News tagged with atmospheric compounds

Physicists surprised by disappearing and reappearing superconductivity in iron selenium chalcogenides

(PhysOrg.com) -- Superconductivity is a rare physical state in which matter is able to conduct electricity -- maintain a flow of electrons -- without any resistance. This phenomenon can only be found in certain ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Toxic aldehydes detected in reheated oil

Researchers from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU, Spain) have been the first to discover the presence of certain aldehydes in food, which are believed to be related to some neurodegenerative ...

Chemistry / Other

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

New climate-cooling molecule found

Scientists have succeeded in detecting and analyzing a new atmospheric molecule whose existence has long been suspected but never proved.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 4

New satellite observations reveal link between forests and acid rain

A team from LATMOS/IPSL, working in collaboration with Belgian researchers from the Institut d'Aeronomie Spatiale de Belgique (IASB) and the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), have revealed the existence ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 4

A dance of aerosols: Study shows plant-sourced particles pick and choose their partners

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the complex molecular mixer that is the atmosphere, some molecules dance with others and some are wallflowers, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Using a ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Setting the stage for life: Scientists make key discovery about the atmosphere of early Earth

Scientists in the New York Center for Astrobiology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have used the oldest minerals on Earth to reconstruct the atmospheric conditions present on Earth very soon after its birth. The findings, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Plant body clock observed in tropical forest research

(PhysOrg.com) -- Predictions of the ground-level pollutant ozone will be more accurate in future according to research published today by environment scientists at research centres including the University of Birmingham in ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Global warming pause linked to sulfur in China

Scientists have come up with a possible explanation for why the rise in Earth's temperature paused for a bit during the 2000s, one of the hottest decades on record.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 04, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (20) | comments 40

Chemists shed light on sun's role mixing up molecules

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Sydney scientists have discovered a startling new mechanism where sunlight can rearrange the atoms of molecules to form new chemical substances.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover missing links in the biology of cloud formation over the oceans

Scientists have known for two decades that sulfur compounds that are produced by bacterioplankton as they consume decaying algae in the ocean cycle through two paths. In one, a sulfur compound dimethylsulfide, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

No longer pining for organic molecules to make particles in the air

(PhysOrg.com) -- The fresh scent of pine has helped atmospheric scientists find missing sources of organic molecules in the air -- which, it could well turn out, aren't missing after all. In work appearing ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 24, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Plants play larger role than thought in cleaning up air pollution

(PhysOrg.com) -- Vegetation plays an unexpectedly large role in cleansing the atmosphere, a new study finds. The research, led by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 21, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Unaccounted feedbacks from climate-induced ecosystem changes may increase future climate warming

In addition to the carbon cycle-climate interactions that have been a major focus of modeling work in recent years, other biogeochemistry feedbacks could be at least equally important for future climate change. The authors ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 25, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

'Particle soup' discovery will improve climate predictions

(PhysOrg.com) -- New research from scientists at The University of Manchester is set to improve predictions about climate and air quality - and make life easier for those suffering from respiratory problems.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 2

This idea doesn't stink: New tech cuts industrial odors, pollutants

A North Carolina State University researcher has devised a new technology that really does not stink. In fact, it could be the key to eliminating foul odors and air pollutants emitted by industrial chicken rendering facilities ...

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0