News tagged with liquid
Interview: Samsung to step up Apple patent war
(AP) -- A top Samsung executive says the company will take a bolder stance in its patent battle with smartphone and tablet rival Apple, which Samsung claims has been "free riding" on its patented wireless ...
Sep 23, 2011 |
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Advanced electron microscope sheds light on metal embrittlement
Why does a solid metal that is engineered for ductility become brittle, often suddenly and with dramatic consequences, in the presence of certain liquid metal impurities?
Sep 22, 2011 |
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Superconducting magnet generates world’s highest magnetic field at 24T
A team led by Dr. Shinji Matsumoto, a Senior Researcher of the Magnet Development, Superconducting Wire Unit, National Institute for Materials Science succeeded in generating a magnetic field of 24.0T (tesla), which set a ...
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Look ma, no hands: Engineers invent a magnetic fluid pump with no moving parts
(PhysOrg.com) -- Used in Hollywood and the advertising industry to create exotic special effects, ferrofluids are seemingly magical materials that are both liquid and magnetic at once. In a study published ...
Sep 16, 2011 |
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Students building rocket for moon vehicle
Purdue University students are designing and building a rocket engine that might be used in a vehicle to land on the moon.
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Sep 14, 2011 |
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Future NASA rocket to be most powerful ever built (Update)
To soar far away from Earth and even beyond the moon, NASA has dreamed up the world's most powerful rocket, a behemoth that borrows from the workhorse liquid rockets that sent Apollo missions into space four ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 14, 2011 |
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Hot new planet could be in habitable zone -- barely
Astronomers believe they have found a second planet outside our solar system that seems to be in the right zone for life, just barely. But it would feel like a steam bath - hot, sticky and beyond uncomfortable.
Sep 12, 2011 |
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A guiding light for new directions in energy production
The science of light and liquids has been intimately entwined since Léon Foucault discovered the speed of light in 1862, when he observed that light travels more slowly in water than in air. This physical ...
Sep 11, 2011 |
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Innovative superconductor fibers carry 40 times more electricity
Wiring systems powered by highly-efficient superconductors have long been a dream of science, but researchers have faced such practical challenges such as finding pliable and cost-effective materials. Now ...
Sep 07, 2011 |
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Single molecule can shift the phase of a laser beam
(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to control light forms the basis of many technologies, from microscopy to optical computing. Now, a team of scientists from ETH in Zurich, Switzerland, has demonstrated that a ...
Sep 06, 2011 |
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Hiding objects with a terahertz invisibility cloak
Researchers at Northwestern University have created a new kind of cloaking material that can render objects invisible in the terahertz range.
Sep 02, 2011 |
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Rare martian lake delta spotted by Mars Express
(PhysOrg.com) -- ESA’s Mars Express has spotted a rare case of a crater once filled by a lake, revealed by the presence of a delta. The delta is an ancient fan-shaped deposit of dark sediments, laid down ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 02, 2011 |
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Alien life more likely on 'Dune' planets
Desert planets strikingly like the world depicted in the science fiction classic "Dune" might be the more common type of habitable planet in the galaxy, rather than watery planets such as Earth, researchers ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 02, 2011 |
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Manufacturing method paves way for commercially viable quantum dot-based LEDs
University of Florida researchers may help resolve the public debate over America's future light source of choice: Edison's incandescent bulb or the more energy efficient compact fluorescent lamp. It could be neither.
Aug 31, 2011 |
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Greenhouse effect could extend habitable zone
The distant region beyond Saturn is too cold for liquid water, a necessity for life as we know it. But new research indicates that rocky planets far from their parent star could generate enough heat to keep ...
Aug 26, 2011 |
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