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Nanofibers have a dizzying range of possible applications, but they’ve been prohibitively expensive to make. MIT researchers hope to change that.
Read more, very interesting...: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/making-nanospinning-practical-1120.html
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Albert Einstein's brain seems to have been packed full of unusually-configured parts that could explain his unusual intelligence, according to a new study by US scholars.
Read more, very interesting...: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/20/einsteins_brain_analysed/
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Orbital debris, not functional satellites, make up 95 percent of the objects in this computer-generated illustration of objects in low-Earth orbit.
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Ein verdrillter Faden, der sich schnell auf- und abwickelt oder sich zusammenzieht und ausdehnt, soll einen leistungsfähigen und vielseitigen Antrieb ergeben.
Mehr erfahren, sehr interessant...: http://www.golem.de/news/wissenschaft-kuenstliche-muskeln-aus-nanogarn-1211-95757.html
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Die beiden Weltraum-Behörden NASA und ESA arbeiten an einem neuen Protokoll, mit dem Internet-Verbindungen auch zwischen zwei Planten möglich werden sollen.
Das zum Einsatz kommende Kommunikationsprotokoll wurde auf den Namen DTN (Disruption Tolerant Networking) getauft und unterscheidet sich grundlegend von auf der Erde genutzten Protokollen.
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Équipé d’une prothèse de jambe robotisée, un jeune Américain est parvenu à monter par les escaliers, les 103 étages de la tour Willis, l’un des plus grands gratte-ciels.
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In der Nachbarschaft unseres Sonnensystems sind Astronomen auf Spuren bislang unbekannter Planeten gestoßen. Existieren die Himmelskörper tatsächlich, könnte einer von ihnen sogar bewohnbar sein.
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http://www.tageblatt.lu/nachrichten/story/13619875
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Un squelette de mammouth a été mis au jour en Seine-et-Marne, dans une carrière de Changis-sur-Marne. Si les ossements ont été découverts cet été, il a fallu attendre le 6 novembre pour qu'ils soient présentés.
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(Phys.org)—Researchers at Rice University have refined silicon-based lithium-ion technology by literally crushing their previous work to make a high-capacity, long-lived and low-cost anode material with serious commercial potential for rechargeable...
Read more, very interesting...: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-boost-silicon-based-batteries.html
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(Phys.org)—Stanford University scientists have built the first solar cell made entirely of carbon, a promising alternative to the expensive materials used in photovoltaic devices today.
Read more, very interesting...: http://phys.org/news/2012-10-all-carbon-solar-cell.html
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Archaeologists in north-west Bulgaria unearth what they believe to be the oldest prehistoric town found to date in Europe.
Archaeologists believe that the town was home to some 350 people and dates back to between 4700 and 4200 BC. That is about 1,500 years before the start of ancient Greek civilisation.
'Extremely interesting', read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20156681
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed initial experiments showing the mineralogy of Martian soil is similar to weathered basaltic soils of volcanic origin in Hawaii.
Read more: http://phys.org/news/2012-10-nasa-rover-soil-fingerprint-martian.html
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The first evidence that theropods (meat-eating dinosaurs) ate contemporaneous birds and other carnivorous dinosaurs has been discovered in northeastern China.
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(Phys.org)—The structure of the universe and the laws that govern its growth may be more similar than previously thought to the structure and growth of the human brain and other complex networks, such as the Internet or a social network of trust...
Read more, very interesting...: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-human-brain-internet-cosmology-similar.html
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(Phys.org)—Princeton geoscientists Christopher Harig and Frederik Simons have been applying new methods to study the amount of ice melt in the Greenland ice sheet.
Read more: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-princeton-geoscientists-greenland-ice-sheet.html
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(Phys.org)—In order to build the next generation of nuclear reactors, materials scientists are trying to unlock the secrets of certain materials that are radiation-damage tolerant.
Read more, very interesting...: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-nano-insights-nuclear-reactors-self-healing.html
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NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) used an experimental version of interplanetary Internet in late October to control an educational rover from the International Space Station, NASA says.
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Chief Research Officer Rick Rashid demonstrates a speech recognition breakthrough via machine translation that converts his spoken English words into compute...
Watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Nu-nlQqFCKg#!
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A credit card with a built-in LCD screen and keyboard is announced by Mastercard in an effort to simplify secure online banking.
Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20250441
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Avec son spectromètre à laser, le rover Curiosity a analysé un peu d’air, comme il l’a déjà fait avec un autre instrument.
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(Phys.org)—At its heart, photovoltaics research is about finding materials with specific properties that make them good at absorbing sunlight and converting it into electricity.
Read more, very interesting...: http://phys.org/news/2012-11-two-dimensional-semiconductor-ideal-band-gap.html
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It looks like Mother Nature was wasting her time with a multimillion-year process to produce crude oil.
Image credit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Intertidal_greenalgae.jpg
Read more: http://phys.org/news/2012-10-biofuel-breakthrough-quick-cook-method.html
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March 3, 2014 10:10 AM
Algae can quickly be turned into crude oil instead of waiting millions of years for it to be produced naturally.
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The world's first family tree linking all living bids and revealing when and where they evolved and diversified since dinosaurs walked the earth has been created by scientists from the University of Sheffield.
Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2012-10-family-tree-birds-reveals-evolution.html#jCp
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Des scientifiques de l’Imperial College de Londres annoncent avoir développé un nouveau détecteur de maladies, dix fois moins onéreux que ce qui existe sur le marché et surtout beaucoup plus sensible, à base de nanoparticules d'or.
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Voyages to Pluto, Jupiter and Saturn are possible with NASA's SLS rocket in development. |
