News tagged with fission surface

Wake up and smell the coffee -- on the Moon!

Have you ever wondered how you'd make your morning cup of java if you lived on another planet, or perhaps the moon? That steaming beverage would be a must on a cold lunar morning.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created May 18, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 3




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Polar growth at the bacterial scale reveals potential new targets for antibiotic therapy

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of microbiologists led by Indiana University researchers has identified a new bacterial growth process -- one that occurs at a single end or pole of the cell instead ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Could natural nuclear reactors have boosted life on this and other planets?

While modern-day humans use the most advanced engineering to build nuclear reactors, Nature sometimes makes them by accident.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 2

The first nuclear power plant for settlements on Moon, Mars

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first nuclear power plant being considered for production of electricity for manned or unmanned bases on the Moon, Mars and other planets may really look like it came from outer space, ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Aug 28, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (26) | comments 24 | with audio podcast

New probe to uncover mechanisms key to fusion reactor walls

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new tool developed by nuclear engineers at Purdue University will be hitched to an experimental fusion reactor at Princeton University to learn precisely what happens when extremely hot plasmas touch and ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Aug 26, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Plasma: The trouble with bubbles

Controlling a boiling plasma at several million degrees Celsius – that's the challenge of nuclear fusion, our great energy hope for the future. EPFL's Plasma Physics Research Center (CRPP) has just published ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jun 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 7

Researchers clock the speed of brain signals

Two studies featuring research from Weill Cornell Medical College have uncovered surprising details about the complex process that leads to the flow of neurotransmitters between brain neurons -- a dance of ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Jun 22, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Why nuclear power will never supply the world's energy needs

(PhysOrg.com) -- The 440 commercial nuclear reactors in use worldwide are currently helping to minimize our consumption of fossil fuels, but how much bigger can nuclear power get? In an analysis to be published ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 11, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (48) | comments 187 | with audio podcast report

Researchers discover the cause of irradiation-induced instability in materials surfaces

A new discovery about the dynamic impact of individual energetic particles into a solid surface improves our ability to predict surface stability or instability of materials under irradiation over time.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Sandia National Labs suggests we take another look at underground salt deposits for nuclear waste

(PhysOrg.com) -- In light of the Obama administration's decision to effectively end the discussion of using the Yucca mountain site in Nevada as a location for permanent storage of nuclear waste, Sandia National Laboratories, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 04, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 4 | with audio podcast report

Researchers unzip MRSA and discover route for vaccine

University of Rochester Medical Center orthopaedic scientists are a step closer to developing a vaccine to prevent life-threatening methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections following bone and joint surgery.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jan 16, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1


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