News tagged with electrostatic levitation
Giant 'microscope' will use neutrons to study glass transition
(PhysOrg.com) -- The National Science Foundation has awarded $1.65 million to a project led by Washington University in St. Louis physicist Ken Kelton to build an electrostatic levitation chamber that will ...
Mar 19, 2010 |
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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 |
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Countering contamination for Mars spacesuits
To search for life on Mars, future astronauts would naturally want to step outside their living habitat for a walk. But the spacesuits keeping them alive might also carry Earth microbes or ingredients of life ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 16, 2011 |
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Lunar dust transport still a mystery
There are times when Moon appears to have a tenuous atmosphere of moving dust particles that are leaping up from and falling back to the Moon’s surface. First seen during the Surveyor and Apollo eras, ...
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Dec 16, 2010 |
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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 |
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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. ...
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Nov 16, 2009 |
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New electrostatic-based DNA microarray technique could revolutionize medical diagnostics
The dream of personalized medicine — in which diagnostics, risk predictions and treatment decisions are based on a patient's genetic profile — may be on the verge of being expanded beyond the wealthiest of ...
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Jun 30, 2008 |
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Moondust and Duct Tape
At this year's Great Moonbuggy Race in Huntsville, Alabama, Prof. Paul Shiue of Christian Brothers University was overheard joking that duct tape was his team's "best engineering tool." Others felt the same ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 22, 2008 |
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Moondust in the Wind
Moondust is dry, desiccated stuff, and may seem like a dull topic to write about. Indeed, you could search a ton of moondust without finding a single molecule of water, so it could make for a pretty "dry" ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 11, 2008 |
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Saturn ring spokes may re-appear in July, says new U. of Colorado study
The unusual spokes that appear fleetingly on the rings of Saturn only to disappear for years at a time may become visible again by July, according to a new study spearheaded by the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Mar 16, 2006 |
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Lunar Lawn Mower
Scientists are brainstorming ways to put troublesome moondust to good use. "If you can't lick 'em, join 'em," goes a cliché that essentially means "figure out how to live with whatever you can't get rid of. ...
Nov 11, 2005 |
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Liquidmetal: Redefining metals for the 21st century
A revolution in metals has arrived. NASA, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the U.S. Department of Energy united to help develop a new building material. "Liquidmetal" is a type of alloy, a mix of three ...
Oct 27, 2005 |
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