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Rechargeable lithium-sulfur batteries get a boost from graphene

(PhysOrg.com) -- By wrapping tiny sulfur particles in graphene sheets, researchers from Stanford University have synthesized a promising cathode material for rechargeable lithium-sulfur batteries that could ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (22) | comments 53 | with audio podcast feature

Quick-cooking nanomaterials in microwave to make tomorrow's air conditioners

Engineering researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new method for creating advanced nanomaterials that could lead to highly efficient refrigerators and cooling systems requiring no ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jan 10, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Sulfur in hollow nanofibers overcomes challenges of lithium-ion battery design

(PhysOrg.com) -- Stanford researchers have used nanotechnology to invent a better lithium ion battery cathode.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Switching from coal to natural gas would do little for global climate, study indicates

Although the burning of natural gas emits far less carbon dioxide than coal, a new study concludes that a greater reliance on natural gas would fail to significantly slow down climate change. The study appears ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 08, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (13) | comments 51 | with audio podcast

NOAA study suggests aerosols might be inhibiting global warming

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study led by the U.S, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows that tiny particles that make their way all the way up into the stratosphere may be offsetting a global ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 22, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 28 | with audio podcast report

Global warming pause linked to sulfur in China

Scientists have come up with a possible explanation for why the rise in Earth's temperature paused for a bit during the 2000s, one of the hottest decades on record.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 04, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (20) | comments 40

Scientists discover missing links in the biology of cloud formation over the oceans

Scientists have known for two decades that sulfur compounds that are produced by bacterioplankton as they consume decaying algae in the ocean cycle through two paths. In one, a sulfur compound dimethylsulfide, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers get new view of how water and sulfur dioxide mix

High in the sky, water in clouds can act as a temptress to lure airborne pollutants such as sulfur dioxide into reactive aqueous particulates. Although this behavior is not incorporated into today's climate-modeling ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created May 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Upgrading the vanadium redox battery

Though considered a promising large-scale energy storage device, the vanadium redox battery's use has been limited by its inability to work well in a wide range of temperatures and its high cost. But new research ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Mar 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Atomic weights of 10 elements on periodic table about to make an historic change

For the first time in history, a change will be made to the atomic weights of some elements listed on the Periodic table of the chemical elements posted on walls of chemistry classrooms and on the inside covers ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 15, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (23) | comments 11 | with audio podcast

Regulating Earth's climate with micro-organisms

Scientists have sought to learn more about how the Earth's oceans absorb carbon dioxide and generally exchange gases with the atmosphere so they can better understand the corresponding effects on climate. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 02, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Jupiter has lost one of its cloud stripes

(PhysOrg.com) -- New photographs of the gas giant Jupiter, the first taken on May 9, show the massive reddish band of clouds known as the Southern Equatorial Belt in the planet’s southern hemisphere has disappeared ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created May 14, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (22) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Pollution from Asia Circles Globe at Stratospheric Heights

(PhysOrg.com) -- The economic growth across much of Asia comes with a troubling side effect: pollutants from the region are being wafted up to the stratosphere during monsoon season. The new finding, in a ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 25, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Previously Unknown Volcanic Eruption Helped Trigger Cold Decade

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of chemists from the U.S. and France has found compelling evidence of a previously undocumented large volcanic eruption that occurred exactly 200 years ago, in 1809.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (27) | comments 9

Methane-eating microbes can use iron and manganese oxides to 'breathe'

Iron and manganese compounds, in addition to sulfate, may play an important role in converting methane to carbon dioxide and eventually carbonates in the Earth's oceans, according to a team of researchers ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

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