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Technology Review: Blogs: Guest Blog: Microrobotics Competition Shows Impressive Feats - 1 views

www.technologyreview.com/...25259 micromotors robotics technology
shared by Juxi Leitner on 14 Jun 10 - Cached
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  • the world's best robotics engineers gathered to attempt some of the most impressive feats of micro-manipulation.
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Defeating the merchants of doubt : Nature : Nature Publishing Group - 5 views

www.nature.com/...465686a.html technology science Earth
shared by LeopoldS on 14 Jun 10 - Cached
  • LeopoldS on 14 Jun 10
     
    nice article .... interesting connections!
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Test your knowledge of biomimicry - 5 views

edition.cnn.com/...index.html bio biomimicry quiz fun
shared by Ma Ru on 23 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Ma Ru on 23 Jun 10
     
    How much remained in your head? Don't tell Tobias, but I scored only 5/10 :-(
  • Luzi Bergamin on 23 Jun 10
     
    There's one question missing: how many of these designs are claimed to be baised on biomimicry just because this sells?? Tobi, please!
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Asteroid Response System in Place (Complete With U.S. Military Eye Patch) - 1 views

www.dailygalaxy.com/...ith-us-military-eye-patch.html space security asteroid response system telescope tech
shared by Juxi Leitner on 29 Jun 10 - Cached
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  • However, the US air force, which funded the development of the telescope, requires that software automatically black out a swathe of pixels to hide the trajectories of passing satellites.
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'Doomsday Ark' to be Housed on the Moon -A Remote Access Toolkit to Rebuild the Human Race - 5 views

www.dailygalaxy.com/...to-rebuild-the-human-race.html space science moon base technology bio vault
shared by Juxi Leitner on 04 Jul 10 - Cached
  • our future may reside on the Moon if plans.being drawn up for a “Doomsday ark” on the moon by the European Space Agency are carried through.
  • whether living organisms could survive, European Space Agency scientists are hoping to experiment with growing tulips on the moon within the next decade.
  • would initially be run by robots
  • Juxi Leitner on 04 Jul 10
     
    did not know ESA was doing that!
  • andreiaries on 05 Jul 10
     
    too late, the world will in end in 2012 ......... I fail to see in which scenario this would be better than a couple of vaults on Earth (since there would be no humans on the moon). But if tulips on the moon can convince politicians, I'm all for it.
  • LeopoldS on 05 Jul 10
     
    "The first flowers - tulips or arabidopsis, a plant widely used in research - could be grown in 2012 or 2015 according to Bernard Foing, chief scientist at the agency's research department." - Bernhard strikes again :-)
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Astrium To Manage Atomic Clock Demo on Station | SpaceNews.com - 1 views

www.spacenews.com/...atomic-clock-demo-station.html atomic clock
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  • pacome delva on 21 Jul 10
     
    cool! i will be working on the link and the data!
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A Puzzling Collapse of Earth's Upper Atmosphere - 1 views

science.nasa.gov/...15jul_thermosphere phy atmosphere solar_forecast
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  • NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet's atmosphere. High above Earth's surface where the atmosphere meets space, a rarefied layer of gas called "the thermosphere" recently collapsed and now is rebounding again.
  • pacome delva on 22 Jul 10
     
    Wow, this is a bit frigthening. Another proof that we understand very little about our atmosphere !!!
  • LeopoldS on 22 Jul 10
     
    very interesting indeed!
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Strong Web Design - The Daily WTF - 5 views

thedailywtf.com/...Strong-Web-Design.aspx web politics fun
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  • LeopoldS on 30 Jul 10
     
    any hidden message
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New carbon dioxide emissions model - 1 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...100802110827.htm carbon_cycle IPCC carbon_dioxide emission_scenarios climate_models
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  • In order to achieve the long-term stabilisation of the atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration, the emissions will then have to be reduced by 56 percent by the year 2050 and approach zero towards the end of this century
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Slashdot Science Story | 5 Trillion Digits of Pi - a New World Record - 1 views

science.slashdot.org/...of-Pi-mdash-a-New-World-Record inf
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  • Francesco Biscani on 06 Aug 10
     
