News tagged with gas vapor


Breath or urine analysis may detect cancer, diabetes

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- A future sensor may take away a patient's breath while simultaneously determining whether the patient has breast cancer, lung cancer, diabetes or asthma. A University of Missouri researcher is developing ...





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Water vapor confirmed as major player in climate change

Water vapor confirmed as major player in climate change

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 17, 2008 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (24) | comments 15

(PhysOrg.com) -- Water vapor is known to be Earth's most abundant greenhouse gas, but the extent of its contribution to global warming has been debated. Using recent NASA satellite data, researchers have estimated ...


More reasons to hate humidity: It expands global warming, prof says

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 19, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (27) | comments 17

Here's yet another reason to hate humidity: it expands global warming, says a Texas A&M University professor.


Physicists Store Images in Vapor

Physicists Store Images in Vapor

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Jun 23, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (94) | comments 4

Books are written on solid pieces of paper for an obvious reason: the atoms in a solid don’t move around much, keeping the words and pictures in place for centuries. Trying to store letters and images in a ...


Cyclones spurt water into the stratosphere, feeding global warming

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (7) | comments 9

Scientists at Harvard University have found that tropical cyclones readily inject ice far into the stratosphere, possibly feeding global warming.


Climate models confirm more moisture in atmosphere attributed to humans

Climate models confirm more moisture in atmosphere attributed to humans

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (22) | comments 64

(PhysOrg.com) -- When it comes to using climate models to assess the causes of the increased amount of moisture in the atmosphere, it doesn't much matter if one model is better than the other.


Road rage: Fuel vapor heightens aggression

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 24, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Outrageous prices may not be the only thing causing anger at the petrol pumps. A new study, published in the open access journal BMC Physiology, has shown that rats exposed to fumes from leaded and unleaded gasoline become ...


Enceladus Jets: Are They Wet or Just Wild?

Source of geysers on Saturn's moon may be underground water

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 26, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (14) | comments 4

Saturn's moon Enceladus may indeed hide an underground reservoir of water. Scientists at Jet Propulsion Lab in California, the University of Colorado and the University of Central Florida in Orlando teamed ...


Cal Tech Electronic Nose Innovation

Caltech Electronic Nose Innovation

Chemistry /

created Oct 22, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (24) | comments 1

Research Scientists at Caltech Developing Electronic Nose. The Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Division at Caltech are combining efforts with NASA and other engineers at Caltech to test ranges of applications.


Sunlight turns carbon dioxide to methane

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Mar 05, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (15) | comments 6

Dual catalysts may be the key to efficiently turning carbon dioxide and water vapor into methane and other hydrocarbons using titania nanotubes and solar power, according to Penn State researchers.


Stardust Factory Solves 25-year-old Mystery of Impossible Dust

Stardust Factory Solves 25-year-old Mystery of Impossible Dust

Space & Earth /

created Feb 23, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 0

Researchers using a "stardust factory" at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., have solved a mystery of how dying stars make silicate dust at high temperatures. Understanding this process helps ...



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