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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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 14, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (44) | comments 15

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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

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

created Jul 08, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

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

created Apr 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

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: ...

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 01, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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, ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jul 04, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (42) | comments 37 | with audio podcast

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

created Apr 09, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0

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.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 0

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

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (13) | comments 18

Hyper-SAGE boosts remote MRI sensitivity

A new technique in Magnetic Resonance Imaging dubbed "Hyper-SAGE" has the potential to detect ultra low concentrations of clincal targets, such as lung and other cancers. Development of Hyper-SAGE was led ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

IBM Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Moving Atoms (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- On this day in 1989, IBM Fellow Don Eigler became the first person in history to move and control an individual atom. Shortly thereafter, on November 11 of that year, Eigler and his team ...

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

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

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (6) | comments 0

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

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 2

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

created Dec 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2