Fertilizing with inorganic nitrogen and phosphorus definitely improves crop yields, but does it also improve the soil?

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 29, 2013 not rated yet 0

(Phys.org) —Researchers at TU Delft in the Netherlands have managed to bring two electrons, three meters from each other, into a quantum- entangled state. This result marks a major step towards realizing ...

Physics - Quantum Physics

Apr 24, 2013 4.8 / 5 (27) 4 |

An international team of astronomers led by Masaaki Otsuka (Academia Sinica Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics or ASIAA) has detected the C60 fullerene (molecules of carbon with 60 atoms arranged in pattern ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Mar 15, 2013 5 / 5 (6) 1 |

Life as we know it is based upon the elements of carbon and oxygen. Now a team of physicists, including one from North Carolina State University, is looking at the conditions necessary to the formation of ...

Physics - General Physics

Mar 13, 2013 4.2 / 5 (17) 24 |

Solar geoengineering is a proposed approach to reduce the effects of climate change due to greenhouse gasses by deflecting some of the sun's incoming radiation. This type of proposed solution carries with it a number of uncertainties, ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 21, 2013 not rated yet 0

The world's smallest tunnels have a width of a few nanometers only. Researchers from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Rice University, USA, have dug such tunnels into graphite samples. This will ...

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Jan 23, 2013 4.5 / 5 (2) 0 |

Graphene and related materials hold promise for the future of electrochemical sensors—detectors that measure the concentration of oxygen, toxic gases, and other substances—but many applications require greater sensitivity ...

Nanotechnology - Nanophysics

Jan 17, 2013 3.7 / 5 (3) 0 |

(Phys.org)—If a nuclear device were to unexpectedly detonate anywhere on Earth, the ensuing effort to find out who made the weapon probably would be led by aircraft rapidly collecting airborne radioactive ...

Technology - Engineering

Jan 10, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Air pollution in Athens has surged in recent days because of people choosing wood over more expensive fuels to heat their homes in the grips of a continuing economic crisis, the environment ministry said ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Dec 28, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 30

(Phys.org)—Microscopic particles that can be made to switch their magnetic state could mean computers of the future will be able to store much more data in much less space. 

Chemistry - Materials Science

Dec 13, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 0 |

The small kerosene lamps that light millions of homes in developing countries have a dark side: black carbon – fine particles of soot released into the atmosphere.

Space & Earth - Environment

Dec 10, 2012 2 / 5 (1) 1

(Phys.org)—A North Carolina State University researcher has taken a "snapshot" of the way particles combine to form carbon-12, the element that makes all life on Earth possible. And the picture looks like ...

Physics - General Physics

Dec 10, 2012 4.9 / 5 (11) 0 |

Air pollution in Asia, which already kills at least 800,000 people each year, will likely lead to even higher death rates as the region's air quality worsens, an environmental group warned Wednesday.

Space & Earth - Environment

Dec 05, 2012 not rated yet 1

(Phys.org)—Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array have for the first time found that the outer region of a dusty disc encircling a brown dwarf contains millimetre-sized solid ...

Space & Earth - Astronomy

Nov 30, 2012 5 / 5 (6) 6 |

(Phys.org)—Astrophysicists Adrian Melott and Brian Thomas of the University of Kansas and Washburn University respectively, have published a "brief communication arising" piece in the journal Nature su ...

Space & Earth - Space Exploration

Nov 29, 2012 4.8 / 5 (6) 7 |