusive phenomenon has eluded ...

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Space Tourists Get Ready. Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo Makes First ...

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Suddenly space tourism doesn't look so implausible. And with SpaceX already working on their manned Dragon spacecraft and delivering unmanned payloads to the International Space Station, perhaps orbital flights aren't going to be too far behind.

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Recyclable White Graphene Material Can Absorb Pollution Says ...

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The nextgeneration material commonly used in technology could play a vital part in cleaning chemical spills in water such as engine oil.

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Quantum physics among the topics at primary school public speaking competition

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Year 9 students from Thomas Keble School in Eastcombe judged the competition selecting as joint winners Vieve Hamilton, eight, for her passionate presentation about monkeys, and Sebastian Newton, 11, for his enthusiasm for quantum physics. Vieve, from ...

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Virgin's SpaceShipTwo makes test flight as space tourism moves one ...

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Virgin Galactic craft did not break out of atmosphere but ignited its engine for 16 seconds before gliding to a safe landing.

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Recent Mars Express images of ancient landslides and lava flows at Olympus Mons

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Intriguing state of matter predicted for graphene might not exist after all ...

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A prominent example of such a material is graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms with a honeycomb lattice structure. Yunoki and his team modeled the honeycomb lattice structure by performing a series of quantum Monte Carlo simulations using Japan's ...

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Landslides and lava flows at Olympus Mons on Mars



Giant landslides, lava flows and tectonic forces are behind this dynamic scene captured recently by ESA’s Mars Express of a region scarred by the Solar System’s largest volcano, Olympus Mons.




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Video: Stephen Hawking hopes for Virgin space trip

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Renowned physicist Professor Stephen Hawking has reiterated his desire to go into space. The former Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge University said he wanted to make use of Sir Richard Branson's space tourism business. Hawking made ...

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Scientists step closer to quantum computer | SBS World News

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A team of Australian scientists is a step closer to building a quantum computer and internet.

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Colossal Hot Cloud Envelopes Colliding Galaxies

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Scientists have used Chandra to make a detailed study of an enormous cloud of hot gas enveloping two large, colliding galaxies.

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Graphene LIVE! - a business-driven event on graphene

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IDTechEx held its Graphene LIVE! tradeshow and conference in Berlin over April 17-18, 2013. This event was co-located with Printed Electronics, TCF LIVE!, Energy Harvesting and Supercapacitor events. It brought together key players from both the supply ...

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What is Dark Matter | Spacecom

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Dark matter emits no light, and cannot be directly observed, but scientists think ... A third possibility exists that the laws of gravity that have thus far ...

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Virgin Galactic's successful test likely signals the beginning of space tourism

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The test likely signals space tourism will become commonplace by the end of decade. Virgin Galactic is just one of a number of companies competing to be the first private enterprise to carry paying passengers to the edge of space. Virgin is competing ...

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Branson plans to ferry tourists into space in 2014 - Zee News

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Branson plans to ferry tourists into space in 2014 Washington: 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 ...

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Lunar Roundup: Statesmen and Space Mining | Google Lunar X ...

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Lunar Roundup: Statesmen and Space Mining. Posted on April 30th, 2013 03 08pm by Nick Azer. Some pretty cool things happen when you're on the way to the ...

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Graphene: The Nano-Sized Material That's Going to Change the ...

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Thinner than a human hair, 300 times stronger than steel, 1000 times more conductive than silicon / Graphene: The Nano-Sized Material That's Going to Change ...

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Scientists step closer to quantum computer

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The study's lead author, UNSW's Chunming Yin, said the new approach opened up the possibility of using light to couple the atoms, or qubits, together to form a quantum computer. "Using light to transfer information in the quantum state is easier than ...

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