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Saturday, May 11, 2013

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News

ScienceDaily: Top Technology News


NASA Curiosity rover team selects second drilling target on NASA

Posted: 10 May 2013 04:33 PM PDT

The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling. The rover will set course to the drilling location in coming days.

Sifting through atmospheres of far-off worlds

Posted: 10 May 2013 04:28 PM PDT

Gone are the days of being able to count the number of known planets on your fingers. Today, there are more than 800 confirmed exoplanets -- planets that orbit stars beyond our sun -- and more than 2,700 other candidates. What are these exotic planets made of? Unfortunately, you cannot stack them in a jar like marbles and take a closer look. Instead, researchers are coming up with advanced techniques for probing the planets' makeup.

Perfectly doped quantum dots yield 'colors to dye for'

Posted: 10 May 2013 09:45 AM PDT

This focuses on an ultra-precise method for doping the tiny semiconductors produces vivid hues.

New endurance record for small electric unmanned aerial vehicle

Posted: 10 May 2013 09:45 AM PDT

Using liquid hydrogen fuel stored in a new NRL-developed cryogenic fuel storage tank, the flight shatters the previous 26-hour record set by the UAV in 2009.

Flawed diamonds promise sensory perfection: Electron spin extended for incredibly tiny magnetic detectors

Posted: 10 May 2013 07:21 AM PDT

By extending the coherence time of electron states to over half a second, scientists have improved the performance of one of the most potent sensors of magnetic fields on the nanoscale -- a diamond defect no bigger than a pair of atoms called a nitrogen vacancy center. The achievement is important news for nanoscale sensors and quantum computing.

New magnetic graphene may revolutionize electronics

Posted: 10 May 2013 04:55 AM PDT

Researchers have managed to give graphene magnetic properties. The breakthrough opens the door to the development of graphene-based spintronic devices, that is, devices based on the spin or rotation of the electron, and could transform the electronics industry.

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