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Detonation at NPL

Scientists design bomb-proof thermometer to measure the heat of explosions

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 08, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

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.


Super cool atom thermometer

Super cool atom thermometer

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

As physicists strive to cool atoms down to ever more frigid temperatures, they face the daunting task of developing new, reliable ways of measuring these extreme lows. Now a team of physicists has devised ...


Glass Thermometers Still a Safety Hazard

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A study by emergency physicians at Children's Hospital Boston provides a wakeup call to parents to get rid of their old glass thermometers. A 12year review of patients seen in Children's emergency department ...


New ionic liquid in thermometers beats mercury on range, performance and safety

Chemistry /

created Mar 26, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Poisonous mercury in thermometers has been replaced by harmless and better performing ionic liquids in research by scientists from Europe and the US, published in the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Green Chemistry.


Scientists Propose Thermal Memory to Store Data

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 07, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (8) | comments 9

Most computers today store memory electronically, by maintaining a certain voltage. In contrast, a new kind of memory that stores data thermally, by maintaining temperature, is being investigated by researchers Lei Wang of ...


Bacteria with a built-in thermometer

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 20, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers in the "Molecular Infection Biology group" at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braunschweig and the Braunschweig Technical University could now demonstrate for the first time that bacteria ...


New nano-detector very promising for remote cosmic realms

New nano-detector very promising for remote cosmic realms

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jan 17, 2007 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (12) | comments 0

A miniscule but super-sensitive sensor can help solve the mysteries of outer space. Cosmic radiation, which contains the terahertz frequencies that the sensors detect, offers astronomers important new information ...


NIST Calculations May Improve Temperature Measures for Microfluidics

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- If you wanted to know if your child had a fever or be certain that the roast in the oven was thoroughly cooked, you would, of course, use a thermometer that you trusted to give accurate readings at any temperature ...


Duke innovations improve accuracy of MRI as internal 'thermometer'

Chemistry /

created Oct 16, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Duke University chemists say they have developed a new way to measure temperature changes inside the body with unprecedented precision by correcting a subtle error in the original theory underlying Magnetic Resonance Imaging ...


Measuring the Immeasurable: New Study Links Heat Transfer, Bond Strength of Materials

Measuring the Immeasurable: New Study Links Heat Transfer, Bond Strength of Materials

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Apr 13, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The speed at which heat moves between two materials touching each other is a potent indicator of how strongly they are bonded to each other, according to a new study by researchers at Rensselaer ...


Hold that tissue: Allergy help may be on the way

Hold that tissue: Allergy help may be on the way

Chemistry /

created Feb 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

It isn’t beach weather in most of the United States right now, but it’s never too early to be thinking about spring and summer. Unfortunately, for people with allergies, today’s daydreams can turn into nightmares ...


Sensing the Energy: Calibrating the LCLS

Sensing the Energy: Calibrating the LCLS

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 01, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 1

The Linac Coherent Light Source will generate X-rays 10 billion times brighter than any source before it. Being the first of its kind, the LCLS has presented engineers with a number of unique technical hurdles. ...


North Carolina football players testing pill that can give body temperature readings

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

At first, it was hard for University of North Carolina football player Kendric Burney to swallow. They handed him a pill containing a battery, thermometer and radio transmitter and told him it would lodge in his intestine, ...


Chasing thundersnow could lead to more accurate forecasts

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The job of one University of Missouri researcher could chill to the bone, but his research could make weather predicting more accurate. Patrick Market, associate professor of atmospheric science in the College ...


Giant extinct snake may -- or may not -- shed light on ancient climate

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 5

(PhysOrg.com) -- Snakes coil up when they sense danger. Some snakes curl up in order to spring into action and strike. Snakes may also coil to preserve body heat, and this warming behavior could affect our understanding of ...