Thursday 23 July 2015

Nanowires highly ‘anelastic,’ research shows

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Researchers from Brown University and North Carolina State University have found that nanowires made of zinc oxide are

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More efficient process to produce graphene developed

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Researchers have developed an ultra-bright lamp-ablation method that surmounts the shortcomings and has succeeded in synthesizing few-layer (4-5) graphene in higher yields. It involves a novel optical system that reconstitutes the immense brightness within the plasma of high-power xenon discharge lamps at a remote reactor, where a transparent tube filled with simple, inexpensive graphite is irradiated.
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Brown dwarfs, stars share formation process, new study indicates

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The discovery of jets of material ejected from still-forming brown dwarfs provides the first direct evidence that these enigmatic objects form in the same way as their more-massive siblings, stars, rather than like planets.
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Bigger, older cousin to Earth discovered

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NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the "habitable zone" around a sun-like star. This discovery and the introduction of 11 other new small habitable zone candidate planets mark another milestone in the journey to finding another "Earth."
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Destructive high-energy electrons streaking into Earth's atmosphere from space

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Scientists have engaged in a unique study of potentially destructive high-energy electrons streaking into Earth's atmosphere from space, for the first time employing two distinctly different and distant vantage points high above the Earth.
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Vintage Astronomy, Phases of the Moon with Sun Poster

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Vintage illustration astronomy and celestial design featuring the different phases of the moon around the earth and the sun in a dark night sky.

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Kepler Data Reveals What Might Be Best ‘Goldilocks’ Planet Yet

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NASA astronomers announced the discovery of Kepler 452b, which is 1,400 light-years away and orbits a sunlike star every 385 days.










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Treasure hunting in archive data reveals clues about black holes’ diet

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Using archival data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and the XMM-Newton and Chandra X-ray telescopes, astronomers have discovered a gigantic black hole, which is probably destroying and devouring a big star in its vicinity. With a mass of 100 million times more than our Sun, this is the largest black hole caught in this act so far.
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Star Birth in Constellation Cygnus, The Swan Rectangular Sticker

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A gorgeous star forming region in Constellation Cygnus (The Swan). This Hubble image shows a dust-rich, interstellar gas cloud with a new-born star in the centre of the hour-glass shape. The glowing blue of the hydrogen in this nebula is due to the jets being emitted from the forming star as dust falls into into it and this causes the heating and turbulence of the hydrogen. The star, known as S106 IR, is reaching the end of its birth and will soon enter the much quieter period of adulthood known as the main stage.

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Image credit: NASA, the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI) and ESA

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Soyuz Space Capsule Blasts Off

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The spacecraft was launched from a Russian facility in Kazakhstan and is carrying a Russian, an American and a Japanese citizen to the International Space Station.










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Opinion: Why the $100m alien listening project may be a huge waste of time

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The launch of the $100M Breakthrough Initiative project to Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) has been supported by many leading scientists including Stephen Hawking and astronomer royal Martin Rees. But there is no evidence – and few convincing theories – to suggest that intelligent, communicative aliens actually exist. So are listening projects really the best way to search for extraterrestrial life?

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Comet PanSTARRS, Moon, and Venus

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Star Cluster NGC 346 Hubble Space Room Decals

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This is a Hubble Space Telescope photograph of the star forming region NGC 346. This is located in the Small Magellanic Cloud galaxy, about 210,000 light years from Earth. In this image, the gas clouds have a pink and purple appearance, and are studded with many sparkling stars.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Nota (ESA/STScI, STScI/AURA)

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Mystic Mountain - Carina Nebula iPad Mini Covers

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A mountain of dust and gas rise in the Carina Nebula, captured by NASA's Hubble telescope.

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Photo Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScl)

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Sensitive and Specific: A New Way of Probing Electrolyte/Electrode Interfaces

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One of the most important things to understand in battery technology is the precise physical and chemical processes

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Vintage Astronomy, Antique Ptolemaic Solar System Poster

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Vintage illustration Renaissance era astronomy and antique celestial image featuring the Ptolemaic solar system with the Earth at the center, created in 1660 by Andreas Cellarius. The Ptolemaic Solar System, from The Celestial Atlas, or the Harmony of the Universe. Andreas Cellarius (c.1596-1665) was a Dutch-German cartographer, best known for his Harmonia Macrocosmica of 1660, a major star atlas, published by Johannes Janssonius in Amsterdam.

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Wreath Nebula in our awesome Milky Way Square Sticker

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A gorgeous outer space picture featuring the Wreath Nebula, located in our Milky way near the boundary between the constellations of Perseus and Taurus.
Tiny particles of dust, glowing warmly in the energy being radiated by the new-born star are similar to those in the composition of our Earthly smog. The red cloud is cooler than its environs and likely comprises more metallic elements as well.

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Carina Nebula Hubble Space Wall Skins

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Hubble telescope photograph of the Carina Nebula

This photo of the Carina Nebula was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. It is reminiscent of a sci-fi/fantasy illustration, and shows an enormous mountainous pillar of dust and gas in rich orange tones, against a starlit deep blue background.

Credit: NASA, ESA, M. Livio and the Hubble 20th Anniversary Team (STScI)

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Tarantula Nebula Hubble Space iPad Folio Case

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Cool space / astronomy photograph from NASA. This is a Hubble Space Telescope photograph showing a detailed area of the Tarantula nebula. This nebula is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, about 170,000 million light years away. This photo has shades of blue, green and orange, with sparkling stars.

Image Credit: NASA, ESA

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