Been there, got the Higgs T-shirt. Now Cern scientists seek invisible dark matter

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After Cern's most successful year — in which it finally discovered the Higgs boson, which gives other particles mass — Dr Harper, like many physicists, hopes for more. An extra dimension, perhaps, or, he explains, a Pringle-shaped universe. Even the ... See all stories on this topic »

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Large Hadron Collider scientists developing new cancer treatments

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Scientists working at CERN, the home of the Large Hadron Collider, are developing new types of radiotherapy that can destroy tumours while damaging less of the surrounding tissue, helping to reduce side effects. They have begun a five year research ... See all stories on this topic »

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Dark Matter Found? Underground Detector Finds Hints Of Elusive ...

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WIMPs are one possible candidate that explain dark matter, which emits no light but interacts with the universe through its gravity. However, the signals detected ...

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Dark Matter Signals Recorded in Minnesota Mine ... - e! Science News

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More hints of dark matter have emerged from the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search ( CDMS), which hunts for the theorized particles from the depths of a mine in ...

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New, all-graphene photodetector is both flexible and transparent - Nanowerk

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GraphExeter is the best known room temperature transparent conductor and graphene is the thinnest conductive material. At just a few atoms thick, the newly developed photoelectric device is ultra-lightweight. This, along with the flexibility of its ...

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A Big Step Toward a Silicon Quantum Computer - IEEE Spectrum

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Control of nuclear spin is key to a practical silicon quantum computer. ... Biomedical: 08.01.2004. Can Quantum Dots Compute? Connected quantum dots may form the building blocks of a solid-state quantum computer · Semiconductors: ... Quantum computing's potential comes from harnessing the laws of quantum physics that allow the spin state of an electron or an atom's nucleus to achieve “superposition”—existing in more than one state at a time. A classical computer bit can exist ...

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Large Hadron Collider scientists seek dark matter

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After finding a species of the Higgs boson, CERN scientists are now seeking dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). A race is on between groups at the LHC, the world's biggest particle accelerator, and other scientists operating in space and ... See all stories on this topic »

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Earth Day Media Briefing With NASA Deputy Administrator Garver

Journalists are invited to attend an Earth Day visit by NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver to the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., from 10 - 11:15 a.m. EDT on Monday, April 22.

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will.i.am is returning to school

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The 'Scream & Shout' singer is "fascinated" by quantum physics and has decided to resume his education and will study computer science later this year. He said: "I'm fascinated with quantum physics. That's the reason why I'm going back to school this ... See all stories on this topic »

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Asteroid mining becoming more real

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Seattle, United States --- 19 April 2013 - Asteroid resource company Planetary Resources has announced that major engineering, project management and construction company Bechtel has joined its core group of investors, and will be a partner in helping ...

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In fact, according to Space.com's “Asteroid Mining: Key to the Space Economy” by Mark Sonter, near-earth objects may offer purer and more easily refined metal ...

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Off-topic, but Microsoft have significantly improved their security track record in the past decade or so, to the point that Internet Explorer is as secure as other ...

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Seattle, United States --- 19 April 2013 - Asteroid resource company Planetary Resources has announced that major engineering, project management and ...

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Battery Tech Is Making Strides On Multiple Fronts

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Graphene. This isn't new; it's a pure carbon concoction of graphite oxide arranged in a one-atom thick sheet that garnered a Nobel prize back in 2010. Properties of the material are quite interesting (you can watch the video above). Yet, production of ...

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Graphene Live: Industry needs standard graphene definition

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Commercial graphene manufacturers are calling for the establishment of a new independent body to define an accepted industry standard for graphene material. The industry has seen a glut of new entrants on the back of graphene's much discussed ...

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Graphene Has a Fatal Flaw - Gizmodo

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Instead, they're made up of a number of different islands of graphene called grains; where those grains meet, these flaws exist. And when placed under tension, those flaws start to cause problems. Boris Yakobson, one of the researchers, explains to ...

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NASA's Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color

Astronomers have used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the iconic Horsehead Nebula in a new, infrared light to mark the 23rd anniversary of the famous observatory's launch aboard the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990.

