Monday 1 July 2013

Paypal Jumps into the Next Generation

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Did you know space tourism is only a year away? I had no clue, but apparently Paypal is already way ahead of all of us. The company will soon start its Galactic initiative alongside the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute and the ...

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MIT Researchers Create Terahertz Graphene Chips

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The researchers were inspired by ferroelectric-gated memories and transistors, to which they added the graphene material to improve performance. As they characterized the resulting hybrid devices, they discovered that two-dimensional plasmons form in ...

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Asteroid Miners to Use 3D Printing for Space Telescopes - Yahoo ...

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From Yahoo! News: 3D printing could help the asteroid-mining industry get off the ground.

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Goodbye Herschel

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Space science image of the week: final view of ESA’s Herschel space observatory

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PayPal Galactic Aims To

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In the next five years, space is going to be the tourist destination, where people go to see and be seen. With flights on Virgin Galactic selling for$200,000 a ticket and talks of an orbiting space hotel by 2016, Outer Space is the place to be. But it ...

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Over the Horizon: Low-cost High-Energy Battery, Spintronics Update ...

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Every month, Electronics360 Contributing Editor Abe Michelen surveys academic and technical journals to uncover promising research that will affect the.

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Quantum mechanics of energy transfer in photosynthesis discovered

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The efficiency of photovoltaic cells currently on the market is around 20%. What hidden mechanism does nature use to transfer energy so efficiently? Various research groups around the world have shown that this highly efficient energy transport is ...

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Antennae Galaxies Colorful Composite iPhone 5 Covers

An assortment of alternate worlds case for iPad mini

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Cat and the moon mug

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'Pocket Spacecraft' Kickstarter gives backers control over a tiny space-bound ...

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Commercial space travel has become increasingly mainstream in the past decade, from "space tourism" flights to NASA's public-private partnerships with SpaceX and others. But the latest push isn't just to take space into the private sector — it's to ...

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