Group items tagged the - Advanced Concepts Team

BBC News | Large amounts of water on Moon - 2 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8359744.stm

bio moon

shared by Francesco Biscani on 13 Nov 09 - Cached

Francesco Biscani on 13 Nov 09

See, I told you smashing things around in the solar system is useful!

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Dario Izzo on 14 Nov 09

Agree, but they knew from before..... see last post

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Martian landscapes - The Big Picture - Boston.com - 2 views

www.boston.com/...martian_landscapes.html

mars landscapes martian astronomy science

shared by nikolas smyrlakis on 18 Nov 09 - Cached

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nikolas smyrlakis on 18 Nov 09

not an expert, but pattern recognising seems a bit tricky ?

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last days of the polymath - 9 views

multidisciplinarity fun science

started by Nicholas Lan on 17 Nov 09 no follow-up yet

Machine Converts CO2 into Gasoline, Diesel, and Jet Fuel - 2 views

www.physorg.com/news178203219.html

NRG technology

shared by Joris _ on 24 Nov 09 - Cached

a machine that uses the sun's energy to convert carbon dioxide waste from power plants into transportation fuels such as gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel
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an efficiency of a few percent
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Technology Review: Mimicking the Building Prowess of Nature - 2 views

www.technologyreview.com/...23933

NAN BIO

shared by LeopoldS on 21 Nov 09 - Cached

3-D Solar Tsunami Video Shows the Extreme Waves Are Real | Wired Science | Wired.com - 1 views

www.wired.com/...solar-tsunami

phy space stars

shared by Joris _ on 26 Nov 09 - Cached

Galaxy Zoo Mergers - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8376566.stm

INF PHY crowdsourcing

shared by Kevin de Groote on 26 Nov 09 - Cached

Kevin de Groote on 26 Nov 09

Instead of classifying galaxies (image analysis), this new project asks the public to try to recreate collisions

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Cambridge University Engineering Department - Qi Pan - 3 views

mi.eng.cam.ac.uk/...BMVC09

INF 3D camera optics

shared by LeopoldS on 25 Nov 09 - Cached

LeopoldS on 25 Nov 09

nice tool ... but apparently not open source :-(

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Nicholas Lan on 25 Nov 09

already posted further down the page

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Researchers demonstrate a better way for computers to 'see' (w/ Video) - 1 views

www.physorg.com/news178997486.html

ai bio

shared by Joris _ on 03 Dec 09 - Cached

Rather than building a single model and seeing how well it could recognize visual objects, the team constructed thousands of candidate models, and screened for those that performed best on an object recognition task
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Lotus leaf solar cells soak up more power - tech - 01 December 2009 - New Scientist - 0 views

www.newscientist.com/...-the-power-of-solar-cells.html

tech nrg solar

shared by Juxi Leitner on 01 Dec 09 - Cached

Fabbaloo: The MIT Food Printer - 1 views

www.fabbaloo.com/...mit-food-printer.html

tech printing

shared by Juxi Leitner on 30 Nov 09 - No Cached

Two- and three-dimensional folding of thin film single-crystalline silicon for photovol... - 0 views

www.pnas.org/...0907390106.full.pdf+html

NAN NRG photovoltaic

shared by LeopoldS on 28 Nov 09 - Cached

LeopoldS on 28 Nov 09

very nice approach ...

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jmlloren on 01 Dec 09

The link didn't work for me. Try that one: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/11/18/0907390106.abstract?sid=348d3f4f-cc68-47e8-9099-a3310134ae68

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Orbiting Dust Storm Could Remove Space Junk - 6 views

www.technologyreview.com/...26634

MAD Space Debris

shared by Joris _ on 13 Apr 11 - No Cached

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Joris _ on 13 Apr 11

A good example of how loosing perspective makes so-called "novel ways" actually "rubish ways"

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LeopoldS on 15 Apr 11

here the paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.1401 well spent defence funding ....

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Allen Institute for brain science announces first comprehensive gene map of the human b... - 6 views

www.alleninstitute.org/...lease_AllenHumanBrainAtlas.pdf

BIO neuroscience brain AI

shared by Luís F. Simões on 13 Apr 11 - No Cached

Luís F. Simões on 13 Apr 11

http://www.brain-map.org/ yummy! brains...

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The Future That Never Was - Next-Gen Tech Concepts - Popular Mechanics - 6 views

future technology space fun

shared by LeopoldS on 17 Apr 11 - No Cached

LeopoldS on 17 Apr 11

nice ideas ...

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Damping in quantum love affairs - 1 views

arxiv.org/1103.5907

phy love_affairs

shared by pacome delva on 31 Mar 11 - No Cached

Luzi Bergamin on 31 Mar 11

I stop complaining about "useless" research such as infeasible invisibility devices... At least I start to understand why Italy is a country with one of the highest publication rates per researcher.

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Observation of the antimatter helium-4 nucleus : Nature : Nature Publishing Group - 1 views

www.nature.com/...nature10079.html

NRG PHY

shared by LeopoldS on 27 Apr 11 - No Cached

LeopoldS on 27 Apr 11

more antimatter ...

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NASA Considering Gas Stations in Space - FoxNews.com - 3 views

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nasa MAD space NRG

shared by Joris _ on 04 May 11 - No Cached

LeopoldS on 05 May 11

Chris Moore is a good guy and one very open minded to new ideas and concepts at NASA; the fact that this was picked up by fox news must be that they could relay this to "gas stations" :-)

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Dinosaur extinction: closing the '3 m gap' - 2 views

rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/...rsbl.2011.0470

NRG PHY science

shared by LeopoldS on 13 Jul 11 - No Cached

LeopoldS on 13 Jul 11

more indications that it was an asteroid ...

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LeopoldS on 13 Jul 11

more indications that it was an asteroid ...

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How to Create an Innovation Accelerator - 3 views

arxiv.org/1011.3794v3

science

shared by Luzi Bergamin on 21 Jul 11 - No Cached