News tagged with ultraviolet lamp

New malaria method could boost drug production

German scientists have developed a new way to make a key malaria drug that they say could easily quadruple production and drop the price significantly, increasing the availability of treatment for a disease that kills hundreds ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chemist Develops High-Speed Test to Improve Pathogen Decontamination

(PhysOrg.com) -- A chemist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has developed a technology intended to rapidly assess any presence of microbial life on spacecraft. This new method may also ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0




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Direct digital: Novel casting process could transform how complex metal parts are made

A Georgia Tech research team has developed a novel technology that could change how industry designs and casts complex, costly metal parts. This new casting method makes possible faster prototype development ...

Technology / Engineering

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 8

Anti-malaria drug synthesized with the help of oxygen and light

The most effective anti-malaria drug can now be produced inexpensively and in large quantities. This means that it will be possible to provide medication for the 225 million malaria patients in developing ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LAMP reveals lunar surface features

New maps produced by the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter reveal features at the Moon's northern and southern poles in regions that lie in perpetual darkness. LAMP, developed ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 13, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Micro-cavity arrays: Lighting the way to the future

It was not too long ago that basic science lectures began with the three forms of matter: gases, liquids and solids—and somewhere along the line plasmas were occasionally added to the list. But to be ...

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Clearing the cosmic fog of the early universe: Massive stars may be responsible

The space between the galaxies wasn't always transparent. In the earliest times, it was an opaque, dense fog. How it cleared is an important question in astronomy. New observational evidence from the University ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

New scientific research reveals diamonds aren't forever

(PhysOrg.com) -- In a paper published in the US journal Optical Materials Express this week, Macquarie University researchers show that even the earth's hardest naturally occurring material, the diamond, is not ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 18, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (10) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

New class of stellar explosions discovered

They're bright and blue-and a bit strange. They're a new type of stellar explosion that was recently discovered by a team of astronomers led by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). Among the most ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 08, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (14) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

A scratched coating heals itself quickly and easily, with light not heat (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine you're driving your own new car--or a rental car--and you need to park in a commercial garage. Maybe you're going to work, visiting a mall or attending an event at a sports stadium, ...

Chemistry / Polymers

created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Scientists discover mechanism that could feed solar explosions

(PhysOrg.com) -- Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) are violent solar explosions that can propel up to 10 billion tons of the Sun’s atmosphere – at a million miles an hour – out through the corona ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 15, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Spain supplies weather station for next Mars Rover

The first instrument from Spain for a mission to Mars will provide daily weather reports from the Red Planet. Expect extremes.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 01, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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