News tagged with xenon
Test for carbon capture leaks developed
Scientists have developed the first ever fail-safe test to check for carbon dioxide (CO2) leaks from carbon capture and storage sites deep underground.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 14, 2011 |
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Getting to xenon: Scientists examine alternatives for pulling this rare, expensive element out of air samples
Whether capturing xenon for security or industrial uses, a new material could be a valuable ally, according to scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Classified as a metal-organic framework or ...
Nov 08, 2011 |
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No uncontrolled reaction at Fukushima: operator
The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima atomic plant Thursday played down fears of an uncontrolled chain reaction at the site, despite the discovery of evidence of recent nuclear fission.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Nov 03, 2011 |
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Stanford group creates miniature self-contained fluorescence microscope
(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of researchers working at Stanford University have devised a means for building the smallest self-contained fluorescence microscope ever. Weighing just under 2 grams and slightly larger ...
Sep 12, 2011 |
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Ion Armageddon: Measuring the impact energy of highly charged ions
(PhysOrg.com) -- Much like a meteor impacting a planet, highly charged ions hit really hard and can do a lot of damage, albeit on a much smaller scale. And much like geologists determine the size and speed ...
Aug 31, 2011 |
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Dawn team members check out spacecraft
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mission managers for NASA's Dawn spacecraft are studying the spacecraft's ion propulsion system after Dawn experienced a loss of thrust on June 27. Dawn team members were able to trace the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 08, 2011 |
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Search for dark matter moves one step closer to detecting elusive particle
(PhysOrg.com) -- Dark matter, the mysterious substance that may account for nearly 25 percent of the universe, has so far evaded direct observation. But researchers from UCLA, Columbia University and other ...
Apr 15, 2011 |
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New data from XENON100 narrows the possible range for dark matter
(PhysOrg.com) -- An International team of scientists in the XENON collaboration, including several from the Weizmann Institute, announced on Thursday the results of their search for the elusive component of ...
Apr 14, 2011 |
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Dawn approaches asteroid Vesta
After three and a half years years of thrusting silently through the void, NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on the threshold of a new world. It's deep in the asteroid belt, less than 4 months from giant asteroid ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 08, 2011 |
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Muon makes tracks in EXO-200 detector
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Enriched Xenon Observatory-200, a prototype observatory that will search for exotic decays of fundamental particles of matter, passed a significant if unofficial milestone last month: ...
Feb 01, 2011 |
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Noninvasive and accurate: Absolute temperature mapping for biomedical applications
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers in Germany and the US have developed a new approach to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) thermometry using encaged hyperpolarized xenon as a temperature sensor. The method allows ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Sep 20, 2010 |
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Researchers use super-high pressures to create super battery
The world's biggest Roman candle has got nothing on this. Using super-high pressures similar to those found deep in the Earth or on a giant planet, Washington State University researchers have created a compact, ...
Jul 04, 2010 |
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First newborn receives xenon gas in bid to prevent brain injury
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a world first, xenon gas has been successfully delivered to a newborn baby in a bid to prevent brain injury following a lack of oxygen at birth. This pioneering technique was developed ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 12, 2010 |
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British doctors use inert gas to save baby
(AP) -- British doctors say they have used an inert gas to prevent brain injury in a baby boy who was born in critical condition.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 09, 2010 |
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UCLA 'dark matter' conference highlights new research on mysterious cosmic substance
Dark matter, for more than 70 years as mysterious and unknowable a subject to science as the legendary island of Atlantis has been to history, is bringing 140 scientists from the U.S., Europe and Asia to the Marriott Hotel ...
Feb 25, 2010 |
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