News tagged with ultraviolet spectra
Researchers unravel the mystery of quantum dot blinking
(PhysOrg.com) -- Research by Los Alamos scientists published today in the journal Nature documents significant progress in understanding the phenomenon of quantum-dot blinking. Their findings should enhanc ...
Nov 09, 2011 |
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X-Ray Emission from Young Stars
(PhysOrg.com) -- The star TW Hydrae is located about 150 light-years from earth in the direction of the constellation of Hydrae, the Water Snake. This star is relatively young -- at about 10 million years ...
Feb 05, 2010 |
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NRL RAIDS experiment advances ionospheric remote sensing
Naval Research Laboratory scientists have obtained a first-ever measured altitude profile of a dim extreme-ultraviolet terrestrial airglow emission that provides vital information needed to test and improve ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 18, 2012 |
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Molecular spectroscopy tracks living mammalian cells in real time as they differentiate
Knowing how a living cell works means knowing how the chemistry inside the cell changes as the functions of the cell change. Protein phosphorylation, for example, controls everything from cell proliferation ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Apr 30, 2012 |
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Mars-bound NASA rover carries coin for camera checkup
(PhysOrg.com) -- The camera at the end of the robotic arm on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has its own calibration target, a smartphone-size plaque that looks like an eye chart supplemented with color chips ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 07, 2012 |
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Elements of ExoPlanets
By looking at the wavelengths of light from nearby stars, researchers have determined the abundance of certain elements for more than a hundred stars. Trace elements in such stars may influence their habitable ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 02, 2012 |
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NIST releases first certified reference material for single-wall carbon nanotubes
(PhysOrg.com) -- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued the world’s first reference material for single-wall carbon nanotube soot. Distantly related to the soot in your fireplace ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Dec 21, 2011 |
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TACC supercomputers help researchers find deeper insight into structure and behavior of protein, DNA and RNA
In 1926, Theodor Svedberg won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for a novel method of separating proteins based on experiments performed on a new device he invented: the analytic ultracentrifuge.
Nov 08, 2011 |
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The James Webb Telescope will see Earth-like worlds
The James Web Space Telescope has been in the news a lot lately. Often referred to as the replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope, its existence has been in jeopardy since a House committee voted ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 25, 2011 |
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Hubble survey carries out a dark matter census
(PhysOrg.com) -- The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been used to make an image of galaxy cluster MACS J1206.2-0847. The apparently distorted shapes of distant galaxies in the background is caused by an ...
Oct 13, 2011 |
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MESSENGER results after six months in orbit
(PhysOrg.com) -- MESSENGER scientists will highlight the latest results on Mercury from MESSENGER observations obtained during the first six months (the first Mercury solar day) in orbit. These findings will ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 05, 2011 |
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Physicists uncover new data on adenine, a crucial building block of life
Early Earth's atmosphere provided little shielding for ultraviolet light from space, so many prebiotic molecules, bombarded by it and light of other wavelengths, had a hard time surviving at all. But some molecules became ...
Aug 18, 2011 |
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