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: Man's Next Migration by Dr . Spencer Home Man's Next Migration Book Feedback Blog Think Tank Join ThinkTank News Links Featured News Space Exploration Today Habitable Planets Technology Updates News Archive Weekly Newsletter Forum Recent Posts Thread List Active Topics Free Membership Subscriptions Exclusive Premier Members Member Scholarship About Us Global Team Space Center Skydets Login Logout Forgot Password Carbon Nanotubes : Notable Developments of 2009 January 10, 2010 Space Age Technology by Goldilocks Mission Blog Ever since scientists discovered the incredulous tensile strength of carbon nanotubes and its unique properties , the wonder material has found numerous applications in various technologies but has yet to fulfill its part in what made it famous the first time , the
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Chemistry World Blog Graphene games Posted by Mike on Thu 30 Jun 2011 Categories : nbsp News No Comments As part of its Summer Exhibition 2011 in London 5-10 July the Royal Society has developed a mobile phone App about graphene one atom thick sheets of . carbon The App contains three games relating to graphene : CVD’ Graphene , Scotch Tape’ Graphene and Graphene . Tilt’ If you manage to be able to play the game my iPhone freezes when trying to run the App you win points by fitting together carbon atoms , in a similar way to the iconic game Tetris . Players can build up sheets of graphene using CVD’ and Scotch Tape’ and collect them to win points . These two games relate to the two standard ways of producing graphene chemical vapour deposition , which builds up layers from small groups of
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Published by MIT English en Español auf Deutsch in Italiano ä¸æ in India Subscribe Login Search Home Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business Magazine Blogs Video Making Silicon Solar Cells Cheaper The CTO of Suntech Power describes an innovative way to make the active materials for generating solar . power Kevin Bullis 06 30 2011 Driving down the cost of solar is difficult . Any new technology requires years of validation . And inventing and installing manufacturing equipment to make it at a large scale the industry makes millions of panels a year is a slow and expensive process , requiring investments on the order of a billion dollars . Technology that can be retrofitted into existing lines can greatly speed up the process . Suntech Power has started to
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The CTO of Suntech Power describes an innovative way to make the active materials for generating solar power.
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Rofin and Raydiance have extended their partnership agreement for an additional three years. The initial agreement, which started in June of 2010, was for one year. The collaboration between Rofin, a manufacturer of laser solutions for industrial material processing, and Raydiance, a developer of ultrafast laser technology, allows for the integration of Raydiance’s fiber femtosecond [...]
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Conference/exhibition: 19 Sep 2011 - 23 Sep 2011, Warsaw, Poland.
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, Published by MIT English en Español auf Deutsch in Italiano ä¸æ in India Subscribe Login Search Home Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business Magazine Blogs Video Cheap , Efficient Solar The founder of a new startup outlines his plans to make solar . affordable Kevin Bullis 06 29 2011 Gallium arsenide is one of the best materials for solar cells , in theory . But it's been expensive to make . Startup Alta Devices is pursuing ways to make it cheaper . In this video , one of its founders , Caltech professor Harry Atwater , explains its strategy for making solar cells that are far more efficient than the today's solar cells , yet also . inexpensive Video Making Silicon Solar Cells Cheaper GE Funds 10 Energy Startups To comment , please sign in or register
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Harry Atwater, the founder of a new startup called Alta Devices, outlines his plans to make solar affordable.
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Rajiv Mehta talks about the importance of personal science.
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Mad City Labs Inc., a leading manufacturer of flexure based nanopositioning systems capable of sub-nanometre positioning resolution has appointed Elliot Scientific Ltd. as exclusive distributor of its...
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NT-MDT Co. announces that NANOEDUCATOR II - a new generation of training scientific laboratories for nanotechnology teaching - is the winner of the 49th Annual R&D 100 Awards, which salute the 100...
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Earlier this month, NanoWorld AG announced that it had launched a website entirely dedicated to High Speed Scanning Atomic Force Microscopy (HS-AFM) at www.highspeedscanning.com. NanoWorld dedicates...
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ETH Zurich, Atomic Force F&E GmbH and Asylum Research announce the third Euro AFM Forum 2011 to be held in Zurich, Switzerland on September 7 to 9 in cooperation with Prof. Ralph Spolenak at the...
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nPoint Inc., the leading global manufacturer of flexure based nanopositioning systems capable of sub-nanometre positioning resolution has appointed Optophase as distributor of its products in Western...
