News tagged with mercury vapor

'Fingerprinting' method reveals fate of mercury in Arctic snow

A study by University of Michigan researchers offers new insight into what happens to mercury deposited onto Arctic snow from the atmosphere.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 10, 2010 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Hidden Territory on Mercury Revealed

The MESSENGER spacecraft's third flyby of the planet Mercury has given scientists, for the first time, an almost complete view of the planet's surface and revealed some dramatic changes in Mercury's comet-like ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (20) | comments 1




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Newfound exoplanet may turn to dust

Researchers at MIT, NASA and elsewhere have detected a possible planet, some 1,500 light years away, that appears to be evaporating under the blistering heat of its parent star. The scientists infer that a ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Portable gas sensors improve atmospheric pollution measurements

Different types of compact, low-power portable sensors under development by three independent research groups may soon yield unprecedented capabilities to monitor ozone, greenhouse gases, and air pollutants. ...

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Rebates to cut price of $60 LED bulb

(AP) -- How much would you pay for an amazing, state-of-the-art light bulb? Shoppers will be asking themselves that very question at Home Depot and other outlets starting Sunday - Earth Day - when the bulb ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 33

NASA to fly atomic clock to improve space navigation

(Phys.org) -- When people think of space technologies, many think of high-tech solar panels, complex and powerful propulsion systems or sophisticated, electronic guidance systems. Another critical piece of ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

China sets up rare earths industry group

(AP) -- China has set up a rare earths industry association to fend off trade complaints and help regulate the sector that is critical to global high-tech manufacturing.

Technology / Business

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 3

Japan, US, EU discuss rare earth supply security

(AP) -- Officials from the United States, the European Union and Japan are pledging to work closer together on ways to ensure secure supplies of strategically vital rare earths and other critical materials.

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created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Extending the habitable zone for red dwarf stars

Scientists have long thought that planets had to orbit very close to small and dim red dwarf stars in order to be warm enough for life. New research challenges that assumption.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Tidal forces could squeeze out planetary water

Alien planets might experience tidal forces powerful enough to remove all their water, leaving behind hot, dry worlds like Venus, researchers said.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Planets, planets everywhere: But researcher says finding life on these new discoveries is challenging

Recent discoveries have transformed scientific understanding of the galaxy, showing a Milky Way teeming with planets, some of them circling stars in bizarre configurations compared to the staid solar system, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Scientists gear up to take a picture of a black hole

On Wednesday, Jan. 18, astronomers, physicists and scientists from related fields will convene in Tucson, Ariz. from across the world to discuss an endeavor that only a few years ago would have been regarded as nothing less ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 14, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (59) | comments 34 | with audio podcast


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