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Companies are lining up to mine the Moon for water, fuel …
… and an element that could revolutionise energy production It’s been nearly 38 years since man last walked on the moon – but it’s recently become a hot destination once again, because several companies are vying to return to Earth’s satellite to mine it. It’s known that the Moon contains huge amounts of water-ice […]
NPP Launch
October 28, 2011
NASA’s National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System Preparatory Project (NPP) spacecraft was launched aboard a Delta II rocket at 5:48 a.m. EDT today, on a mission to measure both global climate changes and key weather variables. http://youtu.be/cg9Z0-WEQIQ NPP is the first step for NASA in building the next generation Earth observing satellite system. The EOS […]
Solving the Dirac Equation
October 28, 2011
Alternative Discrete Energy Solutions to the Free Particle Dirac Equation Thomas Edward Brennan The usual method of solving the free particle Dirac equation results in the so called continuum energy solutions. Here, we take a different approach and find a set of solutions with quantized energies which are proportional to the total angular momentum…… Read […]
What if they don’t find the Higgs?
October 28, 2011
So, the 2011 run of the LHC is coming to a close, I mean the interesting part . A 5 inverse femtobarn stash of data has been collected by each ATLAS and CMS. These data will by fully analyzed and scrutinized by the late winter 2012, while rumors should start popping up on blogs before […]
Most pristine known asteroid is denser than granite
October 28, 2011
Asteroids are generally regarded as the solar system’s scrap heap, the battered bits that broke off and were left behind when the planets were forming. But the lumpy asteroid 21 Lutetia may be a whole, unbroken building block left nearly untouched since the solar system’s birth. “We think planets were built of things like Lutetia,” […]
Laser gyroscope measures the Earth’s ‘wobble’
October 28, 2011
An international team of researchers have developed a new type of gyroscope that is the first to measure the “wobble” in the rotational axis of the Earth from a ground-based laboratory. Astronomers normally track this wobble by continuously monitoring the position of distant objects, such as quasars. But this new method will provide a much […]
Faster-than-light neutrino experiment to be run again
October 28, 2011
Scientists who announced that sub-atomic particles might be able to travel faster than light are to rerun their experiment in a different way. This will address criticisms and allow the physicists to shore up their analysis as much as possible before submitting it for publication. Dr Sergio Bertolucci said it was vital not to “fool […]
October 28, 2011
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