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A Puzzling Collapse of Earth's Upper Atmosphere

NASA-funded researchers are monitoring a big event in our planet's atmosphere. High above Earth's surface where the atmosphere meets space, a rarefied layer of gas called "the thermosphere" recently collapsed ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 15, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (47) | comments 45 | with audio podcast




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Performance boost for microchips

The semiconductor industry is faced with the challenge of supplying ever faster and more powerful chips. The Next-Generation Lithography with EUV radiation will help meeting that challenge. Fraunhofer researchers ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created May 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Beaming up on the way to space

(Phys.org) -- Space may be the final frontier. But often a few trips to PML are necessary before things can get off the ground. One recent case in point is the test of an instrument called the Extreme Ultraviolet ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

UV lithography: Taking extreme measures

(PhysOrg.com) -- Sometime soon, microchip fabricators will take the next major step in the relentless reduction of feature size, from the current minimum of 22 nm down to 10 nm and perhaps even smaller. Getting ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2

Researchers take first steps toward X-ray superfluorescence

(PhysOrg.com) -- While physicist Robert Dicke is probably most famous for his work on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – and being "scooped" while attempting to be the first to detect it – he ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (11) | comments 5 | with audio podcast feature

New light at the end of the tunnel

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of scientists successfully concentrated the energy of infrared laser pulses using a nano funnel enabling them to generate extreme ultraviolet light pulses, which repeated ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Oct 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

NRL instrument provides key space weather data

Data products from the Special Sensor Ultraviolet Limb Imager (SSULI) developed by the NRL Spacecraft Engineering Department and Space Science Division were officially transitioned for use in operational systems ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sun, Moon and Earth line up for Proba-2

ESA’s Proba-2 microsatellite experienced a conjunction of the spheres on Tuesday, as the Sun, Moon and Earth all lined up in front of it.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Ultra-thin solar blind EUV imager reported by Imec

Yesterday at the International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco imec presents an ultra-thin hybrid AlGaN-on-Si-based extreme ultraviolet (EUV) imager with only 10µm pixel-to-pixel pitch. The wide-bandgap material ...

Technology / Semiconductors

created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

NASA extends TIMED mission for fourth time

Nine years after beginning its unprecedented look at the gateway between Earth's environment and space, not to mention collecting more data on the upper atmosphere than any other satellite, NASA's Thermosphere ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 05, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

CU-Boulder instrument package to study space weather set for NASA launch Feb. 9

A $32 million University of Colorado at Boulder instrument package set for launch Feb. 9 by NASA should help scientists better understand the violent effects of the sun on near-Earth space weather that can affect satellites, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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