News tagged with helium isotopes

Arctic rocks offer new glimpse of primitive Earth

Scientists have discovered a new window into the Earth's violent past. Geochemical evidence from volcanic rocks collected on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic suggests that beneath it lies a region of the Earth's mantle ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Argonne's CARIBU charge breeder breaks world record for efficiency

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory have pushed the limits of charge breeding and broken a long-standing world record for ionization efficiency of solids.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 13, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Proton's party pals may alter its internal structure

A recent experiment at the DOE's Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility has found that a proton's nearest neighbors in the nucleus of the atom may modify the proton's internal structure.

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (22) | comments 9

High-performance plasmas may make reliable, efficient fusion power a reality

In the quest to produce nuclear fusion energy, researchers from the DIII-D National Fusion Facility have recently confirmed long-standing theoretical predictions that performance, efficiency and reliability ...

Physics / Plasma Physics

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (49) | comments 48

Scientists bid adieu to plucky solar probe

US and European scientists were Tuesday bidding farewell to the tenacious solar probe Ulysses which has been recording data around the sun for more than 18 years, four times longer than planned.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Planck satellite fuels up

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tests conducted on Planck at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, have confirmed that the satellite's subsystems work perfectly, and the helium dilution cooler tanks have now been ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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