How asteroid mining could add trillions to the world economy

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The potential benefits to asteroid mining reach far beyond just profit, economic growth, and expanding Earth's resource base. While mining on Earth can be highly destructive to natural habitats — resulting in deforestation, soil erosion, chemical ... See all stories on this topic »

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Bacteria-killing glow quantum dots

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Bacteria-killing glow quantum dots. Researchers have designed a new type of luminescent quantum dot (QD) that could be used for making optical and biomedical devices 1. This QD also inhibits the growth of disease-causing bacteria. This item is ...

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Harvard uses distributed computing and quantum mechanics to dream up new ...

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The sun is constantly raining free energy down on Earth, but we have thus far been unable to make proper use of it. The efficiency of solar cells is still low, and the cost is too high to make this clean power source a viable option in most areas. A ... See all stories on this topic »

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Conformal gravity New light on dark matter and dark energy | SETI ...

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Conformal gravity New light on dark matter and dark energy. Details. Date ... Other talks you might like. Theoretical Astronomy. Lectures Archive ...

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Graphene ribbons improve lithium ion batteries

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Battery capacity is becoming a bottleneck that generally limits devices to less than a day's worth of use. Researchers have come up with a new way to boost the efficiency of the ubiquitous lithium ion (LI) battery by employing ribbons of graphene that ...

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Mining the heavens: In conversation with Planetary Resources' Chief Engineer

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One such firm is Planetary Resources, which is currently winding up a KickStarter campaign aimed at raising public awareness about asteroid mining by offering the public access to a space telescope. ... So, that is a resource that is of near-term interest.

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Graphene Profits Soar!

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Graphene Already, graphene has attracted wide attention due to its peculiarities. It is a two-dimensional flat layer of carbon atoms arrayed like a honeycomb. It is also apparently the strongest, thinnest, and most conductive material known to science ...

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