The average Facebook user has 342 friends and teenage girls and boys tend to misreport their relationship status as married, according to an analysis of Facebook data by Wolfram Alpha founder Stephen Wolfram. Wolfram analyzed Facebook ...
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The Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) - due to be the world's widest eye on space - has got the go-ahead for construction on the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii. TMT will join 13 others on the extinct volcano but will dwarf them all: the biggest ...
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Inspired by the lunar occurance Supermoon, the Japan based product and graphic designer Nosigner (aka Eisuke Tachikawa) created a lifelike LED moon to remind you of the moon even when it is not out. The Moon lamp exhibits ...
NASA's proposed $17.7 billion budget includes plans to capture and redirect an asteroid into orbit around Earth so astronauts can study it. Ultimately, the project looks to learn more about the makeup of asteroids in an attempt to protect ...
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found the oldest, most distant supernova ever discovered, which experts say could help scientists better understand the evolution of the universe. A supernova is the explosive death of a star, which emits ...
IBM and ASTRON are on the hunt for scientists to take part in what is described as the world’s biggest big data challenge – researching the origins of the universe. The two organisations are inviting professors, scientists and ...
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The Planck space mission has given scientists new information about the age, content and origin of the universe. Planck, which lifted off in May 2009 on a mission to decipher the mysteries behind the creation of the universe, has created ...
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Telescope Casual Furniture for Outdoor, Patio Telescope Casual Furniture did not start out by manufacturing outdoor, patio furniture. At its beginning in 1903 this outdoor furniture company was known as The Telescope Cot Bed & Novelty ...
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CORNING — Perhaps the most famous artifact at the Corning Museum of Glass is the first failed cast for the giant mirror blank the company made 80 years ago and which is still used in the deep space telescope at Mount Palomar ...
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A remote control Augmented Reality Concept Car has "taken the gadget community by storm", says Thames & Kosmos. The company revealed the car at Toy Fair last month, which has since been featured on The Gadget Show and Metro listed it as ...
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Leo's Pad, a series of animated apps for preschoolers, is changing the face of educational apps by customizing learning activities for a child—as he or she plays. Leo's Pad is the first release from Kidaptive, Inc., a collaboration of ...
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It is reported from the seminar on research and development on utilization of Baosteel's steel slag. It was known to all that the successful application of the permeable brick made of steel slag in the Expo Park of 2010 Shanghai World Expo, ...
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According to P. Sunderarajan writing in The Hindu, work on the world’s largest solar telescope is likely to commence in the Ladakh region of Jammu and Kashmir in India by the end of 2013. The telescope, with an aperture of 2 metres ...
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Based in Surrey, Optical Surfaces manufactures precision optical components for imaging, laser manipulation and other purposes. Satellites including BNSC's Top Sat, the NASA swift explorer as well as ESA's XMM and NigeriaSAT-2 have ...
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NASA's space hunter, the Kepler Space Telescope, has wrapped up its prime mission and is moving into an extended four-year plan to continue searching for other worlds. The space agency announced Wednesday that the Kepler has completed its ...
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