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DARPA Room-Temperature Atomic Layer Deposition could enable new electronics

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Successful deposition of silicon and gallium nitride at low temperature could allow three-dimensional control of thin films and integration of previously incompatible microelectronics materials DARPA-supported researchers have developed a new approach for synthesizing ultrathin materials at room temperature—a breakthrough over industrial approaches that have demanded temperatures of 800 degrees Celsius or more. The advance opens …

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Star Wars Rogue One Trailer with Darth Vader

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ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY trailer has Darth Vader Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine, Anti-aging Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology. …

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Zebra fish, Salamander and bichir have the same genetic control mechanisms for limb regeneration

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In a paper published in the journal PLOS ONE, MDI Biological Laboratory scientists Benjamin L. King, Ph.D., and Voot P. Yin, Ph.D., identified these common genetic regulators in three regenerative species: the zebrafish, a common aquarium fish originally from India; the axolotl, a salamander native to the lakes of Mexico; and the bichir, a ray-finned …

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Russia PAK FA is technically comparable to the F-22 but Russia needs high oil prices to afford strategically meaningful numbers

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Russia’s first fifth-generation fighter project, the “MiG 1.44,” produced a single prototype before cancellation. The advent of the F-22 Raptor, and the expectation that the United States would follow up with large numbers of F-35s, made the development of a fifth-generation fighter imperative for Russia. Perception of this need resulted in the award of a …

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MRI with nanoscale resolution

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A new NMR microscope gives researchers an improved instrument to study fundamental physical processes. It also offers new possibilities for medical science, for example to better study proteins in Alzheimer patients’ brains. This is a major step forward towards the ultimate goal of a device that can measure variations at the nanoscale to study the …

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New Star Wars Rogue One Trailer

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Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Medicine, Anti-aging Biotechnology, and Nanotechnology. Known for identifying cutting edge technologies, he is currently a …

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Electricity turned into light using graphene to create an optical “sonic boom”

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When an airplane begins to move faster than the speed of sound, it creates a shockwave that produces a well-known “boom” of sound. Now, researchers at MIT and elsewhere have discovered a similar process in a sheet of graphene, in which a flow of electric current can, under certain circumstances, exceed the speed of slowed-down …

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Wafer scale carbon nanotube films

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A simple filtration process helped Rice University researchers create flexible, wafer-scale films of highly aligned and closely packed carbon nanotubes. Scientists at Rice, with support from Los Alamos National Laboratory, have made inch-wide films of densely packed, chirality-enriched single-walled carbon nanotubes In the right solution of nanotubes and under the right conditions, the tubes assemble …

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Spacex lands another rocket stage on the floating platform and Elon tweets Spacex may need to increase size of rocket storage

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SpaceX now has two successful rocket stage landings at sea and one on land. Four previous sea landing attempts resulted in the stage tipping over or landing too hard. This rocket launch was to geosynchronous orbit which meant it was travelling faster. A successful landing was “unlikely,” SpaceX wrote on YouTube before the successful sea …

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The Colors Of The Elements

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A guest article by Joseph Friedlander I wanted to write a simple article to show children to get them interested in chemistry. There is no gigantic cosmic idea here, just Wikipedia pictures and the common theme of pretty chemicals. This article is best shown to children with an adult by their side to explain things. …

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