News tagged with water surface

Soviet find of water on the Moon in the 1970s ignored by the West

(Phys.org) -- In August 1976 Luna 24 landed on the moon and returned to Earth with samples of rocks, which were found to contain water, but this finding was ignored by scientists in the West.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (40) | comments 44 | with audio podcast report

Kepler finds first earth-size planets beyond our solar system

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too close to their star ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (33) | comments 61 | with audio podcast

Water may not run uphill, but it practically flies off new surface

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineering researchers have crafted a flat surface that refuses to get wet. Water droplets skitter across it like ball bearings tossed on ice. The inspiration? Not wax. Not glass. Not even Teflon.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Feb 24, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (30) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

The Multiplying Mystery of Moonwater

Moonwater. Look it up. You won't find it. It's not in the dictionary.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 18, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (24) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

Geologists show unprecedented warming in Lake Tanganyika

Lake Tanganyika, the second oldest and the second-deepest lake in the world, could be in for some rough waters.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 16, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (26) | comments 37 | with audio podcast

Researchers reveal the internal dance of water

(PhysOrg.com) -- Water is familiar to everyone - it shapes our bodies and our planet. But despite this abundance, the molecular structure of water has remained a mystery, with the substance exhibiting many ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (21) | comments 2

Rising oceans - too late to turn the tide?

Melting ice sheets contributed much more to rising sea levels than thermal expansion of warming ocean waters during the Last Interglacial Period, a UA-led team of researchers has found. The results further ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 15, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (20) | comments 45 | with audio podcast

Sea Salt Holds Clues to Climate Change

(PhysOrg.com) -- We know that average sea levels have risen over the past century, and that global warming is to blame. But what is climate change doing to the saltiness, or salinity, of our oceans?

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (20) | comments 3

Scientists discover new water waves

(PhysOrg.com) -- By precisely shaking a container of shallow water, researchers have observed wave behavior that has never been seen before. In a new study, Jean Rajchenbach, Alphonse Leroux, and Didier Clamond ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 19, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (20) | comments 26 | with audio podcast feature

Hold the salt: Engineers develop revolutionary new desalination membrane

(PhysOrg.com) -- The new reverse-osmosis membrane resists the clogging that typically occurs when seawater and brackish water are purified.

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (18) | comments 9 | with audio podcast

Discovery of mini 'water hammer' effect could lead to materials that water really hates

Researchers from Northwestern University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have studied individual water droplets and discovered a miniature version of the "water hammer," an effect that produces the familiar ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Feb 08, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Water Planets

Of the roughly 420 extra-solar planets now known, about a dozen are in the newly named category of "super-earths," planets whose masses are in between of two and about fifteen earth-masses.

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 22, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (18) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Drilling Down into Mars

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Phoenix lander revealed water ice mere inches beneath the martian surface, and chemical evidence from the landing site strongly hints that the region is habitable. But learning whether ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 08, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (17) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

NASA Planning for Possible Landings on Europa

All these worlds are yours except Europa, Attempt no landing there, Use them together use them in peace

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 25

Subterranean oceans on Saturn's moon Titan

(PhysOrg.com) -- Saturn's largest moon, Titan, may have a subterranean ocean of hydrocarbons and some topsy-turvy topography in which the summits of its mountains lie lower than its average surface elevation, ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (16) | comments 7