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Spacex water landing looks good. First stage stabilized and rocket...
Elon Musk tweeted more good news about the water landing of the first stage.Data upload from tracking plane shows landing in Atlantic was good! Several boats enroute through heavy seas.Flight computers...
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Hubble Telescope can use spatial scanning to measure 5 billionth of a degree...
By applying a technique called spatial scanning to an age-old method for gauging distances called astronomical parallax, scientists now can use NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to make precision distance...
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Finding life in the outer solar system by pitlamping
Physicist Freeman Dyson suggests that we start looking for life on the moons of Jupiter and out past Neptune, in the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud. He talks about what such life would be like -- and...
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Embryo clones produced from cells of human adults
Scientists for the first time have cloned cells from two adults to create early-stage embryos, and then derived tissue from those embryos that perfectly matched the DNA of the donors.The experiment...
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Various Number One Box Office Movie in the Country did have uploading of...
Transcendence bombed with just $4.82 million. That's a bit lower than Source Code, and about on par with decade-old sci-fi disasters Stealth ($4.8 million) and The Island ($4.2 million). It's also a...
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Carnival of Space 350
The Carnival of Space 350 is up at CosmoquestUniverse Today - A new visualization of data from a nuclear weapons warning network, to be unveiled by B612 Foundation CEO Ed Lu during the evening event at...
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Three more mini-Plutos found and six others are being tracked out of...
Last week astronomers reported the discovery of 2012 VP113 – nicknamed "Joe Biden" after the vice president, or VP, of the US. This potential dwarf planet was spotted on the outer fringes of the solar...
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China will have over 88 gigawatts of nuclear power by 2020 according to head...
China's nuclear power installed capacity, including that in operation and under construction, is predicted to top 88 gigawatts by 2020, said Zhang Huazhu, head of the China Nuclear Energy Association...
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Tissue engineered vagina's function normally over eight years
Researchers from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem and the Metropolitan Autonomous University in Mexico City biopsied cells from the women and were able to use a biodegradable scaffolds to then...
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Elon Musk and Spacex plan to recover and refly a first rocket stage in 2015
According to Hans Koenigsmann, SpaceX's vice president of mission assurance, the next Falcon 9 launch scheduled for May will also try for a water recovery.The next step, assuming sea crews are unable...
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Helium Ion milled double layer graphene is the thinnest porous nanomembrane...
Researchers have produced a stable porous membrane that is thinner than a nanometre. This is a 100,000 times thinner than the diameter of a human hair. The membrane consists of two layers of the much...
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World Bank preparing to implement plans to eliminate extreme poverty by 2030
The World Bank has a 30 page document that is the beginning of their plan to help eliminate extreme (less than $1.25 per day) poverty The document is called Prosperity for all.To end extreme poverty,...
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If Calico can deliver me an added 40 years of healthy life then Google has my...
Cynthia Kenyon’s team found that modifications to a gene called daf-2 resulted in doubling the lifespan of the worms, from two weeks to four; another gene, daf-16, kept them youthful despite their...
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Ethanol is bad for the environment overall and is increasing the cost of food...
James Conca at Forbes reports that the International Institute for Sustainable Development estimates that the CO2 and climate benefits from replacing petroleum fuels with biofuels like ethanol are...
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Any suggestions and volunteers for an overhaul of the nextbigfuture website ?
Are there any suggestions and volunteers for an overhaul of the nextbigfuture website ?The User Interface needs to be overhauled.Currently the site resides on blogger.com.If a good custom template...
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China looks to buy 8 more AP1000 nuclear reactors and is accelerating nuclear...
Westinghouse is in talks to sell eight more AP1000 nuclear Reactors to China for about $24 billion.China currently has 20 nuclear power reactors online, with another 28 under construction, as it seeks...
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AT and T announces 1 Gigabit "Paper Fiber" but reduces capital spending
[Via DSLReports] Ever since Google Fiber came on the scene, AT&T's response has been highly theatrical in nature. What AT&T would have the press and public believe is that they're engaged in a...
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 205
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 205 is up at the Atomic Power Review.Canadian Energy Issues - IPCC, meet Johannes Kepler; like you, he faced dogma, peer pressure, and criticism. Here's how he...
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Quantum tunneling between two plasmonic resonators links nonlinear quantum...
Singapore researchers have successfully designed and fabricated electrical circuits that can operate at hundreds of terahertz frequencies, which is tens of thousands times faster than today’s...
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Estimate of 10,000 Dwarf Planets with about 400 candidates so far
The upper and lower size and mass limits of dwarf planets have not been specified by the IAU. (International Astronomical Union) There is no defined upper limit, and an object larger or more massive...
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