Friday 24 May 2013

Asteroid Mining | Massively

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EVE Evolved: Fanfest 2013 video roundup. by Brendan Drain (May 19th 2013 6 00PM). Last month saw the huge tenth anniversary EVE Online Fanfest, ...

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Physicists suggest possible existence of other kinds of dark matter

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All of its members align roughly along a single plane, this due to the forces of gravity and spin. Objects form into masses which, over time, spread out into a disk shape. Dark matter, on the other hand, appears to hover around galaxies like a ...

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Graphene-based Ink Promises Future Flexible Electronics

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While the graphene-based ink leads to patterns that are 250 times as conductive as previous attempts to print graphene-based electronic patterns, the paper doesn't discuss whether the material can be engineered to act as a semiconductor. Engineering a ...

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Transparent Electrode Key to Flexible Solar Cells

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Combining graphene and silver nanowires overcomes drawbacks of each material individually: The graphene and nanowires conduct electricity with too much resistance to be practical for transparent electrodes. Sheets of graphene are made of individual ...

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Ultrashort laser pulses squeezed out of graphene

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Moreover, their results, together with the known properties of graphene, suggest that the material should be able to yield similar ultrashort pulses over the entire spectrum of visible light as well, says Ferrari. The team's latest results will be ...

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Virgin Galactic Plans 2013 Space Flight

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The SpaceShipTwo space tourism vehicle operated by Virgin Galactic is expected to fly into outer space this year during testing with commercial operations to commence "not too long after," the company said Tuesday. Virgin Galactic is finalizing ...

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Why Banking Needs Quantum Physics | In Their Own Words | Big ...

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Next month I will establish the world's first quantum bank. The bank will be headquartered in Rockefeller Plaza, the global center of finance.

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Flexible, transparent graphene-and-silver electrodes have many potential uses

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The hybrid nature of the film is important, as either material alone exhibits too much electrical sheet resistance for use in a transparent electrode. Resistance occurs at the boundaries between the different segments that make up a single sheet of ...

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Whole-Genome Scanning Reveals Mutations in Melanoma DNA 'Dark Matter ...

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Whole-genome scanning of cancer cells revealed significant mutations in the “dark matter” areas of melanoma DNA. This represents a leap forward in the basic science of cancer. Easier access to whole-genome sequencing means that researchers are ...

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NASA Statement on Space Technology Meetings in Europe

The following is a statement from NASA's associate administrator for space technology, Michael Gazarik, about his meetings this week in Europe to discuss potential cooperation on development of space technologies that will enable NASA's future missions. These include the asteroid initiative announced in the president's fiscal year 2014 budget proposal.

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Bidder wins DiCaprio space flight

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Leonardo and his seat mate will journey into orbit on Virgin Galactic, the space tourism fleet owned by Richard Branson. Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein had boasted earlier in the evening: "We're going to get someone to bid on a seat next to him," and ...

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Balance is key to making quantum-dot solar cells work

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(Nanowerk News) There has been great interest in recent years in using tiny particles called quantum dots to produce low-cost, easily manufactured, stable photovoltaic cells. But, so far, the creation of such cells has been limited by the fact that in ...

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MIT Scientists Mix Graphene with Hexagonal Boron Nitride to Create New ...

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The new technique involves placing a sheet of graphene – a carbon-based material whose structure is just one atom thick – on top of hexagonal boron nitride, another one-atom-thick material with similar properties. The resulting material shares graphene ...

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Fan pays $1.5 million to go into space with Leonardo DiCaprio

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The auction, which was set up by movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, offered the prize which will be aboard a flight on Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic, the entrepreneur's 'space tourism' venture. DiCaprio... heading out to space on Virgin Galactic ...

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Quantum Dots Finally Come of Age

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Quantum Dots After a long period of experimentation, it looks like quantum dots may be ready to start making their way into some television prototypes. Mashable has a new piece up about work done by Nanosys and 3M to bring the technology into prime ...

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Theorists weigh in on where to hunt dark matter : science - Reddit

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Please ensure that your submission to r/science is : a direct link to or a summary of peer reviewed research with appropriate citations. If the article itself does not ...

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Magnetar SGR 0418

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Chandra views magnetar SGR 0418, a type of neutron star with a relatively slow spin rate that generates occasional large blasts of X-rays.

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Silver nanowires and graphene hybrid yields superior transparent electrode

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PURDUE University researchers have created a new type of transparent electrode made of silver nanowires and graphene, a possible replacement for indium tin oxide (ITO). ITO is currently the most common transparent electrode material, used widely in ...

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Inkjet printed graphene for foldable precise electronics

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Until now, inkjet printing with graphene has remained a challenge because rendering graphene into printable ink required processes like exfoliation or the use of solvents, which make the resulting material less conductive. The Northwestern researchers ...

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Branson announces plans for Christmas launch of Virgin into space

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Branson has long said he'd be on the inaugural space tourism flight, along with family members. Asked about Branson's remarks, a publicist for Virgin Galactic sent a company statement noting that the start date for carrying paying passengers has always ...

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Graphene becomes bistable

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Physicists at the universities of Manchester and Nottingham in the UK have discovered resonant tunnelling and strong negative differential conductance in graphene transistors. The new finding could help make high-speed and "bistable" logic devices from ...

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