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Mars Express observes aurorae on the red planet

Mars Express observes aurorae on the red planet

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 21, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists using ESA's Mars Express have produced the first crude map of aurorae on Mars. These displays of ultraviolet light appear to be located close to the residual magnetic fields generated ...





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Researchers create 'synthetic magnetic fields' for neutral atoms

Researchers create 'synthetic magnetic fields' for neutral atoms

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Achieving an important new capability in ultracold atomic gases, researchers at the Joint Quantum Institute, a collaboration of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University ...


Cassini's Big Sky: The View from the Center of Our Solar System

Cassini's Big Sky: The View from the Center of Our Solar System

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- When NASA's Cassini spacecraft began orbiting Saturn five years ago, a dozen highly-tuned science instruments set to work surveying, sniffing, analyzing and scrutinizing the Saturnian system.


Liquid battery big enough for the electric grid?

Liquid battery big enough for the electric grid?

Technology / Energy

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- There's one major drawback to most proposed renewable-energy sources: their variability. The sun doesn't shine at night, the wind doesn’t always blow, and tides, waves and currents fluctuate. ...


Scientists demonstrate 'universal' programmable quantum processor

Scientists demonstrate 'universal' programmable quantum processor

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Nov 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (23) | comments 11

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated the first "universal" programmable quantum information processor able to run any program allowed by quantum mechanics -- th ...


How Size Matters For Catalysts: Study Links Size, Activity, Electronic Properties

How Size Matters For Catalysts: Study Links Size, Activity, Electronic Properties

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah chemists demonstrated the first conclusive link between the size of catalyst particles on a solid surface, their electronic properties and their ability to speed chemical ...


Smart rat 'Hobbie-J' produced by over-expressing a gene that helps brain cells communicate

Smart rat 'Hobbie-J' produced by over-expressing a gene that helps brain cells communicate

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 5

Over-expressing a gene that lets brain cells communicate just a fraction of a second longer makes a smarter rat, report researchers from the Medical College of Georgia and East China Normal University.


First IBEX maps reveal fascinating interactions occurring at the edge of the solar system

Galactic magnetic fields may control the boundaries of our solar system

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Oct 16, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (9) | comments 2

The first all-sky maps developed by NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft, the initial mission to examine the global interactions occurring at the edge of the solar system, suggest that the galac ...


How the Moon produces its own water

How the Moon produces its own water

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (15) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Moon is a big sponge that absorbs electrically charged particles given out by the Sun. These particles interact with the oxygen present in some dust grains on the lunar surface, producing ...


New perspectives on cancer surgery

New Perspectives on Cancer Surgery

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 29, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Instead of the classic scalpel, surgeons can also operate with an electroscalpel. A significant advantage to this technique is that while a cut is being made, blood vessels are closed off ...


Plasma power: Turning fusion into a renewable energy source

Plasma power: Turning fusion into a renewable energy source

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 14, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 9

Fusion is best known for powering the sun and stars. But researchers have long been studying ways to transform that power source into future "green" energy that can be used on Earth. A team of researchers ...



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