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Adapting space-industry technology to treat breast cancer
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Researchers at Rush University Medical Center and Argonne National Laboratory are collaborating on a study to determine if an imaging technique used by NASA to inspect the space shuttle can be used to predict tissue damage ...
First direct evidence of lightning on Mars detected
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 17, 2009 |
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For the first time, direct evidence of lightning has been detected on Mars, say University of Michigan researchers who found signs of electrical discharges during dust storms on the Red Planet.
Scientists Create Material More Insulating than the Vacuum
Dec 10, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- With its complete lack of atoms, a vacuum is often considered to be the best known insulator. For this reason, vacuums are regularly used to reduce heat transfer, such as in the lining of ...
Scientists design bomb-proof thermometer to measure the heat of explosions
Oct 08, 2008 |
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Scientists at the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) in Teddington have designed a high-speed thermometer that can measure the temperature inside explosions without being damaged in the impact.
Infrared technology aids motor-impaired people
Aug 31, 2009 |
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A University of Toronto professor has found a way for people with severe motor impairments to communicate with the use of an infrared camera.
Using neutron-computed tomography techniques, scientist measure in-situ water content
Sep 08, 2008 |
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Scientists at the University of California in Davis present results from a newly developed non-invasive technique that uses thermal neutron attenuation to measure spatial and temporal distribution of water in soils. The study, ...
NASA's Next Moon Mission Begins Thermal Vacuum Test
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 23, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, has begun environmental testing in a thermal vacuum that simulates the harsh rigors of space.
Researchers may have solved information loss paradox to find black holes do not form
Jun 20, 2007 |
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"Nothing there," is what Case Western Reserve University physicists concluded about black holes after spending a year working on complex formulas to calculate the formation of new black holes. In nearly 13 ...
Taming tiny, unruly waves for nano optics
Oct 08, 2007 |
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Nanoscale devices present a unique challenge to any optical technology -- there’s just not enough room for light to travel in a straight line.
Warm Coronal Loops Offer Clue to Mysteriously Hot Solar Atmosphere
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 29, 2008 |
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Scientists at NASA reveal a new understanding of the mysterious mechanism responsible for heating the outer part of the solar atmosphere, the corona, to million degree temperatures.
New radiation therapy promises relief for overheating laptops
Apr 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Our modern age has become accustomed to regular improvements in information technology, says Slava Rotkin, but these advances do not come without a cost.
Researchers propose new way to reproduce a black hole
Aug 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Despite their popularity in the science fiction genre, there is much to be learned about black holes, the mysterious regions in space once thought to be absent of light. In a paper published in the August ...
Laser-flash analysis echnique measures heat transport in the Earth's crust
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Putting a new spin on an old technique, Anne M. Hofmeister, Ph.D., research professor of earth and planetary sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, has revolutionized ...
Quantum goes massive
Jul 16, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An astrophysics experiment in America has demonstrated how fundamental research in one subject area can have a profound effect on work in another as the instruments used for the Laser Interferometer ...
Rare earth metal enhances phosphate glass
Dec 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Adding cerium oxide to phosphate glass rather than the commonly used silicate glass may make glasses that block ultraviolet light and have increased radiation damage resistance while remaining colorless, ...
