Archive for the ‘energy’ Category
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
Artist depiction of the white dwarf in the AE Aquarii system Image right: The white dwarf in the AE Aquarii system is the first star of its type known to give off pulsar-like pulsations that are powered by its rotation and particle acceleration. (Credit: Casey Reed)
New observations from Suzaku, a ...
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
An international team of astronomers has produced the first ever image of an astronomical object using high energy gamma rays, helping to solve a 100 year old mystery - an origin of cosmic rays. Their research, published in the Journal Nature on November 4th, was carried out using the High ...
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
A NASA satellite designed, built and controlled by the University of Colorado at Boulder is expected to help scientists resolve wide-ranging predictions about the coming solar cycle peak in 2012 and its influence on Earth's warming climate, according to the chief scientist on the project.Senior Research Associate Tom Woods of ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
Engineering physics professor Michael Podowski is project director and principal investigator of the new study. (Credit: Image courtesy of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute is leading a $3 million research project that will pair two of the world’s most powerful supercomputers to boost the safety and reliability of next-generation nuclear ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
The orange shapes in this image represent the magma chamber -- a chamber of molten and partly molten rock -- beneath the giant volcanic crater known as the Yellowstone caldera, which is represented by the rusty-colored outline at the top. The red rectangular slab-like feature is a computer-generated representation of ...
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Tuesday, November 6th, 2007
Scientists may be one step closer to understanding the atomic forces that cause friction, thanks to a recently published study by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Houston and the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.
The research, led by Robert Carpick of the University of Pennsylvania, ...
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Saturday, November 3rd, 2007
To isolate bacteria present in swine waste samples, microbiologists Rhonda Zeltwanger and Michael Cotta work in an anaerobic glove box. Because most of these bacteria are strict anaerobes, many manipulations must be performed in the absence of oxygen. (Credit: USDA, Photo by Keith Weller)
Wanted: Bacterium that can eat sugar or ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Chemistry professor Thomas Rauchfuss, left, and graduate student Zachariah Heiden have devised a new way to make water. (Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer)
In a familiar high-school chemistry demonstration, an instructor first uses electricity to split liquid water into its constituent gases, hydrogen and oxygen. Then, by combining the two ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
The international prototype of a kilogram held at Sevres near Paris. Photograph: AFP/Getty
It is the only object in the universe with a mass of exactly 1kg, but to the great embarrassment of scientists it does not weigh the same as it used to.
The object in question is a cylindrical lump ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised to discover that carbon offsets are now being traded like any other financial commodity. But it makes me uneasy.
I have been investigating what has happened to the cash I gave to the Climate Care company in August to offset the carbon emissions from ...
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