Tuesday 11 June 2013

NASA Schedules Media Events and Coverage for New Solar Mission Launch

NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission is scheduled to launch at 7:27 p.m. PDT (10:27 p.m. EDT) Wednesday, June 26, from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

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Asteroid Miners' Crowdfunded Space Telescope May Hunt Exoplanets

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Late last month, asteroid-mining firm Planetary Resources promised to make one of its Arkyd telescopes available for public use if $1 million could be raised for the effort by June 30 via the crowdfunding website Kickstarter. With backers having ...

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Why dark matter may not be so dark after all

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Physics is the study of matter and energy, so a fundamental question of physics is how much of it there is. But every time physicists try to calculate the amount needed to hold everything together, they always seem to come up short. Skip to next ...

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Physicists show self-correcting quantum computers are theoretically possible

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(Phys.org) —Using exotic components such as color codes, new phases of quantum matter, and extra dimensions, a team of physicists has shown that it's theoretically possible to construct a quantum computer that has the ability to correct itself ...

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Marks on Martian Dunes May Reveal Tracks of Dry Ice Sleds

NASA research indicates hunks of frozen carbon dioxide -- dry ice -- may glide down some Martian sand dunes on cushions of gas similar to miniature hovercraft, plowing furrows as they go.

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New kind of dark matter might formdark atoms Science

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Researchers Seeking to Mine Asteroids

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Published in the Journal of Aerospace Engineering dubbed Affordable, Rapid Bootstrapping of the Space Industry and Solar System Civilization, a report by the NASA has uncovered a potential means that could help a self-sustaining asteroid mining ...

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Marquez Joins Asteroid Mining Company

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WASHINGTON — Peter Marquez, the former director of space policy for the White House National Security Council who helped shape the Obama administration's space agenda, has joined asteroid mining startup Planetary Resources as vice president for ...

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Transparent graphene-based display could enable contact lens computers

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Their claim to fame was a graphene-based “nanoplatelet” material that was stable and conductive enough to act as a fuel cell cathode. These nanoplatelets could be separated into individual sheets by a process called ball milling. On larger scales, ball ...

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New Graphene-based Nano Material Shows Promise in Cutting Fuel Cell Costs

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Besides replacing platinum, the nanoplatelets also show higher tolerance to methanol crossover/CO poisoning effects and longer-term stability. Fuel cell technology has come a long way since the early days in the Apollo space program, but it is still a ...

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Simple theory may explain mysterious dark matter, physicists say

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Theoretical physicists at Vanderbilt University contend that a simply theory may explain mysterious dark matter. They propose that most of the matter in the universe may be constructed of particles that have an abnormal, donut-shaped electromagnetic ...

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Asteroid mining firm hires former White House officer

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... hires former White House officer. Asteroid mining start-up Planetary Resources has hired Peter Marquez, former director of space policy under US Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, as the company's new vice president for global engagement.

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Quantum Dots Emerging From Shadows as Backlight Source

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VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Quantum dot (QD)-enhanced backlights are moving to the forefront of the display industry, after years of laboring in the shadows in a series of fits and starts, executives said at the Society for Information Display's ...

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Lomiko/Stony Brook Agreement | End Use Graphene

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Further, graphene allows for the charge to be transferred to the super-capacitor very quickly and discharged slowly or quickly upon demand. This makes for a very flexible energy storage device that completely changes the ability of today's power devices.

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Graphene and semiconductor technology together: smaller, cheaper, better (w ...

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In the 1960s, researchers envisioned that graphite (pure carbon) could be cut into layers measuring only one atom in thickness – resulting in the material known as graphene. In the 1990s, researchers managed to create a layer as thin as 100 atoms, but ...

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Euclid to probe dark Universe with Astrium science module

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Dark matter is invisible to our normal telescopes but acts through gravity to play a vital role in forming galaxies and slowing the expansion of the Universe. Dark energy, however, causes a force that is overcoming gravity and accelerating the ...

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Researchers Seeking to Mine Asteroids

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NASA said mining of asteroids for their mineral riches and of the like heavenly bodies was seemingly a rising feasible option. The researchers affirmed that the advancements in technology along with scientific discoveries had converted space mining ...

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Euclid to probe dark Universe with Astrium science module



The module carrying the telescope and scientific instruments of ESA’s Euclid ‘dark Universe’ mission is now being developed by Astrium in Toulouse, France.




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NASA to fly 3-D printer to International Space Station for experiments






Related topics Science & Space NASA 3-D printing international space station 3-D ... The new technology is being developed for a variety of applications and ...


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Asteroid miners ponder a lucrative future

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And measurements of the humans back here on earth can pick out the best rots for mining. Among their investors Microsoft and Google billionaires and Ross Perot junior. The privatization of space is well under way a company called SpaceX is giving rise ...

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All above dark matter

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Mohan Sundara Rajan, a science writer and author of numerous books on Space, believes that the next generation of scientists could possibly discover the secrets of dark energy and dark matter in the universe. Speaking at the P Devadas Endowment ...

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Least massive galaxy may finally shed light on dark matter's origins

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An extremely small galaxy has been located, and what astronomers have discovered about it has them questioning some of the fundamental theories on dark matter in the universe. The galaxy in question is Segue 2, a small gathering of about 1,000 stars ...

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New Kind of Dark Matter Could Form 'Dark Atoms'

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Most researchers think dark matter is composed of a new type of particle, one that interacts very weakly at best with all the known forces of the universe save gravity. As such, dark matter can almost never be seen or touched, and rarely even collides ...

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Simple theory may explain mysterious dark matter physicists say ...

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One physicist says he likes this theory because of its simplicity, uniqueness and the fact that it can be tested.

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

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June 10, 2013 – Planetary Resources, Inc., the asteroid mining company, announced today the hiring of Peter Marquez to lead the company's global engagement. Marquez will engage with key U.S. government entities on matters of strategic ...

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Planetary Resources Hires Former White House Director of Space Policy

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Planetary Resources, Inc., the asteroid mining company, announced today the hiring of Peter Marquez to lead the company's global engagement. ... I am excited to work with him on our common goal of expanding humanity's resource base beyond Earth." ...

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NASA Says Asteroid Mining is Viable

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Researchers from NASA say the mining of asteroids and other heavenly bodies for their mineral riches is becoming an increasingly feasible prospect. A study published by the team in the Journal of Aerospace Engineering entitled Affordable, Rapid ...

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Asteroid-Mining Company Hires Former White House Official

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The billionaire-backed asteroid-mining firm Planetary Resources has hired Peter Marquez, who served as director of space policy under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, company officials announced today (June 10). As Planetary Resources' ...

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'Dark matter' of life: Mysterious bacteria sequenced

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"They're this dark matter of life," McLean said. "We keep seeing them, but we don't have any other information about them. We don't know what they're doing in the environment. It could range from being beneficial to being harmful." Dark matter. Though ...

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NASA Says Asteroid Mining is Viable

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A study published by the team in the Journal of Aerospace Engineering entitled Affordable, Rapid Bootstrapping of the Space Industry and Solar System Civilization outlines the potential means by which a self-sustaining asteroid mining industry could ...

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