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Friday, 26 April 2013

Why does anything exist?

iol scitech july 26 CERN pic. AP. A view of the LHC (large hadron collider) in its tunnel at CERN (European particle physics laboratory) near Geneva, Switzerland. Related Stories. First clues in search for universe's dark matter · Physicists are human ...

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New Interactive Panorama from the Curiosity Rover - Universe Today

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Above is a recent 3-D version of a panoramic view from NASA of the Curiosity Mars rover, made from dozens of images from both the left and right Navcams. But panoramic specialist John O'Connor has also put together a non-3-D interactive view of this ...

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Chasing The Seeds Of Life

This past February, I took part in a meeting at CERN to discuss and debate the origin of life. Organized by Günter von Kiedrowski and Eors Szathmary, it is possible that much may come of it. But first, let's start with a little of the history that led ...

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Learn About Curiosity's Trip To Mars At Santa Monica Library Event

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If you answered 'yes,' consider heading to the Santa Monica Public Library this Saturday when it presents “The Curiosity Mars Rover: From Launch to Landing” and “Bringing the Findings Back Home” at 1 pm in the Main Library's MLK Jr. Auditorium, 601 ...

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Quantum physics peeks head into classical world

Using uniquely sensitive experimental techniques, scientists have found that laws of quantum physics – believed primarily to influence at only sub-atomic levels – can actually impact on a molecular level. Researchers at Cambridge's Chemistry Department ...

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CERN NEWS : LHCb announces new results in matter-antimatter ...

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Graphene 2013: Hype won't help, say manufacturers

Unrealistic expectations about the potential powers of the super-carbon graphene could hinder the material's development cycle, according to some developers. Speaking at the ImagineNano Graphene 2013 conference in Bilbao, Tomas Palacios, associate ...

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Quantum Mechanics | Simons Foundation

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A radical theory predicting the existence of “time crystals” — perpetual motion objects that break the symmetry of time — is being put to the test. Tags: perpetual ...

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Quantum physics for new generation of solar cells | University of ...

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Quantum physics for new generation of solar cells ... which combine the laws of quantum mechanics and advanced numerical algorithms, together with ... During the research project, Professor Tomic will design the quantum dots that will be ...

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Diamond Crystals Could Create a Quantum Computer Internet ...

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Based on recent findings, scientists in the Netherlands believe that diamond crystals may one day form what amounts to an Internet connecting far flung ...

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XLDron "M" Gravity Space Tourism Vehicle - Nascent Array

XLDron “M” Gravity is a space tourism vehicle with two different vehicles. One is unmanned aircraft and the other is a rocket-plane carrying tourists.

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16x9: Space Tourism - YouTube

Going into space has always been an adventure for the elite -- but that may soon be changing ...

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KLM suborbital space tourism contest update - NewSpace Watch.

KLM suborbital space tourism contest update. April 22 2013 04:21:32 PM | by Clark Lindsey, Managing Editor. The KLM contest for a ride on a XCOR Lynx ...

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CERN discovers new matter-antimatter asymmetry

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Scientists at CERN - the world's biggest atom smasher - have discovered a new matter-antimatter asymmetry in a particle decay that contributes to the apparent lack of antimatter in the universe. The LHCb collaboration at CERN have reported observing ...

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Dark-Matter Mystery Nears Its Moment of Truth - Science

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At a meeting last week, physicists working with an ultrasensitive particle detector deep underground reported three blips that could be particles of dark matter, ...

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The Rover Has Landed

Mars can be a window into early life on Earth, according to NASA scientist Roger Wiens. In "Red Rover: Inside the Story of Robotic Space Exploration, From Genesis to the Mars Rover Curiosity," Wiens, the principal investigator for the ChemCam ...

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Planetary Resources: First Satellites To Launch In 2014 Ahead Of Asteroid ...

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Planetary Resources, which is backed by Google founder Larry Page and chief executive Eric Schmidt, was formed in 2010 to "expand Earth's natural resource base. The company plans to build towards launching the first mission to actively harvest ...

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American Graphite to Develop Graphene 3D Printing Material

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material, graphene, ukraine, research, university American Graphite Technologies Inc. has announced that it will collaborate with the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, the National Science Centre (Ukraine) and the Kharkiv Institute of Physics and ...

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Graphene – plastic of the 21st century - Engineering News

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The material was discovered decades ago, but the final breakthrough came in 2004, when researchers at the University of Manchester invented a simple method for extracting individual graphene flakes and proved that they had interesting physical properties.

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'Let it be called Higgs Boson'

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Four professors and 12 PhD students from the department of physics at PU are a part of the Compact Muon Solonide experiment (CMS) of Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN, Switzerland. "For 40 years, the particle is being identified as the Higgs particle ...

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Researchers at CERN closer to discovering why antimatter vanished

Researchers are a step closer to understanding what happened to the antimatter in the universe. According to those working with the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva, most of the antimatter was destroyed by matter due to a small variation in how ...

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CERN Physicists Observe New Matter-Antimatter Difference

About 40 years later, experiments in Japan and the US found similar behavior in another particle, the B0 meson. More recently, experiments at the so-called B factories and the LHCb experiment at CERN have found that the B+ meson also demonstrates CP ...

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Private Asteroid-Mining Project Launching Tiny Satellites in 2014

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"Our belief and our philosophy is that the best testbed is space itself," Chris Voorhees, Planetary Resources' vice president of spacecraft development, said Wednesday (April 24) during a Google+ Hangout event. [Planetary Resources' Asteroid-Mining ...

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Monday could see first powered test of tourist spaceship

That can only mean SpaceShipTwo is slated for its first rocket-powered test flight, a significant benchmark in the space tourism program's development. Up until now, all test flights of SS2 have been "glide tests," meaning the space plane is carried by ...

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Asteroid Mining Reflection | Marina Myself

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For Science class we made a poster explaining what Asteroid Mining is and what the benefits and the issues of Asteroid Mining are. Here is a picture of the.

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A private project to mine asteroids for vital resources will launch a series of miniature ... Above: Planetary Resources concept of an asteroid mining space craft ...

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Steve's Asteroid Mining Station Minecraft Project

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The Minecraft Steve's Asteroid Mining Station was contributed by Milesrrr. Steve wasted no time at all in preparing to launch into space. He quickly got together ...

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The hadron collider's next frontier - Ottawa Citizen

The project is a spinoff from their current discoveries, and comes before they use the main collider to try to find one of science's most elusive mysteries, dark matter. Engineers are carrying out a $22-million upgrade on one of the particle ...

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