Strange Asteroid's Long Tail Revealed

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The surprising tail of dust streaming from the asteroid P/2010 A2 is about 620,000 miles (1 million kilometers) long, new photos taken by the One Degree Imager (ODI) camera at the WIYN telescope in Arizona reveal. "Previous images of A2 clearly ...

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Graphene camera sensor 1000 times more sensitive to light

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Graphene is a single atomic layer of carbon arranged in a crystalline lattice, and it's the strongest material in the world. Sensor inventor Assistant Professor Wang Qijie, from NTU's School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, fabricated a sheet of ...

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Graphene QUILT: A good trampoline for elephants in stiletto heels

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Fears that the radical wonder material graphene might not actually be strong enough for elephants to stand supported in mid-air on a thin film of it, on one leg, while wearing stiletto heels, have been disproven. And the material - set to revolutionise ...

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Graphene Paint to Power our Homes?

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Credit: The University of Manchester. Something straight out of a science fiction film is fastly becoming an exciting reality as scientists from the University of Manchester have discovered a material which combines graphene, a one-atom thick layer of ...

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Graphene is the world's strongest material

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Large pieces of this strong material could be used for a variety of things in the future, including flexible electronics and strengthening components to create composites to replace carbon fiber. Graphene, in its perfect form, is a made up of a single ... See all stories on this topic »

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Space: Arkyd 100 unveiled as first crowdfunded space scope

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For a few hundred dollars, you can take control of the Arkyd 100, the first crowdfunded space telescope, to be built by private would-be asteroid-mining firm Planetary Resources. Today the company, based in Bellevue, Washington, announced a Kickstarter ...

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Fine-tuning emissions from quantum dots

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Vials containing colloidal semiconductor quantum dot nanocrystals (NCs) emit colors that are determined by Tiny particles of matter called quantum dots, which emit light with exceptionally pure and bright colors, have found a prominent role as ... See all stories on this topic »

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Space Mining Company - Hypography Science Forums

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http://www.space.com...-telescope.html These prospectors seem to have a plan. It also looks like the onset of corporate explosion toward space. Eith...

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Graphene Is The Strongest Material In The World Even When It Has ...

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Graphene is the strongest material in the world, even when it has notable defects, new research has found. Even when stitched together from numerous small crystalline grains, rather than being created directly in its perfect crystalline form, the ...

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Graphene is still the world's most powerful material - even when it's ...

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In terms of materials, graphene is definitely the hot cherry at the moment; it is basically a one-atom thick layer of the mineral graphite (carbon), with m.

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The Science Today: Graphene Is the Super Material | Slog

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Posted by science intern Madeline Reddington In 2010, we all got enormously excited about graphene—highly conductive, nearly transparent, rust-resistant, ...

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Further Tests Proved 'Graphene' Still the Strongest Material in the ...

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Headlines & Global NewsHeadlines & Global NewsGraphene is said to be so strong that it would take an elephant to break a sheet with a width of Saran Wrap.

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NASA's Hubble Will Use Rare Stellar Alignment to Hunt For Planets

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope will have two opportunities in the next few years to hunt for Earth-sized planets around the red dwarf Proxima Centauri.

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How to make your own graphene

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Graphene consists of just one layer of carbon atoms; it's incredibly thin, strong, transparent and conductive -- and you can make it yourself. Materials scientist Aravind Vijayaraghavan at the University of Manchester works on its applications in ...

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Research Claims Graphene Strongest Even with Defects

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A recent study has suggested that graphene is strongest material in the world even when it is defected. The findings are contrary to the previous studies, which suggest that the graphene with defects is comparatively weaker than graphene in perfect ...

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New Graphene Camera Sensor Uses Light to Capture Clearer, Sharper Photos

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Wang Qijie, the inventor of the new sensor, created it by fabricating a graphene sheet into novel nanostructures. Graphene is a material that's a million times smaller than the thickest human hair and is made of pure carbon atoms arranged in a ... See all stories on this topic »

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National Graphite Signs Strategic Alliance With American Graphene LLC

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Through a sonication process the graphite ore from the Chedic mine has been reduced to a nano material that has subsequently been sent to a metallurgical facility to determine the grade and commercial viability of the graphene product. The sonication ...

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Researchers: Graphene may fulfill science fiction idea of a space elevator

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Large-area graphene has some very neat applications. For example, researchers from Columbia University speculate that the 2D material could be used to create flexible electronics, like a TV screen that rolls up just like a poster. They also speculate ... See all stories on this topic »

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Graphene QUILT: Still a good trampoline for elephants in stiletto heels

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Fears that the radical wonder material graphene - set to revolutionise just about everything, as soon as people can figure out ways to start using it - might not actually be strong enough for elephants to stand supported in mid-air on a thin film of it ...

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Rare Stellar Alignment Offers Opportunity to Hunt for Planets

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The ancients thought that stars were fixed pinpoints of light on the sky. Today we know that they are all moving, like fish in a pond. This so-called proper motion is so small that it is not noticeable to the human eye over a single lifetime. But Hubble can precisely track stellar motions to razor-sharp precision. Not surprisingly the nearest star to our Sun, Proxima Centauri, is one of the fastest moving across the sky. Hubble astronomers have found that it will pass in front of two far-more distant background stars, once in 2014 and again in 2016. This will afford a very rare opportunity to see how Proxima's gravity warps the image of the background stars by bending their light. This effect, called gravitational lensing, can be used to estimate Proxima Centauri's mass and establish the presence of any planets orbiting the star.

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Ten years at Mars: new global views plot the Red Planet’s history

New global maps of Mars released on the 10th anniversary of the launch of ESA’s Mars Express trace the history of water and volcanic activity on the Red Planet, and identify sites of special interest for the next generation of Mars explorers.

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Space science image of the week: Celebrating ten years of Mars Express with a new view of the Red Planet’s north polar ice cap

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Nano-structured graphene sensor 1000 more sensitive to light

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According to the researchers, the sensor technology is compatible with current industry practices. Manufacturers can continue using the CMOS process, but replace the base material with the nano-structured graphene material to produce the graphene-based ...

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Asteroid mining firm wants world's first crowd-funded space telescope to put ...

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For a pledge of $US25, participants can make use of a "space photo booth" by sending a picture to be displayed like a billboard on the side of the telescope with Earth in the background. Its image would then be snapped by a remote camera and ...

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Big Questions Online: Meditation, Free Will, Quantum Physics and ...

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Big Questions Online is gearing up for summer with essays and discussions addressing a range of topics, including quantum physics, meditation, technology, ...

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Virtual Issue Molecular Quantum Mechanics :: ChemViews ...

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Wiley and Wiley-VCH presents a special virtual issue, featuring articles related to the 7th Molecular Quantum Mechanics Conference .

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I'm writing on behalf of both my interests and curiosity, I'm currently attempting to figure out how Quantum Physics work yet I can't quite grasp a knowledge of ...

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Graphene Is The Strongest Material In The World Even When It Has Defects ...

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