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Thursday, 9 May 2013

Graphene-based Materials for Solar Cell Applications

Graphene is a monolayer 2-D carbon-based material; in its structure, the carbon atoms are arranged in one layer only, with a bond angle of 120 o. Potentially, due to graphene's excellent optical, electrical and mechanical properties, it can have ...

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Fascinating Past And Future Plans For Asteroid Mining - MightyMega

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At least two companies are working towards viable solutions to mining asteroids for precious metals. The history of such plans is even more fascinating.

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Quantum computer finally proves its faster than a conventional PC, but only just

A computer scientist at Amherst College has performed the first ever head-to-head speed test between a conventional and quantum computer — and, you'll be glad to hear that the quantum computer won. But only just — and against a conventional computer ...

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NASA'S Hubble Space Telescope Finds Dead Stars 'Polluted' With Planet Debris

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found the building blocks for Earth-sized planets in an unlikely place-- the atmospheres of a pair of burned-out stars called white dwarfs.

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Hubble Finds Dead Stars 'Polluted' with Planet Debris

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Deep inside the Hyades star cluster, a pair of burned-out stars are yielding clues to the presence of rocky planets that may have whirled around them. Asteroid debris is 'raining' into the hot atmospheres of these white dwarfs. Asteroids should consist of the same material that form terrestrial planets, and seeing evidence of asteroids points to the possibility of Earth-sized planets in the same system.

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Study finds semiclassical gravity counterintuitive, but on the horizon of ...

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(Phys.org) —One of the more controversial theories of quantum gravity, which attempts to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity, is semiclassical gravity, which was proposed in the 1960s. As its name suggests, semiclassical gravity involves a ...

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Strange hydrogen clouds may have come from dark matter

This structure's underpinnings, the astronomers believe, are the mysterious “dark matter” that astronomers say lies behind much of the universe's formation and ongoing expansion. It's also possible that these clouds of gas are leftovers from the early ...

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No Buzz: Aldrin Trashes Obama Asteroid Mission

Aldrin, who recently published the book "Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration," said at the Washington, D.C. Humans to Mars summit Wednesday that President Barack Obama's asteroid mining plan is merely a distraction. [READ: NASA's Asteroid ...

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SpaceX Joining Virgin Galactic at Spaceport America

Richard Branson's space tourism company, Virgin Galactic, is the anchor tenant at the spaceport. Another space industry heavyweight has signed on to use Spaceport America -- Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp., or SpaceX, Gov. Susana ...

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