Faster Than Light? More Like Faulty Wiring. - 0 views
Tube-shaped solar cells could be weaved into clothing - 0 views
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semiconducting nanorods grown on the surface of carbon fibers look more like bristles on a tiny hairbrush than a solar cell
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the flexible tube-shaped cells can capture light from all directions and even have the potential to be weaved into clothing and paper for novel applications
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current stage of development, researchers are trying to find a simple, low-cost method for fabricating high-quality tube-shaped solar cells.
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Exotic material shows promise as flexible, transparent electrode - 0 views
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An international team of scientists with roots at SLAC and Stanford has shown that ultra-thin sheets of an exotic material remain transparent and highly conductive even after being deeply flexed 1,000 times and folded and creased like a piece of paper.
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first practical applications: flexible, transparent electrodes for solar cells, sensors and optical communications devices.
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basic structural unit for bismuth selenide is a five-layer sandwich made up of alternating single-atom sheets of selenium (orange) and bismuth (purple).
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Sun Fires Off 2 Huge Solar Flares in One-Two Punch | Space Weather | Space.com - 0 views
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One of the flares is the most powerful solar eruption of the year, so far.
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Both of the huge flares ranked as X-class storms, the strongest type of solar flares the sun can have
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Astronomers Identify the Largest Yellow "Hypergiant" Star Known - 0 views
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A recent analysis of a star in the south hemisphere constellation of Centaurus has highlighted the role that amateurs play in assisting with professional discoveries in astronomy.
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The stats for
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the binary system weighs in at a combined 39 solar masses, has a radius of over 1,300 times that of our Sun, and is a million times as luminous
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It's Official: Voyager 1 Is Now In Interstellar Space - 0 views
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NASA says the most distant human made object — the Voyager 1 spacecraft — is in interstellar space
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It actually made the transition about a year ago
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there is a bit of an argument on the semantics of whether Voyager 1 is still inside or outside of our Solar System
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Researchers at Harvard University and MIT discover previously unobserved state of matte... - 0 views
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The discovery
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goes against what scientists previously understood of photons: that elementary light particles are massless loners that do not interact with each other.
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Most of the properties of light we know about originate from the fact that photons are massless, and that they do not interact with each other
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SOHO shows new images of Comet ISON - 0 views
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scientists have been watching through many observatories to see if the comet has already broken up under the intense heat and gravitational forces of the sun
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The comet is too far away to discern how many pieces it is in, so instead researchers carefully measure how bright it is,
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Less light can sometimes mean that more of the material has boiled off and disappeared, perhaps pointing to a disintegrated comet
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Faraway moon or faint star? Possible exomoon found - 0 views
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NASA-funded researchers have spotted the first signs of an "exomoon," and though they say it's impossible to confirm its presence
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The discovery was made by watching a chance encounter of objects in our galaxy, which can be witnessed only once
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won't have a chance to observe the exomoon candidate again
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Cartilage, made to order: Living human cartilage grown on lab chip -- ScienceDaily - 0 views
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The first example of living human cartilage grown on a laboratory chip has been created by scientists
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The researchers ultimately aim to use their innovative 3-D printing approach to create replacement cartilage
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Osteoarthritis is marked by a gradual disintegration of cartilage, a flexible tissue that provides padding where bones come together in a joint
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LADEE Sees Zodiacal Light before Crashing into Moon, but Apollo Mystery Remains - 0 views
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Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE)
Images - Mars Science Laboratory - 0 views
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NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) instrument on its robotic arm to illuminate and record this nighttime view of the sandstone rock target "Windjana."
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The rover had previously drilled a hole to collect sample material from the interior of the rock and then zapped a series of target points inside the hole with the laser of the rover's Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument
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The hole is 0.63 inch (1.6 centimeters) in diameter.
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Mars Exploration Rover Mission: The Mission - 0 views
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Opportunity is conducting
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science campaign at a location where orbital observations show the presence of clay minerals
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rover is positioning near a large, light-toned block of exposed rock outcrop, called "Whitewater Lake."
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'Orphan' Alien Planet Found Nearby Without Parent Star | Space.com - 0 views
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The free-floating object
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is likely a gas giant planet four to seven times more massive than Jupiter,
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Astronomers have discovered a potential "rogue" alien planet wandering alone just 100 light-years from Earth
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Curiosity providing new weather and radiation data about Mars - 0 views
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During the first 12 weeks after Curiosity landed
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researchers analyzed data from more than 20 atmospheric events with at least one characteristic of a whirlwind recorded
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Mars Science Laboratory: Images - 0 views
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white-balanced color adjustment that makes the sky look overly blue but shows the terrain as if under Earth-like lighting
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White-balancing helps scientists recognize rock materials based on their experience looking at rocks on Earth
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White balancing yields an overly blue hue in images that have very little blue information, such as Martian landscapes, because the white balancing tends to overcompensate for the low inherent blue content.
Universe is a teeny bit older than thought | Matter & Energy | Science News - 0 views
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Launched by the European Space Agency in 2009, the Planck satellite scans the sky for the cosmic microwave background, radiation that dates back to about 380,000 years after the Big Bang
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Planck is essentially a supersensitive thermometer that can probe the temperature of this radiation to millionths of a degree
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The red spots in the map are about 1 part in 100,000 hotter than the average temperature, while the blue spots are slightly colder
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True colors of some fossil feathers now in doubt (w/ Video) - 0 views
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evidence for the colors of feathers—especially melanin-based colors—can be altered during fossilization
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past reconstructions of the original colors of feathers in some fossil birds and dinosaurs may be flawed
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In modern birds, black, brown, and some reddish-brown colors are produced by tiny granules of the pigment melanin
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