Dark Side of Matter: 2012

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Dark Side of Matter Post Curiosity Survives 'brain transplant' to Drive on Mars Next Week

After surviving a planned four-day "brain surgery" operation, the most advanced rover yet sent to Mars will take its first drive next week, NASA scientists said Tuesday.

The Mars Science Laboratory rover, nicknamed Curiosity, had been stretching its limbs and checking out some of its cameras since it touched down on the Red Planet’s surface Aug. 5. This weekend, engineers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada-Flintridge installed fresh software that will arm the rover with the know-how to do its job on Mars.

From: http://www.latimes.com

Link: http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-nasa-jpl-curiosity-rover-brain-transplant-first-drive-mars-20120814,0,615306.story?track=rss

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Mutant Butterflies Found Emerging from Fukushima Radiation

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Link: http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/mutant-butterflies-found-emerging-from-fukushima-radiation

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/ca7ejjo

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Friday, August 10, 2012

Dark Side of Matter Post Dark Matter Still Hiding

From: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com

Link: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/07/20/dark-matter-still-hiding/

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Monday, April 9, 2012

Dark Side of Matter Post Plastic Electronics -- a Neat Solution

"You Just PRINT the Circuit right on the Plastic..."

Printed electronic test circuit manufactured

on a flexible plastic substrate at the Cavendish Laboratory,

University ofCambridge.

Credit: Enrico Gili

(Phys.org) -- A breakthrough in the development of a new generation of plastic electronic circuits by researchers at the Cavendish Laboratory brings flexible and transparent intelligent materials – such as artificial skin and interactive playing cards - a step closer.

From: http://phys.org

Link: http://phys.org/news/2012-04-plastic-electronics-neat-solution.html

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/78f32xn

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Bend-it e-Books Get Real with EPD in Factory Mode

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From: http://phys.org

(PhysOrg.com) -- LG Display has set the production clock ticking for a plastic EPD (electronic paper display) product which in turn is expected to set e-book marketability fast-forward. In an announcement Thursday, Korea-based LG Display, which manufactures thin film transistor liquid crystal display, said it has already started up mass production of EPD for e-books. That leaves little guesswork as to the form factor and no suspicions that LG Display might instead be sending out vapor about a futuristic project that is still in R&D.

Link: http://phys.org/news/2012-03-bend-it-e-books-real-epd-factory.html

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Sunday, April 8, 2012

Dark Side of Matter Post Advanced power-grid research finds low-cost, low-carbon future in West

From: http://phys.org

The least expensive way for the Western U.S. to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other sources of energy that may include nuclear power, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, researchers.

One possible scenario for the electricity system in the Western U.S. in 2026-29. Pie charts show the proportion of different types of energy sources generating power and flowing between load areas if there were a carbon tax of $70 per ton. According to the SWITCH model, such a tax could allow the West to reach a goal of 54% of 1990 emissions by 2030.

To achieve this level of decarbonization, policy changes are needed to cap or tax carbon emissions to provide an incentive to move toward low-carbon electricity sources, Kammen and the other study authors said.

Link: http://phys.org/news/2012-04-advanced-power-grid-low-cost-low-carbon-future.html

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Saturday, April 7, 2012

Dark Side of Matter Post Eliminating Moore’s Law With Phosphorus Atom Transistor

From: http://www.getusb.info

Scientists are trying to break the boundaries of Moore’s law by taking a phosphorus atom and create a working transistor as the gate to control electrical flow.

Moore’s law describes a long-term trend in the history of computer manufacturing whereby the number of transistors that can be placed in the same amount of space doubles approximately every two years.

The big caveat to this is the requirement the atom must remain at or below 391 degrees Fahrenheit to keep it from migrating out of it’s channel [what ever that means]. Because of this requirement, the test is only a

proof of concept to the ability rather then a proof of concept in manufacturing.

Moore’s law hasn’t been broken yet, but this experiment

shows it eventually will.

Link: http://www.getusb.info/eliminating-moores-law-with-phosphorus-atom-transistor/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GetUSBinfo+%28USB+Powered+Gadgets+and+more..%29

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Saturday, March 24, 2012

DSofM Post Astronauts Scramble for Escape Pods as Space Junk Threat gets Serious

From: http://www.csmonitor.com

ATLANTA

The six earthlings – three Russians, two Americans, and a Dutchman – aboard the International Space Station were stirred from their slumber Saturday morning to jump into emergency escape pods, once again drawing into focus the growing dangers of hurtling space junk.

Link: http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/0324/Astronauts-scramble-for-escape-pods-as-space-junk-threat-gets-serious

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Friday, March 23, 2012

DSoM Post An Elusive New Scorpion Species from California Lives Underground

March 23, 2012
From: http://www.physorg.com

This is a scorpion glowing under ultraviolet light. This specimen is a Northern Scorpion, a broadly distributed species that was also found in the Inyo Mountains.

Credit: Michael Webber

Even in places as seemly well-studied as the national parks of North America, new species are still being discovered.

Using ultraviolet light that cause scorpions to fluoresce a ghostly glow, researchers from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) have discovered an intriguing new scorpion in Death Valley National Park. They named the species Wernerius inyoensis, after the Inyo Mountains where it was found. The study was published in the open access journal ZooKeys.

More information: Webber MM, Graham MR, Jaeger JR (2012) Wernerius inyoensis, an elusive new scorpion from the Inyo Mountains of California (Scorpiones, Vaejovidae).

ZooKeys 177: 1-13. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.177.2562

Link: http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-elusive-scorpion-species-california-underground.html

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/8yuyee6

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Diatom Biosensor Could Shine Light

on Future Nanomaterials

Link: http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-diatom-biosensor-future-nanomaterials.html

TinyURL: http://tinyurl.com/87hf6ab

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Europe Launches Third Robot Freighter

to Space Station

March 23, 2012

There are 6 ISS crew Kononenko (L), Shkaplerov (R) and Anatoli Ivanishin Dan Burbank, Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers

In this NASA handout image from February 16, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko (L) and Anton Shkaplerov, work on the International Space Station (ISS).

An automated craft laden with supplies for the ISS headed

into spaceon Friday in the heaviest

launch ever undertaken by Europe.

An automated craft laden with supplies for the International Space Station (ISS) headed into space on Friday in the

heaviest launch ever undertaken by Europe.

Link: http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-europe-robot-freighter-space-station.html

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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Dark Side of Matter Post --- FTL Neutrinos Could be Wrong

Bad Cable May Be to Blame...In Flawed

Faster-Than-Light Experiment.

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A malfunctioning cable may have been responsible for the claim that some particles may be able to travel faster than light speed, a potentially embarrassing outcome for physicists who had publicized the findings with great fanfare just a few month ago.

Link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203918304577240911911007148.html

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Friday, February 10, 2012

Dark Side of Matter Post Molecule Mimics Molybdenum Catalyst

Chemists in the US have created a molecule that closely resembles the key active portion of molybdenum disulfide, an important solid industrial catalyst that shows promise for the generation of hydrogen from water. There are relatively few catalytically active sites on molybdenum disulfide crystals, so a molecular analogue could lead to a catalyst with similar chemistry but a higher density of active sites. In addition, a molecular mimic can be experimented upon more easily, to improve efficiencies and unpick the catalytic mechanism - something that is still unclear for MoS2.

Link: http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2012/February/hydrogen-catalyst-mimic-molybdenum-disulfide.asp

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Monday, January 9, 2012

Dark Side of Matter Post Astronomers Map Largest Ever Zone of Dark Matter

An international research team has presented the largest ever map of dark matter at the 219th American Astronomical Society conference in Austin, Texas.