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Herschel and Hubble see the Horsehead in new light

New views of the Horsehead Nebula and its turbulent environment have been unveiled by ESA’s Herschel space observatory and the NASA/ESA Hubble space telescope.

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Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color

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Unlike other celestial objects there is no question how the Horsehead Nebula got its name. This iconic silhouette of a horse's head and neck pokes up mysteriously from what look like whitecaps of interstellar foam. The nebula has graced astronomy books ever since its discovery over a century ago. But Hubble's infrared vision shows the horse in a new light. The nebula, shadowy in optical light, appears transparent and ethereal when seen at infrared wavelengths. This pillar of tenuous hydrogen gas laced with dust is resisting being eroded away by the radiation from a nearby star. The nebula is a small part of a vast star-forming complex in the constellation Orion. The Horsehead will disintegrate in about 5 million years.

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'Dark Side' Will Be Next Breakthrough: Stephen Hawking

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"The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy," Hawking said Tuesday while delivering a lecture on the origin of the universe at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. He cited data from telescope observations ...

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Large Hadron Collider Scientists Turn Focus To Search For Dark Matter ...

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FILE - In this Thursday, March 22, 2007 file photo two engineers works to assemble one of the layers of the world's largest superconducting solenoid magnet (CMS, Compact Muon Solenoid) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)'s Large ...

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Redesigned Material Could Lead to Lighter, Faster Electronics

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The material's structure is closely related to that of graphene-a much-touted two-dimensional material comprised of single layers of carbon atoms. As such, graphene shows unique properties compared to its more common multilayered counterpart, graphite.

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Life, death, and Mars: The New Yorker's definitive account - The Verge

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The Curiosity rover, NASA's most ambitious Mars mission to-date, has received plenty of attention since it blasted off from Cape Canaveral in November 2011, ...

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A Big Step Toward a Silicon Quantum Computer

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2013-04-17 - CS191x Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Computation. Thank you, Dr.Umesh. Thank you fellow students. Thanks everybody. This course is one ...

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Captive particles and Dr. Who show the human side of physicists

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... and Dr. Who show the human side of physicists. 1366290281021225200.jpg. Particle physicist Marc Goulette gestures in front of the ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC ApparatuS) experiment at the Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Meyrin, near Geneva. See all stories on this topic »

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America's Biggest Engineering Firm Invests in Asteroid Mining

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Bechtel Corporation, the largest construction and engineering company in the United States, has been so impressed by the grandiose ambitions of Planetary Resources that they've decided to directly participate in its mission of mining asteroids for ... See all stories on this topic »

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Chemists discover simpler method of making 'wonder material' - PhysOrg.com

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Artistic impression of graphene molecules. Credit: University of Manchester. (Phys.org) —Researchers at Queen's University have discovered a cheaper method for making a substance similar to graphene, a wonder material discovered in 2004. Graphene is ...

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Graphene Energy Storage - Energy and Capital

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Graphene has been dubbed a “miracle material” by the BBC because of its versatile applications. It is considered much more effective than plastic and can reach into energy, defense, and consumer markets. The Israelis use the material to make invisible ...

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Manchester leads the way in graphene membrane research

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Chancellor George Osborne toured labs at the University of Manchester where he saw research into the use of Graphene in October 2011. Credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire. University of Manchester graphene researchers have been awarded a £3.5m ... See all stories on this topic »

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Stephen Hawking sees universe's 'dark side' as next breakthrough hunt

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Dark matter and dark energy comprise one of science's greatest riddles. Dark matter can't be seen or felt directly, but scientists infer its existence because its gravity can explain what holds spiral galaxies together. Dark energy, physicists believe ...

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America's Biggest Engineering Firm Invests in Asteroid Mining

Bechtel Corporation chairman and CEO Riley Bechtel said space mining would be a major advance for humanity and that Planetary Resources possesses the top-flight talent needed to achieve their extraordinary ambitions. “Planetary Resources' mission is ... See all stories on this topic »

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