2014年8月18日 星期一

2014-08-19 South Africa Science

  Siliconrepublic.com   
Origami-style solar power for future space vehicles  Pune Mirror
As a high school student at a study program in Japan, Brian Trease would fold wrappers from fast-food cheeseburgers into cranes. He loved discovering different origami techniques in library books. Today, Trease, a mechanical engineer at NASA's Jet ...

Origami might change the way NASA builds solar panels   ExtremeTech
Orbiting solar power plant could unfurl like folded paper, says Nasa   Daily Mail
Nasa is using origami to fold up 82-foot solar arrays into 9-foot tubes   The Independent
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Mummification ointment is older than the Pharaohs  Times LIVE
A recent study has revealed that the embalming fluid used by ancient Egyptians to mummify the dead is far older than previously thought. SA students test-launch hybrid rocket · 50 Cent, Intel team up on heart-monitor headphones · SA house swapping ...


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  Tech Times   
ISS astronauts venture outside for spacewalk  Tech Times
Two Russian astronauts on the ISS released a nanosatellite today on a five-hour spacewalk. The Peruvian satellite will measure and record temperature and pressure conditions. Two Russian astronauts spacewalked outside the International Space Station ...

Astronaut releases baby satellite   The Cairns Post
Spacewalking astronauts release baby satellite   Washington Post

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  BBC News   
Russian cosmonauts launch nano-satellite on spacewalk  BBC News
Two Russian cosmonauts have set off on a spacewalk from the International Space Station (ISS) to launch a nano-satellite. Flight engineers Oleg Artemyev and Aleksandr Skvortsov launched a small satellite named Chasqui I. It is a joint project between the ...

Russian cosmonauts make six-and-a-half-hour spacewalk outside ISS   Telegraph.co.uk
Russian Cosmonaut Tosses Satellite for Peru During Spacewalk   NBCNews.com
Cosmonauts deploy nanosatellites during spacewalk   Computerworld
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  Business Today   
Do black holes come in 'medium'? They do now.  Christian Science Monitor
Scientists report the most precise measure yet confirming the existence of an intermediate-mass black hole, which could have played a key role in the early evolution of galaxies. By Pete Spotts, Staff writer August 18, 2014. close. An artist's illustration shows a ...

Black Holes Aren't Always Super-Sized, Medium Discovered   Nature World News
An in-between black hole   Science AAAS
M82 X-1: Astronomers Zoom in on Rare Intermediate-Mass Black Hole in ...   Sci-News.com
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  Design & Trend   
Spacecraft's spectacular fiery return caught on camera  NEWS.com.au
AFTER bidding farewell to the International Space Station, the uncrewed Cygnus resupply ship Janice Voss burned up in Earth's atmosphere, as planned. An astronaut on the International Space Station took this amazing shot of the cargo ship as it re-entered, ...

SPACE STATION | Viewing opportunities for NE Ohio   WKYC-TV
Mini Peruvian Satellite Chasqui Launched from Space Station   Latin Post
Orbital Completes Third Cargo Delivery Mission to International Space Station ...   Wall Street Journal
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  The Nation   
505m-yr-old creature finally given place in 'Tree of Life'  The Nation
A bizarre worm-like animal that lived 505 million years ago has been definitively categorised on the 'Tree of Life' by scientists. Known as Hallucigenia the creature has legs, spikes, a head and a tail, and has been linked with a group of modern animals for the ...

No hallucination! Weird fossil worm Hallucigenia descendant found and it's ALIVE   Tech Times
Weird, 500 Million Year-Old Worm Provides Valuable Evolutionary Clues   Chinatopix
505 Million Year Old “Weird” Worm Becomes An Ancestor   ValueWalk
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  Economic Times   
Swarming 'Kilobots' Self-Organize Into Shapes  PC Magazine
Harvard researchers unveil a thousand-strong "flash mob" of small, mobile robots which can self-organize with minimal human input. 0shares. Swarming Kilobots/Credit: Harvard. Harvard researchers have designed a swarm of small, mobile robots which are ...

Scientists develop autonomous robot swarm   3News NZ
Universities enter a new frontier of robotics   Tech Page One
Robotic army work together to create incredible patterns [VIDEO]   WallStreet OTC
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  Gamepur   
Years It'd ACTUALLY Take to Visit Each Planet in No Man's Sky  Kotaku
This past week, No Man's Sky developer, Hello Games, mentioned that it uses a 64-bit seed to generate its planets. That got picked up by a few folks and they began saying things like "Seeing everything in No Man's Sky will take over five billion years.
It Takes 5 Billion Years To Visit Each Planet In 'No Man's Sky'   Forbes
No Man's Sky won't be infinite, but it might as well be   PCGamesN
It takes billions of years to see all of No Man's Sky   Joystiq
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  ExtremeTech   
TRIANGULAR orbits will help Rosetta to get up close with Comet 67P  Register
The European Space Agency (ESA) has revealed just how its Rosetta comet probe will close to within just 10kms of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Rosetta arrived at the comet on August 6th and has since sent back lovely photos of the rock.
Rosetta reveals surface of comet in detail   The Space Reporter
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Via a Comet   The New Indian Express
Could we, would we, ever colonise a comet?   Techly
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