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Saturn's Mysterious Hexagon Emerges from Winter Darkness

Saturn's Mysterious Hexagon Emerges from Winter Darkness

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (23) | comments 21

(PhysOrg.com) -- After waiting years for the sun to illuminate Saturn's north pole again, cameras aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft have captured the most detailed images yet of the intriguing hexagon shape ...


Design chosen for British 1,000 mph car

Design chosen for British 1,000 mph car (w/ Video)

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (12) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- A British team hoping to be the first to get a car to 1,000 mph (1,610 km/h) has made its final design selection. The six-tonne car, known as the Bloodhound, will be powered by a Eurofighter ...


Ultra-Powerful Laser Reproduces How Star's Jets Travel through Interstellar Space

Ultra-Powerful Laser Reproduces How Star's Jets Travel through Interstellar Space

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A multi-trillion-watt laser at the University of Rochester has simulated a stellar jet -- an outpouring of matter from a fledgling star -- with unprecedented realism.


Airbus is focusing fuels that can be used in existing aircraft without modifications

Alternative fuel 'can power 15% of flights by 2020'

Technology / Energy

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Alternative fuels could power 15 percent of global air traffic by 2020 and 30 percent by 2030, European aircraft-maker Airbus said at the Dubai Airshow on Tuesday.


Astrophysicists Move Closer to Understanding the Beauty Behind Stellar Jets

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Certain stars stream vast amounts of matter into space, creating some of the most beautiful objects in astronomers' telescopes. But while the astronomers can enjoy the beauty, they can't explain it. Adam ...


Invading black holes explain cosmic flashes

Invading black holes explain cosmic flashes

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 18, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (25) | comments 12

(PhysOrg.com) -- Black holes are invading stars, providing a radical explanation to bright flashes in the universe that are one of the biggest mysteries in astronomy today.


Technology strikes a chord with algal biofuels

Technology / Energy

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 3

An award-winning Los Alamos National Laboratory sound-wave technology is helping Solix Biofuels, Inc. optimize production of algae-based fuel in a cost-effective, scalable, and environmentally benign fashion—paving the way ...


Biofuel for the Navy

U.S. Navy Plans to Test Biofuels for Super Hornet

Technology / Energy

created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (10) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The U.S. Navy is getting ready to run flight tests using an assortment of biofuels. The tests will be run using an F/A-18 Super Hornet. The tests are scheduled to begin taking place at Patuxent ...


British UFO sightings spiked when blockbusters released

Other Sciences / Other

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 6

Lemon-headed aliens, scrambled fighter jets and mysterious lights over a cemetery were among details of some 800 UFO sightings released by British authorities Monday.


Camelina jet fuel could cut carbon emissions by 84 percent

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 8

The seeds of a lowly weed could cut jet fuel's cradle-to-grave carbon emissions by 84 percent.


Superfast airplanes through super tiny technology

Superfast airplanes through super tiny technology

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Jul 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

An interdisciplinary team of scientists led by Princeton engineers has been awarded a $3 million grant to study how fuel additives made of tiny particles known as nanocatalysts can help supersonic jets fly ...


Swiss scientist-adventurer and pilot Bertrand Piccard gestures as he unveils the 'Solar Impulse' airplane

Swiss team unveil pioneering solar plane

Technology / Energy

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (42) | comments 21

Round-the-world balloooning pioneer Bertrand Piccard unveiled his solar-powered aircraft in Switzerland on Friday, ready for another trend-setting circumnavigation of the globe powered solely by the sun.


Kites flying in high-altitude winds could provide clean electricity

Kites flying in high-altitude winds could provide clean electricity

Technology / Energy

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (44) | comments 29

(PhysOrg.com) -- At any moment, the winds in high-altitude jet streams hold roughly 100 times more energy than all the electricity being consumed on Earth, according to a study by Stanford environmental and ...


Jets on Saturn's moon Enceladus not geysers from underground ocean, says study

Jets on Saturn's moon Enceladus not geysers from underground ocean

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (12) | comments 8

Water vapor jets that spew from the surface of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus are not really geysers from an underground ocean as initially envisioned by planetary scientists, according to a study led by the ...


Researchers use math to reduce jet lag

Researchers use math to reduce jet lag

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jun 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Reducing jet lag is the aim of a new mathematical methodology and software program developed by researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and the University of Michigan.