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Testing Continues for Satellite Servicing Capabilities | NASA - 0 views

www.nasa.gov/...tellite-servicing-capabilities orbit maintenance
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  • LeopoldS on 13 Dec 13
     
    Engineers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida are partnering with counterparts at the agency's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland to develop systems to bring potential future robotic "service tow trucks" to orbiting spacecraft in need of aid
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New supercomputer at the German Climate Computing Center in Hamburg - 2 views

www.supercomputingonline.com/...te-computing-center-in-hamburg climate_computing Hamburg Blizzard supercomputer
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Pouring Milk All Over Yourself: The Next Extremely Bizarre Trend? - 1 views

www.theatlanticcities.com/...4030 fun
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  • Marcus Maertens on 23 May 13
     
    So... who is in?
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  • johannessimon81 on 24 May 13
     
    I thought you were supposed to do this with petrol... |:-[ It's by the way cool to see how the milk seems to flow very differently from what one might expect from water: it seems to flow in a few thick streams instead of wetting the whole person... Since the surface tension of milk seems to be lower than that of water (http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract;jsessionid=908B02C3825E97162B9D60DA615EAC96.journals?fromPage=online&aid=5146540) this is surprising. It might very well be an effect of the colloidal nature of milk as it is water in which semi-solid fat particles are suspended. So like the cornstarch mix that we have seen in the office there might be some dynamic jamming going on leading to a higher viscosity (at high shear rates). After all they might be doing science...
  • LeopoldS on 28 May 13
     
    nice comment Johannes ... if you add a bit of Kleopatre, e.g. why bathing in milk helped her fool Marcus Antonius, your comment would be fully interdisciplinary :-)
  • johannessimon81 on 28 May 13
     
    you mean it would include History or Psychology? I would understand why Marcus Antonius might get fooled by a bathing beauty - but milk? DONKEY MILK?!? That's just wrong... :-[
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SWF Announces Young Professional Scholarships for IAC 2012 in Naples - 1 views

swfound.org/...arships-for-iac-2012-in-naples science space
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  • Christos Ampatzis on 11 Jun 12
     
    Secure World Foundation (SWF) is pleased to announce that it will be accepting applications from young professionals for scholarships to aid in traveling to present papers at the 2012 International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Naples, Italy.
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Forget 3D printing, here is solar printing - 3 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...140403132353.htm solar energy
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  • Thijs Versloot on 04 Apr 14
     
    The work is based on the use of a "continuous flow" microreactor to produce nanoparticle inks that make solar cells by printing. In this process, simulated sunlight is focused on the solar microreactor to rapidly heat it, while allowing precise control of temperature to aid the quality of the finished product. The light in these experiments was produced artificially, but the process could be done with direct sunlight, and at a fraction of the cost of current approaches.
  • LeopoldS on 09 Apr 14
     
    anybody interested in having a closer look at this?
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Text messages net over $400,000 for Haitian relief in first day after quake | La Plaza ... - 0 views

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  • nikolas smyrlakis on 14 Jan 10
     
    Superstar musician Wyclef Jean, a native of Haiti, has helped raise over $400,000 for his native country, thanks to text-message donations.
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Smartphone-Controlled Robots Aid Astronauts | NASA SPHERES Droids - 0 views

www.innovationnewsdaily.com/pheres-droids-smartphones-2131 technology space
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  • Marion Nachon on 27 Jul 11
     
    "The MIT-built robots will each connect with a Nexus S smartphone - the first commercial smartphone certified by NASA for use on the space shuttle and space station."
  • Marion Nachon on 27 Jul 11
     
    First smartphones control our lives, now they control robots behaviour. Watch out! After all, there must be a good reason for calling it smartphone...
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Gamers solve puzzle which stumped scientists for years | Mail Online - 2 views

www.dailymail.co.uk/...-stumped-scientists-years.html BIO protein folding crowdsourcing
shared by Luís F. Simões on 19 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • A team of gamers needed just ten days to produce an answer to an enzyme riddle that had eluded experts for more than a decade.
  • Luís F. Simões on 19 Sep 11
     
    link to the paper: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nsmb.2119 additional info at: http://fold.it/portal/
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Geoengineer climate? Obama aide won't rule out - Climate Change- msnbc.com - 0 views

www.msnbc.msn.com/30112396 Geoengineering US_climate_policy
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  • LeopoldS on 19 Jul 09
     
    very interesting article indeed - good basis for our own assessment! check especially this part: "At an international meeting of climate scientists last month in Copenhagen, 15 talks dealt with different aspects of geoengineering." do you have the references?
  • Nina Nadine Ridder on 20 Jul 09
     
    I found the abstracts for this meeting online (http://www.iop.org/EJ/toc/1755-1315/6/45). I'm also looking for the papers which relate to the different talks. These could be helpfull too.
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Africa-India satellite links to expand - SciDev.Net - 0 views

www.scidev.net/...satellite-links-to-expand.html telemedecin INF development aid Africa
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  • LeopoldS on 04 May 09
     
    interesting cooperation - might bring finally some real larger scale telemedecin applications ...
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International Experts Blend Space Technologies and Crowdsourcing to Enhance Disaster Ma... - 1 views

www.newswise.com/...ance-disaster-management-tools science space
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  • Christos Ampatzis on 14 Jul 11
     
    Crowsourcing Awareness: "To augment the use of these space technologies, virtual communities of group intelligence - called "Crowdsourcing" - can aide in emergency planning and post-disaster coordination."
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Room temperature superconductors - 4 views

phys.org/...superconductivity-cooling.html technology PHY
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  • Paul N on 06 Dec 14
     
    With the aid of short infrared laser pulses, researchers have succeeded for the first time in making a ceramic superconducting at room temperature - albeit for only a few millionths of a microsecond.
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