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Thursday, 20 June 2013

Crowdfunding Raises $1 Million for Asteroid Miners' Public Space Telescope

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The world's first selfie-snapping, asteroid-hunting, public space telescope is $1 million closer to its launch into Earth orbit, having surpassed its initial crowdfunding goal. Planetary Resources' online fundraising campaign soared past the seven ...

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Newly Magnetic Graphene Could Shrink Transistors

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Is there a limit to what "miracle material" graphene cannot do? Its newly found property, magnetism that can be switched on and off, could pave the way to new transistor-like devices that are much smaller, consume less energy and have greater ...

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Colliding Galaxy Pair Takes Flight

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What looks like a celestial hummingbird is really the result of a collision between a spiral and an elliptical galaxy at a whopping 326 million light- years away. The flat disk of the spiral NGC 2936 is warped into the profile of a bird by the gravitational tug of the companion NGC 2937. The object was first cataloged as a "peculiar galaxy" by Halton Arp in the 1960s. This interacting galaxy duo is collectively called Arp 142.

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NASA and Italian Space Agency Sign Agreement on Exploration of Mercury

At a meeting in Rome Thursday, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Italian Space Agency (ASI) President Enrico Saggese signed a Memorandum of Understanding for cooperation on the European Space Agency- (ESA) led BepiColombo mission to Mercury, strengthening mutually beneficial cooperation between NASA and ASI in planetary exploration.

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NASA's Space Launch System Program Kicks Off Preliminary Design Review

NASA is beginning a preliminary design review for its Space Launch System (SLS). This major program assessment will allow development of the agency's new heavy-lift rocket to move from concept to initial design.

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NASA Television to Air June 24 Space Station Spacewalk

NASA Television will provide live coverage when two members of the Expedition 36 crew venture outside the International Space Station on Monday, June 24.

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Danish chemists in molecular chip breakthrough

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"Graphene has some very interesting properties, which cannot be matched by any other material. What we have shown is that it's possible to integrate a functional component on a graphene chip. I honestly feel this is front page news", says Nørgaard.

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High-energy γ-ray astronomy comes back to Earth

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Proponents of the CTA say that it would be able to solve two mysteries: the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and the nature of dark matter. The facility could also test theories of quantum gravity, they say. In the 1950s, astronomers pioneered ...

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Skynet rising: Google acquires 512-qubit quantum computer; NSA ...

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Skynet rising: Google acquires 512-qubit quantum computer; NSA surveillance to be turned over to AI machines.

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Skynet rising: Google acquires 512-qubit quantum computer; NSA surveillance to be turned over to AI machines.

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House GOP: Don't grab an asteroid — let's put bases on moon and Mars

House Republican leaders want to push for outposts on the moon and Mars — and they want to push NASA's plan to snare an asteroid into the dustbin, according to a discussion draft of their space spending plan. "It is the policy of the United States ...

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Quantum materials tetrapod qauantum dots break Kasha's rule

In 2011, the Alivasatos group at DOE's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, using tetrapod quantum dots, broke Kasha's rule2 by causing them to emit two separate colors instead of just one. This dual emission is possible because the tetrapod's core ...

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