News tagged with radiant temperature

Researchers develop new reversible, green window technology

Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU, Israel) researchers have developed a new, highly energy-efficient window technology, featuring two reversible panes that will save energy all year round in homes and ...

Technology / Engineering

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'First light' taken by NASA's newest CERES instrument

(PhysOrg.com) -- The doors are open on NASA's Suomi NPP satellite and the newest version of the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) instrument is scanning Earth for the first time, helping ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Nasa study solves case of Earth's 'missing energy'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Two years ago, scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., released a study claiming that inconsistencies between satellite observations of Earth's heat and ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (14) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

How to see the best meteor showers of 2012: Tools, tips and 'save the dates'

(PhysOrg.com) -- Whether you're watching from a downtown area or the dark countryside, here are some tips to help you enjoy these celestial shows of shooting stars. Those streaks of light are really caused ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 02, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (15) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Leafy social network: Scientists study how stomata communicate

(PhysOrg.com) -- To survive, leafy plants need to take in as much carbon dioxide as possible through pores in their leaves without losing water. Known as stomata, these pores somehow work together, processing ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 22, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Breakthrough furnace can cut solar costs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Solar cells, the heart of the photovoltaic industry, must be tested for mechanical strength, oxidized, annealed, purified, diffused, etched, and layered.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

The central region of the Milky Way

(PhysOrg.com) -- The center of our Milky Way galaxy is about 27,000 light-years away in the direction of the constellation of Sagittarius. At the very center of the galaxy lies a black hole whose mass is about ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 19 | with audio podcast

NASA's NPP satellite completes comprehensive testing

The NASA National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) has successfully completed its most comprehensive end-to-end compatibility test of the actual ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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Climate models make too hot forecasts of global warming

Data from NASA's Terra satellite shows that when the climate warms, Earth's atmosphere is apparently more efficient at releasing energy to space than models used to forecast climate change have been programmed to "believe."

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 29, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (32) | comments 161 | with audio podcast

NPP satellite successfully completes thermal vac testing

The NASA National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Preparatory Project (NPP) climate and weather satellite has successfully passed all environmental testing with the recent completion of ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New calculations on blackbody energy set the stage for clocks with unprecedented accuracy

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of physicists from the United States and Russia announced today that it has developed a means for computing, with unprecedented accuracy, a tiny, temperature-dependent source of error in atomic clocks. ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created May 09, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 6 | with audio podcast


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