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Controlling silicon evaporation allows scientists to boost graphene quality

Scientists from the Georgia Institute of Technology have for the first time provided details of their "confinement controlled sublimation" technique for growing high-quality layers of epitaxial graphene on ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Sep 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Water evaporated from trees cools global climate

Scientists have long debated about the impact on global climate of water evaporated from vegetation. New research from Carnegie's Global Ecology department concludes that evaporated water helps cool the earth as a whole, ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 14

Rhodium-iron catalyst helps increase yield of hydrogen gas in steam reforming of ethanol

Vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells generate no exhaust emissions other than clean water vapor. Unfortunately, producing and distributing large quantities of hydrogen gas is impossible with current infrastructures. ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Graphene: New electronics material closer to commercial reality

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have developed a method for creating single-crystal arrays of a material called graphene, an advance that opens up the possibility of a replacement for silicon in high-performance ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 26, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Technology breakthrough fuels laptops and phones, recharges scientist's 60-year career

How does a scientist fuel his enthusiasm for chemistry after 60 years? By discovering a new energy source, of course.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Feb 17, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 13 | with audio podcast

Researcher investigates new material grown from sugar

(PhysOrg.com) -- Ordinary table sugar could be a key ingredient to developing much lighter, faster, cheaper, denser and more robust computer electronics for use on U.S. military aircraft.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Feb 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

An Intergalactic Weather Map

(PhysOrg.com) -- This composite image shows an intergalactic "weather map" around the elliptical galaxy NGC 5813, the dominant central galaxy in a galaxy group located about 105 million light years away from ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Spacecraft flew through 'snowstorm' on encounter with comet Hartley 2

On its recent trip by comet Hartley 2, the Deep Impact spacecraft took the first pictures of, and flew through, a storm of fluffy particles of water ice being spewed out by carbon dioxide jets coming from ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 18, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Carbon dioxide controls Earth's temperature

(PhysOrg.com) -- Water vapor and clouds are the major contributors to Earth's greenhouse effect, but a new atmosphere-ocean climate modeling study shows that the planet's temperature ultimately depends on ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Oct 14, 2010 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (52) | comments 327 | with audio podcast

Tracing the Big Picture of Mars' Atmosphere

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the instruments on a 2016 mission to orbit Mars will provide daily profiles of the changing structure of the planet's atmosphere.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 27, 2010 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Graphene organic photovoltaics, or, will joggers' t-shirts someday power their cell phones?

A University of Southern California team has produced flexible transparent carbon atom films that the researchers say have great potential for a new breed of solar cells.

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 23, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Plastic laser detects tiny amounts of explosives

(PhysOrg.com) -- Detecting hidden explosives is a difficult task but now researchers in the UK have developed a completely new way of detecting them, with a laser sensor capable of detecting molecules of explosives ...

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jun 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 1 | with audio podcast report

Explained: Climate sensitivity

Climate sensitivity is the term used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to express the relationship between the human-caused emissions that add to the Earth's greenhouse effect -- carbon ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Mar 19, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (8) | comments 4

Stratospheric Water Vapor is a Global Warming Wild Card

A 10 percent drop in water vapor ten miles above Earth’s surface has had a big impact on global warming, say researchers in a study published online January 28 in the journal Science. The findings might help e ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 28, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (21) | comments 29 | with audio podcast

Trees invading warming Arctic will cause warming over entire region, study shows

(PhysOrg.com) -- Contrary to scientists' predictions that, as the Earth warms, the movement of trees into the Arctic will have only a local warming effect, University of California, Berkeley, scientists modeling ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jan 12, 2010 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (27) | comments 47 | with audio podcast