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Melting ice under pressure

Melting ice under pressure

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 23, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The deep interior of Neptune, Uranus and Earth may contain some solid ice.





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Sodium loses its luster: A liquid metal that's not really metallic

Sodium loses its luster: A liquid metal that's not really metallic

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 26, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (23) | comments 0

When melting sodium at high pressures, the material goes through a transition in which its electrical conductivity drops threefold. In a series of new calculations, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists ...


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Xerox Develops Silver Ink for Cheap Printable Electronics

Technology / Engineering

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Xerox has developed an ink which can be used to print circuits onto plastics, films, and textiles. Although circuits printed on flexible materials aren't new, Xerox's method may be cheap and ...


Tiny Test Tube Experiment Shows Reaction Of Melting Materials at the Nano Scale (w/ Video)

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Oct 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have conducted a basic chemistry experiment in what is perhaps the world's smallest test tube, measuring a thousandth the diameter of a human hair.


Kinetic variable most useful for identifying malignant MRI-detected breast lesions identified

Medicine & Health / Other

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Breast MRI allows physicians to evaluate suspicious lesions using a variety of variables. Researchers have found though that computer-aided kinetic information can help significantly in distinguishing benign from malignant ...


Rethinking Brownian motion with the 'Emperor's New Clothes'

Physics / Soft Matter

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (15) | comments 10

In the classic fairy tale, "The Emperor's New Clothes," Hans Christian Andersen uses the eyes of a child to challenge conventional wisdom and help others to see more clearly. In similar fashion, researchers at the University ...


Glacial melting may release pollutants in the environment

Glacial melting may release pollutants in the environment

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 2.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Those pristine-looking Alpine glaciers now melting as global warming sets in may explain the mysterious increase in persistent organic pollutants in sediment from certain lakes since the 1990s, despite decreased ...


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T-Mobile USA, RIM Introduce BlackBerry Curve 8520

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jul 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

T-Mobile USA and Research In Motion today announced the new BlackBerry Curve 8520 smartphone, a new addition to the BlackBerry Curve series of smartphones, with availability expected on August 5.


Using relative utility curves for risk prediction

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A relative utility curve is a simple method to evaluate risk prediction in a medical decision-making framework, according to a commentary published online October 20 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.


Spot discovered on dwarf planet Haumea shows up red and rich with organics

Spot discovered on dwarf planet Haumea shows up red and rich with organics

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (16) | comments 2

A dark red area discovered on dwarf planet Haumea appears to be richer in minerals and organic compounds than the surrounding icy surface. The discovery will be presented at the European Planetary Science ...


Toxic legacy seeps from melting Alpine glaciers: study

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Swiss researchers have found that Alpine glaciers melting under the impact of climate change are releasing highly toxic pollutants that had been absorbed by the ice for decades.



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