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Old star, new trick

The Big Bang produced lots of hydrogen and helium and a smidgen of lithium. All heavier elements found on the periodic table have been produced by stars over the last 13.7 billion years. Astronomers analyze starlight to determine ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 30 | with audio podcast

Neutrinos put cosmic ray theory on ice

(Phys.org) -- A telescope buried beneath the South Pole has failed to find any neutrinos accompanying exploding fireballs in space, undermining a leading theory of how cosmic rays are born.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Large Hadron Collider reaches record 1380 proton bunches per beam

In just two weeks of operation in "stable beams" mode, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has aready reached 1380 proton bunches per beam, the maximum value set for this year. The number of bunches was increased ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (10) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Using 'proton grease' to spin-up a molecular rotor

When designing the tiniest of possible machines, scientists have had far more success in creating molecular-size brakes than accelerators. But a team at the University of South Carolina has figured out how ...

Chemistry / Other

created Apr 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

ATLAS detector ready to match large hadron collider improvements

More than 200 members of the ATLAS collaboration gathered on the Stanford campus last week to discuss how to make one of the world's biggest and best particle detectors even better.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Team develops most sensitive scale ever

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Spanish research team in Barcelona working out of the Catalan Institute of Nanotechnology, has succeeded in building the most sensitive scale ever created. It’s capable, as the team describes in their ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast report

'Tunable' metal nanostructures for fuel cells, batteries and solar energy

(PhysOrg.com) -- For catalysts in fuel cells and electrodes in batteries, engineers would like to manufacture metal films that are porous, to make more surface area available for chemical reactions, and highly ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

The acid test: 21st century pH meter

Modern methods for mass production of biological agents and fine chemicals require precise control of pH. However within these systems it is not always possible to use traditional methods for measuring acidity and alkalinity. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Multimodal bio-image sensor: Fusion of heterogeneous biochemical information

The use of sensors is important for the quantitative analyses of chemical materials and physical phenomena, with research and development of biosensors for observing cell function being actively pursued.

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists discover a surprising new way that protons can move among molecules

When a proton – the bare nucleus of a hydrogen atom – transfers from one molecule to another, or moves within a molecule, the result is a hydrogen bond, in which the proton and another atom like ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 18, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Solvay hails world's largest fuel cell of type in Flanders, one can power 1,400 homes

Chemicals giant Solvay hailed Monday the successful entry into service in Flanders of what it said was the largest fuel cell of its type in the world.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 8

Classifying solar eruptions

(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar flares are giant explosions on the sun that send energy, light and high speed particles into space. These flares are often associated with solar magnetic storms known as coronal mass ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

New study sheds light on evolutionary origin of oxygen-based cellular respiration

Researchers at the RIKEN SPring-8 Center in Harima, Japan, have clarified the crystal structure of quinol dependent nitric oxide reductase (qNOR), a bacterial enzyme that offers clues on the origins of our ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jan 22, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

CMS in 2011: A mountain of particle collision data

Datasets are the currency of physics. As data accumulate, measurement uncertainty ranges shrink, increasing the potential for discoveries and making non-observations more stringent, with more far-reaching ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 5

Electron's negativity cut in half by supercomputer

(PhysOrg.com) -- While physicists at the Large Hadron Collider smash together thousands of protons and other particles to see what matter is made of, they're never going to hurl electrons at each other. No ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 12, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (26) | comments 36 | with audio podcast

Proton

The proton is a subatomic particle with an electric charge of +1 elementary charge. It is found in the nucleus of each atom but is also stable by itself and has a second identity as the hydrogen ion, 1H+. It is composed of 3 even more fundamental particles comprising two up quarks and one down quark.

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