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Missing planets attest to destructive power of stars' tides
Apr 27, 2009 |
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During the last two decades, astronomers have found hundreds of planets orbiting stars outside our solar system. New research indicates they might have found even more except for one thing - some planets have fallen into ...
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Young stellar objects: The source of gas emission around Herbig Ae/Be stars
Oct 10, 2008 |
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This week, Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing new observations with AMBER/VLTI of the gas component in the vicinity of young stars. An international team of astronomers led by E. Tatulli (Grenoble, France) and S. Kra ...
Wind estimate 'shortens Saturn's day by five minutes'
Jul 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new way of detecting how fast large gaseous planets are rotating suggests Saturn’s day lasts 10 hours, 34 minutes and 13 seconds - over five minutes shorter than previous estimates that ...
Jupiter and Saturn full of liquid metal helium
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Aug 06, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A strange, metal brew lies buried deep within Jupiter and Saturn, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and in London.
New microsensor measures volatile organic compounds in water and air on-site
Sep 17, 2007 |
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Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a miniature sensor that uses polymer membranes deposited on a tiny silicon disk to measure pollutants present in aqueous or gaseous environments. ...
Summer is here and the mercury is rising… literally
Jul 15, 2009 |
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Hot town, summer in the city. When it comes to air-quality advisories, city residents are no strangers, especially during the dog days of summer. But smog is made up of an array of air pollutants, including ...
Hot Debate over Icy Moon
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 08, 2009 |
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The recent discovery of plumes containing water vapor erupting from the south pole of the frigid Saturnian moon Enceladus set off a firestorm of debate.
Controlling the size of nanoclusters
Aug 19, 2008 |
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Melissa Patterson, a W. Burghardt Turner Fellow at Stony Brook University (SBU), will give a talk at the American Chemical Society's national meeting in Philadelphia on controlling the size of nanoclusters, research she performed ...
Controlling the Size of Nanoclusters: First Step in Making New Catalysts
Jul 09, 2008 |
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Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony Brook University have developed a new instrument that allows them to control the size of nanoclusters — groups of 10 ...
Hidden Territory on Mercury Revealed
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 04, 2009 |
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The MESSENGER spacecraft's third flyby of the planet Mercury has given scientists, for the first time, an almost complete view of the planet's surface and revealed some dramatic changes in Mercury's comet-like ...
Argonne scientists use lasers to align molecules
May 13, 2008 |
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Protein crystallographers have only scratched the surface of the human proteins important for drug interactions because of difficulties crystallizing the molecules for synchrotron x-ray diffraction.
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