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Research flights probe particulate impact on climate

In a winter of unpredicted weather, a multiyear project to investigate the possible effects of air pollution on California's precipitation launches a new phase with a series of research flights that begin ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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UCLA life scientists view biodiversity through a whole new dimension

(Phys.org) -- How can blue whales, the largest animals on the planet, survive by feeding on krill, shrimp-like creatures that are the size of a penny? According to UCLA life scientists, it's all a matter of ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists hone in on size and environmental influence of the quantum dots used in hybrid solar cells

(Phys.org) -- Sometimes to answer big questions, you need to start small-very small. Scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's Chemical Imaging Initiative did just that when they analyzed cadmium ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

UNH to analyze 'bellwether' solar event data from European satellite

When the sun launched a moderate, or M-class, solar flare May 17, 2012, it was still one of the largest eruptions seen since late January when our star began to rouse from an anomalously long quiet period. ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Enceladus plume is a new kind of plasma laboratory

(Phys.org) -- Recent findings from NASA's Cassini mission reveal that Saturn's geyser moon Enceladus provides a special laboratory for watching unusual behavior of plasma, or hot ionized gas. In these recent ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

X-ray 'echoes' map a supermassive black hole's environs

(Phys.org) -- An international team of astronomers using data from the European Space Agency's (ESA) XMM-Newton satellite has identified a long-sought X-ray "echo" that promises a new way to probe supersized ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 31, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New NIST SRM supports the fight against terrorist bombings

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a new standard reference material (SRM) to aid in the detection of two explosive compounds that are known to be used by terrorists. Researchers ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

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Crowding causes cells to produce an orderly matrix of molecules

When researchers conduct experiments on the way cells grow and respond to outside cues, they tend to use solutions that are much more dilute than the crowded environments found inside living cells. Now, new ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Is a classical electrodynamics law incompatible with special relativity?

(Phys.org) -- The laws of classical electromagnetism that were developed in the 19th century are the same laws that scientists use today. They include Maxwell’s four equations along with the Lorentz la ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (19) | comments 45 | with audio podcast feature

Cassini reveals details about charged 'nanograins' near Enceladus

(Phys.org) -- It was a call that Rice University physicist Tom Hill had waited more than 20 years to receive. It traveled almost a billion miles to reach him. And the message — once it arrived from NASA’s ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Repulsive polaron: Austrian physicists realize elusive quasiparticles

(Phys.org) -- In quantum physics physical processes in condensed matter and other many-body systems can often be described with quasiparticles. In Innsbruck, for the first time Rudolf Grimm’s team of ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1 | with audio podcast


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