30/10/2012

Searching for molecular radical's secrets of stability

For the first time, scientists synthesized and characterized a metal-containing complex long thought to be too unstable to study. This complex piqued the interest of scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory because ...

Ice scientists study the birth of an iceberg

The moment of birth of an iceberg has been analysed in detail for the first time. A team of scientists from the University of St Andrews and Aberystwyth University has completed a detailed and thorough survey of the interface ...

Fire burn and cauldron bubble in Canis Major

The cosmic cauldron has brewed up a Halloween trick in the form of a ghostly face that glows in X-rays, as seen by ESA's XMM-Newton space telescope. The eerie entity is a bubble bursting with the fiery stellar wind of a 'live ...

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