News tagged with cold fusion

Researchers at NIF moving closer to fusion ignition point

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at the U.S. National Ignition Facility (NIF) report that they are growing ever closer to reaching the ignition point with their laser generated nuclear fusion project. The facility, ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 13, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (29) | comments 88 | with audio podcast weblog

Italian scientists claim to have demonstrated cold fusion (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Few areas of science are more controversial than cold fusion, the hypothetical near-room-temperature reaction in which two smaller nuclei join together to form a single larger nucleus while ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 20, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (156) | comments 298 | with audio podcast report

'Cold fusion' moves closer to mainstream acceptance

A potential new energy source so controversial that people once regarded it as junk science is moving closer to acceptance by the mainstream scientific community. That's the conclusion of the organizer of ...

Chemistry / Other

created Mar 21, 2010 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (61) | comments 207

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

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 ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (48) | comments 59




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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

Elements of ExoPlanets

By looking at the wavelengths of light from nearby stars, researchers have determined the abundance of certain elements for more than a hundred stars. Trace elements in such stars may influence their habitable ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 02, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cheap beads offer alternative solar-heating storage

A cheap material that can store heat energy collected from the sun during the day that can be released slowly over night has been developed by researchers in the India. The material based on paraffin wax and stearic acid ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Dec 02, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Stellar extremophiles

Back in the 1970s, biologists were amazed to discover a form of life they never expected.  Tiny microorganisms with ancient DNA were living in the hot springs of Yellowstone National Park.  Instead ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Controversial energy-generating system lacking credibility (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- It's been seven months since Italian physicists Andrea Rossi and Sergio Focardi publicly demonstrated a device that they claimed could generate large amounts of excess heat through some kind of low-energy ...

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 11, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (28) | comments 161 | with audio podcast weblog

Scientists reveal mechanism behind 'oncogene addiction' in acute leukemia

A team of scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has laid bare the mechanism behind a phenomenon called oncogene addiction in mice suffering from a form of leukemia that mimics acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Aug 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scleroderma study identifies roadblocks to employment

Systemic scleroderma has slowed Tracy Zinn but it has not stopped her from working. Thanks in part to determination and an accommodating employer, Zinn is now in her 13th year as an account executive for a ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jul 12, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The making of dust

(PhysOrg.com) -- On the Earth, dust particles are everywhere - under beds, on bookshelves, even floating in the air. We take dust for granted. Dust is also common in space, and it is found for example in the ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 06, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

The curious case of germanium-72: An unusual isotope changes phases as temperature rises

(PhysOrg.com) -- There's a lot we don't know about the atomic nucleus, even though it was discovered a century ago this year.

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

A night with the stars…in a conference room

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ancient astronomers looked up at the dark skies in wonder, as the stars marched by overhead like precision dancers. In the early 17th century, Galileo Galilei brought the world one step closer ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2


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