News tagged with binding energy

Engineering Carbon for Impressive Hydrogen Storage

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Missouri researchers recently showed how carbon nanostructures can be engineered to become excellent media for hydrogen storage, work that may be important for the advancement of hydrogen-energy ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 22, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (16) | comments 14 feature

Scientists discover giant Rydberg atom molecules

A group of University of Oklahoma researchers led by Dr. James P. Shaffer, Homer L. Dodge Department of Physics and Astronomy, have discovered giant Rydberg molecules with a bond as large as a red blood cell. Determining ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 4

Hunting the unseen

A better knowledge about the composition of sub-atomic particles such as protons and neutrons has sparked conjecture about, as yet, unseen particles. A tool based on theoretical calculations that could aid ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Fingerprinting uranium: X-rays identify mobile, stationary forms of atomic pollutant

(PhysOrg.com) -- Determining if uranium will zip through the soil or not is easier now, thanks to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of North Texas. Dr. Eugene Ilton and ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Setting out to discover new, long-lived elements

Besides the 92 elements that occur naturally, scientists were able to create 20 additional chemical elements, six of which were discovered at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt.

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 11, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

The structure-based design of zinc finger nucleases can facilitate genomic editing

A recent study carried out at the State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Life Sciences, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China-Research, and published in the May 2011 issue of Science China Life Sciences (Issue 54) de ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created May 20, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0