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Silk reinforced carbon nanotubes spun by spiders is 3.5 times stronger than...
The protein matrix and hard tissues of insects, worms, ants and spiders naturally incorporates metals, such as zinc, manganese and copper. This leads to mechanical hardening of teeth, jaws, mandibles,...
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Architecture for improved scaling for Ion Trap Quantum Computers
Arxiv - Ball-grid array architecture for microfabricated ion trapsState-of-the-art microfabricated ion traps for quantum information research are approaching nearly one hundred control electrodes. We...
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Space Coaches - Reusable Refuelable Interplanetary Spacecraft made mostly of...
A website, spacecoach.org, expands on a 2010 paper which describes a design for a reusable interplanetary spacecraft made mostly out of water or pykrete (ice frozen with fiber material).The proposed...
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New Dwave Systems Quantum Computer Videos
Seeing the D-Wave facilities first-hand is a very cool experience. They look a lot like computers did back in the 60sD-Wave is making fantastic progress in fabricating ever-larger processors. In fact,...
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Guided missile tech adapted for 50 caliber bullets
DARPA’s Extreme Accuracy Tasked Ordnance (EXACTO) program, which developed a self-steering bullet to increase hit rates for difficult, long-distance shots, completed in February its most successful...
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Proof of concept all memristor brain mimicking chip
An all memristor chip, built by researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Stony Brook University, processes data not with digital logic circuits but with elements that mimic, in...
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Stem Cells that are precursors to eggs are used to provide youthful...
Doctors in Canada have begun a new chapter in medical history, delivering the first in a wave of babies expected to be born this summer through a technique that some experts think can dramatically...
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Planetary Resources will have two asteroid mining demonstration spacecraft in...
Planetary Resources will advance towards asteroid mining with two launches in 2015 of our technology demonstration spacecraft.The first of these spacecraft launched successfully into space today. The...
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Five sub-earth size exoplanets around an 11.2 billion year old star
The chemical composition of stars hosting small exoplanets (with radii less than four Earth radii) appears to be more diverse than that of gas-giant hosts, which tend to be metal-rich. This implies...
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Super-Critical Water-cooled Reactors
Supercritical water cooled nuclear reactors are one of the generation four reactor options.In June 2014, China announced their plan to produce a 1000MWe demonstration SWCR known as SCR-1000, with...
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Carnival of Space 404
1. NASA Chandra X-ray Space Telescope blog - NASA's Chandra Suggests Black Holes Gorging at Excessive RatesAstronomers have studied 51 quasars with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and found they may...
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Low Energy Toll Shortcut to faster Quantum State Preparation
Quantum technologies come in a wide variety of forms, from computers, sensors, and cryptographic systems to simulations and imaging systems. But one thing that all current and future quantum systems...
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NASA's ten electric engine battery powered plane
Imagine a battery-powered plane that has 10 engines and can take off like a helicopter and fly efficiently like an aircraft. That is a concept being developed by NASA researchers called Greased...
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Why $14 billion aircraft carriers are a bad idea
Jerry Hendrix, a retired Navy captain, is a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security and the director of its Defense Strategies and Assessments Program. This is a summary of the case he...
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Inventor Guido Fetta describes EMdrive related propellentless Cannae drive...
Guido Fetta describes created unbalanced electromagnetic forces within the chamber. Guido says summing the lorentz forces has a propellentless force.Guido Fetta, inventor of the Emdrive related...
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Freightliner Inspiration Truck – the first licensed autonomous driving truck...
With the Freightliner Inspiration Truck, Daimler introduced the world’s first autonomous truck licensed to drive on public roads.The Freightliner Inspiration Truck is the world's first autonomous truck...
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Thirsty Walls NASA NIAC 2015 Funded Study
Thirsty Walls - A new paradigm for air revitalization in life supportAir Revitalization (AR) is a critical function for all Human Exploration Missions. Historically, air revitalization is performed by...
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Stratospheric Dual-Aircraft Platform for a station-keeping aircraft...
The Dual-Aircraft Platform (DAP) is a patented concept for achieving a low-cost atmospheric satellite which utilizes wind shear as the primary energy source, and has the potential to stationkeep...
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APIS (Asteroid Provided In-Situ Supplies): 100MT Of Water from a Single Falcon 9
Total cost of planned human exploration missions is strongly driven by the need to launch large quantities of rocket propellant, drinking water, oxygen, and radiation shielding. If...
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Affordable $20 million fighter planes
The Textron Scorpion costs $20 million, still not exactly a bargain by most people's standards, but a fifth of the cost of the F-35. It suggests that not every advanced defence project has to...
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