News tagged with electrostatic charge
Electric charge disorder: A key to biological order?
Theoretical physicist Ali Naji from the IPM in Tehran and the University of Cambridge, UK, and his colleagues have shown how small random patches of disordered, frozen electric charges can make a difference when they are ...
Apr 30, 2012 |
4.6 / 5 (7) |
1
|
Image: Ghostly spokes in the rings
Scientists first saw these somewhat wedge-shaped, transient clouds of tiny particles known as "spokes" in images from NASA's Voyager spacecraft.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 12, 2010 |
3.5 / 5 (4) |
0
Acoustic levitation could be used on Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- The presence of fine dust on the Moon and Mars may present problems for explorers, such as coating solar panels, penetrating seals and interfering with machinery. Human explorers would also ...
Jan 25, 2010 |
4.1 / 5 (12) |
8
|
Ghostly 'Spokes' Puff Out From Saturn's Ring's (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Massive, bright clouds of tiny ice particles hover above the darkened rings of Saturn in an image captured by the Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 22, 2009, around the time of Saturn's equinox. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 16, 2009 |
4.5 / 5 (6) |
0
Chemist creates trapping technique for nanoparticles
(PhysOrg.com) -- A chemist at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) has developed a kind of invisible fence for trapping and controlling particles as small as a single virus or large protein.
Aug 17, 2009 |
5 / 5 (3) |
1
