News tagged with minor metals
Race and poverty often unjustifiably tied to school security measures
Elementary, middle, and high schools with large minority populations—but not necessarily higher crime rates—are far more likely than others to require students and visitors to pass through metal detectors, according ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Aug 20, 2011 |
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China tries to calm unease over rare earths curbs
(AP) -- A Chinese official tried to calm unease about curbs on exports of rare earths used in clean energy products and superconductors, saying Thursday that sales will continue but must be limited to reduce damage to China's ...
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Company unveils plan to mine asteroids for riches (Update)
Using space-faring robots to mine precious metals from asteroids almost sounds easy when former astronaut Tom Jones describes it - practically like clearing a snow-covered driveway.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 24, 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 ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 27, 2012 |
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The art of shutting down a nuclear plant
Gaëtan Girardin, researcher in nuclear engineering, gives us the key to understanding nuclear reactor safety. While the disaster at Fukushima is at the center of our conversation, the recent and minor ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Feb 13, 2012 |
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Researchers probe 200-year-old shipwreck off RI
(AP) -- For two centuries it rested a mile from shore, shrouded by a treacherous reef from the pleasure boaters and beachgoers who haunt New England's southern coast.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 09, 2012 |
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A salt-free primordial soup?
Most scientists who study the origin of life assume that it occurred in the ocean. But a minority view is that ions in seawater may interfere with prebiotic chemistry, making a freshwater environment more ...
Jan 19, 2012 |
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Shocking new way to create nanoporous materials revealed
Scientists have developed a new method of creating nanoporous materials with potential applications in everything from water purification to chemical sensors.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Nov 27, 2011 |
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Inconstant supernovae?
Given the importance of Type 1a supernovae as the standard candles which demonstrate that the universe’s expansion is actually accelerating – we require a high degree of confidence that those candles ...
Nov 07, 2011 |
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Aluminum alloy overcomes obstacles on the path to making hydrogen a practical fuel source
Hydrogen offers great promise as a renewable energy source. It's staggeringly plentiful (the most abundant element in the Universe) and environmentally friendly (used in a fuel cell, it gives off only water). Unfortunately, ...
Nov 01, 2011 |
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Taking the pulse of marine life in stressed seas
The Earth currently has more than 400 so-called "dead zones"--huge expanses of deep ocean that, because of human activities, become too oxygen-starved during the summer to support most life.
Oct 07, 2011 |
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How graphene's electrical properties can be tuned
An accidental discovery in a physicist's laboratory at the University of California, Riverside provides a unique route for tuning the electrical properties of graphene, nature's thinnest elastic material. ...
Sep 26, 2011 |
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