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Dave Marvit demonstrates a new method for monitoring stress.
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Kyle Machulis liberates data from self-tracking devices.
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A new lab is inventing innovative ways to package and install solar cells, with the aim of making solar energy far more affordable.
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With the help of the Kinect, Bilibot navigates, locates objects, and uses its robotic arm.
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MIT researchers have been leading the way toward quantum computers—devices that could solve problems too big for all today's supercomputers put together.
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Published by MIT English en Español auf Deutsch in Italiano ä¸æ in India Subscribe Login Search Home Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business Magazine Blogs Video Next Video Google's Perspective on Malware's Rise Vint Cerf , a coinventor of the Internet's original protocols and now chief Internet evangelist for Google , describes what Google is doing to try to defeat the scourge of Web-based malware . 06.21.2011 Video by David Talbot , edited by Brittany Sauser Read the Article Channels Computing Web Communications Energy Materials Biomedicine Business TR10 TR35 MIT News Letters from The Editor Google's Perspective on Malware's Rise 06 21 2011 Seeing Robotics with New Eyes 06 21 2011 Blocks Computing A new kind of interface 06 15 2011 Data Transfer at Light
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Conference: 5 Sep 2011 - 7 Sep 2011, Singapore, Singapore, Singapore. Organized by IMAPAC.
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If you take a look at the latest issue (July, 2011) of the National Geographic Magazine, you will find a short, 2-page article about the Space Elevator, complete with a custom-drawn, concept diagram.
A few of us (Ben Shelef, Dr. Peter Swan and myself) have been working with the National Geographic team over the past several [...]
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Conference/exhibition: 12 Jun 2012 - 13 Jun 2012, Dresden, Sachsen, Germany. Organized by Birgit Schaub.
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Workshop: 3 Nov 2011, Dresden, Sachsen, Germany. Organized by Manja Schulze.
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Conference: 26 Aug 2012 - 31 Aug 2012, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
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By Cameron Chai NanoProfessor, a division of NanoInk, declared that it has chosen two college students from the local community for a summer internship program extending over a period of 10 weeks....
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The Moment Scientists and engineers inspect a cavern nearly a mile beneath the surface at the Sanford Underground Laboratory at Homestake in Lead, South Dakota. After the mine’s closure was announced in 2000, researchers successfully petitioned to turn it into a lab. The site has contributed to science before: From 1965 until the late 1990s, this cavern housed a Nobel Prize–winning neutrino experiment...
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By Cameron Chai Researchers at the center for materials elaboration and structural studies, (CEMES) have found a connection between a molecule's geometrical shape and its charge, which makes it...
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Conference/exhibition: 27 Sep 2011 - 29 Sep 2011, Birmingham, United Kingdom. Organized by Rapidnews .
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By Cameron Chai Physics Professor of Clarkson University, Igor Sokolov and his team worked in collaboration with Biology Professor Craig D. Woodworth on cervical cancer cells and the details of the...
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JPK Instruments, a world-leading manufacturer of nanoanalytic instrumentation for research in life sciences and soft matter, reports on the work from the Pharmaceutical Sciences Department of the...
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For Kirk Borne, the information revolution began 11 years ago while he was working at NASA’s National Space Science Data Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. At a conference, another astronomer asked him if the center could archive a terabyte of data that had been collected from the MACHO sky survey, a project designed to study mysterious cosmic bodies that emit very little light or other radiation. Nowadays, plenty of desktop computers can store a terabyte on a hard drive. But when Borne ran the request up the flagpole, his boss almost choked. “That’s impossible!” he told Borne. “Don’t you realize that the entire data set NASA has collected over the past 45 years is one terabyte?”
“That’s when the lightbulb went off,” says Borne, who is now an associate professor of computational and data sciences at George Mason University. “That single experiment had produced as much data as the previous 15,000 experiments. I realized then that we needed to do something not only to make all that data available to scientists but also to enable scientific discovery from all that information.”
The tools of astronomy have changed drastically over just the past generation, and our picture of the universe has changed with them. Gone are the days of photographic plates that recorded the sky snapshot by painstaking snapshot. Today more than a dozen observatories on Earth and in space let researchers eyeball vast swaths of the universe in multiple wavelengths, from radio waves to gamma rays. And with the advent of digital detectors, computers have replaced darkrooms. These new capabilities provide a much more meaningful way to understand our place in the cosmos, but they have also unleashed a baffling torrent of data. Amazing discoveries might be in sight, yet hidden within all the information.
