News tagged with detector
System developed to detect plastic anti-personnel mines
Dec 22, 2009 |
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A team of European researchers has devised a method for locating plastic anti-personnel mines, which are manufactured to avoid detection by metal detectors. The technique involves analysing the temperature ...
New laser -- it's a gas, gas, gas... sensor
Dec 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new generation of optical sensors is enabling the development of robust, long-lasting, lighting-fast trace gas detectors for use in a wide range of industrial, security and domestic applications.
Restored machine to explore mysteries of Big Bang
Nov 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Scientists are preparing the world's largest atom smasher to explore the depths of matter after successfully restarting the $10 billion machine following more than a year of repairs.
Dark matter sleuths to design world's largest WIMP catcher
Oct 29, 2009 |
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A team of researchers led by a Case Western Reserve University physicist is planning the world's largest, most sensitive experiment to catch the stuff of dark matter, stuff that's proved way beyond invisible.
Particles are back in the LHC
Oct 26, 2009 |
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During the last weekend (23-25 October) particles have once again entered the LHC after the one-year break that followed the incident of September 2008.
The future of electricity may be found in environmentally-friendly, thermoelectric cells
Oct 14, 2009 |
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The Air Force Office of Scientific Research and the National Science Foundation are funding research that may result in a military turbine aircraft that for the first time ever will produce its own electricity from exhaust ...
Grant to Design Neutrino Detector
Oct 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A consortium led by UC Davis physics professor Robert Svoboda will design the world's largest neutrino detector under a $4.4 million contract recently awarded by the National Science Foundation.
Goddard Visualization Team Previews Lunar Impact
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- At 7:30 a.m. EDT on October 9, a two-ton rocket body will slam into a crater near the moon's south pole. By studying the resulting plume of gas and dust, scientists hope this grand experiment ...
Filming photons, one million times a second
Oct 05, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created a CMOS (semiconductor) camera capable of filming individual photons one million times a second. The breakthrough will impact on all the most advanced areas ...
Graphite mimics iron's magnetism
Oct 04, 2009 |
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Researchers of Eindhoven University of Technology and the Radboud University Nijmegen in The Netherlands show for the first time why ordinary graphite is a permanent magnet at room temperature. The results ...
Mystery of Mount Rainier survey marker melts away
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 02, 2009 |
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Is global warming shrinking Mount Rainier? A survey marker atop the Northwest's tallest peak sure makes it look that way.
Physicists Explain How Human Eyes Can Detect Quantum Effects
Sep 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By greatly amplifying one photon from an entangled photon pair, physicists have theoretically shown that human eyes can be used as detectors to observe quantum effects. Usually, detecting ...
High-tech nuke detectors check Puget Sound small vessels for WMD
Sep 28, 2009 |
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More than 300 trained maritime law enforcement and first responder personnel from federal, state, local and tribal agencies participated in an operational maritime exercise in Puget Sound this week. Maritime law enforcement ...
Date Check turns smart phones into 'sleaze detectors'
Sep 23, 2009 |
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People in the dating scene will be able to use iPhones as "sleaze detectors" to quickly check whether aspiring mates are creeps or gems.
The hunt for dark matter
Sep 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In a basement laboratory at MIT, assistant professor of physics Jocelyn Monroe is making some final adjustments to her team's newest particle detector. In just a few months, the detector will ...
