News tagged with charged water

US eyes first BP criminal charges over Gulf spill: WSJ

US prosecutors are readying criminal charges against British oil giant BP employees over the 2010 Deepwater Horizon accident that led to the catastrophic Gulf oil spill, The Wall Street Journal reported online.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 11

Nanonets give rust a boost as agent in water splitting's hydrogen harvest

Coating a lattice of tiny wires called Nanonets with iron oxide – known more commonly as rust – creates an economical and efficient platform for the process of water splitting, an emerging clean ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 09, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Opposites attract -- but they may not stay together

(PhysOrg.com) -- Opposites may always attract. But they may not remain together long-term. In a counter-intuitive discovery published in the current edition of the journal Nature, researchers from Harvard, the Un ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Hot and Cold Moves of Cyanide and Water

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have long known that molecules dance about as the temperature rises, but now researchers know the exact steps that water takes with a certain molecule. Results with small, electrically ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

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




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Google might launch Drive for cloud storage soon

(PhysOrg.com) -- Google's next big move, according to the Wall Street Journal, is a cloud storage service called Drive. Hardly first to the plate, Google is simply catching up to introducing its cloud reposi ...

Technology / Internet

created Feb 12, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 6 | with audio podcast report

Mexican experts excited to find ancient home ruins

(AP) -- The ruins aren't particularly impressive, just some stone and clay footings for houses that probably supported walls of wood or clay wattle. And it's that very ordinariness that has experts excited.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Mammal secrets

You probably don’t need a field guide to identify a raccoon. Or a grey squirrel. You’re not likely to say, “that big white shaggy beast, hmm, yes, might be a polar bear. Let’s check.” ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Mexico road project sets up fight over ruins

(AP) -- When neighbors in the hills east of Mexico City saw backhoes ripping up pre-Hispanic relics for a highway, they did something unexpected in a country where building projects often bulldoze through ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Electrons in concert: A simple probe for collective motion in ultracold plasmas

(PhysOrg.com) -- Collective, or coordinated behavior is routine in liquids, where waves can occur as atoms act together. In a milliliter (mL) of liquid water, 1022 molecules bob around, colliding. When a bre ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The right recipe: Engineering research improves laser detectors, batteries

Think of it as cooking with carbon spaghetti: A Kansas State University researcher is developing new ways to create and work with carbon nanotubes -- ultrasmall tubes that look like pieces of spaghetti or string.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Sediments from the Enol lake reveal more than 13,500 years of environmental history

A team of Spanish researchers have used different geological samples, extracted from the Enol lake in Asturias, to show that the Holocene, a period that started 11,600 years ago, did not have a climate as ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 1

BP must pay some of Halliburton's Gulf spill costs

British oil giant BP must cover some of the eventual claims against subcontractor Halliburton arising from the devastating 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a US judge ruled Tuesday.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Warning of unrest, new study shows millions risk losing lands in Africa

New studies released in London today suggest that the frenzied sell-off of forests and other prime lands to buyers hungry for the developing world's natural resources risk sparking widespread civil unrest—unless national ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Super Bowl advertisers go after 'second screens'

(AP) -- Call it the "second-screen" Super Bowl. About two-thirds of smartphone and tablet owners use their gadgets to do things like text or post on Twitter while watching TV, according to research firm Nielsen. ...

Technology / Business

created Feb 01, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0


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