News tagged with energy neutrons

A new way to discover pulsars

(Phys.org) -- The Large Area Telescope (LAT), built by SLAC for the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, collects information on high-energy gamma rays from numerous sources in the sky. Among these are small, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Novel filter metal-organic framework material could cut natural gas refining costs

A new type of hybrid material developed at the University of California, Berkeley, could help oil and chemical companies save energy and money – and lower their environmental impacts – by eliminating ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Powerhouse in the Crab Nebula

MAGIC telescopes measure the highest-energy gamma rays from a pulsar to date, calling theory into question.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Researchers suggest high energy emissions from Crab Nebula come from wind

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of physicists studying the Crab Nebula have offered a new theory to explain its extraordinarily high energy emissions that have intrigued space scientists for years. ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Stellar astrophysics explains the behavior of fast rotating neutron stars in binary systems

Pulsars are among the most exotic celestial bodies known. They have diameters of about 20 kilometres, but at the same time roughly the mass of our sun. A sugar-cube sized piece of its ultra-compact matter ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Swift finds a gamma-ray burst with a dual personality (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A peculiar cosmic explosion first detected by NASA's Swift observatory on Christmas Day 2010 was caused either by a novel type of supernova located billions of light-years away or an unusual ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

NASA's Fermi finds youngest millisecond pulsar, 100 pulsars to date

An international team of scientists using NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has discovered a surprisingly powerful millisecond pulsar that challenges existing theories about how these objects form.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 04, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Mars rover carries device for underground scouting

(PhysOrg.com) -- An instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity can check for any water that might be bound into shallow underground minerals along the rover's path.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Astrophysics and extinctions: News about planet-threatening events

Space is a violent place. If a star explodes or black holes collide anywhere in our part of the Milky Way, they'd give off colossal blasts of lethal gamma-rays, X-rays and cosmic rays and it's perfectly reasonable to expect ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 07, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

'Low tech' light in neutron beam illuminates photosynthesis in bacteria

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the Bio-SANS instrument at the High Flux Isotope Reactor are getting a leg up in their research from an ingenious "low tech" lighting tool that can be fixed to their samples ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

UNH scientists to build device for detecting contraband radioactive material

Researchers at the University of New Hampshire's Space Science Center (SSC), in partnership with Michigan Aerospace Corporation, have been contracted by the federal Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) to build a highly ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

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

World's largest fusion device goes back to work

September is commonly the month where things begin to gather pace again, and in the world of fusion energy research, things are no different. European scientists working on the Joint European Torus (JET), ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Sep 05, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 20

SNS, HFIR experiments help refine thin-film solar cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar cells that convert sunlight into electricity could be a widely used renewable energy source. Getting to that point, though, requires breakthroughs in their cost and their efficiency at turning sunbeams ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Sep 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Cling-film' solar cells could lead to advance in renewable energy

(PhysOrg.com) -- A scientific advance in renewable energy which promises a revolution in the ease and cost of using solar cells, has been announced today. A new study shows that even when using very simple ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 04, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Gamma-ray emission from Terzan 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- The H.E.S.S. telescope system in Namibia discovered a new source of very-high-energy gamma-rays from the direction of the globular cluster Terzan 5. Being very likely located in the outer ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast