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A new study by an international team of researchers highlights how manipulation of 2D materials could make our modern day devices faster, smaller, and better.
via Science Daily
There are advances being made almost daily in the disciplines required to make space and its contents accessible. This blog brings together a lot of that info, as it is reported, tracking the small steps into space that will make it just another place we carry out normal human economic, leisure and living activities.
Monday, 28 November 2016
A Conversation With: C. Megan Urry, Peering Into Universe, Spots Bias on the Ground
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The first woman to head the Yale physics department — she specializes in the study of black holes — has continued to combat gender inequities in science.
via New York Times
The first woman to head the Yale physics department — she specializes in the study of black holes — has continued to combat gender inequities in science.
via New York Times
Timing the shadow of a potentially habitable extrasolar planet paves the way to search for alien life
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Scientists have observed the transit of a potentially Earth-like extrasolar planet known as K2-3d. A transit is a phenomenon in which a planet passes in front of its parent star, blocking a small amount of light from the star, like a shadow of the planet. While transits have previously been observed for thousands of other extrasolar planets, K2-3d is important because there is a possibility that it might harbor extraterrestrial life.
via Science Daily
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Scientists have observed the transit of a potentially Earth-like extrasolar planet known as K2-3d. A transit is a phenomenon in which a planet passes in front of its parent star, blocking a small amount of light from the star, like a shadow of the planet. While transits have previously been observed for thousands of other extrasolar planets, K2-3d is important because there is a possibility that it might harbor extraterrestrial life.
via Science Daily
Zazzle Space Exploration market place
Space’s Trash Collector? A Japanese Entrepreneur Wants the Job
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A start-up company called Astroscale is dedicated to cleaning up some of humanity’s hardest-to-reach rubbish, and its plans include a small satellite with an adhesive glue.
via New York Times
A start-up company called Astroscale is dedicated to cleaning up some of humanity’s hardest-to-reach rubbish, and its plans include a small satellite with an adhesive glue.
via New York Times
Mars labyrinth
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Space Science Image of the Week: This labyrinth-like scene on Mars may point to a former ocean and an icy subsurface
via ESA Space Science
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/11/Adamas_Labyrinthus
Space Science Image of the Week: This labyrinth-like scene on Mars may point to a former ocean and an icy subsurface
via ESA Space Science
http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2016/11/Adamas_Labyrinthus
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