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Student-Built Space Camera Photographs Earth, Costs $150
Two MIT students recently launched a digital camera into the stratosphere on a helium balloon, capturing amazing views of Earth from up high.
Cleaner Coal Plants May Use Pressurized Combustion System To Capture Carbon Dioxide
Researchers have developed designs for a new kind of coal-burning power plant, called a pressurized oxy-fuel combustion system, whose carbon-dioxide emissions are concentrated and pressurized so that they can be...
Sharing the air
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the old days, when a new wireless technology came along, it got its own swath of the electromagnetic spectrum: AM radio uses 535 to 1,605 kilohertz, so...
Low-gravity Space Station Lab Used To Study Crystal Growth
A metallurgist will soon be studying how crystals grow in the low-gravity on board the International Space Station. He will use a mini lab known as DECLIC -- DEvice for...
Promising Mechanically-stacked GaAs/Ge Multijunction Solar Cell Unveiled
Researchers in Europe have presented a mechanically-stacked GaAs/Ge multijunction solar cell. This is the first promising demonstrator of a novel technology to produce mechanically stacked, high-efficiency multijunction solar cells, aiming...
First Bose-Einstein Condensate With Calcium Atoms Produced
Physicists in Germany have succeeded for the first time worldwide in producing a Bose-Einstein condensate from the alkaline earth element calcium. The use of alkaline earth atoms creates new potential...
The Long and the Short of Acrylate Polymerization
(PhysOrg.com) -- Used in such diverse applications as adhesives, detergents, and super-absorbent disposable diapers, polyacrylates are key polymers, but the mechanisms of their formation are complex and have long been...
A Menu That’s Light on Salt
Cut down on your salt intake with this easy plan.
As U.N. Meets on Climate, Momentum May Be Elusive
Building momentum for an international climate treaty may prove difficult at a time when temperatures have been stable for a decade and may even drop in the next few years.
Robot Hops to Military Duty
Precision Urban Hopper robots, designed for urban warfare, can jump onto or over obstacles more than 25 feet.
Toshiba Adds 32nm mSATA And Half-Slim Solid State Drive Modules
Toshiba today announced a series of solid state drive (SSD) modules using the latest generation Toshiba 32nm MLC NAND flash, at Intel Developers Forum 2009. The Toshiba SG2 modules are...
Details Emerge of Cold War Nuclear Threat by Cuba
According to recently released documents, Fidel Castro once suggested a Soviet nuclear strike against the United States.
Echoes of phlogiston in stem cell biology
Before it was learned that matter burns by taking up oxygen, most chemists sought to explain combustion as the release of a mysterious substance, which they named "phlogiston". Phlogiston theory...
Berkeley Engineer To Head DOE's Advanced Projects Agency
Advanced Research: Nominated to lead ARPA-E, Arun Majumdar has similar background as Energy Secretary Steven Chu.
The vehicle industry must have a rethink
Despite the fact that the vehicle industry is currently described as an industry in crisis, there are high hopes that the development of future IT services for vehicles will drive...
Geeks embrace this ‘Big Bang Theory’ too
"The Big Bang Theory" has generated a lot of positive buzz among nerd-centric viewers that understood that the show wasn't mocking their kind but actually celebrating a huge portion of...
Reactive oxygen has key role in metastasis
LA JOLLA, Calif., Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Scientists at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research in California say they've discovered reactive oxygen plays a key role in cancer metastasis.
Springs built from nanotubes could provide big power storage potential
(PhysOrg.com) -- New research by MIT scientists suggests that carbon nanotubes -- tube-shaped molecules of pure carbon -- could be formed into tiny springs capable of storing as much energy,...
Archer Farm-brand potato salad is recalled
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (UPI) -- Garden-Fresh Foods Inc. of Milwaukee says it is recalling some 16-ounce containers of Archer Farms Potato Salad due to a labeling error.
The hunt for dark matter
MIT physicists are working on new detectors that may, at last, help them find the elusive particles thought to constitute up to a quarter of the universe.
Hidden waves pack a big punch
Thomas Peacock sheds light on an odd but powerful phenomenon of sea and sky
Magnetism observed in a gas for the first time
Led by Wolfgang Ketterle and David E. Pritchard, MIT physicists shed new light on magnetism in experiment with ultracold atoms
Is dark matter mostly 'dark atoms'?
New model says that the universe largely consists of dark atoms bound together by a new force
Better Materials Could Build a Green Construction Industry
The construction industry consumes truckloads of basic materials, the manufacture of which consumes massive quantities of energy, producing prodigious emissions of greenhouse gases. If materials scientists and entrepreneurs can devise materials that can be...
Smaller Isn't Always Better: Catalyst Simulations Could Lower Fuel Cell Cost
Imagine a car that runs on hydrogen from solar power and produces water instead of carbon emissions. While vehicles like this won't be on the market anytime soon, researchers are...
Tip sheet: Migration '09 convenes near site of early nuclear technology
KENNEWICK, Wash. -- Researchers from around the world will be presenting at Migration '09: 12th International Conference on the Chemistry and Migration Behaviour of Actinides and Fission Products in the...
Simultaneous Nanoscale Imaging of Surface and Bulk Atoms
(PhysOrg.com) -- Brookhaven Lab scientists have developed a new scanning electron microscope capable of selectively imaging single atoms on a surface while simultaneously probing atoms throughout the sample?s depth. The...
Swimming robot makes waves
Researchers at the University of Bath have used nature for inspiration in designing a new type of swimming robot which could bring a breakthrough in submersible technology.