News tagged with gas density

GPS stations can detect clandestine nuclear tests

At the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) meeting this week, American researchers are unveiling a new tool for detecting illegal nuclear explosions: the Earth's global positioning system (GPS).

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

JPL-developed clean energy technology moves forward

A team of scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., in partnership with the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, developed a Direct Methanol Fuel Cell technology for ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

New biofuels processing method for mobile facilities

Chemical engineers at Purdue University have developed a new method to process agricultural waste and other biomass into biofuels, and they are proposing the creation of mobile processing plants that would ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 07, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Suzaku snaps first complete X-ray view of a galaxy cluster

The joint Japan-U.S. Suzaku mission is providing new insight into how assemblages of thousands of galaxies pull themselves together. For the first time, Suzaku has detected X-ray-emitting gas at a cluster's ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 28, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 3