News tagged with energy barrier
New charging method could greatly reduce battery recharge time
(PhysOrg.com) -- Part of the headache of having to constantly recharge batteries is not just how often they need to be charged, but also the time it takes to charge them. In a new study, researchers have proposed ...
Mar 11, 2010 |
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Researchers discover a potential on-off switch for nanoelectronics
As electronic circuits shrink from finely etched lines in silicon wafers to nearly elusive proportions, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Columbia University ...
Mar 03, 2009 |
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Cheers as Australia's carbon tax hits parliament
Cheers erupted in Australia's Parliament House after Prime Minister Julia Gillard presented her bill for a new pollution tax she hopes will help counter climate change.
Sep 13, 2011 |
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Psychological factors help explain slow reaction to global warming
While most Americans think climate change is an important issue, they don't see it as an immediate threat, so getting people to "go green" requires policymakers, scientists and marketers to look at psychological barriers ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 07, 2009 |
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Microwave photons can nullify the conductivity of electrons confined to the surface of liquid helium
Trapping electrons in a flat plane prevents them from moving freely in the third dimension and opens the door to a whole range of unusual physics. These effects are harnessed, for example, in modern ultrafast ...
Feb 10, 2011 |
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Gulf Coast residents say BP Oil Spill changed their environmental views, research finds
University of New Hampshire researchers have found that residents of Louisiana and Florida most acutely and directly affected by the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster -- the largest marine oil spill in U.S. history ...
Apr 12, 2012 |
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Black arsenic: Fact or fiction? Synthesis and identification of metastable compounds
(PhysOrg.com) -- Phosphorus and arsenic are on top of each other in one group of the periodic table, so they have many similar properties. In addition to tubular forms, phosphorus is found in white, red, black, ...
Feb 17, 2012 |
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