Monday 4 April 2016

Misconceptions: You Could Actually Snooze Your Way Through an Asteroid Belt

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A crucial tension-creating plot point in many a movie and video game is based on a nonsensical premise.










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Unraveling truly one-dimensional carbon solids

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Elemental carbon appears in many different forms, including diamond and graphite.Researchers have succeeded in developing a novel route for the bulk production of carbon chains composed of more than 6,000 carbon atoms, using thin double-walled carbon nanotubes as protective hosts for the chains. These findings represent an elegant forerunner towards the final goal of carbyne's bulk production.
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Nanotubes line up to form films

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Researchers have discovered that a simple filtration technique produces wafer-scale films of highly aligned carbon nanotubes. The thin films offer possibilities for flexible electronic and photonic devices.
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NASA Is Facing a Climate Change Countdown

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Kennedy Space Center and other NASA facilities near coastlines are facing the prospect of continually rising waters.










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Misconceptions: Don’t Let Them Tell You You’re Not at the Center of the Universe

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A timely answer to the question: “Where did the Big Bang happen?”










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View From Space Hints at a New Viking Site in North America

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The site was identified last summer after satellite images showed possible man-made shapes under discolored vegetation on the Newfoundland coast.










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New state of matter detected in a two-dimensional material

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An international team of researchers have found evidence of a mysterious new state of matter, first predicted 40 years ago, in a real material. This state, known as a quantum spin liquid, causes electrons -- thought to be indivisible building blocks of nature -- to break into pieces.
via Science Daily

Shifting sands on Mars

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Researchers are traveling to Iceland to better understand sand dunes found all over the planet Mars. They hope the Iceland site will show how Martian sands have changed, which could yield more clues about Mars's geological history and the possibility of discovering microbial life entombed there.
via Science Daily
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A cosmic trick of the eye

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Space Science Image of the Week: The Hubble Space Telescope snapped this view of a beautiful, but deceptive, planetary nebula
via ESA Space Science
http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Highlights/A_cosmic_trick_of_the_eye