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Killer pulses help characterize special surfaces

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 29, 2008 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Detecting deadly fumes in subways, toxic gases in chemical spills, and hidden explosives in baggage is becoming easier and more efficient with a measurement technique called surface-enhanced Raman scattering. To further improve ...





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Worlds oceans warmest on record this summer

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (15) | comments 1

(AP) -- The world's in hot water. Sea-surface temperatures worldwide have been the hottest on record over the last three months, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Wednesday.


Cassini Pinpoints Hot Sources of Jets on Enceladus

Cassini Pinpoints Hot Sources of Jets on Enceladus

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 10, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 0

A recent analysis of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft provides conclusive evidence that the jets of fine, icy particles spraying from Saturn's moon Enceladus originate from the hottest spots on the moon's ...


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Scientists Develop First Chip-Scale Thermoelectric Cooler

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- As computer chips become more powerful, they also become hotter. Nearly all the power that flows into a chip comes out of it as waste heat, and that heat hurts the performance of the chip. ...


Hottest Stars in Delicate Embrace by Spiral Arms

Hottest Stars in Delicate Embrace by Spiral Arms

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 16, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of scientists at the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB) announced today that the hottest and most massive stars are wrapped in spiraling waves of hot gas. These winding waves, which ...


Study Examines Racial 'Blind Spots' in Chicago Area Communities

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Racial residential segregation in the Chicago area may be perpetuated by a lack of knowledge of communities across racial lines, according to a new study led by a University of Illinois at Chicago researcher.


Cassini Prepares to Swoop by Saturn's Geyser-Spewing Moon

Cassini Prepares to Swoop by Saturn's Geyser-Spewing Moon

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 07, 2008 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (10) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Fractures, or "tiger stripes," where icy jets erupt on Saturn's moon Enceladus will be the target of a close flyby by the Cassini spacecraft on Monday, Aug. 11.


Newly discovered star one of hottest in Galaxy

Newly discovered star one of hottest in Galaxy (w/ Video)

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (21) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers at The University of Manchester's Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics have discovered one of the hottest stars in the Galaxy with a surface temperature of around 200,000 degrees ...


Spotting evidence of directed percolation

Spotting evidence of directed percolation

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A team of physicists has, for the first time, seen convincing experimental evidence for directed percolation, a phenomenon that turns up in computer models of the ways diseases spread through a population ...


Beware of highway robbers on Wi-Fi

Technology / Telecom

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

As the number of Wi-Fi hot spots grows, travelers might want to heed a word of caution from the Wi-Fi Alliance, a nonprofit industry group that promotes Wi-Fi technology: Think security.


New research sheds light on freak wave hot spots

Physics / General Physics

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (8) | comments 6

Stories of ships mysteriously sent to watery graves by sudden, giant waves have long puzzled scientists and sailors. New research by San Francisco State professor Tim Janssen suggests that changes in water depth and currents, ...



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