Get ready for a total lunar eclipse
Look up towards the east on Wednesday night (October 8) and a total lunar eclipse will be visible from across Australia.
Space Exploration
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Chemists design new high pressure reactor
(Phys.org) —Experts at The University of Nottingham have designed a new pressure reactor which has led to improvements in applied materials research – and particularly in healthcare.
Materials Science
Oct 3, 2014
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High performance ceramics for cars
An ambitious project is taking shape at Empa's Laboratory for High Performance Ceramics: ceramic brake disks for compact cars. Empa scientists have teamed up with partners from Italy, Spain and Liechtenstein to develop the ...
Engineering
Oct 3, 2014
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Researchers build single molecule 'microphone' that can detect proton size displacements
(Phys.org) —A trio of researchers in the Netherlands has built a "microphone" out of just a single molecule that is capable of detecting displacements as small as a single proton. In their paper published in Physical Review ...
Coating nanotubes with aluminum oxide lowers risk of lung injury
(Phys.org) —A new study from North Carolina State University and the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) finds that coating multiwalled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with aluminum oxide reduces the risk ...
Nanomaterials
Oct 3, 2014
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Image: Jet activity at the neck of the Rosetta comet
(Phys.org) —The four images that make up a new montage of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko were taken on September 26, 2014 by the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft. At the time, Rosetta was about 16 miles (26 kilometers) ...
Space Exploration
Oct 3, 2014
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Drastic reduction in the use of synthetic surfactants with power from microorganisms
Researchers at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, in collaboration with Kaneka Corporation, have discovered that a cyclic peptide (surfactin) produced from Bacillus subtilis (B. subtilis) ...
Materials Science
Oct 3, 2014
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High-yielding crops are a double-edged sword for tropical forests
Improving crop yields is often seen as a popular solution to the increasing demand for food productivity to meet the needs of a growing global population, because food demand can be met over the smallest land area possible, ...
Environment
Oct 3, 2014
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The truth about the war on wheat
If you believe the best-seller lists, the biggest bad in the supermarket aisles is not fat or sodium or sugar, but wheat. We have been warned that eating wheat makes our bellies fatter and triggers diseases ranging from diabetes ...
Other
Oct 3, 2014
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Exclusion fencing vital to relocation success
The successful reintroduction of brushtail possums to the Wheatbelt has been attributed to a habitat free from foxes, feral cats and other possums, with plenty of tree hollows and rock crevices.
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