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Heavy Pyridine Crystallizes Differently

Heavy Pyridine Crystallizes Differently

Chemistry /

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The nuclei of ordinary hydrogen atoms contain only a single proton. If a neutron is added, the hydrogen becomes deuterium. In principle, molecules that contain deuterium in place of hydrogen ...


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Atomic Tug of War

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 02, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (38) | comments 4

A new form of energy-transfer, reported today in Nature (3 July 2008) may have implications for the study of reactions going on in the atmosphere, and even for those occurring in the body.


Some fundamental interactions of matter found to be fundamentally different than thought

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 02, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (60) | comments 4

Collisions have consequences. Everyone knows that. Whether it's between trains, planes, automobiles or atoms, there are always repercussions. But while macroscale collisions may have the most obvious effects - mangled steel, ...


Researchers find clue to start of universe

Researchers find clue to start of universe

Physics /

created Sep 02, 2005 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

If you want to hear a little bit of the Big Bang, you're going to have to turn down your stereo. That's what neighbors of MIT's Haystack Observatory found out. They were asked to make a little accommodation for ...


'Heftier' atoms reduce friction at the nanoscale

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 01, 2007 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

A research team led by a University of Pennsylvania mechanical engineer has discovered that friction between two sliding bodies can be reduced at the molecular, or nanoscale, level by changing the mass of the atoms at the ...


High-Flying Electrons May Provide New Test of Quantum Theory

High-Flying Electrons May Provide New Test of Quantum Theory

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 29, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (41) | comments 2

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and Max Planck Institute for Physics in Germany believe they can achieve a significant increase in the accuracy of one of the fundamental constants ...


'Cold fusion' rebirth? New evidence for existence of controversial energy source

'Cold fusion' rebirth? New evidence for existence of controversial energy source

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (45) | comments 59

Researchers are reporting compelling new scientific evidence for the existence of low-energy nuclear reactions (LENR), the process once called "cold fusion" that may promise a new source of energy. One group ...


Cold Fusion

Physicist Claims First Real Demonstration of Cold Fusion

Physics / General Physics

created May 27, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (286) | comments 50

To many people, cold fusion sounds too good to be true. The idea is that, by creating nuclear fusion at room temperature, researchers can generate a nearly unlimited source of power that uses water as fuel ...


Surprising telescope observations shake up galactic formation theories

Surprising telescope observations shake up galactic formation theories

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Aug 14, 2006 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (31) | comments 0

A heavy form of hydrogen created just moments after the Big Bang has been found to exist in larger quantities than expected in the Milky Way, a finding that could radically alter theories about star and galaxy ...


Stopping atoms

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 03, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (26) | comments 0

With atoms and molecules in a gas moving at thousands of kilometres per hour, physicists have long sought a way to slow them down to a few kilometres per hour to trap them.


Martian Methane Reveals the Red Planet is not a Dead Planet

Martian Methane Reveals the Red Planet is not a Dead Planet

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (15) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars today is a world of cold and lonely deserts, apparently without life of any kind, at least on the surface. Worse still, it looks like Mars has been cold and dry for billions of years, ...


MIT tests unique approach to fusion power

MIT tests unique approach to fusion power

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 28, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (140) | comments 15

An MIT and Columbia University team has successfully tested a novel reactor that could chart a new path toward nuclear fusion, which could become a safe, reliable and nearly limitless source of energy.


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Ice cores map dynamics of sudden climate changes

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 19, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (17) | comments 1

New, extremely detailed data from investigations of ice cores from Greenland show that the climate shifted very suddenly and changed fundamentally during quite few years when the ice age ended. Researchers ...


Neutrons Born In Lightning

Physics /

created Sep 21, 2005 | popularity 4 / 5 (7) | comments 1

To produce thermonuclear reaction it is necessary, firstly, to have nuclei with a large quantity of neutrons available, for example, deuterium nuclei, and secondly, these nuclei should possess sufficiently high velocity and ...


Looking at methane sources in the right light

Looking at methane sources in the right light

Chemistry /

created May 27, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Plants store one greenhouse gas, but emit another. Whereas they bind carbon dioxide, they release methane - albeit in small quantities. This has now been confirmed by scientists from the Max Planck Institute ...