Tuesday 18 June 2013

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Cassini Probe to Take Photo of Earth From Deep Space

NASA's Cassini spacecraft, now exploring Saturn, will take a picture of our home planet from a distance of hundreds of millions of miles on July 19.

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3D Printing Prints Tiny Microbatteries the Size of a Grain of Sand ...

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3D printing holds enormous potential. Now scientists have discovered a way to use ... for long space missions to actually forming "living" synthetic tissue.





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It looks like PayPal is making a move to be the first bank in space

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Speculation is going around that PayPal, in cooperation with NASA, the Space Tourism Society, and the SETI Institute, will be announcing a payment program for space tourists later this month. According to the Wall Street Journal, the new program will ...

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NASA Announces Asteroid Grand Challenge

NASA announced Tuesday a Grand Challenge focused on finding all asteroid threats to human populations and knowing what to do about them.

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NASA asks for 'creative' input on mission to capture asteroid, send it to moon

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Once the asteroid is safely in the moon's orbit, astronauts could visit it numerous times, carry out spacewalks and conduct tests, collect samples for possible future mining missions, and study how an asteroid hurtling towards Earth could be redirected ...

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Asteroid mining company Planetary Resources harnesses Freelancer.com ...

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Press Release Software and Technology Development. Asteroid mining company Planetary Resources harnesses Freelancer.com contest platform for global marketing campaign · Tweet. Details: WhaTech Channel: Development: Published: ... Planetary Resources, a ...

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Galaxy Starbursts Triggered by Dark Matter --A Herschel Space Observatory ...

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Most of the mass of any galaxy is expected to be "dark matter," the elusive X Factor that has yet to be detected but which astronomers believe must exist to provide sufficient gravity to prevent galaxies ripping themselves apart as they rotate. But ESA ...

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Graphene battery tech: charge your smartphone in 20 seconds

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Make no mistake, Graphene is high-end science. In fact, the Manchester University academics Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov who successfully isolated the material in 2005, both received the Nobel Prize for their efforts. The method of production ...

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Kansas Students to Speak Live With Space Station NASA Astronauts

Expedition 36 crew members and NASA astronauts Chris Cassidy and Karen Nyberg, currently orbiting aboard the International Space Station, will speak with students gathered at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center at 9:40 a.m. CDT (10:40 a.m. EDT), Wednesday, June 19.

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The fast winds of Venus are getting faster

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The most detailed record of cloud motion in the atmosphere of Venus chronicled by ESA’s Venus Express has revealed that the planet’s winds have steadily been getting faster over the last six years.




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National Graphite Announces Test Results

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Feyerabend directly oversaw the ultrasonic treatment of the sample material which yielded a dark gray powder with graphene characteristics. The field sample material was sieved to -60 mesh, five grams were weighed out and put into a clean Teflon beaker ...

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ExoMars 2016 set to complete construction



ESA’s mission to Mars in 2016 has entered the final stage of construction with the signature of a contract today with Thales Alenia Space at the Paris Air & Space Show.




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Graphene research provides lithium ion battery boost - The Engineer

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Ribbons of graphene have been used by Rice University researchers to boost the efficiency of lithium ion batteries.

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Shedding light on dark matter

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... signature of dark matter, perhaps lurking somewhere near the outskirts of our galaxy, the Milky Way. The signature comes in the form of a shower of antimatter, something formerly the stuff of science fiction. ... from the decay of "dark matter ...

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