NASA issues challenge to find asteroids and plan for threats

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Along with the challenge, NASA also released a request for information to industry and potential partners to submit ideas on how to locate, redirect and explore asteroids, as well as how to plan for asteroid threats. The request is open for 30 days ... See all stories on this topic »

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Spot Welding Graphene Transistors on the Atomic Scale

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With researchers still struggling to open a band gap in graphene at room temperature sufficient for transistor applications, it's sometimes good to remember what makes graphene such an appealing material that they think it's worth the struggle—after ... See all stories on this topic »

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Asteroid Mining Company Planetary Resources Harnesses Freelancer.com ...

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Planetary Resources has turned to both crowdfunding and crowdsourcing , in partnership with Freelancer, to involve global communities in building, promoting and launching the first publicly accessible, orbiting space telescope, the ARKYD. Description

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Swiss Rocket Plane May Launch People on Private Science Trips

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The company Swiss Space Systems (S3) has no immediate plans to enter the space tourism market, but does see a market for low-cost microgravity research flights that may be more attractive to researchers than launching experiments on satellites or to ...

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DWave's Quantum Computer Courts Controversy Scientific American

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A brash company pioneers a new approach to quantum computing, but many skeptics remain.

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Quantum physics: Spooky action gets collective

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Because any of the atoms can be excited in the first place, quantum mechanics demands the peculiar effect that the single excitation is shared among all atoms simultaneously. This collective excitation, or spin wave, can be visualized by imagining a ...

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Targets Scarce for NASA's Asteroid-Capture Mission

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The Keck study estimated that a robotic spacecraft could drag a 23-foot NEA into a high lunar orbit for $2.6 billion. Such a mission would help develop asteroid-mining technology and advance scientists' understanding of the early solar system ...

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Asteroid Mining Company Planetary Resources Harnesses Freelancer.com ...

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How the Hell Does a Quantum Computer Work? - Gizmodo

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You've probably heard people—including us—banging on about quantum computers for a long ol' time. But that doesn't necessarily mean you know exactly how they work. Fortunately this video is here to help.

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New Way to Distinguish Between Neighboring Quantum Bits: Spin

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That's why they're looking at qubits. In fact, a qubit based on the spin of an individual electron bound to a phosphorous atom within a silicon chip is one of the most promising systems for building a practical quantum computer. That's mainly due to ...

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