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Water acts as catalyst in explosives

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Mar 20, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 2

The most abundant material on Earth exhibits some unusual chemical properties when placed under extreme conditions.





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INL develops safer, more efficient nuclear fuel for next-gen reactors

INL develops safer, more efficient nuclear fuel for next-gen reactors

Technology / Energy

created 9 hours ago | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 1

As the nation ponders its energy choices, Americans keep asking themselves: how can the country make better use of its resources and emit fewer greenhouse gases without hurting U.S. industries? A research ...


Warming drives off Cape Cod's namesake, other fish

Biology / Ecology

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Fishermen have known for years that they've had to steam farther and farther from shore to find the cod, haddock and winter flounder that typically fill dinner plates in New England.


Commercialization of new solar technology to boost solar efficiency

Technology / Energy

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 1

A pioneer in solar power in the 1990s before it became "sexy," University of Houston Professor Alex Freundlich recently entered into a collaborative research agreement with U.K.-based start-up QuantaSol for the development ...


Harvesting Energy from Natural Motion: Magnets, Cantilever Capture Wide Range of Frequencies

Harvesting Energy from Natural Motion: Magnets, Cantilever Capture Wide Range of Frequencies

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (11) | comments 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- By taking advantage of the vagaries of the natural world, Duke University engineers have developed a novel approach that they believe can more efficiently harvest electricity from the motions ...


INL scientist is harnessing the power of plasma

INL scientist is harnessing the power of plasma

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 5

Most schoolchildren learn that everything in the universe is a solid, a liquid or a gas. But those lessons miss the fourth and by far most common state of matter: plasma.


Model microbial community for studying expanding dead zones characterized

Model microbial community for studying expanding dead zones characterized

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Among the many changes in the ocean is the expansion of oxygen-deficient or oxygen minimum zones (OMZs), also known as dead zones, which affect the processes by which carbon is captured and sequestered on ...


INL, ISU team on nanoparticle production breakthrough

INL, ISU team on nanoparticle production breakthrough

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 1

Every hour, the sun floods Earth with more energy than the entire world consumes in a year. Yet solar power accounts for less than 0.002 percent of all electricity generated in the United States, primarily ...


Scientists obtain rocks moving into seismogenic zone

Scientists obtain rocks moving into seismogenic zone

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 09, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An international group of scientists aboard the Deep-Sea Drilling Vessel CHIKYU, operated by the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) for the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP), ...


Dirty stars make good solar system hosts (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Some stars are lonely behemoths, with no surrounding planets or asteroids, while others sport a skirt of attendant planetary bodies. New research published this week in The Astrophysical Journal Letters explains why the co ...


Searching for Alien Life, on Earth

Searching for Alien Life, on Earth

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

If you spend an afternoon walking along the muddy shore of Mono Lake, with the eastern flank of the Sierra Nevada mountains looming majestically in the background, you’ll no doubt discover, as others have ...



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