News tagged with xenon
New hydrogen-storage method discovered
Scientists at the Carnegie Institution have found for the first time that high pressure can be used to make a unique hydrogen-storage material. The discovery paves the way for an entirely new way to approach ...
Nov 22, 2009 |
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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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New concept may enhance Earth-Mars communication
Direct communication between Earth and Mars can be strongly disturbed and even blocked by the Sun for weeks at a time, cutting off any future human mission to the Red Planet. An ESA engineer working with engineers ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 16, 2009 |
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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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GOCE's electric ion propulsion engine switched on
(PhysOrg.com) -- GOCE's sophisticated electric ion propulsion system has been switched on and confirmed to be operating normally, marking another crucial milestone in the satellite's post-launch commissioning ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 06, 2009 |
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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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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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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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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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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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We owe it all to comets
Comets have always fascinated us. A mysterious appearance could symbolize God's displeasure or mean a sure failure in battle, at least for one side. Now Tel Aviv University justifies our fascination -- comets ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 28, 2009 |
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Dark matter sleuths to design world's largest WIMP catcher
A team of researchers led by a Case Western Reserve University physicist is planning the world's largest, most sensitive experiment to catch the stuff of dark matter, stuff that's proved way beyond invisible.
Oct 29, 2009 |
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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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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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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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