News tagged with intensity
A new generation of acoustic measurements
NPL scientists have made the first measurements of airborne acoustic free-field pressures using a laser technique based on photon correlation spectroscopy.
May 29, 2012 |
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Rapid coral death by a deadly chain reaction
(Phys.org) -- Most people are fascinated by the colorful and exotic coral reefs, which form habitats with probably the largest biodiversity. But human civilisation is the top danger to these fragile ecosystems ...
May 24, 2012 |
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A magnetic approach to lattices
(Phys.org) -- JQI experimentalists under the direction of Ian Spielman are in the business of using lasers to create novel environments for neutral atoms. For instance, this research group previously enticed ...
May 22, 2012 |
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Herschel reveals galaxy-packed filament
(Phys.org) -- A McGill-led research team using the Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars. The filament connects two clusters of galaxies ...
May 17, 2012 |
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WPI research team to conduct tests aimed at better understanding post-earthquake fires
A team of researchers from the Department of Fire Protection Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) will conduct groundbreaking tests on May 23-25 aimed at better understanding the effects of earthquakes on ...
May 16, 2012 |
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Rubber chicken flies into solar radiation storm
Last month, when the sun unleashed the most intense radiation storm since 2003, peppering satellites with charged particles and igniting strong auroras around both poles, a group of high school students in ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 23, 2012 |
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Engineers put five-story building on seismic shake table to test for earthquake, fire readiness
What happens when you put a fully equipped five-story building, which includes an intensive care unit, a surgery suite, piping and air conditioning, fire barriers and even a working elevator, through series ...
Apr 12, 2012 |
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Now Extra-Tropical Daphne, left flooding behind in Fuji on NASA satellite imagery
Tropical Storm Daphne has become an extra-tropical storm and is fading fast in the South Pacific Ocean, but not before making its mark on the Fuji Islands. NASA's TRMM satellite compiled rainfall data that ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 04, 2012 |
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Detecting clouds from both sides now
Researchers have developed a more precise method to detect the boundary between clouds and clear air, by exploiting the swinging motions of a weather balloon and its payload.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 13, 2012 |
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Solar Probe Plus: NASA solar study mission moves to next design stage
(PhysOrg.com) -- Two-thousand-degree temperatures, supersonic solar particles, intense radiation – all of this awaits NASA’s Solar Probe Plus during an unprecedented close-up study of the sun.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 07, 2012 |
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Thames flooding isn't rising, long-term records show
Events of the last few decades give the impression that major floods are becoming more common, but looking at the UK's longest-running series of river-level measurements over 60 years or longer shows this ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 06, 2012 |
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Image of Jupiter from a ground-based telescope
(PhysOrg.com) -- This image of Jupiter and its moons Io and Ganymede was acquired by amateur astronomer Damian Peach on Sept. 12, 2010, when Jupiter was close to opposition. South is up and the "Great Red ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 06, 2012 |
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Ames celebrates the 40th anniversary of Pioneer 10
Launched on March 2,1972, Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to travel through the Asteroid belt, and the first spacecraft to make direct observations and obtain close-up images of Jupiter. Famed as the most remote object ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 01, 2012 |
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O, Pioneers! (Part 1): The motes in God's eye
March 2012 marks the fortieth anniversary of the launch of one of the most extraordinary spacecraft ever constructed - Pioneer 10 - the first true deep space probe. The story of the Voyager spacecraft is well ...
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Feb 27, 2012 |
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Transforming galaxies
(PhysOrg.com) -- Many of the Universe's galaxies are like our own, displaying beautiful spiral arms wrapping around a bright nucleus. Examples in this stunning image, taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 on ...
Feb 13, 2012 |
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