News tagged with thermal contraction
Materials that shrink when heated
One common reason that people with fillings experience toothache is that their fillings expand at a different rate to the original tooth when, for example, drinking a hot drink. Contrary to intuition, however, ...
Feb 09, 2012 |
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Patterns in Mars crater floors give picture of drying lakes
Networks of giant polygonal troughs etched across crater basins on Mars have been identified as desiccation cracks caused by evaporating lakes, providing further evidence of a warmer, wetter martian past. ...
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Sep 16, 2009 |
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James Webb Telescope flight backplane section completed
The center section of the backplane structure that will fly on NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has been completed, marking an important milestone in the telescope's hardware development. The backplane will ...
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Apr 24, 2012 |
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Novel plasmonic material may merge photonic and electronic technologies
Helping bridge the gap between photonics and electronics, researchers from Purdue University have coaxed a thin film of titanium nitride into transporting plasmons, tiny electron excitations coupled to light ...
Mar 27, 2012 |
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From food waste to bus fuel and biofertilizer
Banana peel, coffee grounds and other food waste will be transformed into green fuel for Oslo’s city buses starting next year. The Norwegian capital’s new biogas plant will also supply nutrient-rich ...
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Mar 19, 2012 |
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Major contract will supply solar panels derived from CERN technology
At Geneva International Airport, SRB Energy delivered the first of the solar panels that will form one of the largest solar energy systems of Switzerland. Ultimately, some 300 high-temperature solar thermal ...
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Mar 12, 2012 |
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With a bang, Navy begins tests on electromagnetic railgun prototype launcher
Engineers have fired the Navy's first industry-built electromagnetic railgun (EM Railgun) prototype launcher at a test facility, commencing an evaluation that is an important intermediate step toward a future ...
Feb 28, 2012 |
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Navy to begin tests on electromagnetic railgun prototype launcher
The Office of Naval Research (ONR)'s Electromagnetic (EM) Railgun program will take an important step forward in the coming weeks when the first industry railgun prototype launcher is tested at a facility ...
Feb 06, 2012 |
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Decades later, a Cold War secret is revealed
For more than a decade they toiled in the strange, boxy-looking building on the hill above the municipal airport, the building with no windows (except in the cafeteria), the building filled with secrets.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 25, 2011 |
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Tiny solar cell could make a big difference
How small can a solar cell be and still be a powerhouse? How about six hundred microns wide — about the diameter of a dot made by a ballpoint pen?
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Dec 15, 2011 |
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The world's smallest steam engine measures a few micrometers
What would be a case for the repair shop for a car engine is completely normal for a micro engine. If it sputters, this is caused by the thermal motions of the smallest particles, which interfere with its ...
Dec 11, 2011 |
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All systems go for next communication spacecraft
The most recent evaluations of NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) project confirmed all systems go for a third generation upgrade of the orbiting communications network. TDRS-K is scheduled for ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 21, 2011 |
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