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Friday, 4 July 2014

NASA's Chandra Sees Brightest Supernova Ever

NASA's Chandra Sees Brightest Supernova Ever
Believed to be a new type of supernova.
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Chandra :: Photo Album :: SN 2006gy :: 07 May 07
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2014 ORBITAL CALENDAR: Solar System Poster

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VIDEO: Giant 20kg jellyfish in Cornwall

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A giant barrel jellyfish has been spotted swimming in an estuary near St Mawes in Cornwall.
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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A region within the Orion Nebula showing the sculpting effect that stars can have on any surrounding gas clouds. This glowing region reveals arcs and bubbles formed when stellar winds - streams of charged particles ejected by the nearby Trapezium stars - collide with material.

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Image credit: NASA, ESA, M. Robberto (Space Telescope Science Institute/ESA) and the Hubble Space Telescope Orion Treasury Project Team

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OCO-2 Night Launch

In this alluring time exposure, star trails arc across the night sky above foggy Monterey Bay and the lights of Santa Cruz, California in the United States of America. Since the exposure began around 2:56am PDT on July 2 it also records the trail of a Delta II rocket lofting NASA's OCO-2 spacecraft into orbit. Seen from a vantage point 200 miles north of the Vandenberg Air Force Base launch site, the trail represents the first five minutes of the rocket's flight along a trajectory south and west over the Pacific to join the A-Train in polar orbit around planet Earth. The entire trail through main engine cut-off is captured, with a very faint puff at the end marking the nose fairing separation. Under the rocket's path, the two brightest trails are the alpha and beta stars of the constellation Grus, flying high in southern skies. The OCO-2 mission goal is a study of atmospheric carbon dioxide, watching from space as planet Earth breathes.

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Researchers use aluminum nanostructures for photorealistic printing of plasmonic color palettes

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(Phys.org) —A team of researchers in Singapore has used plasmonic properties to create a photorealistic printing technique. In their paper published in Nano Letters, the researchers describe how they created pillars of hydrogen silsequioxane 95nm tall on a silicon substrate, each topped with an aluminum cap to take advantage of plasmon resonance, resulting in a printing palette of over 300 colors.

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Remote quantum applications, teleportation enabled by calling long distance between superconducting qubits

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(Phys.org) —Researchers have developed a way for superconducting quantum chips to talk to each other over large distances through an optical fibre, allowing quantum entanglement or teleportation - both key steps towards building a truly global quantum internet via a quantum repeater.

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Two years on: latest on Higgs bosons and more in Valencia

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The 37th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) is taking place in Valencia from 2 to 9 July 2014 (Image: ICHEP)

Two years ago today, the ATLAS and CMS experiments announced the discovery of a new particle consistent with being a Higgs boson. Since then, the experiment collaborations have worked tirelessly to discover more about this particle.

Now, two years on, members of the collaborations join particle physicists from around the world at the 37th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP) in Valencia, Spain. To find out the latest results, keep checking here, where news from the conference will be updated regularly.

In addition, don’t miss the webcast of CERN’s 60 anniversary celebrations at ICHEP, taking place on Saturday 5 July from 17:50 CEST here. In 2014, CERN is celebrating 60 years of science for peace with a series of events at the laboratory and around the world.

On Tuesday 8 July at 17:00 CEST, join physicists live from the conference in a Hangout with CERN and ask your questions about Higgs bosons and more.

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Rational hybridization of N-doped graphene/carbon nanotubes for oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution reaction

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Credit: Tsinghua University Scientists at Tsinghua University, China, and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, have designed an intrinsic-disperse nanocarbon architecture hybridizing N-doped graphene and SWCNTs, which can serve as a superior bifunctional electrocatalyst for both oxygen reduction and evolution reactions. Nowadays, renewable and high-capacity energy systems like fuel cells and metal-air batteries are highly desired to sustainably fuel society. “As the key electrode reactions for such energy systems, ORR and OER, short for oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution reaction, are multi-electron process and kinetically sluggish. Consequently, high efficiency electrocatalysts for these reactions are needed to boost the reaction rate,” says Dr. Qiang Zhang, an associate professor at Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University. “In spite of high catalytic activity, the conventional noble metal catalysts like Pt, Ru, and Ir, are suffered from the high cost and poor stability. Read more at: Phys.org

The post Rational hybridization of N-doped graphene/carbon nanotubes for oxygen reduction and oxygen evolution reaction has been published on Technology Org.

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Ultrasound for astronomers? A young star's age can be gleamed from nothing but sound waves

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Determining the age of stars has long been a challenge for astronomers. Astronomers now show that 'infant' stars can be distinguished from 'adolescent' stars by measuring the acoustic waves they emit.

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Discovery expands search for Earth-like planets: Newly spotted frozen world orbits in a binary star system

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A newly discovered planet is expanding astronomers’ notions of where Earth-like—and even potentially habitable—planets can form, and how to find them. At twice the mass of Earth, the planet orbits one of the stars in the binary system at almost exactly the same distance from which Earth orbits the sun. However, because the planet's host star is much dimmer than the sun, the planet is much colder thanEarth -- a little colder, in fact, than Jupiter's icy moon Europa.

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NASA radio delivered for Europe's 2016 Mars orbiter

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The first of two NASA Electra radios that will fly aboard the European Space Agency's next mission to Mars has been delivered for installation onto the ESA ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO).

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From pencil marks to quantum computers

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One of the hottest materials in condensed matter research today is graphene. Graphene had an unlikely start: it began with researchers messing around with pencil marks on paper. Pencil "lead" is actually made of graphite, which is a soft crystal lattice made of nothing but carbon atoms. When pencils deposit that graphite on paper, the lattice is laid down in thin sheets. By pulling that lattice apart into thinner sheets -- originally using Scotch tape -- researchers discovered that they could make flakes of crystal just one atom thick.

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With 'ribbons' of graphene, width matters: A narrow enough ribbon will transform a high-performance conductor into a semiconductor

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Using graphene ribbons of unimaginably small widths -- just several atoms across -- a group of researchers has found a novel way to "tune" the wonder material, causing the extremely efficient conductor of electricity to act as a semiconductor. In principle, their method for producing these narrow ribbons -- at a width roughly equal to the diameter of a strand of human DNA -- and manipulating the ribbons' electrical conductivity could be used to produce nano-devices.

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Tunable quantum behavior observed in bilayer graphene

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Researchers have observed the fractional quantum Hall effect in bilayer graphene and shown that this exotic state of matter can be tuned by an electric field.

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