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Close-up movie shows hidden details in the birth of super-suns (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- The constellation of Orion is a hotbed of massive star formation, most prominently in the Great Nebula that sits in Orion's sword. The glowing gas of the Nebula is powered by a group of young ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (11) | comments 1




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UWM discovery advances graphene-based electronics

(Phys.org) -- Scientists and engineers at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) have discovered an entirely new carbon-based material that is synthesized from the “wonder kid” of the carbon ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Light-emitting nanocrystal diodes go ultraviolet: Biomedical device potential for robust, implantable product

(PhysOrg.com) -- A multinational team of scientists has developed a process for creating glass-based, inorganic light-emitting diodes (LEDs) that produce light in the ultraviolet range. The work, reported ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 24, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The chemistry of exploding stars

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fundamental chemical processes in predecessors of our solar system are now a bit better understood: An international team led by Peter Hoppe, researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

New views of the cosmos

Though it won’t be completed until 2013, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a radio telescope observatory under construction in northern Chile, is already the most powerful and complex ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 3

The observatory above the clouds

If you want to reach for the stars, you have to lift off. This could be the motto of Sofia, a jumbo jet which has been converted into an observatory. On board it carries a 2.7-metre telescope, which the researchers ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 5

Green gasoline comes closer to fueling your car

The backbone of our energy infrastructure is carbon-based fuel. In the form of oil, coal and natural gas, carbon compounds run our cars, heat our homes and cook our food. For reasons of energy security and ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Tandem catalysis in nanocrystal interfaces could be boon to green energy

In a development that holds intriguing possibilities for the future of industrial catalysis, as well as for such promising clean green energy technologies as artificial photosynthesis, researchers with the ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 11, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

In distant galaxies, new clues to century-old molecule mystery

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a study that pushes the limits of observations currently possible from Earth, a team of NASA and European scientists recorded the "fingerprints" of mystery molecules in two distant galaxies, ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Tiny sensors tucked into cell phones could map airborne toxins in real time

A tiny silicon chip that works a bit like a nose may one day detect dangerous airborne chemicals and alert emergency responders through the cell phone network.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 13, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Nano-infused filters prove effective: Scientists build better catalyst with nanotube membranes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rice University researchers and their colleagues in Finland and Hungary have found a way to make carbon nanotube membranes that could find wide application as extra-fine air filters and as ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Apr 26, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast


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