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Scientists Control Plasma Bullets

(PhysOrg.com) -- On the nanoscale, things aren’t always what they seem. What first looked like a continuous plasma jet has turned out to be a train of tiny, high-velocity plasma bullets. Using a camera with ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Feb 27, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (30) | comments 16 feature

Ghostly gamma-ray beams blast from Milky Way's center

(Phys.org) -- As galaxies go, our Milky Way is pretty quiet. Active galaxies have cores that glow brightly, powered by supermassive black holes swallowing material, and often spit twin jets in opposite directions. ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Cassini spies wave rattling jet stream on Jupiter

(PhysOrg.com) -- New movies of Jupiter are the first to catch an invisible wave shaking up one of the giant planet's jet streams, an interaction that also takes place in Earth's atmosphere and influences the ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

E. coli bacteria engineered to eat switchgrass and make transportation fuels

A milestone has been reached on the road to developing advanced biofuels that can replace gasoline, diesel and jet fuels with a domestically-produced clean, green, renewable alternative.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Graphene ink created for ink-jet printing of electronic components

(PhysOrg.com) -- A group of UK scientists has created a graphene ink that can be used to ink-jet print electronic devices such as thin film transistors.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 25, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Exotic galaxy reveals tantalizing tale

(PhysOrg.com) -- A galaxy with a combination of characteristics never seen before is giving astronomers a tantalizing peek at processes they believe played key roles in the growth of galaxies and clusters ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

What's down with the Sun? Major drop in solar activity predicted

(PhysOrg.com) -- A missing jet stream, fading spots, and slower activity near the poles say that our Sun is heading for a rest period even as it is acting up for the first time in years, according to scientists ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (28) | comments 114 | with audio podcast

Radio telescopes capture best-ever snapshot of black hole jets (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team, including NASA-funded researchers, using radio telescopes located throughout the Southern Hemisphere has produced the most detailed image of particle jets erupting from ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 21, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (28) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

New chemical may lead to jet lag drug

(PhysOrg.com) -- Jet lag, as every long-distance airline passenger knows, disrupts the body's normal circadian rhythms, or body clocks, and causes some very unpleasant effects such as disturbed sleep and fatigue. ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 16, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 2 | with audio podcast report

A flow of heavy-ion results from the Large Hadron Collider

The Large Hadron Collider shut down its proton beams on Nov. 4, 2010, and quickly began circulating beams of lead ions, a run scheduled to last a month. Within days, the first results from ALICE, the LHC experiment ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Large Hadron Collider experiments bring new insight into primordial universe

(PhysOrg.com) -- After less than three weeks of heavy-ion running, the three experiments studying lead ion collisions at the LHC have already brought new insight into matter as it would have existed in the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 26, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (33) | comments 86 | with audio podcast

Young-star discovery hints magnetism common to all cosmic jets

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have found the first evidence of a magnetic field in a jet of material ejected from a young star, a discovery that points toward future breakthroughs in understanding the nature ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 25, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Jet-lagged and forgetful? It's no coincidence

(PhysOrg.com) -- Chronic jet lag alters the brain in ways that cause memory and learning problems long after one's return to a regular 24-hour schedule, according to research by University of California, Berkeley, ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 24, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

1,000 mph car to be built next year

(PhysOrg.com) -- The "Bloodhound SSC," a car expected to be able to travel at 1,000 mph (around 1,600 km/h) or faster, is on track to be constructed in the UK early next year. The design was finalized last ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (16) | comments 13 | with audio podcast report

Jaguar’s new electric concept supercar -- the C-X75

(PhysOrg.com) -- The new Jaguar C-X75 supercar concept model unveiled last week is primarily a plug-in electric car but with the added power and performance of micro gas turbines (jet engines) that would make ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 04, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (25) | comments 20 | with audio podcast report

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