Desiderata Poem, Constellation Cygnus, The Swan iPad Mini Cases

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Desiderata Poem, Constellation Cygnus, The Swan iPad Mini Cases

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A gorgeous iPad Mini case featuring the full Desiderata by Max Ehrmann: Go placidly amidst the noise and haste... with an image of a star forming region in Constellation Cygnus (The Swan). This Hubble picture shows a dust-rich, interstellar gas cloud with a new-born star in the centre of the hour-glass shape.

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Image credit: NASA, the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI) and ESA

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Bacterial proteins that transform iron and other minerals for energy and growth

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Results: Cleaning up polluted soil and growing crops for biofuels benefit from a deeper understanding of how microbes

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Detecting extraterrestrial life using mechanical nanosensors

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Looking for life on other planets is not straightforward. It usually relies on chemical detection, which might be limited or even completely irrelevant to alien biology. On the other hand, motion is a trait of all life, and can be used to identify microorganisms without any need of chemical foreknowledge. EPFL scientists have now developed an extremely sensitive yet simple motion detector that can be built easily by adapting already-existent technology. The system has proven accurate with detecting bacteria, yeast, and even cancer cells, and is considered for the rapid testing of drugs and even the detection of extraterrestrial life. The work is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).



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A qubit candidate shines brighter

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Scientists taken a major step forward in effectively enhancing the fluorescent light emission of diamond nitrogen vacancy centers – a key step to using the atom-sized defects in future quantum computers. The technique hinges on the very precise positioning of NV centers within a structure called a photonic cavity that can boost the light signal from the defect.

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The Carina Nebula Hubble Print

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The Carina Nebula Hubble Print

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The Carina Nebula Hubble Print. In celebration of the 17th anniversary of the launch and deployment of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, a team of astronomers is releasing one of the largest panoramic images ever taken with Hubble's cameras. It is a 50-light-year-wide view of the central region of the Carina Nebula where a maelstrom of star birth — and death — is taking place. This image is a mosaic of the Carina Nebula assembled from 48 frames taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys. The Hubble images were taken in the light of neutral hydrogen during March and July 2005. Color information was added with data taken in December 2001 and March 2003 at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. Red corresponds to sulfur, green to hydrogen, and blue to oxygen emission. Courtesy: NASA.

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A qubit candidate shines brighter

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In the race to design the world's first universal quantum computer, a special kind of diamond defect called a nitrogen vacancy (NV) center is playing a big role. NV centers consist of a nitrogen atom and a vacant site that together replace two adjacent carbon atoms in diamond crystal. The defects can record or store quantum information and transmit it in the form of light, but the weak signal is hard to identify, extract and transmit unless it is intensified.



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Lima agreement puts countries on record for carbon reduction plans

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Early Sunday morning, negotiators in Lima, Peru, came to an agreement that set a deadline of next year for countries to come up with a plan for reducing their emissions of greenhouse gases. Although the agreement is non-binding, recent developments, such as the US-China emissions agreement, suggest that there will be substantial international pressure for every country to come through with a plan.

192 countries are party to the Lima agreement, which asks the group to come up with what are being called "Nationally Determined Contributions." These will include things like inventories of greenhouse gases and the sources that produce them, as well as the methods nations used to obtain these numbers. The nations will also have to produce a detailed plan for how these emissions will be reduced. All of this is due by March of next year, and the results will serve as a foundation for the continuing negotiations toward a binding treaty.

Unfortunately, there's nothing binding about the current agreement. Those pushing for it are effectively hoping that all the signatories will be too embarrassed to show up at future meetings empty-handed.

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Quantum Code-Cracking: An Interview with Thomas Vidick

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Quantum computers, looked to as the next generation of computing technology, are expected to one day vastly outperform

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Monogram - Eagle Nebula, Pillars of Creation Stickers

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Monogram - Eagle Nebula, Pillars of Creation Stickers

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A breathtaking outer space picture showing a spectacular three-colour composite mosaic image of the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16, or NGC 6611). It's based on images obtained with the Wide-Field Imager camera on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory.

At the centre, the so-called “Pillars of Creation” can be seen and this wide-field image shows not only the central pillars, but also several others in the same star-forming region, as well as a huge number of stars in front of, in, or behind the Eagle Nebula.

The cluster of bright stars to the upper right is NGC 6611, home to the massive and hot stars that illuminate the pillars. The “Spire” - another large pillar - is in the middle left of the image.

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The Sun in X-rays from NuSTAR

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Eta Carinae Nebula Wall Skin

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Eta Carinae Nebula Wall Skin

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This spectacular panoramic view combines a new image of the field around the Wolf–Rayet star WR 22 in the Carina Nebula (right) with an earlier picture of the region around the unique star Eta Carinae in the heart of the nebula (left).

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Nebula iPad Mini Case

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Nebula iPad Mini Case

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Colorful turquoise sky and stars in a nebula as seen through the Hubble telescope

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Lead islands in a sea of graphene magnetize the material of the future

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Researchers in Spain have discovered that if lead atoms are intercalated on a graphene sheet, a powerful magnetic

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The Crab Nebula Posters

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The Crab Nebula Posters

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The Crab Nebula is a six-light-year-wide expanding remnant of a star's supernova explosion. Japanese and Chinese astronomers recorded this violent event nearly 1,000 years ago in 1054, as did, almost certainly, Native Americans. This composite image was assembled from 24 individual exposures taken with the NASA Hubble Space Telescope’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 in October 1999, January 2000, and December 2000. It is one of the largest images taken by Hubble and is the highest resolution image ever made of the entire Crab Nebula. Source; NASA.

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Monogram Omega Nebula - Our Amazing Universe Oval Sticker

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Monogram Omega Nebula - Our Amazing Universe Oval Sticker

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Galaxies, Stars and Nebulae series A great outer space picture featuring a three-colour composite image of the Omega Nebula (Messier 17, or NGC 6618), based on images obtained with the EMMI instrument on the ESO 3.58-metre New Technology Telescope at the La Silla Observatory. North is down and East is to the right in the image. It spans an angle equal to about one third the diameter of the Full Moon, corresponding to about 15 light-years at the distance of the Omega Nebula. The three filters used are B (blue), V ("visual", or green) and R (red).

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Eta Carinae Nebula Wall Skin

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Eta Carinae Nebula Wall Skin

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This spectacular panoramic view combines a new image of the field around the Wolf–Rayet star WR 22 in the Carina Nebula (right) with an earlier picture of the region around the unique star Eta Carinae in the heart of the nebula (left).

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