The State of the Universe: Matter and Age Up, Dark Energy Down | KQED QUEST

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This has led to a drop in the dark energy market, down from initial estimates by 3.1% to 68.3% of the total universal mass/energy inventory. On the brighter side, stocks of the highly sought-after dark matter commodities are up to 26.8%, and good-old ...

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Subterranean Dark Matter Detector Starts Listening for Elusive Particles

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... of the invisible particles in the form of tiny bubbles. They need further analysis to discern whether dark matter caused any of the COUPP-60 experiment's first bubbles at the SNOLAB underground science laboratory in Ontario, Canada. Like Us on ...

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How will space tourism work?

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SYSTEMS: It might not be “tourism” per se, but the recent progress with testing various systems on the Virgin Galactic equipment indicates that sub-orbital travel is slowly becoming a reality. But is just a plaything of entrepreneurs such as Richard ... See all stories on this topic »

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'Graphene sandwich' unlocks solar cell properties of 2D crystal

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Part of a raft of new research into possible uses for the atom-thick sheets of carbon atoms first discovered at Manchester, the new discovery shows how graphene can help harness the properties of light-senstive two-dimensional crystals, which could ...

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Graphene: Tiny Particles are Making a Big Impact on Batteries - ThomasNet News

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They had been producing graphene platelets for a variety of applications since 2010. Graphene is the basic building block of graphite which consists of a single layer of atoms. It has incredible properties. Besides being the strongest material known to ... See all stories on this topic »

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Virgin Galactic Tests First Rocket-Powered Flight for Space Tourism ...

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Virgin Galactic Tests First Rocket-Powered Flight for Space Tourism.

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Dark Matter Detector To Search For Evidence In Tiny Bubbles

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First, researchers using the Fermi Gamma-ray Telescope announced that a preliminary analysis of the soft gamma-ray data suggested evidence of dark matter annihilations coming from the galactic center. Then, early results from the Alpha Magnetic ...

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Current Hints of Dark Matter (4/13) | Of Particular Significance

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Here's a brief overview of six hints of dark matter — signals (two in the sky, and four underground) that just might be from dark matter particles doing something ...

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New dark matter detector begins its search - Science Daily

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Scientists heard their first pops this week in an experiment that searches for signs of dark matter in the form of tiny bubbles. Scientists will need further analysis to ...

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Nobel physicist explains the potential Next Big Thing in technology: graphene

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Andre Geim shared a 2010 Nobel Prize in physics with Konstantin Novoselov for their discovery of graphene, which the two Russian-born scientists created in a laboratory at the University of Manchester in England. (Photo courtesy of the University of ...

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How graphene and friends could harness the Sun's energy

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The Manchester and Singapore researchers expanded the functionality of these heterostructures to optoelectronics and photonics. By combining graphene with monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC), the researchers were able to created ... See all stories on this topic »

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Dark matter detected in orbit? Particle physicists Not so fast Los ...

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Dark matter detected in orbit Not so fast scientists say ... he left scientists hanging at a science meeting in February promising that the results would be ...

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Bill Nelson's Asteroid Plan: A Way to Say Thank You to Donors?

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Experts say the project could yield scientific benefits that might one day lead to far more ambitious endeavors, like asteroid mining and a manned mission to Mars. But even enthusiasts like John Matson, associate editor of the Scientific American ... See all stories on this topic »

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Graphene paint could power homes of the future

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Scientists at the University of Manchester used wafers of graphene, the discovery of which won researchers a Nobel Prize, with thin layers of other materials to produce solar powered surfaces. The resulting surfaces, which were paper thin and flexible ... See all stories on this topic »

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New dark matter detector hears first particle pops - Zee News

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New dark matter detector hears first particle pops Over the next few months, scientists will analyze the bubbles that form in their detector to test how well COUPP-60 is working and to determine whether they see signs of dark matter. One of the ...

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How graphene and friends could harness the Sun's energy

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The isolation of graphene, by University of Manchester Nobel Laureates Professor Andre Geim and Professor Kostya Novoselov in 2004, led to the discovery of the whole new family of one-atom-thick materials. Graphene is the world's thinnest, strongest ...

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Is a Spaceport Coming to Alabama?

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Other elected officials are also backing the space authority bill including Lt. Governor Kay Ivey who says a spaceport could increase economic opportunity for the state. Ivey tells us she believes space tourism, which would allow anyone the opportunity ... See all stories on this topic »

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IBM Atomic Shorts: Quantum mechanics at the atomic level - YouTube

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See the world's smallest movie at http://www.youtube.com/madewithatoms. Want to learn more ... www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF-WM_Us6lc

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One step closer to a quantum computer - Science Daily

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A quantum computer is controlled by the laws of quantum physics; ... Connecting the (Quantum) Dots: First Viable High-Speed Quantum Computer Moves Closer ...

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General relativity vs. quantum mechanics: Both bulletproof, yet incompatible

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The trouble is that though general relativity passes every test we can think up for it, physicists just can't reconcile it with the rules of quantum mechanics. And to physicists' frustration, quantum mechanics is just as bulletproof as gravity. So far ...

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The Engadget Interview: Sir Richard Branson on Virgin Galactic and space ...

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Naturally, we wanted to know his plan to make space travel affordable for us non-billionaires, as the current cost of a Virgin Galactic ticket is a cool $200K quarter million dollars. His solution? A combination of more spacecraft, more spaceports and ...

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Magnetic defects upset graphene electron spins

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Graphene is a sheet of carbon just one atom thick and, in principle, should be a very good conductor of spin and so ideal for making spintronics devices. This is because, in theory, electron spins in the material should maintain their direction for a ...

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Miracle graphene will transform solar energy and 'power entire buildings ...

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Stronger than diamond but as stretchable as rubber, graphene was first isolated by Professor Novoselov and University of Manchester colleague Andre Geim in 2004. Both scientists won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics 'for groundbreaking experiments ...

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New dark matter detector begins the search for invisible particles

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Scientists will need further analysis to discern whether dark matter caused any of the COUPP-60 experiment's first bubbles at the SNOLAB underground science laboratory in Ontario, Canada. Dark matter accounts for nearly 90 percent of all matter in the ...

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Prediction: 'Dark' May Be The Top Science Media Cliche Of 2013 - Science 2.0

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With the popularity of dark matter and dark energy as blanket terms for 'this is weird and we don't understand it but we are studying it, ain't science awesome?' in physics, it was only a matter of time before it caught on elsewhere. So we have dark ...

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