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.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 16, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Dec 21, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 0

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.

Physics / General Physics

created May 26, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (19) | comments 31




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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 ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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.

Technology / Business

created Aug 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 21, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (25) | comments 16 | with audio podcast feature

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 ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Mar 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 12, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (33) | comments 39 | with audio podcast feature

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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 17, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (22) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1

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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 23, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (15) | comments 4 | with audio podcast weblog


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