    Another Pi digits calculation record.
  • LeopoldS on 07 Aug 10
     
    wow - apparently the project started as a high-school project! http://www.numberworld.org/y-cruncher/
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God's Number is 20 - 1 views

cube20.org INF mathemtaics
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  • LeopoldS on 11 Aug 10
     
    maybe Rubik's number is 20 .... but gods ????
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YouTube - Mosquito killed by a Laser - 5 views

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  • duncan barker on 17 Aug 10
     
    can we get one of these for the office?
  • Juxi Leitner on 18 Aug 10
     
    hihihi
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Space Debris Removal - 1 views

www.star-tech-inc.com/id121.html space debris removal technology mad
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  • Juxi Leitner on 07 Sep 10
     
    ElectroDynamic Debris Eliminator ... seems similar to the Ariadna proposal if I remember correctly
  • Joris _ on 07 Sep 10
     
    It was presented during the second day of the SpaceTech workshop. As far as I understood (which I am not sure!) the double tether is spinning ... isn't a bit crazy!
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ACE Acronym CrEator - generate your own acronym! - 1 views

acronymcreator.net INF fun
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  • LeopoldS on 07 Sep 10
     
    this is how they do it :-)
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  • Ma Ru on 07 Sep 10
     
    Some highlights: ACuTE: Advanced Concepts TEam ADDiCT: ADvanceD Concepts Team AbDiCaTE: ADvanced Concepts TEam wASTEd: Advanced conceptS TEam
  • Ma Ru on 07 Sep 10
     
    But seriously, my PhD project title from now on becomes: Robotic mOdels maThematIcal Cognition (eROTIC)
  • LeopoldS on 07 Sep 10
     
    your thesis title fits perfectly then ...
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robots.net - Neuron Interface Chips Advancing - 1 views

robots.net/3042.html neuroscience chip brain interface bio INF technology
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  • this advancement could ultimately lead to the use of biological neurons in the central or sub-processing units of computers and automated machinery.
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BBC NEWS | Technology | Tiny 'nuclear batteries' unveiled - 1 views

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  • LeopoldS on 19 Sep 10
     
    found this reference from the guy: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=5285410 should we update our betavoltaics report?
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World Mysteries - Strange Artifacts, Baghdad Battery - 1 views

www.world-mysteries.com/sar_11.htm
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  • duncan barker on 17 Sep 10
     
    read this
  • LeopoldS on 19 Sep 10
     
    " However, Dr. Konig also found copper vases plated with silver in the Baghdad Museum, excavated from !!!Sumerian!!! sites in southern Iraq, dating back to at least 2500 BCE. When the vases were lightly tapped, a blue patina or film separated from the surface, which is characteristic of silver electroplated onto copper base. It would appear then that the Parthians inherited their batteries from one of the earliest known civilizations." ... they just mistyped the name ...
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The seeds of disruptive innovation within the European Space Agency - 24 August 2010 > ... - 5 views

ewds.strath.ac.uk/...ce-Agency--24-August-2010.aspx science
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  • Joris _ on 20 Sep 10
     
    :p
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  • Luís F. Simões on 20 Sep 10
     
    haha :) well.. don't shoot me Dario. I wasn't involved in this disclosure. But now that the link is public, you might all want to consider subscribing to their feed: http://ewds.strath.ac.uk/space/Podcasts.aspx They have some nice talks there. One of them is by Ken McLeod, the science fiction writer. Is anyone else with me on the idea that we should also invite science fiction writers for science coffees? :)
  • Ma Ru on 21 Sep 10
     
    So nice to hear Dario again! :-) But apparently UoS needs someone a bit more skilled to handle these videos...
  • Dario Izzo on 21 Sep 10
     
    Only one self-comment alla Barney ..... suit-up
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GE: Ecomagination Challenge: Home - 1 views

challenge.ecomagination.com/ideas
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  • nikolas smyrlakis on 23 Sep 10
     
    always ideas to power the (smart) grid effectively are needed.
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