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![]() Santa Barbara CA (SPX) Aug 22, 2012 Computing prime factors may sound like an elementary math problem, but try it with a large number, say one that contains more than 600 digits, and the task becomes enormously challenging and impossibly time-consuming. Now, a group of researchers at UC Santa Barbara has designed and fabricated a quantum processor capable of factoring a composite number - in this case the number 15 - into its constituent prime factors, 3 and 5. Although modest compared to a 600-digit number, the achievement represen ... read more |
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![]() Satellite preparations move into full swing for the next Arianespace Soyuz mission from French Guiana Both Galileo navigation satellites for Arianespace's third Soyuz flight from the Spaceport are now in French Guiana, marking a new milestone for this mission scheduled in the second half of 2012. ... more | .. |
![]() NASA Picks Revolutionary Space Tech Proposals For Development NASA's Space Technology Program has selected five technologies that could revolutionize America's space capabilities. In March, NASA issued a call for proposal focused on sudden and unexpected innov ... more | .. |
![]() Intelsat 21 Will Boot Latin America TV ANd Mobile Across South Atlantic Intelsat has announced that a Sea Launch Zenit 3SL launch vehicle successfully launched the Intelsat 21 satellite from a mobile platform in the equatorial Pacific Ocean. Liftoff occurred at 2:55 a.m ... more | .. | ||
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![]() For US students, plane tickets, TVs are relics US college freshmen this year "watch television everywhere but on a television" and have "never seen an airplane 'ticket,'" according to an annual list created to detail the generation gap. ... more | .. |
![]() Voyager at 35: Break on Through to the Other Side Thirty-five years ago, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft, the first Voyager spacecraft to launch, departed on a journey that would make it the only spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune and the longest-o ... more | .. |
![]() Is China Going to Blast Past America in Space? In recent weeks China has appeared prominently in the international media. To the layman it would seem that the Asian superpower is advancing its space technology and exploration program at warp spe ... more | .. |
![]() Russian Booster Rocket Lifts US Satellite in Seaborne Launch A Russian booster rocket has blasted off from the Odyssey launch pad in the Pacific Ocean as part of the Sea Launch project to deliver a U.S. satellite into orbit, a spokesman for Energiya space cor ... more |
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![]() MIT-developed 'microthrusters' could propel small satellites A penny-sized rocket thruster may soon power the smallest satellites in space. The device, designed by Paulo Lozano, an associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, bears little resem ... more | .. |
![]() Intelsat 21 Satellite Sends Initial Signals from Space Intelsat 21, the second Boeing 702 Medium Power (MP) satellite, has begun sending signals from its preliminary transfer orbit in space. Approximately 55 minutes following liftoff at 11:55 p.m. Pacif ... more | .. |
![]() Flight Readiness Review Complete; No Constraints to Aug. 23 Launch At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the Flight Readiness Review for the agency's Radiation Belt Storm Probes spacecraft and the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is complete. There ... more | .. |
![]() Space bugs for blood testing and more Thanks to ideas of putting swarms of tiny robot bugs to work on a future space station, patients being medicated for blood clots may soon get a simple, home-use testing kit, here on Earth. Fifteen y ... more |
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![]() XCOR Becomes Corporate Sponsor of Uwingu, a Space Apps Company XCOR Aerospace, a leader in commercial suborbital spaceflight, has become a corporate sponsor of Uwingu LLC's crowd-sourcing campaign to generate funds to launch its first web-based products. ... more | .. |
![]() India's GSAT-10 satellite continues its checkout for the upcoming Arianespace Ariane 5 mission Test deployments of the antenna reflectors on India's GSAT-10 telecommunications satellite have been performed as part of pre-flight preparations for this payload, which is one of two spacecraft on ... more | .. |
![]() US drones kill three militants in NW Pakistan: officials A US drone strike on Tuesday killed at least three militants in a restive Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, security officials said. ... more | .. |
![]() Swiss fighter jet purchase to go ahead despite criticism Switzerland is to press ahead with its controversial purchase of 22 Saab Gripen fighter jets despite a highly critical parliamentary report into the deal released on Tuesday. ... more |
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![]() US Army certifies soldiers ready to defend battlespace with JLENS Combatant commanders moved one step closer to being able to detect, track and engage threats such as swarming boats and incoming cruise missiles, around the clock, from hundreds of miles away. In Ju ... more | .. |
![]() Obama says use of Syrian chemical weapons 'red line' US President Barack Obama said on Monday that if Syria were to move or use its chemical weapons it would be a "red line" that would change his perspective on how to respond to the conflict. ... more | .. |
![]() US drones kill six militants in NW Pakistan: officials Two US drone strikes on Sunday killed at least six militants in a restive Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, security officials said. ... more | .. |
![]() Israel deploys anti-rocket battery near Egypt border: army The Israeli army has deployed an Iron Dome air defence system, designed to intercept and destroy rockets, days after two rockets were fired at the town of Eilat near the border with Egypt, a military spokeswoman said Monday. ... more |
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![]() US drone kills six militants in Pakistan: officials A US drone attack Saturday killed at least six militants in a remote Pakistani tribal town near the Afghan border as local people celebrated the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr, security officials said. ... more | .. |
![]() Raytheon mobile app allows first responders to use PCs, tablets and smartphones as "virtual radios" Raytheon has developed a mobile application for PCs, tablets and smartphones that allows first responders to interact and communicate without the use of land mobile radios (LMRs). As a part of Rayth ... more | .. |
![]() Record radiation in fish off Japan nuclear plant A pair of greenlings have shown the highest level of radioactive caesium detected in fish and shellfish caught in waters off Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant, its operator said Tuesday. ... more | .. |
![]() US allows NGOs to send quake relief funds to Iran The United States on Tuesday lifted sanctions barriers on private groups that want to send relief funds to Iran in the wake of the August 11 earthquake disaster in the country's northwest. ... more |
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![]() Scientists shed light on glowing materials Researchers at King's College London, in collaboration with European research institutes ICFO (Barcelona) and AMOLF (Amsterdam), have succeeded in mapping how light behaves in complex photonic mater ... more | .. |
![]() Boon to fusion: Scientist finds new way to predict heat layer troublemaker Researchers at a recent worldwide conference on fusion power have confirmed the surprising accuracy of a new model for predicting the size of a key barrier to fusion that a top scientist at the U.S. ... more | .. |
![]() Constructive conflict in the superconductor Whether a material conducts electricity without losses is not least a question of the right temperature. In future it may be possible to make a more reliable prediction for high-temperature supercon ... more | .. |
![]() Information overload in the era of 'big data' Botany is plagued by the same problem as the rest of science and society: our ability to generate data quickly and cheaply is surpassing our ability to access and analyze it. In this age of big data ... more |
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![]() Common metals promise electricity bounty Less-expensive solar technology using common metals could cover America's rooftops and supply a significant part of the country's electricity, scientists say. ... more | .. |
![]() Apple-Samsung smartphone clash heads to jury The mammoth Apple-Samsung patent trial went to the jury Tuesday, setting the stage for a verdict that could have huge implications for the hot market in smartphones and tablet computers. ... more | .. |
![]() Japan trade deficit shows world economy 'serious' Sagging export markets in Europe and Asia left Japan with a much worse-than-expected trade deficit, figures showed Wednesday, ringing alarm bells over the parlous state of the global economy. ... more | .. |
![]() China's Geely H1 profit rises 9% as exports surge Chinese automaker Geely said Wednesday its first-half net profit rose nine percent year-on-year, as strong exports helped to offset a domestic slowdown in the world's biggest car market. ... more |
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