News tagged with hydrogen level

Into the no-man's land of Fukushima

Every two minutes on the bus ride through the ghost towns surrounding Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, a company guide in a white protective suit holds up a display showing the radiation level. And ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Bubble-propelled microrockets could operate in the human stomach

(PhysOrg.com) -- Recently, researchers have been designing a wide variety of self-propelled micromotors, many of which operate using an oxygen-bubble propulsion mechanism that requires a high concentration ...

Chemistry / Other

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast feature

Peering into the interior of a dark interstellar cloud with the APEX telescope

Rare molecular species like H2D+ and D2H+, built from the hydrogen atom H and its heavier isotope deuterium D have gained great attention as probes of cold and dense molecular cloud cores. Since deuterium in sp ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 17, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Charcoal biofilter cleans up fertilizer waste gases

Removing the toxic and odorous emissions of ammonia from the industrial production of fertilizer is a costly and energy-intensive process. Now, researchers in Bangladesh have turned to microbes and inexpensive wood charcoal ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hydrocarbons in the deep Earth?

The oil and gas that fuels our homes and cars started out as living organisms that died, were compressed, and heated under heavy layers of sediments in the Earth's crust. Scientists have debated for years ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 26, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (43) | comments 27

NASA eyes water in Moon mission

NASA on Thursday said it was on target for a June mission to scour the Moon's surface for landing sites and water that would allow humans to work and even live on Earth's nearest neighbor.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 21, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 9