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Liquid Mirror Telescopes on the Moon
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 09, 2008 |
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A team of internationally renowned astronomers and opticians may have found a way to make "unbelievably large" telescopes on the Moon.
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Another step toward a liquid telescope on the moon
Jun 20, 2007 |
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An international team including researcher Ermanno Borra, from Université Laval’s Center for Optics, Photonics, and Laser, has taken another step toward building a liquid telescope on the moon. The researchers have found ...
Queen's chemists work with NASA to develop liquids for lunar telescope
Jul 10, 2007 |
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Chemists at Queen's University Belfast are working with NASA and scientists in Canada and the United States to design a telescope that can be stationed on the Moon.
Pigs learn to understand mirrors
Oct 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A study of domesticated pigs has found that with just a little experimentation they can find food based only on a reflection in a mirror.
Butterfly proboscis to sip cells
Nov 22, 2009 |
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A butterfly's proboscis looks like a straw -- long, slender, and used for sipping -- but it works more like a paper towel, according to Konstantin Kornev of Clemson University. He hopes to borrow the tricks of this piece ...
Mirror images united: Simultaneous binding of both enantiomers of a drug to an enzyme
Oct 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In the binding pockets of enzymes their natural binding partners fit exactly. The principle by which many pharmacological agents work also relies on the fact that these substances fit exactly into the pockets ...
Supercooled and supersized technologies aboard Herschel and Planck
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 11, 2009 |
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Away from sunlight it can get very cold in space, but not cold enough for the Herschel and Planck missions, which ESA and European industry have equipped with state-of-the-art refrigeration systems to make ...
Scientists demonstrate effect of confining dielectrics on semiconductor nanowire conductivity
May 05, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), in collaboration with researchers from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), have demonstrated, for the first time, that the activation energy ...
Autism theory put to the test with new technology
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 27, 2007 |
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Next time you lose your car keys and enlist the family to help you search, try a little experiment. After your spouse searches an area, go and look in the same place. It will likely feel strange, even irritating to both of ...
Swirled to the Left or Right? Nanofibers Align in Stirred Liquid
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 19, 2007 |
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Is the vortex in a stirred liquid swirling clockwise or counterclockwise? A zinc porphyrin dendrimer—a branched molecule with a central zinc atom—can answer this question. As Japanese researchers report in the journal Angewandte Ch ...
WISE Is Chilling Out
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 11, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers are busy cooling the science instrument on NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. The spacecraft is scheduled to blast into space from Vandenberg Air Force Base in ...
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