Space, the final frontier for entrepreneurs

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Although Canadian mining magnate Rob McEwen, CEO of McEwen Mining Inc. and Goldcorp Inc. founder, is a “substantial” Moon Ex investor, Toronto-born Richards fears Canada is in danger of missing the “watershed period for entrepreneurship in space. See all stories on this topic »

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You Could Maybe, Someday, Go To Space From Texas

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Space! The new frontier. And someday, you could maybe summer there. In a highly-speculative report in the Austin Business Journal, they posit the future of space tourism a la Elon Musk's Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (or SpaceX), which would ...

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NASA Invites Media to Asteroid Initiative Industry and Partner Day

Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and other senior NASA officials will discuss the progress being made on NASA's mission to capture, redirect, and explore an asteroid June 18.

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The food printer

Earlier this year, the American space agency, NASA, awarded a research grant to Systems and ... popularly termed 3D printing, for making food in space.





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Researchers Spot-Weld Graphene Nanoribbons

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Graphene is a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice. It is anticipated to be a revolutionizing material for future electronics. Graphene transistors functioning at room temperature require working at the size scale of less than ... See all stories on this topic »

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NASA's Webb Telescope's Last Backbone Component Completed

Assembly of the backbone of NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, the primary mirror backplane support structure, is a step closer to completion with the recent addition of the backplane support frame, a fixture that will be used to connect all the pieces of the telescope together.

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Meet the Itsy-Bitsy, Teeny-Weeny Galaxy

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The late Carl Sagan got lots of praise for his brilliance in explaining science to the masses, especially on his PBS TV series Cosmos back in the 1980s. But he also got teased unmercifully for the super-geeky way he said “billions” ... In a star ...

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NASA: asteroid mining and industrial revolution through self replicating robots

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A June 13, 2013 post by Steven Siceloff at NASA's Kennedy Space Center suggests that a new industrial revolution is drawing nigh based on the exploitation of asteroid resources and their use in manufacturing. This revolution would include a system of ... See all stories on this topic »

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Students and Teachers Become Rocket Scientists at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility

More than 120 students and educators will delve into the world of rocket science June 15-21 during Rocket Week at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's Eastern Shore.

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Unzipped nanotubes unlock potential for batteries: Rice University lab ...

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Proof-of-concept anodes -- the part of the battery that stores lithium ions -- built with graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) and tin oxide showed an initial capacity better than the theoretical capacity of tin oxide alone, according to Rice chemist James Tour ...

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Graphene – Made in Manchester

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Graphene, first isolated in 2004 at The University of Manchester, is the world's thinnest, strongest and most conductive material, and has the potential to revolutionise a huge number of diverse applications; from smartphones and ultrafast broadband to ... See all stories on this topic »

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Meet the Itsy-Bitsy, Teeny-Weeny Galaxy

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In a star cluster like the Pleiades, there isn't enough gravity to keep those metals from flying away; in a galaxy, there is — and that gravity can come from either stars or dark matter, doesn't matter which. Kirby and his team used the powerful Keck ...

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Physicists have a dark matter and space-time problem

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Space-time is the real gravity, according to physicists. Why? Because of a drawing ... Sure, 80% of all mass is invisible (it's called dark matter), but why would it be slowing down light as it travels billions of light-years through space? Galaxies ...

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New Kind of Dark Matter Could FormDark Atoms | Dark Disk Universe ...

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Physicists have proposed a new kind of dark matter that might consist of dark ... known forces of the universe save gravity As such dark matter can almost ...

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2-D electronics: researchers improve hexagonal material

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"The material is difficult to nucleate, unlike hBN or graphene," said co-author Sina Najmaei, a Rice graduate student, in a statement. "We started learning that we could control that nucleation by adding artificial edges to the substrate, and now it's ...

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Cosmic giants shed new light on dark matter - Astronomy Magazine

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Researchers studying 50 galaxy clusters found that the density of dark matter increases from the edges to the center of the cluster.

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