News tagged with particle separation

Spinons -- confined like quarks

The concept of confinement is one of the central ideas in modern physics. The most famous example is that of quarks which bind together to form protons and neutrons. Now Prof. Bella Lake from Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (Germany) ...

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 29, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (16) | comments 2




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Hazy days: Berkeley lab tackles pollution in Mongolia

(Phys.org) -- Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) are known for designing high-efficiency cookstoves for Darfur and Ethiopia. Now they are applying their expertise to the windswept ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scudder makes first observations of process linked to northern lights

(Phys.org) -- A University of Iowa researcher wants you to visualize a plate of spaghetti when you think of the northern lights.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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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

Recovering water from tailings ponds

(Phys.org) -- As Alberta faces increasing pressure to make the oil industry more sustainable, one University of Alberta researcher may have found a natural solution to a problem that has been plaguing oil companies for years.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Scientists take steps toward creating artificial graphene

(Phys.org) -- Researchers first observed graphene in 2004 by extracting the single-atom-thick sheets of carbon from bulk graphite. While graphene’s electrical and optical properties have proven to have ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 29, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 2 | with audio podcast feature

Synthetic nano-waste does not disappear

(Phys.org) -- Tiny particles of cerium oxide do not burn or change in the heat of a waste incineration plant. They remain intact on combustion residues or in the incineration system, as a new study by Swiss ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created May 25, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Excitons: Exotic particles, chilled and trapped, form giant matter wave

Physicists have trapped and cooled exotic particles called excitons so effectively that they condensed and cohered to form a giant matter wave.

Physics / General Physics

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (12) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

HyperSolar shows dirty water no barrier to power world

(Phys.org) -- The Santa Barbara, California, company, HyperSolar, is set to transparently share the ups and downs of its research experiences toward the company’s ultimate vision, successfully producing ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 24, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 17 | with audio podcast report

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

New study provides baseline measurements of carbon in Arctic Ocean

Scientists from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) have conducted a new study to measure levels of carbon at various depths in the Arctic Ocean. The study, recently published in the journal Biogeosciences, provid ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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