Saturday 4 May 2013

Graphene's high-speed seesaw - Manchester Graphene - University ...

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Writing in Nature Communications, the researchers report the first graphene- based transistor with bistable characteristics, which means that the device can ...

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Supersonic flight brings Virgin Galactic closer to space tourism ...

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For the first time, Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo ignites its rocket motor in mid- flight. The company now hopes to make its first passenger trip to space in 2014.

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Letters: Sci-fi isn't an energy policy

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Maybe before Jonah Goldberg promotes fracking and asteroid mining (did I read that correctly?), he might first consider supporting solar energy. That's not pessimism because we think we are depleting our source of energy (fossil fuels); it's choosing a ...

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Super-Thin Graphene Solar Panels Could Pave The Way For Powered Paint

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Graphene is plenty impressive on its own, but when it teams up with other atom-thick materials, the results only get more impressive. In this case, researchers at the University of Manchester sandwiched super-thin sheets of something called transition ...

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Search for mysterious dark matter goes underground - Science

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By Clara MoskowitzSpace.com A new hunt for dark matter — an invisible but bountiful constituent of the universe — is under way inside an underground ...

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Quest for dark matter starts in form of tiny bubbles at Fermilab - Zee News

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"For every gram of light matter, or atoms, in the universe, there are 5.5 grams of dark matter," Eric Dahl, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. "It is still unknown what this dark matter is ...

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Russia has no rivals in space tourism

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More and more private companies are now making suggestions to tourists to become cosmonauts and visit the Earth's orbit. Specialists say though that full-scale space flights are out of the question here. The Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos ...

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Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo takes one giant leap towards space tourism

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SpaceShipTwo breaks the sound barrier -- Things in the space tourism industry just got interesting. In its first proper rocket-powered test flight, Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo underwent a 16-second burn propelling it to an altitude of 16.7km at some ...

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Asteroid Mining Mission Revealed | CubeWorld

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Planetary Resources' mission is to mine near-Earth asteroids for raw materials, ranging from water to precious metals. Through the development of ...

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Graphene Paint Coats Can Capture the Sun's Rays, Usher in New Age of Solar ...

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Thanks to researchers at the University of Manchester and the National University of Singapore, a splash of paint may both add a decorative flair to a building, and generate solar power. The main ingredient in this eclectic mixture is known as graphene ...

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Search for mysterious dark matter goes underground

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A new hunt for dark matter — an invisible but bountiful constituent of the universe — is under way inside an underground laboratory a mile and half below Ontario, Canada, scientists report. The project, called COUPP-60 (the Chicagoland Observatory ...

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Kate Becker: General relativity versus quantum mechanics - Boulder ...

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Something is wrong with gravity. Sure, it seems to work well enough in ordinary situations: It reliably tugs fly balls back down to Earth, holds the ocean in the sea ...

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Graphene Super-Materials Could Be Future Of Solar Cells, And More

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In 2004, the pure carbon material known as graphene was isolated by two University of Manchester Nobel Laureates, Andre Geim and Professor Kostya Novoselov, quickly leading to the discovery of a whole new family of one-atom-thick materials.

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

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