Tuesday 9 December 2014

The Crab Nebula iPad Air Covers

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Lovely space image of the Crab Nebula thanks to NASA Hubble: A Giant Hubble Mosaic of the Crab Nebula.

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Germanium: Semiconductor milestone

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A laboratory at Purdue University provided a critical part of the world's first transistor in 1947 -- the purified germanium semiconductor -- and now researchers there are on the forefront of a new germanium milestone. The team has created the first modern germanium circuit -- a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) device -- using germanium as the semiconductor instead of silicon.

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Scientists convert agricultural waste to high-value silicon carbide

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Around the globe, billions of pounds of agricultural waste are generated every year. Scientists at the U.S. Naval

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Explore Mars for Yourself

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What does a Martian sunset look like? Here is a list of resources for a deeper understanding of the red planet.















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Earth Print

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New battery composed of lots of nanobatteries

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We’re increasingly dependent upon our batteries, so finding ways of building ones with enhanced lifetimes would make a lot of people happy. Research on batteries has ranged from trying new materials to changing the configuration of key components. Now, researchers have managed to restructure the materials in a nano-battery, then bundle lots of these individual batteries into a larger device.

Batteries rely on two electrodes to create separate currents of electrons and ions, generating electricity. Nanostructured electrodes have useful properties, such as large surface area and short ion transport time, which enables a high storage capacity and enhanced lifetimes—these batteries hold charge longer and can undergo more charge-discharge cycles. 3-D connectivity and organization of nanostructured electrodes could further improve these devices.

Previously, researchers had developed 3-D nanostructured batteries by placing two electrodes within a nanopore (made of anodic aluminum oxide) and using ultrathin electrical insulating material to separate them. While this system had improved power and energy density, use of such thin electrical insulators limits charge retention and requires complex circuits to shift current between them—it's difficult to retain the benefits of the 3-D nano-architecture due to spatial constraints of the material.

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LHCb experiment observes two new baryon particles never seen before

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Today the collaboration for the LHCb experiment at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider announced the discovery of two new

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Medieval city 'detected' with no dig

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A detailed plan of a medieval city near Salisbury in Wiltshire is produced by experts without the need for a single archaeological dig. 
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Monogram - Cigar Galaxy - Messier 82 Round Sticker

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Composite of images of the active galaxy Messier 82 from the three Great Observatories: Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, and Spitzer Space Telescope. X-ray data recorded by Chandra appears here in blue, infrared light recorded by Spitzer appears in red. Hubble's observation of hydrogen emission appears in orange. Hubble's bluest observation appears in yellow-green.

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Image credit: Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Spitzer Space Telescope

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The Flame Nebula in Visible and Infrared

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IdeaSquare opens today




IdeaSquare, inaugurated today, creatively uses repurposed shipping containers for office space (Image: Jean-Claude Gadmer)




Today, the IdeaSquare building is being officially inaugurated allowing CERN council to visit for the first time. IdeaSquare is the name of a project designed to nurture innovation at CERN. “The scope of the project is to bring together researchers, engineers, people from industry and young students and encourage them to come up with new ideas that are useful for society, inspired by CERN’s ongoing detector R&D and upgrade projects,” says Markus Nordberg who, together with Marzio Nessi, set up IdeaSquare within CERN’s Development and Innovation Unit.


In addition to pursuing its core mission, IdeaSquare has already attracted two EU-funded projects – EDUSAFE and TALENT – and has hosted two Challenge Based Innovation (CBI) courses and one hackathon, among other events. “Projects can find office space and a ready-to-use technical infrastructure here. They can also take advantage of the great networking and idea-sharing opportunities,” says Nordberg. The building, once an old storage space, has been completely refurbished and creatively uses repurposed shipping containers and a bus for office space and a meeting room.


The only requirement needed to take part in the IdeaSquare programme is to have an idea worth nurturing – that is, an idea that combines innovation with usefulness in particle physics and for society. “At IdeaSquare, we agree to support projects only after consulting with all the parties involved, including, of course, the CERN Management and experiments,” says Nordberg.


