News tagged with energy neutrons

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

'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

Fermi telescope spots 'superflares' in the Crab Nebula (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The famous Crab Nebula supernova remnant has erupted in an enormous flare five times more powerful than any flare previously seen from the object. On April 12, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 12, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

High-energy surprises found in 'constant' Crab Nebula (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The combined data from several NASA satellites has astonished astronomers by revealing unexpected changes in X-ray emission from the Crab Nebula, once thought to be the steadiest high-energy ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

New type of nuclear fission discovered

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nuclear fission, or the splitting of a heavy nucleus, usually results in symmetrical fragments of the same mass. Physicists attribute the few known examples of fission that is asymmetric to ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 06, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (52) | comments 79 | with audio podcast report

Gravity might amplify quantum fluctuations, create astrophysical objects

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new study, physicists have proposed that gravity could trigger a runaway effect in quantum fluctuations, causing them to grow so large that the quantum field’s vacuum energy density could dominate its ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 17, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (28) | comments 9 | with audio podcast report

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

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

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

Startling thermal energy behavior revealed by neutron scattering

(PhysOrg.com) -- A discovery by researchers working at the Spallation Neutron Source upends long held assumptions about the microscopic behavior of materials in an equilibrium condition. The findings could ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Turning the heat on organizing energy

(PhysOrg.com) -- Conventional wisdom suggests that when exposing a crystal to heat, the thermal energy within the crystal would spread uniformly across the lattice.

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast