Tuesday 28 May 2013

New Space Station Residents on Fast Track to Orbital Laboratory

Three new Expedition 36 crew members lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:31 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, May 28, (2:31 a.m. Kazakh time, Wednesday, May 29) on a six-hour flight to the International Space Station.

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http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2013/may/HQ_13-155_ISS_Expedition_36_Launch.html

Squishy Hydrogel Fingers Bend in Response to Light

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Shining a laser at a graphene-based hydrogel causes the material to bend — a response demonstrated in the video above, where the shape-shifting material is molded into the shape of a hand. Each finger responds to the laser by curling inward, a rapid ...

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Space tourism industry seeks new heights

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LONG BEACH - 05/2 013 (Photo: Scott Varley, Los Angeles News Group) The Space Tech Expo was at the Long Beach Convention Center last week and featured exhibitors and lectures from the space industry. An expo visitor has his photo taken while sitting ...

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Dark Matter and Worst Packings

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Hugh Bray of Duke University talked about a possible explanation for the mysterious dark matter, known only by its gravitational effect, more than five times as abundant as regular matter. Just as Einstein's theory of General Relativity explains ...

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Extreme extraction

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... yet been undertaken, and the necessary technologies for asteroid mining have not even been developed. The potential environmental costs could be also be high: deep-sea mining may cause major disruption to ocean habitats, while asteroid mining could ...

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Watch Nine Months of Mars Rover Curiosity's Trek in One Minute (Video)

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NASA Mars rover Curiosity has been trekking across the Red Planet since August. Now, you can see almost the entirety of the rover's mission in just over a minute. Karl Sanford of Grand Rapids, Michigan, compiled NASA's image to create a time-lapse clip ...

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Quantum dot displays brighten the LCD flat-panel TV

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Light-emitting nanoparticles called quantum dots are finally coming out of the lab and into our living rooms, bringing better colour to LCD flat-panel screens. The first TVs with the new technology, Sony's Triluminos sets (pictured, right), reached ...

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Planetary Resources – The Asteroid Mining Company – Planetary ...

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Our continued dedication to asteroid prospecting with orbiting space telescopes created a profound opportunity. This Wednesday, we'll be starting something big, and YOU can get involved. The following information was shared with the media ...

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graphene-boron mix could enhance lithium-ion ... - The Battery Show

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Rice University has discovered that an anode made of graphene/boron could help increase lithium-ion battery capacity…

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Space tourism industry faces safety concerns - World - CBC News

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Space-industry watchers expressed concern that the emerging space tourism sector is not being candid enough about the safety risks for travellers.

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