Carbon Nanotube

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First Reported May 16 2012 - Updated May 16 2012 - 1 Documents

Watch a nanotube being eaten, and then barfed back up, by a flake of iron [Video]

There are a lot of grown-up ways I might have chosen to write that headline, but when you watch this video you'll see why I resorted to talking like my five-year-old neighbor. Though what you're watching are simple chemical reactions under a tunneling ... [ Published May 16 2012 by Io9 ]

Entities: Iron, Nanotube, Acetylene

First Reported May 03 2012 - Updated May 03 2012 - 1 Documents

David Albert

Why Physicists Need Philosophers [Quote Of The Day]

There's a spat brewing between some theoretical physicists and philosophers of science recently, and NPR's Adam Frank has all the details. It started when one philosopher of science, David Albert, questioned the notion that the universe came "from nothing," ... [ Published May 03 2012 by Io9 ]

Entities: Cosmology, David Albert, Richard Feynman, Carbon Nanotube

First Reported Apr 22 2012 - Updated Apr 22 2012 - 1 Documents

Give me steel...

And then exotics... titanium (remember your first one? how light and cool it was compared to steel or gold)... but it was dull and until grade 5 or bright titanium from seiko, polished titanium was a bit rarer), then ceramic (iwc, panerai)... achingly ... [ Published Apr 22 2012 by Watch Pro Site ]

Entities: Steel, Titanium, Zirconium, Tantalum, Carbon Nanotube

First Reported Apr 17 2012 - Updated Apr 17 2012 - 1 Documents

This ultra-absorbent "nanosponge" could fix the world's worst oil spills [Video]

The tiny sponge featured in this video may not look like very much, but it has the ability to absorb 100 times its weight in oil. Even better, it "hates" water, meaning it's perfect for cleaning up oil spills.The nanosponge is the work of engineers at ... [ Published Apr 17 2012 by Io9 ]

Entities: Oil Spill, Sponge, Hydrophobic, Carbon Nanotube

First Reported Apr 02 2012 - Updated Apr 03 2012 - 1 Documents

Nanotube fabric could let you charge your phone by walking

What if you could power up your smartphone with just a brisk walk?That's the promise of Power Felt, a new creation of nanotechnology researchers at Wake Forest University.It's a fabric, made up of tiny carbon nanotubes locked in flexible plastic fibers, ... [ Published Apr 02 2012 by Channel4000 ]

Entities: Nanotube, David Carroll, Nanotechnology

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...He also played a key role in the development of the company's Nintendo DS portable game machine. "Thanks to his great imagination, he has managed to create virtual dreams that enable millions of people of all ages to interact, generating new forms of communication and relationship capable of bridging ideological, ethic and geographic boundaries" the foundation said...

Nintendo's Miyamoto Wins Prestigious Spanish Award [Jiji Press English News Service] [TMC Net - 12 hours ago]

So the Avengers (all eleventy-seven of them) hop in their flying battleship and travel to the X-Men's island in the Bay to say, "Hey, can we talk to Hope, your X-teammate? We think that bird on fire on her head is a sign of the apocalypse."

Avengers Vs. X-Men is the best stupid comic of the year so far [Avengers] [Io9 - May 03 2012]

...make it into a song: Terran Up the Night, performed by Blizzard employees during the end credits to StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty, goes like this, "Strapped into powered armor, I got the ladies always looking at me. They can't believe the size of my over-engineered codpiece."

The 25 Best Armor Sets in Games [IGN.com - May 03 2012]

...A hoarding tells me that Crick "is best known for his work with James Watson, Maurice Wilkins and others which led to identifying the structure of DNA in 1953" . And others : despite decades of attempts to redress the injustice done to Rosalind Franklin, in the official corridors of biomedical science hers is...

My Sister Rosalind Franklin by Jenifer Glynn - review [Guardian.co.uk - May 02 2012]

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Nintendo's Miyamoto Wins Prestigious Spanish Aw... [ Published 12 hours ago by TMC Net ]
Watch a nanotube being eaten, and then barfed b... [ Published May 16 2012 by Io9 ]
Avengers Vs. X-Men is the best stupid comic of ... [ Published May 03 2012 by Io9 ]
The 25 Best Armor Sets in Games [ Published May 03 2012 by IGN.com ]
Why Physicists Need Philosophers [Quote Of The ... [ Published May 03 2012 by Io9 ]
My Sister Rosalind Franklin by Jenifer Glynn - ... [ Published May 02 2012 by Guardian.co.uk ]
25 Things You Need To Know About The Future by ... [ Published Apr 29 2012 by Science Fiction Crowsnest ]
Designing the Dynamic [ Published Apr 27 2012 by What's On North East ]
Give me steel... [ Published Apr 22 2012 by Watch Pro Site ]
Truth Serum Wasn't Always a Silly Spy Movie Drug [ Published Apr 20 2012 by Tested ]
Cornell Study Illuminates the Science of a Memo... [ Published Apr 19 2012 by Tested ]
This ultra-absorbent "nanosponge" could fix the... [ Published Apr 17 2012 by Io9 ]
Nanotube fabric could let you charge your phone... [ Published Apr 02 2012 by Channel4000 ]
Predicting the Future: Scientists vs SciFi [ Published Apr 02 2012 by Dont Panic ]