Thursday 30 May 2013

Asteroid mining company wants to put your face in space

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A privately owned asteroid mining firm, backed in part by Google's founders, has launched a crowd-funding project to gauge public interest in a small space telescope that could serve as a backdrop for personal photographs, officials said. Planetary ...

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Planetary Resources wants to raise $1m with its first asteroid prospectors

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Promising "a telescope for everyone" asteroid mining company Planetary Resources unveiled its campaign for the world's first crowdfunded space telescope, a 33-day program that aims to put the controls of one of the several satellites with a telescope ...

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Researchers Develop Graphene Sensor For Dim-Light Photography

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Therefore manufacturers can easily replace the current base material of photo sensors with our new nano-structured graphene material.” Prof. Wang has filed a patent through NTU's Nanyang Innovation and Enterprise Office for his invention, and plans to ...

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PROJECT UPDATE: Lomiko, Graphene Labs, Stony Brook University to ...

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Over the last few years, graphene, a derivative of graphite, has been nicknamed the “wonder material” of the 21st century, largely due to its role in revolutionizing the technology surrounding a variety of industries, including telecommunications ...

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NanoKTN: UK Graphene Industrial Consultation Workshops: General Findings

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The first graphene workshop on structural and bulk applications was organised in conjunction with the Chemistry Innovation and Materials KTNs on 6th March 2013 in Manchester, followed by the electrical and electronic applications workshop held on 14th ...

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Quantum Mechanics - Academic Earth

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In this series of physics lectures, Professor J.J. Binney explains how probabilities are obtained from quantum amplitudes, why they give rise to quantum in.

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Here's Your Chance to Become One of the First Asteroid Prospectors

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Here's Your Chance to Become One of the First Asteroid Prospectors S. It was just over a year ago, back in April 2012, that we first learned the intentions of a company known as Planetary Resources: Asteroid mining. As in going into space, finding an ...

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NASA Hosts News and Social Media Events Around This Week's Asteroid Pass

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Participants will discuss asteroid identification, characterization, resource utilization and hazard mitigation. The hangout can be viewed at the White House website at: https://plus.google.com/+whitehouse/posts . NASA recently announced plans to find ...

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Use-it-yourself orbiting space telescope in the works

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Use-it-yourself orbiting space telescope in the works. Asteroid mining company Planetary Resources has launched a $1 million Kickstarter campaign to raise money to put a publicly-accessible telescope into space, and fund educational research.

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Private Asteroid Mining Company Unveils New Project Today: How to Watch Live

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... science and discovery — Delivers a resource to thousands of institutions and researchers in need of greater access to space to further their work and rate of scientific discovery. Invites the public to participate in Planetary Resources' asteroid ...

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The Rocky Road to Building the Next Mars Rover

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Over the next three days, 10 college teams will compete in the Mars Society University Rover Challenge, using vehicles they have designed to accomplish tough tasks, similar to those faced by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, now in the midst of its two-year ...

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Planetary Resources launching publicly accessible space telescope

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Planetary Resourcs said that it wants to develop inexpensive robotic spacecraft geared towards exploring and mining asteroids "within our reach." But before it can do so, it needs to put a fleet of Arkyds into space to locate asteroids suitable for ...

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Asteroid mining company offers up 'Space Selfies' for crowd-funding space scope

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Planetary Resources, a Seattle-based company that plans to extract raw materials from the asteroids for use in the exploration and development of space, kicked off its first Kickstarter crowd-funding campaign on Wednesday (May 29) to raise $1 million ...

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Space tourism industry seeks new heights

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Perhaps the most well-known space tourism ventures is Virgin Galactic, part of British mogul Richard Branson's Virgin Group. Virgin Galactic is testing a rocket plane to provide suborbital flights to tourists. The entire flight on the eight-seat ...

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More precision from less predictability: A new quantum trade-off

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Co-author Dr Michael Hall said the work represents an important advance in the quantitative understanding and experimental verification of complementarity; arguably the most important foundational principle of quantum mechanics. "Quantum mechanics is ...

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Now 14, Jacob Barnett is working on earning a PhD in quantum physics

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The mother of a 14-year-old boy who is already a Master's student and well on his way to earning a PhD in quantum physics, was once told her son would most likely struggle with basic everyday tasks such as tying his shoes laces. Jacob Barnett was ...

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UPDATE: Lomiko Jumps 9%; Enters Alliance Agreement for ...

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Lomiko Metals Inc (LMR.V)reports that the SUNY Research Foundation at Stony Brook University ( RF ), Graphene Laboratories, Inc. (Graphene Labs) and.

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Lomiko, Graphene Labs and Stony Brook University ... - Marketwire

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Lomiko, Graphene Labs and Stony Brook University Collaborate on Graphene Super-Capacitor and Next-Generation Battery Applications. VANCOUVER ...

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