Hall thruster a serious contender to get humans to Mars
The spacecraft engine that will help take humans to Mars may be based on a University of Michigan prototype.
Space Exploration
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News tagged with xenon atoms
Giving atoms their marching orders
Chemistry professor Linda Shimizu oversees a series of crowd-pleasing chemistry demonstrations in middle and high schools throughout central South Carolina every year. They are spirited affairs, and her research in the laboratory ...
Materials Science
Jun 24, 2015
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Varying the sliding properties of atoms on a surface
It's possible to vary (even dramatically) the sliding properties of atoms on a surface by changing the size and "compression" of their aggregates: an experimental and theoretical study conducted with the collaboration of ...
Nanomaterials
Jun 22, 2015
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SLAC gears up for dark matter hunt with LUX-ZEPLIN
Researchers have come a step closer to building one of the world's best dark matter detectors: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently signed off on the conceptual design of the proposed LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment and ...
General Physics
May 21, 2015
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Digging into the "giant resonance", scientists find hints of new quantum physics
A cooperation between theoretical and experimental physicists has uncovered previously unknown quantum states inside atoms. The results, described in a paper published today in the journal Nature Communications, allow a better ...
Quantum Physics
Apr 9, 2015
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Nano-beaker offers insight into the condensation of atoms
An international team of physicists has succeeded in mapping the condensation of individual atoms, or rather their transition from a gaseous state to another state, using a new method. Led by the Swiss Nanoscience Institute ...
Nanophysics
Jan 21, 2015
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NIST chip produces and detects specialized gas for biomedical analysis
(Phys.org) —A chip-scale device that both produces and detects a specialized gas used in biomedical analysis and medical imaging has been built and demonstrated at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). ...
General Physics
May 21, 2014
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In search for dark matter components, physicists edge closer by watching radiation shifts
(Phys.org) —Nuclear magnetic resonance—that phenomenon where nuclei of certain atoms, when in a magnetic field, take in and give off measurable amounts of electromagnetic radiation—is everywhere.
General Physics
Sep 5, 2013
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Tiny bubbles hold big promise for NMR/MRI
(Phys.org) —Berkeley Lab researchers have shown that tiny bubbles carrying hyperpolarized xenon gas hold big promise for NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) and its sister technology, MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging), as these ...
Analytical Chemistry
Jul 16, 2013
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Record ionization: X-ray laser removes more than two shells from electron cloud surrounding noble gas atoms
(Phys.org)—Atoms have been thoroughly researched, but they are still good for a surprise. Researchers of the Max Planck Advanced Study Group (ASG) at the Hamburg Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) have now produced ...
General Physics
Nov 23, 2012
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