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Gas pump made of minerals has no moving parts

Gas pump made of minerals has no moving parts

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 28, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (49) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered that a type of hard mineral called zeolite can provide a high rate of gas flow in a micro-scale gas pump. Because the pump is based simply on temperature differences ...





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New Digital 'Electronics' Concept May Continue Moore's Law

New Digital 'Electronics' Concept May Continue Moore's Law

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (61) | comments 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Computers of the future could be operating not on electrons, but on tiny waves traveling through an electron "fluid," if a new proposal is successful. The new circuit design, recently introduced ...


Fantastic Voyage

Fantastic Voyage

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (19) | comments 3

By travelling to the outer solar system, the two Voyager spacecraft allowed us to see amazing details of far-distant planets and moons.


Colorado county copes with methane mystery (AP)

Colorado county copes with methane mystery

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 7

(AP) -- Bernice and Jerry Angely like to show visitors the singed T-shirt a friend was wearing when their water well exploded and shot flames 30 feet high.


Surgeons at BMC offering new procedure for acid reflux/GERD

Medicine & Health / Other

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Boston Medical Center (BMC) surgeons are now offering patients an incisionless alternative to laparoscopic and traditional surgery for treatment of acid reflux or GERD.


From ecological Soviet-era ruin, a sea is reborn (AP)

From ecological Soviet-era ruin, a sea is reborn

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 25, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 3

(AP) -- Standing on the shore under the relentless Central Asian sun, Badarkhan Prikeyev drew on a cigarette and squinted into the distance as one fishing boat after another returned with the day's catch.


Cooking Up Water From the Moon? NASA Studies Water Extraction With Microwaves

Cooking Up Water From the Moon? NASA Studies Water Extraction With Microwaves

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Intrigued by NASA lunar missions in the 1990s which suggested the existence of ice within craters at the moon's poles, NASA scientist Dr. Edwin Ethridge and his team started cooking up a way ...


INL, ISU team on nanoparticle production breakthrough

INL, ISU team on nanoparticle production breakthrough

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 1

Every hour, the sun floods Earth with more energy than the entire world consumes in a year. Yet solar power accounts for less than 0.002 percent of all electricity generated in the United States, primarily ...


Study predicts seabed response to climate change

Study predicts Australian seabed response to climate change

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- CSIRO scientists have produced the first preliminary predictions of the potential impact of climate change on the Australian seabed.


Some Canadian rivers at risk of drying up

Some Canadian rivers at risk of drying up

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (8) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some Canadian rivers are at risk of drying up as impacts of climate change intersect with growing water demand from the country's cities, industries and agriculture, a new WWF report has found.


NASA Portable Hyperbaric Chamber Technology Finds Home on Earth

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has signed a patent license agreement with a California company to improve the medical community's access to hyperbaric chambers used to treat many medical conditions and emergencies.



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