Monday 5 October 2015

Mars Is Pretty Clean. Her Job at NASA Is to Keep It That Way.

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Catharine A. Conley is not facing aliens, so her main job is to make sure not too many Earth spores from research missions to Mars are left behind.










via New York Times

Life on Mars? You Read It Here First.

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In 1907, The Times published as front-page news an assertion by Prof. Percival Lowell that he had discovered intelligent life on Mars.










via New York Times

Big range of behaviors for tiny graphene pores

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Researchers have created tiny pores in single sheets of graphene that have an array of preferences and characteristics similar to those of ion channels in living cells.
via Science Daily

Researchers' Night: Science at the shops

High-speed march through a layer of graphene

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Scientists have made simulations of the processes that happen when a layer of carbon atoms is irradiated with strong laser light.
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Orion Over and Under Tibet

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New way to weigh a star

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Researchers have developed a new method for measuring the mass of pulsars - highly magnetized rotating neutron stars formed from the remains of massive stars after they explode into supernovae. Until now, scientists have determined the mass of stars, planets and moons by studying their motion in relation to others nearby, using the gravitational pull between the two as the basis for their calculations. However, in the case of young pulsars, mathematicians have now found a new way to measure their mass, even if a star exists on its own in space.
via Science Daily
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Molecular nanoribbons as electronic highways

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Physicists have developed a method to synthesize a unique and novel type of material which resembles a graphene nanoribbon but in molecular form. This material could be important for the further development of organic solar cells.
via Science Daily

A Lunar Pox

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Space Science Image of the Week: ESA’s SMART-1 captures Moon’s pockmarked pole with stunning clarity
via ESA Space Science
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2015/10/A_Lunar_Pox