(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the NRL Materials Science and Technology Division are providing solid evidence that there is a new route towards developing novel, lightweight energy storage devices. By moving away from centuries ...
Materials Science
Apr 15, 2011
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Structures thought of as the oldest known fossils of microbes might actually be microscopic mineral formations not associated with life, suggesting that astrobiologists have to be careful calling alien objects “life” ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 18, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It appears that the supposed oldest examples of life on our planet -- 3.5 billion-year-old bacteria fossils found in Australian rock called Apex Chert -- are nothing more than tiny gaps in the rock that are ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 16, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Rocks on Mars dug from far underground by crater-blasting impacts are providing glimpses of one possible way Mars' atmosphere has become much less dense than it used to be.
Space Exploration
Mar 9, 2011
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Japanese researchers have created an alloy with properties similar to palladium, a precious metal used in many high-tech goods, a news report said Thursday, dubbing the breakthrough "present-day alchemy".
Nanomaterials
Dec 30, 2010
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German industrialists are concerned over supplies of rare earth minerals needed for a wide variety of products after companies said access to the raw materials was restricted by China.
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 25, 2010
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Japan's stockpile of rare earth minerals could dry up by March or April without fresh imports from China, which has stopped shipping them, a senior Japanese government official said Thursday.
Business
Oct 21, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a diamond-anvil cell to recreate the high pressures deep within the earth, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have found unusual properties in an iron-rich magnesium- and ...
Earth Sciences
Sep 2, 2010
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The chemical breakdown of minerals that may be lurking in space dust soon will be available to scientists around the world.
Astronomy
Aug 11, 2010
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Princeton University proclaimed this month that some of its physicists had helped discover an invisible particle known as a geoneutrino.
General Physics
Jul 26, 2010
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