Today’s event includes an announcement about the release of a unique piece of software. The underlying code is from augmented reality software, which is based on technology used in detectors at CERN. The project is a collaboration between CERN and the Italian university UNIMORE and will be used by the researchers to help with autism studies.





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Orion Nebula Eighth Note Wall Skin

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Light Echo from Star V838 iPad Mini Cases

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"[This is] the most recent NASA Hubble Space Telescope view of an unusual phenomenon in space called a light echo. Light from a star that erupted nearly five years ago continues propagating outward through a cloud of dust surrounding the star. The light reflects or "echoes" off the dust and then travels to Earth."

(qtd. from HubbleSite.org NewsCenter release STScI-2006-50)

Credit: NASA, ESA, and H. Bond (STScI)

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Research team advances understanding of atomically thin crystal growth

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UT’s College of Engineering has made recent headlines for discoveries that, while atomically small, could impact our modern

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Curiosity Rover’s Quest for Clues on Mars

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More than two years after arriving on Mars, Curiosity is climbing a mountain of sedimentary rock, reading the story of how the young planet turned dry and cold.



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Center of Milky Way in Sagittarius Print

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Carina Nebula in Argo Navis constellation Square Sticker

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series Hubble's view of the Carina Nebula shows star birth in a new level of detail. The fantasy-like landscape of the nebula is sculpted by the action of outflowing winds and scorching ultraviolet radiation from the monster stars that inhabit this inferno. In the process, these stars are shredding the surrounding material that is the last vestige of the giant cloud from which the stars were born. The immense nebula is an estimated 7,500 light-years away in the southern constellation Carina the Keel (of the old southern constellation Argo Navis, the ship of Jason and the Argonauts, from Greek mythology).
The original image is a mosaic of the Carina Nebula assembled from 48 frames taken with Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys. The Hubble images were taken in the light of ionized hydrogen. Colour information was added with data taken at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. Red corresponds to sulfur, green to hydrogen, and blue to oxygen emission.

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Saturn's largest moon is a windy place: Titan dune puzzle solved

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Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is a peculiar place. Unlike any other moon, it has a dense atmosphere. It has rivers and lakes made up of components of natural gas, such as ethane and methane. It also has windswept dunes that are hundreds of yards high, more than a mile wide and hundreds of miles long -- despite data suggesting the body to have only light breezes. Winds on Titan must blow faster than previously thought to move sand. The discovery may explain how the dunes were formed.

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Warm gas pours 'cold water' on galaxy's star-making

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Some like it hot, but for creating new stars, a cool cosmic environment is ideal. As a new study suggests, a surge of warm gas into a nearby galaxy -- left over from the devouring of a separate galaxy -- has extinguished star formation by agitating the available chilled gas.

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NASA's Curiosity rover finds clues to how water helped shape Martian landscape

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Observations by NASA's Curiosity Rover indicate Mars' Mount Sharp was built by sediments deposited in a large lake bed over tens of millions of years. This interpretation of Curiosity's finds in Gale Crater suggests ancient Mars maintained a climate that could have produced long-lasting lakes at many locations on the Red Planet.

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Complex mineralogy on the Red Planet: First X-ray diffraction measurements on Mars

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In 2012 the Mars Science Laboratory landed in the fascinating Gale crater. The Gale crater is of such great interest because of the 5.5 km high mountain of layered materials in the middle. This material tells an intricate story of the history of Mars, perhaps spanning much of the existence of this mysterious planet. CheMin is one of ten instruments on or inside Curiosity, all designed to provide detailed information on the rocks, soils and atmosphere. CheMin is actually a miniaturized X-ray diffraction/X-ray fluorescence (XRD/XRF) instrument.

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Powering space craft of the future

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Engineers are working on powering future ‘giant leaps’ for mankind.

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Physicist presents new observational solar weather model

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Scientists now have an observational framework to help predict solar weather. Being able to predict such events is important because a powerful direct hit by a coronal mass ejection (CME) is like a huge space hurricane that can deform Earth's magnetic field and fry the circuits of orbiting satellites, spacecraft and delicate terrestrial electronics.

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Orion Nebula Acoustic Guitar Wall Sticker

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