Monday 6 July 2015

First Mention: March 30, 1930: Pluto Is Discovered

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The New York Times said, “In the little cluster of orbs which scampers across the sidereal abyss under the name of the solar system there are, be it known, nine instead of a mere eight, worlds.”










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Parts Department: The You that Survives into the Next Century May be Mostly 3D Printed

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The future will be an exciting time to be alive, if for no other reason than it will

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Discovery about the destructive power of bubbles could lead to new industrial applications

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Virginia Tech engineers have shed light on what happens to a nearby particle when bubbles burst. Sunghwan Jung,

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Transition from three to two dimensions increases conduction

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Scientists have for the first time described the behavior of electrons in a previously unstudied analogue of graphene, two-dimensional niobium telluride, and, in the process, uncovered the nature of two-dimensionality effects on conducting properties.
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Almost Time for Pluto’s Close-Up

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In a few days, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will zip past the former ninth planet, the first up close look of the icy world in the outer solar system.










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Out There: Reaching Pluto, and the End of an Era of Planetary Exploration

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When the New Horizons craft passes Pluto as expected July 14, we will have explored the known worlds. There are other finds ahead, but a personal journey will end.










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Full sky map: Rings and loops in the stars

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A ring of dust 200 light years across and a loop covering a third of the sky: two of the results in a new map from the Planck satellite.
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Five-day space weather forecasts?

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Coronal mass ejections (CME), billion-ton solar plasma eruptions moving towards Earth at up to 2500 kilometers per second, can cause extensive and expensive disruption by damaging power, satellite and communication networks. A UK consortium is proposing an operational mission, called Carrington-L5, to give a five-day warning of hazardous solar activity that could inflict severe damage to our infrastructure.
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Space, stars, galaxies and nebulas posters

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Astronomers use cosmic gravity to create a ‘black-hole-scope’

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The Integral, Fermi and Swift space observatories have used the magnifying power of a cosmic lens to explore the inner regions of a supermassive black hole.


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Relativity’s time dilation may limit the quantum world

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A new theoretical paper has tackled the phenomenon of quantum decoherence, the process by which objects slip out of the quantum world and start behaving classically. The paper approaches this in a new way by applying an effect of general relativity to decoherence. The paper claims that gravity is the key to the disparity between the weird quantum world and the everyday, familiar world of human-sized objects in which we live.

Decoherence is a concept central to quantum mechanics. Essentially, a quantum particle, unlike a macroscopic object, can exist in a superposition of different states. This means that in a real, physical way, it exists in all those different states at the same time (with varying probabilities; the stronger the probability of a state, the more strongly the particle inhabits that state).

These quantum states include things like the particle’s spin, charge, energy, and location. So in effect, when a particle is in a super-position, it can be in multiple places at once—like when photons or particles interfere with themselves. This marks the obvious difference with our macroscopic world, where we can never see an object inhabiting two places at the same time. (Or spinning in two directions at the same time for that matter and so on.)

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ANL chemist receives Eni Award for work with thermoelectrics

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Chemist Mercouri Kanatzidis of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has received the Eni Award

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Carina Nebula in Argo Navis constellation Classic Round 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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Image credit: Hubble Space Telescope; colour data from the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile

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Colorful Clouds Near Rho Ophiuchi

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Stunning Aqua Star Cluster iPad Mini Cover

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A breathtaking blue and turquoise dance of heavenly clouds, Star Cluster NGC 2074 in the Large Magellanic Cloud as captured by the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Nanoform – disk with your memories that will last millenniums

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Preserving memories is a big part of our lives. As technologies were moving forward, people moved from simple

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Science Rocks Sir Isaac Newton Poster

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Astronomers see pebbles poised to make planets

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A team of astronomers announced the discovery of a ring of rocks circling a very young star. This is the first time these 'pebbles', thought to be a crucial link in building planets, have been detected.
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Universe’s hidden supermassive black holes revealed

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Astronomers have found evidence for a large population of hidden supermassive black holes in the Universe.
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Do micro-organisms explain features on comets?

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Comet 67P/Churyumov--Gerasimenko, studied in detail by the European Space Agency Rosetta and Philae spacecraft since September 2014, is a body with distinct and unexpected features. Now two astronomers have a radical explanation for its properties -- micro-organisms that shape cometary activity.
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Small cosmic ‘fish’ points to big haul for SKA Pathfinder

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A wisp of cosmic radio waves, emitted before our solar system was born, shows that a new radio telescope will be able to detect galaxies other telescopes can’t.
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A Starburst Galaxy - Messier 82 (Cigar Galaxy) Classic Round Sticker

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series This mosaic image of the magnificent starburst galaxy, Messier 82 (aka Cigar Galaxy) is a really sharp wide-angle view of M82. It is a galaxy remarkable for its webs of shredded clouds and flame-like plumes of glowing hydrogen blasting out from its central regions where young stars are being born 10 times faster than they are inside in our Milky Way Galaxy.

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Image credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA). Acknowledgment: J. Gallagher (University of Wisconsin), M. Mountain (STScI) and P. Puxley (NSF).

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Russian Supply Ship Is Launched to International Space Station

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A booster rocket successfully launched an unmanned cargo ship to the station, whose crew is anxiously awaiting it after the failures of two previous supply missions.










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Purple Galaxy Cluster iPad Mini Cover

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Galaxy Cluster MACS J0717 thanks to NASA and Hubble program.

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Targeted LEDs could provide efficient lighting for plants grown in space

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A new study shows that targeting plants with red and blue LEDs provides energy-efficient lighting in contained environments, a finding that could advance the development of crop-growth modules for space exploration.
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