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A Telescope Farm on the Moon? Maybe

longooodays的BLOG -- A Telescope Farm on the Moon? Maybe Irene Klotz, Discovery NewsScoping Out the MoonAstronomers looking for a clear and quiet place from which to map the faintest echoes from the universe's infancy may have found a welcome mat on the far side of the moon. A farm of lunar radio telescopes is among 19 next-generation observatories that intrigued NASA enough to garner a combined $12 million for a year...     2008
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Hubble Finds First Organic Molecule On Extrasolar Planet

longooodays的BLOG -- Hubble Finds First Organic Molecule On Extrasolar PlanetThe tell-tale signature of the molecule methane in the atmosphere of the Jupiter-sized extrasolar planet HD 189733b has been found with the Hubble Space Telescope. Under the right circumstances methane can play a key role in prebiotic chemistry -- the chemical reactions considered necessary to form life as we know it. Although methane has bee...     2008
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Tiny Sensor Developed To Detect Homemade Bombs

longooodays的BLOG -- Tiny Sensor Developed To Detect Homemade BombsA team of chemists and physicists at the University of California, San Diego has developed a tiny, inexpensive sensor chip capable of detecting trace amounts of hydrogen peroxide, a chemical used in the most common form of homemade explosives.  Photo of penny and peroxide sensor The hydrogen peroxide sensor is the size of a penny. (Credit: UCSD)The inv...     2008
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Cutting-edge Computing Helps Discover Origin Of Life On Earth

longooodays的BLOG -- Cutting-edge Computing Helps Discover Origin Of Life On EarthThe UK’s national computing grid, along with their counterparts in the US (TeraGrid) and Europe have helped UCL (University College London) scientists shed light on how life on earth may have originated.Deep ocean hydrothermal vents have long been suggested as possible sources of biological molecules such as RNA and DNA but it was unclea...     2008
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Loopy Photons Clarify 'Spookiness' Of Quantum Physics

longooodays的BLOG -- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Joint Quantum Institute (NIST/University of Maryland) have developed a new method for creating pairs of entangled photons, particles of light whose properties are interlinked in a very unusual way dictated by ...     2008
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