Science & Technology – Week of 11.24.13

Japan Wants To Turn The Moon Into A Giant Power Plant
Business Insider | 27 November 2012
Shimizu Corporation, a Japanese architecture and engineering firm, has a plan to effectively turn the moon into a giant solar power plant..

NASA and Planetary Resources Sign Agreement to Crowdsource Asteroid Detection
NASA.gov | 21 November 2012
NASA and Planetary Resources Inc., of Bellevue, Wash., are partnering to develop crowd-sourced software solutions to enhance detection of near-Earth objects using agency-funded data…

Will 2-D Tin Be the Next Super Material?
R&D | 22 November 2012
A single layer of tin atoms could be the world’s first material to conduct electricity with 100% efficiency…