Researchers map the city's heat
Steel the traditional industry for which the UK city of Sheffield is so well known could help provide a green alternative for heating the city's homes and businesses, alongside other renewable energy sources.
Steel the traditional industry for which the UK city of Sheffield is so well known could help provide a green alternative for heating the city's homes and businesses, alongside other renewable energy sources.
Energy & Green Tech
May 13, 2012
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(Phys.org) -- The fragile and rapidly changing Arctic region is home to large reservoirs of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. As Earth's climate warms, the methane, frozen in reservoirs stored in Arctic tundra soils or marine ...
Earth Sciences
Apr 22, 2012
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A start-up from EPFL and CSEM is putting on the market a thermal regulator that uses neural networks to learn about your house as the seasons change, allowing for savings of up to 65% on fuel.
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 6, 2012
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A proposed Discovery mission concept led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., to investigate the formation and evolution of terrestrial planets by studying the deep interior of Mars now has a new name, InSight.
Space Exploration
Feb 28, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The reliability of trapped-ion quantum information systems a promising candidate technology for an eventual quantum computer can be dramatically improved by giving the trap electrodes a good ...
General Physics
Feb 28, 2012
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Alien planets might experience tidal forces powerful enough to remove all their water, leaving behind hot, dry worlds like Venus, researchers said.
Space Exploration
Feb 9, 2012
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On Earth all biology is subjected to gravity. Some biological systems require gravity for correct orientation (geotropism: plants grow up, roots grow down). In the absence of gravity even human biology is affected: astronauts ...
Biotechnology
Jan 31, 2012
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To understand the weather and climate on Earth as well as on other planets and their moons, scientists need to know the global energy balance, the balance between energy coming in from solar radiation and thermal energy radiated ...
Space Exploration
Jan 2, 2012
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What would be a case for the repair shop for a car engine is completely normal for a micro engine. If it sputters, this is caused by the thermal motions of the smallest particles, which interfere with its running. Researchers ...
General Physics
Dec 11, 2011
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At first glance, supercomputers, car parts, entertainment systems and radar antennas may not have much in common, but they all stand to benefit from important advances in thermal management technology being achieved by an ...
Engineering
Nov 28, 2011
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