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WISE Is Chilling Out

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers are busy cooling the science instrument on NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The spacecraft is scheduled to blast into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Supercooled and supersized technologies aboard Herschel and Planck

Away from sunlight it can get very cold in space, but not cold enough for the Herschel and Planck missions, which ESA and European industry have equipped with state-of-the-art refrigeration systems to make ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0




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A quantum connection between light and motion

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have demonstrated a system in which light is used to control the motion of an object that is large enough to be seen with the naked eye at the level where quantum mechanics governs ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (22) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Electron accelerator scientists report breakthroughs

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell scientists have surpassed two major scientific milestones toward proving the technology of a novel, exceedingly powerful X-ray source.

Physics / General Physics

created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New data from XENON100 narrows the possible range for dark matter

(PhysOrg.com) -- An International team of scientists in the XENON collaboration, including several from the Weizmann Institute, announced on Thursday the results of their search for the elusive component of ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 14, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

Generator with superconductors

Siemens and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) plan to demonstrate that high-temperature superconductor technology is suitable for power generation in everyday operation. The research project, which ...

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Simple lithium good for many surprises

(PhysOrg.com) -- At first glance, lithium should be a simple atomic system. It is the lightest solid element and with just three electrons, it should exhibit simple, crystalline structures. However, an international ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jan 14, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (16) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Superconductors face the future

Futuristic ideas for the use of superconductors, materials that allow electric current to flow without resistance, are myriad: long-distance, low-voltage electric grids with no transmission loss; fast, magnetically ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Sep 10, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Herschel: The first science highlights

This week, Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing a special feature devoted to the first science results obtained with Herschel, an ESA space observatory with science instruments provided by European-led Principal ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jul 16, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Nuclear physics promises earlier detection of brain tumors with just one scan

Time taken to detect brain tumours could soon be significantly reduced thanks to an ongoing pioneering project led by the University of Liverpool with the Nuclear Physics Group and Technology departments at the Science and ...

Medicine & Health / Research

created Mar 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An Advance in Superconducting Magnet Technology Opens the Door for More Powerful Colliders

(PhysOrg.com) -- Preparing for as much as a 10-fold increase in the Large Hadron Collider's luminosity within the next decade, U.S. scientists and engineers have demonstrated a powerful magnet based on an ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 0

WISE satellite blasts off on space-map mission

NASA launched Monday a new breed of satellite called WISE on a mission to orbit Earth and map the skies to find elusive cosmic objects, including potentially dangerous asteroids.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 4


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