Since 2000, the $85 million Sloan Digital Sky Survey at the Apache Point Observatory in New Mexico has imaged more than one-third of the night sky, capturing information on more than 930,000 galaxies and 120,000 quasars. Computational analysis of Sloan’s prodigious data set has uncovered evidence of some of the earliest known astronomical objects, determined that most large galaxies harbor supermassive black holes, and even mapped out the three-dimensional structure of the local universe. “Before Sloan, individual researchers or small groups dominated astronomy,” says Robert Brunner, an astronomy professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “You’d go to a telescope, get your data, and analyze it. Then Sloan came along, and suddenly there was this huge data set designed for one thing, but people were using it for all kinds of other interesting things. So you have this sea change in astronomy that allows people who aren’t affiliated with a project to ask entirely new questions.”
A new generation of sky surveys promises to catalog literally billions and billions of astronomical objects. Trouble is, there are not enough graduate students in the known universe to classify all of them. When the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) in Cerro Pachón, Chile, aims its 3.2-
billion-pixel digital camera (the world’s largest) at the night sky in 2019, it will capture an area 49 times as large as the moon in each 15-second exposure, 2,000 times a night. Those snapshots will be stitched together over a decade to eventually form a motion picture of half the visible sky. The LSST, producing 30 terabytes of data nightly, will become the centerpiece of what some experts have dubbed the age of petascale astronomy—that’s 1015 bits (what Borne jokingly calls “a tonabytes”)...</p
Image: Contrasting views of the Lagoon nebula. Top: Infrared observations from the Paranal Observatory in Chile cut through dust and gas to reveal a crisp view of baby stars within. Bottom: A similar view in visible light appears opaque. Courtesy of ESO and VVV
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The powerful blasts of particles and light energy known as gamma-ray bursts come from violent cosmic events in deep space, such as stellar explosions and black hole collisions. But smaller-scale bursts called terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) can occur much closer to home, erupting thousands of times a year in association with lightning strikes during storms in Earth’s atmosphere. Two satellites originally designed to observe gamma rays from space recently caught the atmospheric flares in action, revealing that they emit far more energy than previously thought and release streams of antimatter particles, which bear a charge opposite that of their normal counterparts.
In a study of 130 TGFs recorded by the AGILE satellite, Italian Space Agency physicist Marco Tavani and colleagues report that the most energetic particles released carry four times as much energy as previous measurements detected, and hundreds of times as much as those produced by normal lightning strikes. In fact, Tavani describes a storm hurling photons into AGILE’s detectors as basically a giant particle accelerator in the sky. “It’s the equivalent of the Large Hadron Collider acting in the atmosphere for a fraction of a second,” he says. Next, Tavani plans to evaluate how TGFs might affect aircraft flying nearby...
Some high-powered lightning strikes produce unusual forms of matter.iStockphoto
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The first European Space Elevator Games (EuSEC) website now has a page devoted to the teams who will be participating.
It’s good to see our friends from ETC (Earth-Track-Controllers) involved in this competition. They were great competitors and great sports at the 2007 Games held near Salt Lake city.
A total of 8 teams are [...]
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A number of materials, when observed over a sufficiently long period of time, show changes in their mechanical properties. The exact course of these developments depends on the underlying microscopic mechanisms. However, the microscopic structure and the complexity of the systems make direct observation extremely difficult........
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The knowledge of knowledge. The science of science.andnbsp;Riddles? No. A burgeoning and important field of scientific research that examines research itself, say University of Chicago Sociology Assistant Professor James Evans and Post-doctoral Scholar Jacob Foster. Their analysis, supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF), is published in a perspective piece to appear in the Feb. 11 issue ofandnbsp;the journal Science.......
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Nacre, usually known as mother-of-pearl, is the iridescent material lining a number of mollusk shells. It is part of a two-layer armor system that protects the animal from predators. The brittle outer layer of the shell absorbs the initial impact, but is prone to cracking. To prevent these cracks from catastrophically propagating through the shell to the animal itself, the nacreous layer is surprisingly strong and tough, with outstanding crack arresting properties. Thus it acts as a lining to maintain the integrity of the shell in the event of cracking of the outer layer........
