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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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Nanowire Formation

Nanowires key to future transistors, electronics

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new generation of ultrasmall transistors and more powerful computer chips using tiny structures called semiconducting nanowires are closer to reality after a key discovery by researchers ...


Predicting the fate of underground carbon

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a new modeling methodology for determining the capacity and assessing the risks of leakage of potential underground carbon-dioxide reservoirs.


International expedition investigates climate change, alternative fuels in Arctic

International expedition investigates climate change, alternative fuels in Arctic

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Scientists from the Marine Biogeochemistry and Geology and Geophysics sections of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) organized and led a team of university and government scientists on an Arctic expedition ...


New funding will stimulate alternative energy research

Technology / Energy

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Initiatives to provide geothermal heating or power at the Pueblo of Jemez and the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology campus are receiving Los Alamos National Laboratory assistance, thanks to recent American Reinvestment ...


Researchers customizing electric cars for cost-effective urban commuting

Technology / Energy

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (7) | comments 1

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute have converted a 2001 Scion xB into an electric commuter vehicle that will serve as a test bed for a new community-based approach to electric vehicle design, ...


Tiny bubbles clean oil from water

Tiny bubbles clean oil from water

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Small amounts of oil leave a fluorescent sheen on polluted water. Oil sheen is hard to remove, even when the water is aerated with ozone or filtered through sand. Now, a University of Utah engineer has developed ...


Research gives new insights into 4 billion year-old meteorites

Research gives new insights into 4 billion year-old meteorites

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have gained new insight into the makeup of ancient meteorites called Carbonaceous Chondrites, in research published in the October edition of the journal Earth Science and Planetary Le ...


WISE Is Chilling Out

WISE Is Chilling Out

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers are busy cooling the science instrument on NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The spacecraft is scheduled to blast into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in ...


A Tale of Planetary Woe

A Tale of Planetary Woe (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 5

Once upon a time — roughly four billion years ago — Mars was warm and wet, much like Earth. Liquid water flowed on the Martian surface in long rivers that emptied into shallow seas. A thick atmosphere blanketed ...


Energy-saving powder

Energy-saving powder: Converting methane to methanol

Chemistry / Other

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (7) | comments 2

It is currently estimated that natural gas resources will be exhausted in 130 years; however, those reserves where extraction is cost-effective will only flow for another 60 years or so.



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