News tagged with gamma cameras

Space telescopes reveal secrets of turbulent black hole

(PhysOrg.com) -- A fleet of spacecraft including NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has uncovered unprecedented details in the surroundings of a supermassive black hole. Observations reveal huge bullets of gas ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Team seeks to finally solve mystery of Da Vinci mural hidden behind wall using gamma ray camera

(PhysOrg.com) -- A trio of players now invested in not only finding out if Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous lost mural “Battle of Anghiari” is where they think it is, but also in trying to take a ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Sep 07, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 7 | with audio podcast report

Ongoing worldwide shortage of medical isotopes could threaten patient care, says expert

A University of Nottingham expert is calling on the Government to provide substantial new investment into the production of medical isotopes or face a dangerous shortage that threatens to compromise patient healthcare.

Medicine & Health / Other

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The Medical Minute: Stress tests - echo vs. nuclear

Your health care provider has ordered a stress test for your heart. No problem, you think; you’ve seen people walk on treadmills before. In fact, you used the one in your basement a few times, a couple of years ago. ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 08, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Vesta likely cold and dark enough for ice

(PhysOrg.com) -- Though generally thought to be quite dry, roughly half of the giant asteroid Vesta is expected to be so cold and to receive so little sunlight that water ice could have survived there for ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 97 | with audio podcast

Dawn Spacecraft offers first look at giant asteroid’s chemistry

(PhysOrg.com) -- The NASA Dawn spacecraft’s close-up study of the giant asteroid Vesta is offering researchers their first look at the elemental composition of this ancient protoplanet. Vesta is the second most ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 10

Dawn sends first low altitude images of Vesta

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft has sent back the first images of the giant asteroid Vesta from its low-altitude mapping orbit. The images, obtained by the framing camera, show the stippled and lumpy ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Dawn spacecraft spirals down to lowest orbit

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Dawn spacecraft successfully maneuvered into its closest orbit around the giant asteroid Vesta today, beginning a new phase of science observations. The spacecraft is now circling Vesta ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Hubble racks up 10,000 science papers

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has passed another milestone in its 21 years of exploration: the 10,000th refereed science paper has been published. This makes Hubble one of the most prolific ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Physicists scrutinize the universe with a novel camera

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time, a telescope has been equipped with a camera based on a new technology that uses semiconductors. This instrument will observe the flashes of light that are produced by gamma ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 3

Mars rover carries device for underground scouting

(PhysOrg.com) -- An instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity can check for any water that might be bound into shallow underground minerals along the rover's path.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Firestation in space to open firehose of lightning data

(PhysOrg.com) -- When opportunity knocked, NASA heliophysicist Doug Rowland answered. He and his team recently secured another flight opportunity for a pint-sized instrument studying lightning in Earth's upper ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Breast cancer screening

It can be difficult to sort through the many messages regarding breast cancer screening. Fancy billboards seen along the highways, recommendations made by your neighbor or the local newscaster, or mixed messages throughout ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 29, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0


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