News tagged with rods
How does a nuclear meltdown work? (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- When working properly, nuclear reactors produce large amounts of heat via nuclear fission reactions. The heat converts the surrounding water into steam, which turns turbines and generates ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Mar 17, 2011 |
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Laser lightning rod: Guiding bursts of electricity with a flash of light
Lightning is a fascinating but dangerous atmospheric phenomenon. New research reveals that brief bursts of intense laser light can redirect these high-power electrical discharges.
Mar 13, 2012 |
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First quantitative measure of radiation leaked from Fukushima reactor
Atmospheric chemists at the University of California, San Diego, report the first quantitative measurement of the amount of radiation leaked from the damaged nuclear reactor in Fukushima, Japan, following the devastating ...
Aug 15, 2011 |
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Right/left handedness of snails changed in the lab
(PhysOrg.com) -- Like most animals, snails have either left- or right-handed asymmetry (chirality), both internally and externally, and the handedness is hereditary. A new study has for the first time found ...
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Tick tock: Rods help set internal clocks, biologist says
We run our modern lives largely by the clock, from the alarms that startle us out of our slumbers and herald each new workday to the watches and clocks that remind us when it's time for meals, after-school pick-up and the ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Sep 17, 2010 |
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Using gold particles to fight cancer
Researchers at the MIRA Institute for Biomedical Technology and Technical Medicine, University of Twente, The Netherlands, are developing a method of detecting and treating tumors with the help of gold particles ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 22, 2010 |
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Creatures from the deep surface in NY exhibit
They have their own lights, teeth, and weird names like vampire squid, stoplight loosejaws, and bristlemouth -- meet the weird denizens of the deep surfacing for an exhibition in New York starting this week.
Mar 28, 2012 |
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Japan worst-case scenario unlikely to cause catastrophic radiation release: expert
While exposed spent fuel rods at the failing nuclear reactors in Japan pose new threats, the worst-case scenario would still be unlikely to expose the public to catastrophic amounts of radiation, says a University of Michigan ...
Mar 17, 2011 |
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A secret to night vision found in DNA's unconventional 'architecture'
Researchers have discovered an important element for making night vision possible in nocturnal mammals: the DNA within the photoreceptor rod cells responsible for low light vision is packaged in a very unconventional way, ...
Apr 16, 2009 |
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Google '20-percent time' going to help Japan
Legions of Google workers are devoting a fifth of their work time or more to building technology to help to deal with the disaster in Japan.
Mar 17, 2011 |
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Japan uses colour dye to trace nuclear leak
Emergency crew at Japan's tsunami-hit nuclear plant used a colour dye Monday to trace the source of a radioactive leak as lower business confidence signalled the disaster's economic impact.
Apr 04, 2011 |
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German police battle with 1000s blocking nuke train
German police battled thousands of anti-nuclear protestors Sunday, many chained to railroad tracks, who have caused delays as they try to block a train carrying radioactive waste.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 27, 2011 |
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The difference between eye cells is... sumo?
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Washington University School of Medicine have identified a key to eye development — a protein that regulates how the light-sensing nerve cells in the retina ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Japan disaster not similar to Chernobyl: officials
The potential health consequences of the nuclear crisis at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant are not equal to those caused by the disaster at Chernobyl, Japanese health officials said Tuesday
May 17, 2011 |
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How seawater could corrode nuclear fuel
Japan used seawater to cool nuclear fuel at the stricken Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant after the tsunami in March 2011 -- and that was probably the best action to take at the time, says Professor Alexandra ...
Jan 26, 2012 |
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