Madison chemical engineers have developed a new way to create inexpensive chemical sensors for detecting explosives, industrial pollutants or even the chemical markers of disease in a patient's breath.
Materials Science
Nov 3, 2016
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How do you handle nuclear waste that will be radioactive for millions of years, keeping it from harming people and the environment?
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 3, 2016
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Sets of ridges and troughs some 1000 km north of the giant Olympus Mons volcano contain a record of the intense tectonic stresses and strains experienced in the Acheron Fossae region on Mars 3.7–3.9 billion years ago.
Space Exploration
Nov 3, 2016
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Scientists at Lehigh University, in collaboration with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, have demonstrated the fabrication of what they call a new class of crystalline solid by using a laser heating technique that induces ...
Condensed Matter
Nov 3, 2016
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ESA's Matthias Maurer with ESA astronauts Luca Parmitano and Pedro Duque on a field trip for the Pangaea planetary geology course.
Space Exploration
Nov 3, 2016
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Lithium, the lightest solid element, is created during astrophysical phenomena, but its origin has been elusive. Recently, a group of researchers detected enormous quantities of beryllium-7, an unstable element that decays ...
Astronomy
Nov 3, 2016
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The men stood by the edge of the corral to mark the release of the first buffalo to run on the Wind River Indian Reservation in decades.
Ecology
Nov 3, 2016
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A team of the Laboratory for Physics of High-Strength Crystals (Russia, Tomsk State University) has developed a new high-strength material based on iron to improve the quality of actuating mechanisms and sensors for mechanical ...
Condensed Matter
Nov 3, 2016
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Laser-zapping of a globular, golf-ball-size object on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover confirms that it is an iron-nickel meteorite fallen from the Red Planet's sky.
Space Exploration
Nov 3, 2016
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Scientists from the Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICP RAS) and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) have demonstrated that sensors based on binary metal oxide nanocomposites ...
Engineering
Nov 3, 2016
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