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There should be at least two larger than Earth size planets beyond Pluto...
TWO supersized planets could lurk in the outer reaches of our solar system.When dwarf planet 2012 VP113 was discovered in March, it joined a handful of small, rocky objects known to reside past the...
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China seeing a controlled softening rather than a hard landing for is economy...
The mainland economy may bottom out over next few months, thanks to Beijing's fine-tuning policy, as industrial production and consumption gathered steam last month and accelerated investment in...
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Vanadium redox batteries could balance the electrical grid for solar and wind...
Vanadium "redox flow" batteries are very stable. They can be discharged and recharged 20,000 times without much loss of performance, and are thought to last decades (they have not been around long...
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NASA Test Bed for Growing Earth Life on Mars to be developed
A Mars Ecopoiesis Test Bed concept is proposed for development in a three-phase program concluding with a device for studying the survival of terrestrial life forms on the surface of Mars prior to...
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LPP Fusion Crowdfunding at $125K of $200K target
Scientists at LPP Fusion, led by Chief Scientist Eric Lerner, are just one step away from technically proving out dense plasma focus fusion and you a few thousand other people can help for the final...
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Balloons, Drones and Submarines for exploring Saturn's Moon Titan and other...
Quadcopter or other rotorcraft Drones and Balloons for Exploring TitanSaturn’s giant moon Titan has become one of the most fascinating bodies in the Solar System. Titan is the richest laboratory in the...
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 213
The Carnival of Nuclear Energy 213 is up at the ANS Nuclear CafeAtomic Insights - Misinformation about radiation health effects does not just affect the nuclear industry and dramatically increase the...
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Navy will test combat lasers on humvees this year and will field test 30...
As the Navy prepares to deploy its first laser weapon on a ship later this summer, Office of Naval Research (ONR) officials announced June 11 that they have finished awarding contracts to develop a...
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Gigafactory would produce ten times all of the car batteries in 2013 and...
The automotive segment accounted for about 10.5% (4,972.2 MWh) of global advanced battery shipments of about 47,400 MWh.Tesla plans to build a battery “gigafactory” that by 2020 will have the capacity...
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Efficient approach to manufacture 3D high density metal parts
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers have developed a new and more efficient approach to a challenging problem in additive manufacturing -- using selective laser melting, namely, the...
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Carbon nanotubes reinforce graphene in an easier to handle hybrid material
Carbon nanotubes are reinforcing bars that make two-dimensional graphene much easier to handle in a new hybrid material grown by researchers at Rice University.The Rice lab of chemist James Tour set...
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Nanoscale composites improve MRI by ten times
Submicroscopic particles that contain even smaller particles of iron oxide could make magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) a far more powerful tool to detect and fight disease.Scientists at Rice University...
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Carbon nanotubes terahertz detector
Researchers at Rice University, Sandia National Laboratories and the Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed novel terahertz detectors based on carbon nanotubes that could improve medical imaging,...
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Elon Musk Says Spacex on getting the first people to Mars by 2024 to 2026
Elon Musk said Spacex will just keep going, but SpaceX's progression would be slowed down if the U.S. government doesn't choose the company's Dragon V2 as the next crew carrier to the International...
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Peak Resource and Anti-Nuclear Doomers Really Hate Uranium from Seawater...
Ugo Bardi and Michael Dittmar contributed to a new Club of Rome report which forecasts economic doom because of lack of future resources. Nextbigfuture has shown Ugo Bardi analysis to be flawed and...
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China’s President Xi Jinping said that China's development of nuclear energy...
At the end of 2013, China’s 17 operational nuclear power plants were generating about 2 percent of the country’s total energy, according to Xinhua. But Ye Qizhen, an expert in nuclear energy at the...
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Quantum Synchronize a global network of atomic clocks would be 100 times more...
A quantum network of atomic clocks could create even more accurate and stable time-keeping devices than present atomic clocks, reports a paper published online this week in Nature Physics. Such a...
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Wireless glucose monitoring via and iphone app that is automatically updated...
A bionic pancreas has been developed and it offers hope of a normal life to people with type 1 diabetes.The device takes over the task of monitoring and regulating sugar levels in the blood. Every 5...
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Graphene-quantum-dot nonvolatile charge-trap flash memories
Scientists have used graphene quantum dots instead of nanocrystals as the discrete charge trap material. Graphene quantum dots in particular are very new materials. As bits of graphene extracted from...
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New manufacturing techniques must be developed before soft machines become...
Researchers have developed a technique that might be used to produce "soft machines" made of elastic materials and liquid metals for potential applications in robotics, medical devices and consumer...
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