News tagged with calorimeter
Best for batteries: Not too hot, not too cold
(PhysOrg.com) -- Thermal management is crucial in the development of new car batteries; NREL's Large-Volume Calorimeter helps prepare for a surge in electric vehicles.
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May 16, 2011 |
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Wiggling and waggling: Study sheds light on amazing bee brain
(PhysOrg.com) -- Their brains are tiny - about the size of sesame seeds - and yet the behaviour of the humble honey bee is so advanced it has scientists scratching their heads in disbelief.
Dec 21, 2009 |
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Before God particle, scientists must learn soul of new machine
After a huge success in first testing, followed by a very public meltdown last September, the Large Hadron Collider may be ready for action again as early as June.
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A faster, cheaper way to diagnose TB
Researchers have discovered a faster, cheaper method for the diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB). A major barrier in TB prevention, especially in developing countries, is that diagnosis is slow and costly. Dr Olivier Braissant ...
Aug 17, 2011 |
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Particle collider's Russian supplier bankrupt: report
A Russian factory producing the crystals used in the world's biggest particle collider is bankrupt, a report said Wednesday, questioning why the government would not bail out the unique facility.
Aug 03, 2011 |
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Aircraft systems in the environmental chamber
How can air transport be made more environmentally compatible, economical and sustainable? The Fraunhofer flight test facility in Holzkirchen is soon to be expanded with the installation of a thermal test ...
Jun 08, 2011 |
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Primordial beryllium could reveal insights into the Big Bang
(PhysOrg.com) -- Some chemical elements appear much more abundantly in nature than others, which is partly due to how the elements originally formed. Scientists know that the light elements (hydrogen, deuterium, ...
High efficiency infrared photodetectors using gold nanorods
Toyohashi Tech researchers develop an innovative infrared photodetector exploiting plasmon resonance at the surface of gold nanorods. This technology shows potential as the basis for the development ...
Mar 25, 2011 |
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A flow of heavy-ion results from the Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider shut down its proton beams on Nov. 4, 2010, and quickly began circulating beams of lead ions, a run scheduled to last a month. Within days, the first results from ALICE, the LHC experiment ...
Dec 08, 2010 |
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Mass limits of dark matter derived from 'strange' stars
(PhysOrg.com) -- Much of the matter in our universe may be made of a type of dark matter called weakly interacting massive particles, better known as WIMPs. Although some scientists predict that these hypothetical ...
New system developed to test and evaluate high-energy laser weapons
Technologies for using laser energy to destroy threats at a distance have been in development for many years. Today, these technologies -- known as directed energy weapons -- are maturing to the point of ...
Aug 17, 2010 |
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California is the primary US stop for LHC's ALICE data
For approximately one month a year, the nuclei of lead atoms traveling near the speed of light will collide in the Large Hadron Collider's (LHC) ALICE experiment, generating a fireball about 100,000 times hotter than the ...
Jul 30, 2010 |
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Physicists simulate sounds of the Higgs boson (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- If particle physicists ever find the Higgs boson, they might be hearing its signature rather than - or in addition to - seeing it. The different sounds that particles make can give physicists ...
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